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Yale Univ., Med. Seh. : C.-E. A. Winslow, Anna M. L. Lauder 

 prof. of public health. He will resign his positions in the N, Y. 

 State Dep't o£ Health and Teachers' Coli., to take up this work in 

 the fall, but will continue to act as curator of public health at the 

 Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist., N. Y. City. 



Honors. Posthumous. A monument to the late Prof, /. H. 

 van't Hoff was unveiled at Rotterdam, Apr. 17. It consists of a 

 bronze statue, double life-size, in sitting position, placed in front of 

 the school at which van't Hoff was educated. The monument is 

 about 30 ft. high, and the statue itself is flanked by female figures 

 representing Imagination and Reason. On the front of the base is 

 the f ollowing inscription : 



Van't Hoff 



1852-1911 



Physiciam chemiae adiunxit 



The centenary of the birth of David Waldie, who suggested, to 

 Sir James Simpson, a trial of Chloroform as an anesthetic, has been 

 commemorated with a bronze tablet on the house in Linlithgow 

 where he lived for some time. The tablet shows a portrait of 

 Waldie, with an inscription in which he is described as a pioneer 

 in anesthetic research. 



HoNORARY DEGREEs. Washington Univ. (Med. Seh.), Apr. 

 30: ScD., Otto Folin; LL.D., R. H. Chittenden, S. J. Meltzer, W. 

 H. Howell. 



V. C. Vaughan, LL.D., Jeff. Med. Coli. 



John A. Kolmer, M.S., Villanova Coli. 



F. E. Stewart, Phar.D., Medico-Chi. Coli., Phila. Dr. Stewart 

 is prof. of mat. med. in the Medico-Chi. Coli, and Organizer of the 

 Nat'l Bur. of Med. and Foods. 



Phila. Coli, of Pharm., Pharm. M. : E. G. Eherle, ed., Jour. Amer. 

 Pharmaceut. Assoc; C. A. Mayo, pres., Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc, 

 ed. of Amer. Druggist; W. M. Mittlebach, pres., Nat'l Assoc. Boards 

 of Pharmacy ; H. M. Whelpley, treas., Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. and 

 Board of Trustees of U. S. Pharmacop. Conven., prof. of micros- 

 copy and dean of St. Louis Coli, of Pharm., prof. of mat. med. and 

 pharm, of Washington Univ.; W. L. Cliffe, trustee, Phila. Coli, 

 of Pharm. 



