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ton will visit the botanical institutions of Great 

 Britain, France and Switzerland, particularly 

 in reference to investigations of tlie flora of 

 northern South America. 



Dr. Franklin L. Hunt, physicist in the 

 aeronautic instruments section of the Bureau 

 of Standards, who has been detailed to Paris, 

 France, for a period of twelve months, to serve 

 as the bureau's representative in relations with 

 the scientific and aviation authorities of Eng- 

 land, France, Italy, Belgium and Holland, is 

 expected to return about the first of October. 



Dr. David Marine, associate professor of ex- 

 perimental medicine in Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, Cleveland, has been elected director of 

 laboratories in the Montefiore Home and Hos- 

 pital, New Tork City. 



Mr. E. G. Upton, formerly with the Texas 

 State Board of Health as assistant sanitary 

 engineer, now has charge of inspection and 

 laboratory work for the city of Port Arthur, 

 Texas, where he is chemist and sanitary engi- 

 neer. 



Dr. Nicholas Kopeloff has accepted the 

 position of associate in bacteriology at the 

 Psychiatric Institute of the N. Y. State Hos- 

 pitals, after resigning the position of bacteri- 

 ologist of the Louisiana Sugar Experiment 

 Station. 



Claude Wakeland, deputy state entomolo- 

 gist of Colorado and in charge of alfalfa 

 weevil investigations from 191Y to 1919, has 

 accepted the position of state extension ento- 

 mologist with headquarters at Boise. 



The Robert Koch endowment at Berlin has 

 granted Professor Fliigge of Berlin 15,000 

 marks and Professor Selter of Konigsberg 

 6,000 marks to aid in continuing their re- 

 search on tuberculosis. 



Dr. R. S. Morrell has been elected presi- 

 dent of the British Oil and Color Chemists' 

 Association in succession to Dr. F. MoUwo 

 Perkin. 



Major W. E. Simnett has retired from 

 the direction and editorship of the Technical 

 Review on his appointment to direct the In- 

 telligence Branch of the British Ministry of 

 Transport. 



Dr. J. G. Lipman, director of the New 

 Jersey Experiment Station, has been appointed 

 consulting editor of Annales de la Science 

 Agronomique Frangaise et Etrangere. 



Harvey Bassler and J. B. Mertie, Jr., on 

 furlough from the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 are engaged in oil geology with Eugene Steb- 

 inger in Bolivia. 



Professor C. O. Sauer, of the University 

 of Michigan,, is in charge during the month 

 of September of a summer geological camp at 

 Mills Springs, Wayne County, Ky. 



Dr. Stephen Taber, professor of geology at 

 the University of South Carolina, has been 

 giving courses in geology and seismology at 

 Stanford University during the simimer 

 quarters. 



The Royal College of Physicians of London 

 has appointed lecturers as follows: Dr. F. 

 Parkes Weber, Mitchell lecturer, 1921; Dr. G. 

 Graham, Goulstonian lecturer, 1921; Dr. T. 

 Lewis, Oliver Sharpey lecturer, 1921; Dr. A. 

 Whitfield, Lmnleian lecturer, 1921; Dr. R. 

 O. Moon, FitzPatrick lecturer, 1921; and Dr. 

 G. M. Holmes, Croonian lecturer, 1922. 



In memory of Dr. John B. Murphy, of Chi- 

 cago, who died in 1916, it is proposed that 

 there be constructed at an estimated cost of 

 five hundred thousand dollars, the John B. 

 Murphy Memorial Hall of the American Col- 

 lege of Surgeons on a site in Chicago given by 

 a number of prominent citizens and accepted 

 by the regents in behalf of the college. In 

 this memorial the college will acquire a build- 

 ing architecturally beautiful and much needed 

 for important conferences and convocations 

 and meetings for national and local medical 

 societies. Space wiU be provided also in which 

 it is proposed to maintain a pantheon of Amer- 

 ican medicine and surgery. 



John Percy, professor of mathematics at the 

 Finsbury Technical College and later at the 

 Royal College of Science, London, died on Au- 

 gust 4 at the age of seventy years. 



The death is announced at the age of eighty- 

 three years of Dr. Armand Gautier, formerly 

 professor of chemistry at the University of 



