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so extensively employed as antiseptics by tlie 

 allied forces, according to the methods of Drs. 

 Alexis Carrel and H. D. Dakin. 



Dr. Austin M. Patterson, who for the past 

 fourteen months has been connected with the 

 editorial section of the American University 

 Experiment Station, Chemical Warfare Serv- 

 ice, has returned to his home at Xenia, Ohio. 



Lieutenant Colonel John Amyot, professor 

 of hygiene and preventive medicine in the 

 University of Toronto, who has been overseas 

 for three or four years as sanitary officer to 

 one of the Canadian divisions, has been ap- 

 pointed deputy minister of the newly created 

 federal department of public health at Ottawa. 



Professor Woolnough has been granted five 

 months' leave of absence by the senate of the 

 Western Australian University to visit Eng- 

 land and place the claims of the western state 

 before Messrs. Brunner, Mond, and Co., as 

 the most suitable site in Australia upon which 

 to establish the alkali industry. 



Dr. S. Burt Wolbach^ of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, who has been in Mexico to make cer- 

 tain studies on typhus fever, has returned to 

 the United States. 



T. D. Beckwith, professor of bacteriology 

 at the Oregon Agricultural College, has been 

 granted a leave of absence for one year. He 

 expects to study at the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Dr. Edward Cowles, a distinguished chem- 

 ist, long superintendent of the McLean Hos- 

 pital and professor of mental diseases in the 

 Dartmouth Medical School, died at Plymouth, 

 on June 25, in his eighty-third year. 



Adrian J. Brown, professor of the fermen- 

 tation industries at the University of Bir- 

 mingham, known for his contributions to bio- 

 logical chemistry especially in its applications 

 to brewing, died on July 2, at the age of sixty- 

 six years. 



Sir William McGregor, a well known Eng- 

 lish colonial governor, who made important 

 contributions to ethnology when stationed at 

 New Guinea, has died at the age of seventy- 

 two years. 



Dr. Nikolas Berend, a member of the 

 faculty of the University of Budapest and 

 widely known as an authority on children's 

 diseases, was killed recently during an attempt 

 to overthrow the Soviet government iu Buda- 

 pest. 



The first National Congress of the Manufac- 

 turing Chemists of Italy is to convene at 

 Milan in October with an exhibition annex. 



The London Times states that members of 

 the International Hydrographic Conference 

 visited the Admiralty Compass Department at 

 Ditton Park, Datchet, where all work con- 

 nected with the receipt, issue and testing, etc., 

 of compasses, both magnetic and gyroscopic, 

 for the Navy and Air Force is carried out at 

 the Observatory, and branches have recently 

 been formed for experiments and research 

 work on compasses and optical instruments. 

 The guests were received by Captain Creagh 

 Osborne, director of the observatory, and after 

 luncheon split up into parties and members of 

 the staff explained the instruments and their 

 utility. During the war as many as 1,500 aero- 

 plane compasses have been turned out in a 

 week at the observatory, and at times as many 

 as 7,000 have been received from oversea and 

 from the country for repair. 



Nature states that having held its meetings 

 at Taunton during the period of the war, the 

 Somersetshire Archeological and Natural His- 

 tory Society had hoped to hold its seventy-first 

 annual meeting and excursions away from 

 headquarters, but this has been found impos- 

 sible owing to the difficulty of hotel accommo- 

 dation. However, long excursions will be 

 taken into Devon on this occasion, viz., to 

 Hembury Fort, Cadhay House (1545-87), and 

 Ottery St. Mary Church on July 30, and to 

 Exeter on July 31. The annual meeting will 

 be held at Taunton on July 29 under the 

 presidency of Mr. Henry Balfour, curator of 

 the Pitt Eivers Museum at Oxford, and past- 

 president of the Eoyal Anthropological Insti- 

 tute. The subject of his presidential address 

 was " The doctrines of General Pitt Rivers and 

 their influence." The society now consists of 

 between 900 and 1,000 members, and owns a 



