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charge of the seientifie work of the Amundsen 

 expedition, mailed magnetic records to the De- 

 partment of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington. The expedi- 

 tion was able to reoeeupy magnetic stations of 

 1920 and 1921 at Kain-ge-sken, Siberia. 



The Italian government has decided to 

 restore to the German psychiatrist, Professor 



E. Kraepelin, his villa in Italy, which was con- 

 fiscated during the war as enemy property. 



De. E. D. Ball^ director of scientific work 

 in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and 

 national president of Gamma Sigma Delta, the 

 agricultural honor society, installed a chapter 

 at the Pennsylvania State College on October 

 10. A local association has also been formed 

 by members of the Society of Sigma Xi who 

 reside in State College or vicinity, with Dr. 



F. D. Kern as president and Professor C. 

 Emory Myers secretary-treasurer. 



Dr. Henry H. Dale, director of the National 

 Institute for Medical Research, London, gave 

 a Hanna lecture at the Medical Library Audi- 

 torium in Cleveland on October 6. 



Dr. Harlow Shaplet, director of the Har- 

 vard College Observatory, lectured at Mount 

 Holyoke College on October 6 on "Measuring 

 the Milky Way." The lecture is the first of a 

 series of science lectui-es provided for by the 

 Polly Hollingsworth fund for lectures on art, 

 science and music. 



Professor L. Bairstow delivered a lecture 

 to the Royal Aeronautical Society on October 

 5, on "The Work of S. P. Langley." 



The twenty-fifth annual Traill-Taylor Me- 

 morial Lecture of the Royal Photographic So- 

 ciety was delivered by Dr. R. S. Clay on Octo- 

 ber 10, on "The development of the photo- 

 graphic lens from the historical point of view." 



Following services which were held at his 

 home, the body of Dr. William S. Halsted, 

 lat« professor of surgery in the Johns Hopkins 

 University, who died on September 7 at Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital, was cremated on September 

 9, in pursuance of his wish. Drs. William H. 

 Welch, Howard A. Kelly, William H. Howell, 

 John J. Abel, William G. MacCallum, Harvey 

 Gushing, Ira Remsen, Winford H. Smith, John 



Whitridge Williams and Judge Harlan were 

 the honorary pallbearers, and Drs. John M. T. 

 Finney, Joseph C. Bloodgood, Hugh H. Young, 

 George J. Heuer, Samuel J. Crowe, Walter E. 

 Dandy and Mont R. Reid were the active pall- 

 bearers. 



Dr. Joseph E. Winters, professor emeritus 

 of the diseases of children at Cornell Univer- 

 sity Medical College in New York, died in 

 Boston on October 4. 



Dr. Inigues, professor of astronomy at the 

 University of Madrid and formerly director of 

 the Madrid Observatory, has died. 



Dr. William Halse Rivers Rivers, of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, author of works on 

 ethnology, psychology and anthropology, who 

 died on June 4, aged fifty-eight, bequeathed to 

 St. John's College the portrait of himself by 

 Shields, to the library of the college such of 

 his books as the council of that college may 

 choose ; the balance of his books and pamphlets 

 to the University of Cambridge, for the de- 

 partments of psychology and ethnology as the 

 librarians may select; and to his friend, Pro- 

 fessor Grafton Elliot Smith, professor of 

 anatomy in the University of London, all his 

 MSS. and unpublished works as his own prop- 

 erty, but requesting him to publish such por- 

 tion as he might consider ought to be published, 

 and he left to him £500 for defraying the costs 

 of preparing and publishing these documents. 



The John Elliott Memorial Pathological and 

 Bacteriological Laboratory at the Chester 

 Royal Infirmary was opened on September 16 

 by Sir Humphrey Rolleston, K.C.B., M.D., 

 president of the Royal College of Physicians 

 of London. The laboratory has been fitted and 

 equipped by public subscription in memory of 

 the late Dr. John Elliott, honorary physician 

 to the infirmary from 1895 to 1921. 



President-emeritus Patterson, of the Uni- 

 versity of Kentucky, died at his residence on 

 the campus on August 15, 1922, in his eighty- 

 ninth year. After making a number of per- 

 sonal bequests he left his residuary estate to be 

 reinvested by the Security Trust Company, of 

 Lexington, and the interest compounded until 

 it shall become large enough to yield an income 

 of $35,000 or $40,000 a year, when the income 



