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Me. Frakk Baohmann has resigned his posi- 

 tion as chief chemist, Industrial Waste Board, 

 Oonneetieut State Department of Health, to 

 accept a position in the sanitary engineering 

 department of the Dorr Company of New York 

 City. 



E. S. WoGLUM, entomologist in charge of 

 citrus fruit insect investigations in California 

 for the Federal Bureau of Entomology, who 

 for many years has been conducting re- 

 searches in orchard fumigation with hydro- 

 cyanic acid, resigned on September 1 to head 

 the newly established Bureau of Pest Control, 

 in the California Fruit Growers Exchange, a 

 cooi)erative organization of more than 10,000 

 citrus fruit growers. 



Dr. John Lovett Morse, professor of ped- 

 iatrics at the Harvard Medical School, who 

 has been connected -with the university since 

 his graduation in 1887, has resigned, his resig- 

 nation to take effect on July 1. 



Professor A. B. Macallum, of McGill Uni- 

 versity, Montreal, will deliver a course of 

 lectures, extending over seven months, at the 

 medical college in Peking, China. He will 

 leave for the Orient in March. 



At the annual meeting of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences held on January 11, 

 Dr. J. E. Johnston, chief of the Office of 

 Plant Sanitation, Cuba, and director of re- 

 search for the United Fruit Company, de- 

 livered the address on " Some problems in 

 economic biology in tropical America." The 

 153d meeting of the academy will be a joint 

 meeting with the Chemical Society of Wash- 

 ington and will be held in the Assembly Hall 

 of the Cosmos Club (entrance on the south 

 side of Cameron House) at 8 :15 p.m., on 

 Thursday, January 20, 1921. The retiring 

 president of the academy. Dr. C. L. Alsberg, 

 chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture will deliver an ad- 

 dress on " The relation of chemical structure 

 to physiological action." 



The Cutter lectures on preventive medicine 

 and hygiene were delivered at the Harvard 

 Medical School on January 11 and 12, by Dr. 



Alonzo Taylor, on " General and specific 

 effects of prolonged subnutrition." 



Professor E. W. Skeats, of the University 

 of Melbourne, Australia, made an address on 

 January 4 before the Geological Conference at 

 Harvard University on "The geology of the 

 state of Victoria." 



Professor John Merle Coulter, head of 

 the department of botany at the University of 

 Chicago, gave two lectures in Cleveland last 

 month on the McBride Foundation of Western 

 Eeserve University. The subject of the lec- 

 tures was " History and present status of or- 

 ganic evolution." The purpose of the Founda- 

 tion is • to offer to the citizens of Cleveland 

 semi-popular lectures upon various subjects by 

 representatives from other universities. 



Services in memory of the late Major-^Gen- 

 eral William C. Gorgas will be held in the hall 

 of the Americas of the Pan-American Build- 

 ing, January 16, under the auspices of the 

 Southern Society of Washington. The Secre- 

 tary of War, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary 

 of State, Adjt.-Gen. Peter C. Hiarris, Sir Auck- 

 land Geddes, and diplomatic representatives of 

 Cuba, Panama and South American countries 

 will deliver memorial addresses. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation writes that at the suggestion of the 

 Niederrheinische Gesellschaft fiir Natur- imd 

 Heilkunde, a memorial tablet is to be placed 

 on the birthplace in Bonn of the Berlin physi- 

 ologist N. Zuntz, who died last spring. To 

 the pupils and friends of Zuntz the society 

 has issued an appeal for contributions. 



Dr. John Emory Clark, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the Sheffield Scientific School of 

 Tale University from 1873 to 1901, died on 

 January 3, in his eighty-ninth year. 



Eegis Chauvenet, president emeritus of the 

 Colorado School of Mines, chemist and metal- 

 lurgist, died in Denver recently at the age of 

 seventy-eight. 



Elijah P. Harris, emeritus professor of 

 chemistry at Amherst College, has died at 

 Warsaw, N. Y., at the age of eighty-eight. Dr. 

 Harris retired as professor of chemistry at 

 Amherst in 1907. 



