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published statistics, but many private investigations. I cannot re- 

 call a Single class of man or women using alcohol freely but not 

 immoderately at the date of application for insurance, or who had 

 used it in excess formerly and were now temperate, that did not have 

 a higher mortahty than the normal. While not a total abstainer, I 

 am convinced that it would be immeasurably better for this, or any 

 other country, to have the production and sale of alcoholic liquors 

 abolished if it were practicable. The advantages claimed for alco- 

 hol are a small offset, in my judgment, to the evils which proceed 

 from its use and its abuse. Arthur Hunter (Med. Review of Re- 

 views, 1915, xxi, p. 25). 



IL WAR NOTES 



Necrology. — Max Brandt, assis., Botan. Museum, Berlin- 

 Dahlem. — Philip Beck, head of the Austrian Army Med. Staff. — 

 Hans Halle, assis. plant physiol., Univ. of Munich. — Oswald Loeb, 

 docent for pharmacol., Univ of Göttingen. — Frans Marshall, di- 

 rector of the exper. lab., Agric. Inst., Univ. of Halle. — Wilhelm 

 Schneider, assis., Agric. Inst., Giessen. — R. Stumpf, docent and first 

 assis., Pathol. Inst., Univ. of Breslau. — Alfred Tournier, formerly 

 prof. of viticulture, Univ. of Cal., later connected with the U. S. 

 Dep't of Agric. 



Awards of the Iron Gross. To Walther Nernst, prof. of 

 physics, Univ. of Berlin, who, since the death of his son at the front, 

 has joined the automobile corps. — To Dr. Karl Thomas, of Prof. 

 Rubner's lab., Berlin. 



University items. General. Two thirds of the number of 

 students at Oxford and Cambridge Univ's have enlisted in the Brit- 

 ish army. Trinity Coli, has been converted into a military hosp. 



Prof. R. du Bois-Raymond, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt, 

 says that from Berlin Univ. 236 lecturers, nearly half the total num- 

 ber, are in the army, either voluntarily or in obedience to law. 

 The med. faculty furnished 133 men, presumably for the med. Serv- 

 ice of the army. 



Of the 2,069 German students at Tübingen last semester, 1,500 

 are at the front, and several hundred are in the med. service. 



The Harvard Univ. corporation has set aside $100,000 to pay 



