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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI-, No. 1452 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The American College of Surgeons met this 

 week in Boston with. Dr. John B. Deaver, of 

 the Univei-sity of Pennsylvania, as president, 

 and Dr. Harvey Gushing, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, as president-elect. 



At a meeting of the Swedish Society of 

 Physicians at Stockholm on October 3, it was 

 decided to bestow the Anders Reizius' Medal 

 on Professor Sir Charles Sherrington, of the 

 University of Oxford, for his researches in 

 physiology and the nervous system. 



Professor Boerel, director of the Institute 

 of Hygiene and Bacteriology at Strasboiu-g, 

 formerly connected with the Pasteur Institute 

 at Paris, has been appointed director of the 

 Exposition of Hygiene to be held at Stras- 

 bourg on the occasion of the centenarj' of 

 Pasteur. 



A TABLET bearing the name "Fernow Hall" 

 was unveiled on October 5 over the main en- 

 trance of the Forestry Building of Cornell 

 University. This name is given in recognition 

 of the services rendered forestry in America 

 by Dr. Bernhard E. Fernow, who was dean and 

 director of the first school of forestry on the 

 American continent, the former New "i.'ork 

 State College of Forestry. Serious ill health 

 prevented Professor Fernow being present at 

 the ceremonies. 



On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of 

 the professional career of Professor Domenico 

 Barduzzi and his retirement from the chair of 

 skin diseases and syphilis at the University of 

 Siena, a gold medal was presented to him and 

 a history of his career was published and pre- 

 sented to him by his students. 



The following Latin American surgeons 

 attended the meeting of the American College 

 of Surgeons held this week in Boston: Dr. 

 Jose A. Presno and Dr. Rafael Menocal, of 

 Havana, Cuba; Dr. Gabriel M. Malda and Dr. 

 Unises Valdes, of Mexico; Dr. Jose Arce of 

 Buenos Aii'es, Argentina; Dr. Claudio J. San- 

 jines, of La Paz, Bolivia; Dr. Olympia da 

 Fonseea, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Dr. Gre- 

 gorio Amunotegui and Dr. Lucas Sierra, of 

 Santiago, Chile; Surgeon General Albei'to 



Adriasola and Dr. Guillermo E. Muennich, of 

 Valparaiso, Chile; Dr. Pompilio Martinez, of 

 Bogota, Colombia; Dr. Francisco Graoa, of 

 Lima, Peru; Dr. Enrique Poue3', of Monte- 

 video, Uruguay, and Dr. Louis Razetti, of 

 Caracas, Venezuela. 



The Harvard faculty of medicine held a 

 reception on October 16 for the delegation of 

 visiting professors from the medical depart- 

 ment of the University of Strasbourg. The 

 visiting group is made up of Dean George 

 Weiss and Drs. Camille Duverge, Leon Blum, 

 Paul Masson and Maurice Mcleus. They are 

 making under the auspices of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation a study of the methods used in 

 American medical schools. 



Professor Ernest Mbrritt, head of the de- 

 partment of physics of Cornell University, has 

 been granted leave of absence for the second 

 half of the present academic year. His place 

 will be taken by Professor Frederick Bedell. 



Professor L. A. Fitz, head of the depart- 

 ment of milling industi-y at Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College, has been granted a leave of 

 absence for one year to work in the research 

 laboratories of the Fleischmann Company in 

 New York City. 



George P. Weber, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, '22), 

 has been appointed assistant plant pathologist 

 in the Agricultural Experiment Station of 

 Florida- at Gainesville. 



Dr. H. J. Hamburger, professor of physi- 

 ology. University of Groningen, Holland, de- 

 livered an address on October 19' on "The 

 increasing significance of chemistry in medical 

 thought and practice" before a joint meeting 

 of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the 

 Biological Society of Washington and the 

 Chemical Society of Washington. Dr. Ham- 

 burger will give an address on the same subject 

 as the first Harvey Society lecture at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine, on Friday evening, 

 November 3. 



Dr. Arthur L. Day, director of the Geo- 

 physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, lectured on October 8 on "The study of 

 earth movements in California" before the 

 Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. 



