September 3, 1920] 



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Paris, president of the Academy of Sciences 

 and of Medicine. 



Dr. O. Schultze, professor of anatomy and 

 physiology in the University of Wurzburg, has 

 died at the age of sixty-one years. 



"William Hodgson Ellis, former professor 

 of applied chemistry and dean of the faculty 

 of applied science at the University of Toronto, 

 died on August 24, in his seventy-fifth year. 



"William James "Wilson, for many years 

 paleobotanist for the Canadian Geological Sur- 

 vey, died at Ottawa, on August 21, aged sixty- 

 nine years. 



Professor H. D. Frary, assistant professor 

 of steam and gas engineering at the Univer- 

 sity of "Wisconsin with his wife was drowned 

 in August in the "Wisconsin river at Kilbourn, 

 while on a camping trip. Professor Frary 

 had been on the university faculty during the 

 past academic year and during the previous 

 two years had been connected with the Forest 

 Products laboratory. He was a graduate of 

 the University of Minnesota and obtained the 

 degree of doctor of philosophy at the Univer- 

 sity of Ulinois in 1918. 



The sixth national exposition of chemical 

 industries will be held in the Grand Central 

 Palace during the week of September 20. 



The British government has provided a 

 sum not exceeding £100,000 as a guarantee 

 against loss resulting from the holding of a 

 British Empire Exhibition in London next 

 year. The grant is conditional on the provi- 

 sion of a further sum of £500,000 by the pro- 

 moters of the enterprise. 



The Second International Congress of 

 Comparative Pathology will be held in Rome 

 in the spring of 1921 under the presidency of 

 Professor Perroncito. 



The International Surgical Society at its 

 recent general assembly, decided to hold its 

 next international congress at London, July, 

 1923, under presidency of Professor Macewen 

 of Glasgow. 



It is stated in The Ohservaiory that the 

 late Mr. T. "W. Backhouse has left his astro- 

 nomical journals and drawings of Jupiter and 



Mars to the British Astronomical Association. 

 His trustees are to complete and publish his 

 star maps for tracing meteor paths, and they 

 have £700 left to them to cover the comple- 

 tion and publication of scientific calculations 

 based on observations made by him in astron- 

 omy, meteorology, and other branches of 

 science. 



The Academy of Medicine of Buenos Aires 

 has decided to celebrate its first centenary in 

 1922 with a contest on medicine and allied 

 sciences. Three prizes will be granted for the 

 best papers presented; the first of 5,000 pesos 

 and a gold medal, the second 3,000 pesos and 

 a silver medal and the third 1,000 pesos and a 

 diploma. 



A sum of 500,000 marks has been donated 

 to the University of Heidelberg to found an 

 institute for research on albimiins. It is to 

 be in charge of Professor Kossel, and to be 

 affiliated with the Institute for Hygiene. 



Professor J. Ijima, of the University of 

 Tokyo, has presented fifty Japanese birds to 

 the University of California Museum of 

 Vertebrate Zoology, and Dr. "William S. Kew, 

 of the United States Geological Survey, has 

 presented to the department of paleontology a 

 collection of shells. 



A reorganization of the division of entomol- 

 ogy at the University of California is an- 

 nounced. The personnel of the division con- 

 sists of eight members and will hereafter be 

 known as the division of entomology and para- 

 sitology with Professor "W. B. Herms as newly 

 appointed head. Professor Herms will con- 

 tinue his activities in the field of parasitology, 

 particularly medical entomology and ecology, 

 while Professor C. "W. "Woodworth will devote 

 his time largely, if not wholly, to research. 

 The new organization of the division embraces 

 three groups with Assistant Professor E. C. 

 Van Dyke as chairman in supervision of ac- 

 tivities in general entomology and taxonomy; 

 Assistant Professor Essig, chairman in super- 

 vision of agricultural entomology, and Assist- 

 ant Professor S. B Freeborn supervising ac- 

 tivities in parasitology, particularly in rela- 

 tion to the animal industries. Dr. H. H. Sev- 



