1913] General 479 



Professor of dairy bacteriology in the College of Agric, and assist- 

 ant chief in dairy bacteriology at the Agric. Experiment Station. 

 He will be associated with the new head of the dairy department, 

 Dr. A. H. Harding (N. Y. Agric. Experiment Station). 



Univ. of Minnesota: Dr. R. W. Thatcher (director of the 

 Washington Agric. Experiment Station and head of the department 

 of agric, Washington State College), professor of agric. chemistry 

 and soils. — Dr. Richard O. Beard, former head of the department 

 of physiology, will be assistant to the dean of the reorganized medi- 

 cal school. 



Univ. of Virginia, Medical School, Richmond : Dr. Wortley F. 

 Rudd, Professor of chemistry; Dr. Francis W. Upshur, professor 

 of pharmacology and therapeutics ; Dr. E. C. L. Miller, associate 

 professor of physiological chemistry; Dr. C. Howard Lewis, asso- 

 ciate professor of physiology; Dr. Leslie B. Wiggs, associate pro- 

 fessor of materia medica and pharmacology. 



Washington Univ. : Dr. David F. Houston, secretary of agricul- 

 ture, will retain the chancellorship, on leave of absence. Prof. F. 

 A. Hall, dean of the College, has been appointed acting chancellor. 



Wellcome Research Laboratories, Khartoum : Dr. A. J. Chal- 

 mers (Ceylon), director, in succession to Dr. Andrew Balfour, 

 appointed chief of the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, 

 London. 



Lectures. Harvey lectures : Mar. 22, by Prof. Frans Knoop 

 (Freiburg), on Modern problems of nutrition; March 29, by Prof. 

 John Howland (Johns Hopkins), on The scientific basis for the 

 artificial feeding of infants. — Weir Mitchell lecture, before 

 the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, April 4, by Dr. H. P. 

 Armshy (Penn. State College), on Animal calorimeters and the 

 study of nutrition. — Miscellaneous items: Dr. F. K. Cameron 

 (Bureau of Soils, U. S. Dep't of Agric.) lectured. Mar. 6, before 

 the Phi Lambda Upsilon Society, Columbia Univ., on The Solution 

 of the potash problem in America. — Prof. Martin H. Fischer (Univ. 

 of Cincinnati) delivered the address at the third winter commence- 

 ment of St. Louis Univ. School of Medicine, January 30, on Princi- 

 ples of treatment of edema and nephritis. — Prof. Lafayette B. 

 Mendel (Yale) addressed the students of Pratt Institute, April 11, 



