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Dk. Ambrose Eobinson Willis, who for 

 many years taught mathematical physics at the 

 Royal College of Science, died on June 23, at 

 the age of seventy-two years. 



Dr. Harvey Gushing, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has been awarded the Charles Mickle 

 Fellowship of the faculty of medicine of To- 

 ronto University. He has accepted the fellow- 

 ship, which is for $1,000, but has stipulated 

 that the money shall be used to send one grad- 

 uate of the University of Toronto to Harvard 

 to work with him. The Charles Mickle Fellow- 

 ship, bequeathed by the late Dr. W. J. Mickle, 

 is the annual income from an endowment of 

 $25,000 and is awarded annually to the mem- 

 ber of the medical profession anywhere who is 

 considered to have done the most during the 

 preceding ten years to advance sound knowl- 

 edge of a practicjtl kind in medicine. The first 

 award was made last year to Professor I. 

 Pawlow, of the University of Petrograd. 



Professor A. Sommerpeld, professor of 

 mathematical physics at the University of 

 Munich, will be in residence at the University 

 of Wisconsin for the first semester of the com- 

 ing academic year 1922-23, holding the Karl 

 Schurz memorial professorship in the univer- 

 sity for that period. Professor Sommerfeld ia 

 expected to give a three-hour course on 

 "Atomic Structure" and a second three-hour 

 course either on the "Analysis of Wave Propa- 

 gation," or a three-hour course in "The Gen- 

 eral Theory of Relativity." The Karl Sehurz 

 memorial professorship in the University of 

 Wisconsin was founded in 1910 as an exchange 

 professorship with the German universities. 

 The appointment of Professor Sommerfeld 

 marks the resumption of the professorship 

 after the interruption ca.used by the war. Be- 

 fore the days of the Civil War, Karl Sehurz 

 was a resident of Watertown, Wisconsin, and 

 served on the board of regents of the State 

 University. The memorial professorship was 

 founded in recognition of his distinguished 

 services to the state and nation. 



The following appointments have been made 

 in the Food Research Institute of Stanford 

 University : Special investigators — Wilfred 

 Eldred, Ph.D. (Harvard), recently professor 



of economics at the University of Virginia, 

 who for nearly a year has been carrying on 

 investigations in the baking industry for the 

 institute, and John L. Simpson, A.B. (Cali- 

 fornia), who in 1919 was liaison officer of the 

 food section of the Supreme Economic Coun- 

 cil and chief of the A. R. A. Commission to 

 Serbia, and in 1920 special correspondent to 

 the New York Evening Post for eastern 

 Europe. Research assistants — Susan S. Burr, 

 A. B. (Vassar), A.M. (Stanford); Franklin 

 D. Sehurz, A.B., M.B.A. (Harvard); A. G. 

 Silverman, A. B. (Harvard). Fellows — Edith 

 Hawley, A.M. (Columbia), a graduate student 

 at Columbia for the past two years; James N. 

 Holsen, A.B. (Indiana), A.M. (Princeton) ; 

 Olaf S. Rask, A.B., B.S. (Minnesota), a grad- 

 uate student at the University of Minnesota 

 and formerly a research chemist in the Bureau 

 of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture; William B. Stewart, A.B. (Reed), a 

 graduate student at the University of Illinois: 

 and Conrad P. Wright, A.B. (Oxford), a 

 graduate student at the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that Dr. R. P. Strong, of 

 the Harvard Medical School, who has just 

 returned from his fourth trip to Panama, has 

 announced that it has been decided to estab- 

 lish first divisions of bacteriology, pathology, 

 protozoology, helminthology, biochemistry, en- 

 tomology, plant pathology and animal diseases 

 in the new Gorgas Memorial Institute of Trop- 

 ical and Preventive Medicine, at Panama. 

 These departments will be organized with 

 laboratories for research work, particularly in 

 connection with the study of the mode of 

 spread of the most important infectious dis- 

 eases of man and animals. There will be close 

 cooperation between the institute and the 

 Ancon Hospital and Leprosarium. In addi- 

 tion to the foregoing subjects, tropical botany 

 and the biologic effect of sunlight will also 

 receive attention. Provision wUl be made for 

 the instruction of a limited number of students, 

 the courses of instruction to be designed espe- 

 cially for those who have had laboratory train- 

 ing before. A limited number of research 

 workers will also be received. Dr. Strong 



