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carried out for lack of funds at hand. Appli- 

 cations for grants should be sent to the Com- 

 mittee on Scientific Eesearch, American Med- 

 ical Association, 535 Korth Dearborn Street, 

 Chicago, before April 1, 1921, when action will 

 be taken on the applications at hand. 



Dr. J. Paul Goode (Mianesota, '89), of the 

 department of geography of the University of 

 Chicago, gave an address on " Coal and civili- 

 zation " at the annual banquet of the General 

 Alumni Association at the University of Min- 

 nestota, on February 18. The occasion was 

 the fifty-third anniversary of the founding of 

 the University of Minnesota. 

 , Dr. S. B. Wolbach, associate professor of 

 pathology and bacteriology, Harvard Univer- 

 isity, will deliver the eighth Harvey Society 

 lecture at the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine on Saturday evening, March 12. His 

 subject win be " Typhus fever and rickettsia." 



Surgeon-General Ireland has completed 

 plans to have prominent physicians of the 

 country deliver addresses before the General 

 Staff College at Washington. Dr. Joel E. 

 Goldthwait, Boston, and Dr. Thomas W. Sal- 

 mon, New York, recently went to Washing- 

 ton to speak at the college. 

 ' The Washington Section oi the American 

 Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engi- 

 neers held a supper and meeting at the In- 

 terior Department on January 14. Dr. H. 

 Foster Bain, the newly appointed director of 

 the Bureau of Mines, lectured on " Mines and 

 mining in the far east." 



On behalf of the subscribers to the Poynting 

 Memorial Eund, the portrait of the late Pro- 

 fessor J. H. Poynting by Mr. Bernard Munns 

 has been presented to the University of Bir- 

 mingham, and Mr. W. Waters Butler has pre- 

 sented the portrait of the late Professor 

 Adrian Brown by the same artist. 



Dr. Willlam Miller Welch, an authority 

 on contagious diseases, and for more than fifty 

 years connected with the Philadelphia Bureau 

 of Health, and professor in the graduate 

 school of medicine of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has died at the age of eighty-three 

 years. 



Dr. F. J. v. Skiff, director of the Field 

 Museum, Chicago, died on February 24 at the 

 age of sixty-nine years. 



The North Carolina Department of Agri- 

 culture announces the death of Dr. James 

 Marion Pickel, for many years past the feed 

 chemist of the department. 



Dr. J. C. Cain, editor of the publications of 

 the London Chemical Society and author of 

 works on synthetic dyestuffs, died on January 

 31 at the age of fifty years. 



Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, the eminent 

 Swedish geologist and paleobotanist, died at 

 Stockholm on January 20, lq his seventy-first 

 year. 



Professor T. Miyake, of the dtepartment of 

 zoology of the Agricultural College of the 

 Imperial University of Tokyo, died on Feb- 

 ruary 2 of typhoid fever which at that time 

 was prevalent in Tokyo. Professor Miyake 

 will be remembered as the author of a large 

 two-volume work on the entomology of Japan, 

 a review of which was published in Science 

 some months ago. 



The request is' made to botanis^ts to supply 

 the department of botany of the Alabama 

 Polytechnic Institute with separates and other 

 publications to help restore the library which 

 was lost in the fire which destroyed the agri- 

 cultural building. 



The sum of $500,000 has been given by Dr. 

 Frank Schamberg, Dr. John A. Kohner and 

 Professor George M. Eaiziss to the dermato- 

 logioal research laboratories of the University 

 of Pennsylvania for the support of medical re- 

 search. The sum represents the profits received 

 by the laboratories during the war from the 

 sale of the drug arsphenamine, a solution for 

 German salvarsan. Its manufacture was the 

 result of experiments conducted in the derma- 

 tological research laboratories by Dr. Scham- 

 berg and his two assistants. Dr. Kolmer, pro- 

 fessor of pathology and baoteriology of the 

 graduate school of medicine of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, and George M. Raiziss, pro- 

 fessor of chemotherapy at the same school of 



