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Dr. Julius W. Sturmer, professor of pharmacy at Purdue Uni- 

 versity, has been elected to the chair of pharmacy and to the dean- 

 ship for pharmacy, at the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, 

 vice Prof. I. V. S. Stanislaus, resigned. 



Dr. Francis W. Upshur has been appointed professor of ma- 

 teria medica and therapeutics, and Dr. C. Howard Lewis, professor 

 of pharmacology and also associate professor of physiology, in the 

 College of Medicine of the University of Virginia. These two 

 physicians divide the chair which was formerly held by Dr. Vir- 

 ginius Harrison. Dr. E. C. L. Miller was elected professor of bac- 

 teriology and physiological chemistry at the same Institution. 



Dr. E. de Wildman has been appointed director of the Brüssels 

 Botanical Garden. 



Dr. Francis Carter Wood has been appointed director of cancer 

 research at Columbia University on the George Crocker Foundation 

 (pagesöi). 



Promotions and appointments at the Rock ef eller Institute for 

 Medical Research. — Alexis Carrel, associate member in experi- 

 mental surgery, promoted to the rank of member of the Institute; 

 associates made associate memhers for a term of three years : Peyton 

 Rous, pathology and bacteriology, Donald D. Van Slyke, chemistry, 

 Walter A. Jacobs, chemistry, and Frank W. Bancroft, experimental 

 biology; assistants made associates: Paul F. Clark, pathology and 

 bacteriology, Richard V. Lamar, pathology and bacteriology, and 

 Hardolph Wasteneys, experimental biology; new appointments: 

 Harold L. Amoss, assistant in pathology, Clarence J. West, assistant 

 in chemistry, Wolf gang Ewald, fellow in experimental biology, 

 Francis R. Fräser and Frederic M. Hanes, assistant resident physi- 

 cians and assistants in medicine. 



Officers-elect of biological organizations. The names of re- 

 cently selected officials of important biological organizations are 

 grouped below. 



American Medical Association — General Officers : Presi- 

 dent, John A. Witherspoon; Vice-Presidents, P. A. Harris, J. L. 



