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Dinners and celebrations. A testimonial dinner was ten- 

 dered to Dr. Leo Loeh at the Univ. Club, St. Louis, May 25, by mem- 

 bers of the med. profession of St. Louis, the scientific faculties of 

 Washington and St. Louis Univ's, and members of the Biol. So- 

 ciety of St. Louis. 



Dr. /. P. Lobenhojfer, on June 15, completed 15 years of con- 

 tinuous Service as chemist at the Touro Infirmary, New Orleans.. 

 He was presented by his assistants with a gold smoking set and the 

 Board of Direc. adopted a resolution expressing their keen apprecia- 

 tion of his Services. 



Prof. /. M. Bartlett, on April 30, completed 30 years of con- 

 tinuous Service as chemist at the Maine Agric. Exp. Sta'n. This 

 period includes the entire history of the Station. In recognition of 

 this unusual length of Service in one institution, a reception in Prof. 

 Bartlett's honor was held in the Station building on the evening of 

 Apr. 30, and he was presented with a commemorative volume. This 

 volume was composed of a series of congratulatory letters from 

 nearly all of the 109 different persons, now living, who have, at one 

 time or another, been associated with Prof. Bartlett in the work of 

 the Station. 



A celebration which, owing to present circumstances, has taken 

 on a personal character, was recently held at the Pasteur Inst. ; the 

 occasion was the 70th birthday anniv. of Prof. Elie Metchnikoff. 

 Prof. Gaston Darboux and Dr. Roux, on behalf of the Acad. des 

 Sciences and Pasteur Inst., resp., reviewed the career and the works 

 of the Russian scientist. Prof. Metchnikoff gave the audience an 

 interesting talk on the Prolongation of life. Paris letter: Jour. 

 Amer. Med. Assoc, 191 5, Ixiv, p. 2082. 



MiscELLANEOus. The name of Curie, in honor of the dis- 

 coverer of radium, has been given to a small park (Place de Curie) 

 formed by the demolition of the old rue Dauphine in Paris. — Royal 

 Roumanian crosses of the first class for Sanitätsverdienst (merit in 

 sanitary service) have been conferred on von Behring and Ehrlich. 



Lectures and addresses. Cutter Lectures. The Cutter 

 Lectures in preventive medicine, for 19 15, were given at the Har- 

 vard Med. Seh. by V. C. Vaughan and Joseph Goldherger. Dr. 

 Vaughan discussed The phenomena of infection, April 14, 15 and 

 16; Dr. Goldberger, Diet and pellagra, in one lecture, April 12. 



