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Dohme, a well-known manufacturer of pharma- 

 ceutical products. It is the purpose of the 

 donor to have presented in these lectures dis- 

 coveries which intimately concern the fields of 

 chemistry, pharmacy and medicine. Professor 

 Hamburger has chosen for the title of his lec- 

 tures, ''The increasing significance of perme- 

 ability problems in physiology and pathology." 



Peopessoe Albeet Perry Beigham, of Col- 

 gate Universitj', gave a course of lectures on 

 "The American Domain and the American 

 People" before the Oxford Univei-sity School 

 of Gieography from August 10 to 16. 



RoLLiN D. Salisbury, since 1892 professor 

 of geographical geology and since 1897 dean 

 of the Ogden School of Science at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, died on August 15, aged sixty- 

 four years. 



Edward M. Eidheee, formerly expert in the 

 department of agriculture, bureau of chem- 

 istry, Austria, member of the Academy of 

 Science of Vienna, died on July 24, aged sixty 

 years. 



Stephenson Percy Smith, known for his 

 work on Polynesian ethnology, has died at 

 New Plymouth, New Zealand, at the age of 

 seventy-two years. 



According to the regulations of the "Van't 

 Hoff Fund" founded in 1913, the foundation 

 in Amsterdam under the supervision of the 

 Royal Academy of Sciences appropriates an- 

 nually allotments to investigators in the field 

 of pure and applied chemistry. The amount 

 available for 1923 is about twelve hundred 

 Dutch florins. The committee in charge con- 

 sists of A. F. HoUeman, president; S. Hooge- 

 werff, A. Smits and J. P. Wibaut, secretary. 



The seventh summer meeting of the Mathe- 

 matical Association of America will be held at 

 the University of Rochester, Rochester, New 

 York, on Wednesday and Thursday morning, 

 September 6 and 7. The American Mathe- 

 matical Society will meet in Rochester on 

 Thursday afternoon and Friday, September 7 

 and 8. A joint dinner will be held on Thurs- 

 day evening at the Oak Hill Country Club, 

 the future site of the university. Professor 

 R. C. Archibald, the president of the associa- 



tion, has been invited to give a report at this 

 time on European conditions, based on his six 

 months' traveling in Europe. The sessions of 

 the association on Wednesday will be held in 

 the Eastman Building, at 10 A.M. and 2 P.M. 

 The session on Thursday morning will be held 

 at 9 :30 A.M. at the Research Laboratory of 

 the Eastman Kodak Company. A short cham- 

 ber concert will be given for the members of 

 the association and the society in Kilbourn 

 Hall, of the New Eastman School of Music, 

 at 4:30 P.M. on Wednesday. An automobile 

 ride on Thursday afternoon will precede the 

 joint dinner. 



The autumn meeting of the British Iron and 

 Steel Institute will be held at York on Sep- 

 tember 5 to 8, when it is expected that ten 

 papers will be submitted for discussion. In 

 addition to an excui-sion to Rievaulx Abbey 

 and Castle Howard, visits have been arranged, 

 with special trains, to the works of the Staveley 

 Coal and Iron Company, near Chesterfield, and 

 of the Parkgate Iron and Steel Company at 

 Rotherham. 



In connection with the National Colonial 

 Exhibition to be held in September at Mar- 

 seilles, a "Semaine Internationale" has been 

 organized for the purpose of bringing together 

 geographers, explorers, ethnologists and nat- 

 uralists, whether French or of other nations, 

 who are in sympathy with French colonial 

 achievements. The program will include visits 

 under suitable guidance to the exhibition gal- 

 leries, public 'lectures and technical meetings, 

 social functions and geographical excursions, 

 and the congress, which is presided over by 

 Prince Bonaparte, will last from the twenty- 

 second to the twenty-eighth of September. The 

 charge for tickets of membership is 25 francs, 

 and those attending will be able to travel for 

 half -fares on the system of the Paris-Lyon- 

 Mediterranean Railway. 



The Imperial Department of Agriculture 

 for the West Indies has been amalgamated with 

 the West Indian Agricultural College, and the 

 head office of the department has been trans- 

 fen-ed from Barbados to Trinidad. 



The London Chemical Society has agreed to 

 supply copies of the Annual Reports on the 



