3IO Biochcmical News, Notes and Comment [Jan. 



Professors von Jaksch of Prague, Lüthje of Kiel, Ortner of Vienna, 

 Schmidt of Innsbruck, and Dr. Ganz. Essays must be received by 

 Dec. 31, 1913. 



Retirements, resignations, declinations, appointments. Re- 

 TiREMENTS : Dr. Frana Pf äff , professor of pharmacology and thera- 

 peutics, Harvard Medical School. — Captain R. W. Silvester, for 

 tvventy years president of Maryland Agricultural College. (He has 

 been made president emeritus and librarian of the Institution.) — Dr. 

 G. R. Kraus, professor of botany at Würzburg. 



Declinations. Prof. 'Andrezv Boss, in charge of the depart- 

 ment of farm management of the department of agriculture, Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, has declined an offer of the position of director 

 of the new government demonstration farms and trial gardens, at 

 Mandan, N. D. — Prof. E. M. Freem<in, chief of the division of 

 plant pathology and assistant dean and secretary of the faculty of 

 the College of agriculture, University of Minnesota, has declined an 

 offer of the position of chief pathologist of the Kew Botanical Gar- 

 dens. The position carries a salary of $4,700. 



Appointments have lately been announced, as follows ■} 



Alabama Polytechnic Institute: Dr. Joseph S. Caldwell (University 

 of Chicago), professor of botany. 



Albany Medical College: Dr. Ralph E. Myers (Harvard Medical 

 School), instructor in pharmacology. 



Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine (Townsville) : Dr, Young 

 (Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine), biochemist. 



British army medical advisory board : Dr. Leonard Hill, civilian 

 physiologist. 



Cambridge University: Dr. W. B. Hardy, university lecturer in 

 physiology. 



Carnegie Institution, Nutrition Laboratory: Dr. Sergius Morgulis 

 (Sheldon fellow, Harvard University, 1911-12, recently investigator 

 in the laboratory of Professor Zuntz, Berlin), associate in animal 

 metabolism. 



College of Physicians and Surgeons (Baltimore) : Dr. Bartgis 

 McGlone, associate in physiology and embryology. 



Cornell College of Agriculture: Mr. M. J. Prucha, assistant pro- 

 fessor of plant physiology (promotion). 



^ In this summary of appointments, institutions f rom which resignations 

 occurred are named in parenthesis. See also pages 321 and 324. 



