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ing which annually swell the list of deaths, registered as " suspici- 

 ous," that require investigätion by the coroner. The salary of the 

 chemist in charge of the laboratory will be $2,500 per annum; there 

 will be one assistant. Applications may be sent to the Coroner, 

 Room 500, County Building, Chicago, 111. 



The Harriman Research Laboratory, which operates a 

 building on the grounds of Roosevelt Hospital (N. Y.), has been 

 incorporated. It was established in 1910 and is maintained by Mrs. 



E. H. Harriman for the study of chemical problems connected with 

 disease. 



International bureau of foodstuffs. Delegates from the 

 various governments represented at the international congress for 

 the investigätion of methods of analysis have established, in Paris, 

 a permanent international bureau of analyses of foodstuffs. 



New JOURNAL of science. The Publishing house of Julius 

 Springer, Berlin, announces the publication, beginning January 3, 

 1913, of a new weekly Journal, Die Naturwissenschaften, which, 

 according to the announcement, " für den deutschen Wissenschafts- 

 betrieb ungefähr das leisten soll, was die 'Nature' für den englischen 

 und die 'Science' für den amerikanischen leisten." Each number 

 will contain about 24 pages; the subscription price is 24 Marks. 

 The Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau,, edited by Prof. W. Sklarek 

 and published by Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, which for twenty- 

 seven years has maintained high scientific Standards, will be merged 

 in the new Journal. 



" Pawlow." I note with interest Professor Halsted's protest^ 

 against the spelling of Lobachevski's name with a "w," a sort of 

 scientific Wellerism which Teutonic influence has foisted upon the 

 English language. Is it too much to hope that some day we may 

 find American physiologists referring to Pavloff instead of to Paw- 

 low, or is it true that in such mixed crosses, as the heredity experts 

 would say, German pedantry is prepotent over common sense? /. 



F. Abbott (Science, 1912, xxxvi, p. 595). 



Artificial milk produced from soya beans. An artificial 

 milk manufactured from soya beans, which is said to contain "all the 



' Halsted : Science, 1912, xxxv, p. 736. \ 



