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in the research laboratories of the Department 

 of Health of New York City under the direc- 

 •jtion of Dr. Cecil. 



Major E. G. Hoskins, who has been for the 

 past four months in charge of the Section of 

 Food and Nutrition of the Surgeon-General's 

 Office, has received his discharge from the 

 service. He will spend the current academic 

 year studying at the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School. 



Professor F. K. Eichtmyer is on sabbatic 

 leave for a year from Cornell, devoting a part 

 of his time to research in the Eesearch Lab- 

 oratory of the General Electric Company, at 

 Schenectady. 



Mr. Joseph Mailliaed, honorary curator of 

 ornithology, of the California Academy of 

 Sciences, left San Francisco on September 15 

 with his assistant, Mr. Luther Little, to collect 

 birds in Mendocino county, California. Mr. 

 Mailliard secured a representative collection 

 from this territory in June and now is cover- 

 ing the same ground to note seasonal changes 

 and variations. 



Dr. J. A. LeClerc has resigned from the 

 Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, and is now with the Miner- 

 Hillard Milling Company of Wilkes-Barre, 

 Pennsylvania. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the University of 

 Pisa recently organized a festal meeting to 

 honor the fiftieth professional anniversary of 

 Professor G. Eomiti of the chair of anatomy. 

 A marble portrait bust was unveiled, and Pro- 

 fessor Eomiti presented the university with 

 his valuable library on anatomy 



The first lecture of the series of the Harvey 

 Society will be given at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on October 18, by Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel George Dreyer, M.D., professor 

 of general pathology, Oxford University, on 

 " Biological Standards and their Application 

 to Medicine." The second lecture of the series 

 will be given on October 25 by Dr. H. H. 

 Dale, of the Lister Institute of Preventive 

 Medicine, London, on " Shock." 



Dr. August Hooh, who was for seven years 

 the director of the Psychiatric Institute on 



Ward's Island, died on September 23, in San 

 Francisco. 



A LEGACY of $60,000 has been made by the 

 late Dr. Eizzi, physician in chief of the 

 Ospedale Maggiore at Milan, to found an in- 

 stitute for the research and practise of bio- 

 chemistry. 



; The legislature of Alabama has passed the 

 Alabama Mental Deficiency bill which appro- 

 priates $200,000 for the establishment of the 

 Alabama Home for Mental Inferiors at Tus- 

 caloosa in connection with the Bryce Hospital. 

 As a part of the campaign for securing the 

 passage of this measure. Dr. W. D. Partlow, 

 superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hos- 

 pitals, and Dr. Thomas H. Haines, field agent 

 for the National Committee for Mental Hy- 

 giene, made a careful mental survey of the 

 four industrial schools of the state last May. 

 This was a cooperative piece of work of the 

 Alabama State Board of Health and the Na- 

 tional Committee for Mental Hygiene. One 

 hundred and twenty-nine of the six hundred 

 and fifty-four juvenile delinquents in the 

 schools were found to be so defective in mental 

 ability as to demand institution care of a cus- 

 todial sort for their proper management. 

 ,These facts proved a potent argument in se- 

 curing the appropriation. 



, The Federation frangarse des societes de 

 sciences naturelles has been formed consisting 

 of thirteen society units: les Societes Zoolo- 

 gique, Entomologique, d'Acelimatation, de Pis- 

 ciculture; I'Association des Anatomistes; les 

 Societe de Botanique, de Mycologie, de Patho- 

 logic vegetale; la Societe philomatique ; la 

 Societe geologique ; la SocietS des Naturalistes 

 parisiens ; la Societe de Chimie biologique. It 

 is proposed to establish five categories for the 

 purpose of bibliographic documentation: (1) 

 botany; (2) anatomy and embryology; (3) 

 zoology; (4) general biology, and (5) physiol- 

 ogy. 



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