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sity, has been appointed associate entomologist, 

 beginning on July 1. 



Mr. E. E. Zimmerman, formerly director of 

 the research laboratory of the American Sheet 

 and Tin Plate Company, has been made 

 assistant to the vice-president. Mr. J. W. 

 Whetzel, formerly research associate, has been 

 appointed manager of the research laboratory, 

 and Mr. E. S. Taylerson, formerly physicist, is 

 now assistant director. 



Mr. R. L. Howard, associate professor of 

 chemistry in the Medical College of Virginia, 

 has been awarded th« research fellowship in 

 pharmacology at Western Reserve University. 



The University of Brussels has conferred 

 the "Docteur special en sciences physiologiques" 

 on I. Newton Kugelmass, M.A. (Columbia), 

 Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), for his researches, 

 "Physico-chemical studies of the mechanism of 

 blood clotting." 



Dr. Henry HLinsen, chief of the Department 

 of Public Health of Peru, who since 1919 has 

 been combating yellow fever there, arrived in 

 New York on August 5 for a visit. Dr. Han- 

 sen went to Peru from the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute at the request of the Peruvian government. 



De. Aaron Arkin, professor of pathology 

 and bacteriology at the West Virginia School 

 of Medicine, Morgantown, has been gi-anted 

 a year's leave of absence for study and re- 

 search abroad. He will spend the year in 

 Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London. 



Dr. W. p. Wilson, director of the Commer- 

 cial Museum of Philadelphia, has been appoint- 

 ed by Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania com- 

 missioner to represent the state at the centen- 

 nial of Brazil opening on September 7. He 

 will represent also the city of Philadelphia. 

 Dr. Wilson has in addition been appointed 

 delegate from the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia and from the Smith- 

 sonian in Washington, by Secretary Hughes, 

 to the Congress of Americanists meeting about 

 the twentieth of August in Rio de Janieiro. 



Professor Theodore W. Richaeds, of Har- 

 vard University, spoke before the Societe 

 Chimique de France on July 12 on "La sig- 

 nification actuelle des poids atomique." 



Dr. T. Caspar Gilchrist, of Baltimore, de- 

 livered the annual oration, on the progress of 

 dermatology, before the London Dermatolog- 

 ical Society. 



Dr. Walter B. Cannon gave an address on 

 "What has been accomplished by animal exper- 

 imentation" during the recent meetings of the 

 Pacific Northwest Medical Association. 



A LEGISLATIVE bill that recently passed the 

 French Chamber of Deputies, as we learn from 

 the Journal of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion, provides for the granting of an appro- 

 priation of 3,620,000 francs to enable the state 

 to participate in the commemoration at Stras- 

 bourg of the centenary of Pastern-. The com- 

 mittee delegated to inquire into the project has 

 reported that the centenary should be cele- 

 brated not in Strasbourg alone but also in Paris 

 and in various cities of Franche-Comte in 

 which Pasteur lived — particularly Dole, Lons- 

 le-Saunier, Arbois and Besan^on. The com- 

 mittees on public instruction and public health, 

 after hearing M. Strauss, minister of public 

 health, who spoke in the name of the govern- 

 ment, reached the same conclusion and decided 

 to request the government to modify the scope 

 of the centenary by eliminating the two words 

 "at Strasbourg." Acting on the suggestion of 

 M. Deville, in tuim, the municipal council of 

 Paris has unanimously voted an appropriation 

 of 50,000 francs for the celebration at Paris of 

 the centenary of Pasteur. 



An appeal has been made for subscriptions 

 to a proposed memorial to Sir German Sims 

 Woodhead, late professor of pathology in the 

 University of Cambridge. It is proposed that 

 the memorial shall take the form of a portrait 

 relief in bronze, to be placed in the library of 

 the Medical School at Cambridge, and that it 

 shall correspond in design to those of Professor 

 Woodhead's predecessors in the chair of pathol- 

 ogy, the late Professors Roy and Kanthack. 



Professor J. J. Mackenzie, head of the 

 pathological departments of the University of 

 Toronto, died on August 1 at the age of fifty- 

 seven years as a result of infection contracted 

 during his experiment with the pus-forming 

 bacteria. 



