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abroad. The pathological museum of the uni- 

 versity will hereafter be known as the Fred- 

 erick Robert Zeit Museum of Pathology. 



James B. Pollock, associate professor of 

 botany in the University of Michigan, goes to 

 the University of Hawaii at Honolulu for the 

 college year 1922-1923, in exchange with Pro- 

 fessor H. ¥. Bergman. 



Propessor Herbert E. Gkegoet and Dr. 

 Levi F. Noble are devoting the months of 

 August and September to geological investiga- 

 tions in southern Utah. At the beginning of 

 the academic year Professor Gi-egory will re- 

 sume his work at Yale University. 



The sixth session of a series of graduate 

 medical lectures given at the University of 

 Washington, Seattle, opened on July 17. Five 

 lectures each were given by Dr. Hobart Amory 

 Hare, professor of therapeutics, Jefferson Med- 

 ical College, Philadelphia; Dr. John B. Deaver, 

 professor of surgery. University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Dr. Williams Melvim Marriott, pro- 

 fessor of pediatrics, Washington University, 

 St. Louis. Single lectures were given by Dr. 

 AVilliam Englebaeh, professor of medicine, St. 

 Louis University School of Medicine; Dr. 

 Joseph Colt Bloodgood, professor of surgery, 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and Dr. 

 W^alter B. Cannon, professor of physiology, 

 Harvard University, Boston. 



Dr. George Milbrt Could, known for his 

 work in medical ophthalmology and especially 

 in eyestrain, formerly editor of American Med- 

 icine, Biographic Clinics and the Gould Med- 

 ical Dictionary, died on August 8, aged sev- 

 enty-four years. 



The death is announced of Professor W. 

 Hallwachs, of the Dresden Technical School, 

 known for his researches on electricity, par- 

 ticularly on the photo-electric effect, and of 

 Professor Otto Lehmann, of the Karlsruhe 

 Technical school, best known for his work on 

 liquid crystals. 



The death is announced from Paris, at the 

 age of forty-one, of Professor Pierre Boutroux, 

 of the College de France, formerly professor 

 of mathematics at Princeton University. The 

 son of the philosopher Emile Boutroux and 

 the nephew of Henri Poincare, himself a math- 

 ematician of no little merit, his main work 



was along the lines of multiform functions 

 and of singularities of differential equations. 



Nature says: "Mr. H. G. Wells has accepted 

 the invitation of the labor party of the Uni- 

 versity of London to offer himself as the can- 

 didate of the party at the election for a rep- 

 resentative of the university in the House of 

 Commons to be held after the retirement of 

 Sir Philip Magnus at the end of the present 

 session of Parliament. Mr. Wells occupies 

 such a distinguished position in the world of 

 literature and among leaders of thought to-day 

 that his early work in science and education is 

 often overlooked. He was a student at the 

 Royal College of Science, South Kensington, 

 in 1884-87, and was the first president of the 

 Old Students' Association of the College. He 

 took his B.Sc. degree with honors in zoology 

 in 1890, and his first book was a "Text-book 

 of Zoology," written particularly for London 

 University students while he was a teacher of 

 the subject.- He is a fellow of the College of 

 Preceptors, and for a short time edited the 

 Educational Times. Throughout his career he 

 has been a steadfast supporter of scientific 

 methods in schools and government, and in his 

 books has pleaded the cause of scientific edu- 

 cation and research with eloquence and convic- 

 tion. It is not too much to say that no grad- 

 uate of the University of London possesses 

 such a rare combination of brilliant literary 

 power and scientific thought or has used these 

 gifts with greater effect than has Mr. Wells 

 in his many and various works." 



The Congress of Learned Societies will 

 meet at the Sorbonne, Paris, from April 3 to 

 7, 1923. 



The exhibition which opens in Rio Janeiro 

 on September 7 will include displays repre- 

 senting the New England offshore fisheries, the 

 salmon industry, the sardine industry of Maine 

 and California, the oyster industry, the fresh- 

 water mussel fishery, the fish-canning industry, 

 the by-products of the fisheries, and the 

 bureau's relations with the industries. Because 

 of limited allotments of space and funds the 

 exhibit will of necessity be small. A report 

 on the fisheries of the United States, the or- 

 ganization and functions of the bureau, edu- 

 cational opportunities afforded students of 



