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We learn from Nature tliat Dr. E. W. Scrip- 

 ture has lately returned from Germany, where 

 he has been lecturing on experimental phonet- 

 ics applied to the study of English. Dr. Scrip- 

 ture, who was formerly assistant professor of 

 . experimental psychology in Yale University, 

 and associate in psychiatry in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, is now resident in London, where he 

 has been for some years engaged on studying 

 records of speech in epilepsy, general paralysis 

 and other nervous diseases. 

 ; At the annual general meeting and conver- 

 sazione of the Harveian Society of London, 

 held on January 13, Dr. Turtle was elected 

 president for the ensuing year. The retiring 

 president. Dr. Hill, delivered an address on the 

 advances in the methods of treatment of dis- 

 ease of the oesophagus during the present cen- 

 tury. 



Six Hunterian lectures on the " Principles of 

 human craniology," illustrated by specimens 

 and preparations, were delivered by Professor 

 Arthur Keith at the Eoyal College of Sur- 

 geons, during January. 



The Osier Society for the Study of Medical 

 History has been organized by a group of 

 twelve physicians of the Mayo Foundation. 

 Dr. William C. MacCarty, associate professor 

 of pathology, has been elected president of the 

 society. 



A COMMITTEE has been appointed to under- 

 take a campaign for the collection of a fund 

 of $500,000 for the endowment of two memor- 

 ials to the work of the late Dr. Henry Baird 

 Pavill, of Chicago. It is proposed to create a 

 Henry Baird Favill Memorial Laboratory, 

 with fellowship endowments, in St. Luke's 

 Hospital, to the interests of which Dr. Favill 

 devoted many years of special effort. For this 

 purpose a fund of $250,000 is solicited. A like 

 sum is desired for the esta:blishment of the 

 Henry Baird Favill Foundation, the income 

 of which shall be used for the promotion of 

 public instruction in health and hygiene. Mr. 

 Edgar A. Bancroft is chairman, and Mr. IT. D. 

 Sibley is secretary of the committee. 

 I A BRONZE tablet was recently unveiled in the 

 medical laboratory of the University of Rio 



de Janeiro to commemorate the work there of 

 Professor Diogenes Sampaio, who died in 1918. 

 He was influential in the organization of the 

 laboratory which is henceforth to bear his 

 name. 



Dr. Hugh A. MoCallum, dean of the West- 

 ern University Medical School of London, Can- 

 ada, died on January 25. 



Sm Lazarus Fletcher, keeper of minerals in 

 the British Natural History Museum from 

 1880 to 1909 and then director of the museum 

 until 1919, died on January 6, in the sixty- 

 seventh year of his age. 



Dr. Odoardo Beccari, director of the Botan- 

 cal Garden at Florence, known for his explora- 

 tions in New Guinea from 1860 to 1870, and 

 as an authority on the classification of palms, 

 died at Florence on October 25. 



The death is announced of Dr. Wilhelm 

 Foerster, professor of astronomy at the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin, at one time director of the 

 Eoyal Observatoiy. Dr. Foerster was born at 

 Grunberg, Schleswig, December 16, 1832. 



Professor C. George Schillings died in 

 Berlin, on January 29, aged sixty-five years. 

 He was known for his travels in East Equa- 

 torial Africa and his studies of African zool- 

 ogy. 



The United States Civil Service Com- 

 mission announces an open competitive ex- 

 amination for psychologist in the Public 

 Health Service throughout the United States 

 at a salary of $2,200 a year, or with quarters 

 and subsistence $1,600. Applicants naust have 

 graduated from a college or university of 

 recognized standing and have had at least 

 three months of experience in normal psy- 

 chology. They should apply, before March 15, 

 to the Civil Service Commission, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



The annual meeting of the American Med- 

 ical Association is to be held in Boston, June 

 6-10, under the presidency of _ Dr. Hubert 

 Work, Pueblo, Colo. 



The American Psychological Association 

 will hold its thirtieth annual meeting at 

 Princetcn on December 28, 29 and 30, 1921. 



