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versity of Cambridge, on the completion of 

 twenty-one years of service to the university 

 as lecturer in physical anthropology. 



Dr. ISToEL Baedswell, medical adviser to 

 the London Insurance Committee, has been 

 awarded the Medaille de la Reconnaissance 

 Frangaise for services rendered in Paris in 

 connection with the treatment of the tuber- 

 culous French soldier and the establishment 

 of an agricultural training colony at Epinay. 



The Dr. Jessie Macgregor prize of the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, has 

 been awarded to Miss Lucy Davis Cripps for 

 her work on tetryl. 



A DINNER was given July 26 by the presi- 

 dent, vice-president and governors of the 

 American Hospital in London to Dr. Charles 

 H. Mayo, of Eochester, Minn. 



H. L. Haened has been appointed consult- 

 ing chemist and R. L. Sebastian, research in- 

 dustrial chemist, to the Pennsylvania State 

 Department of Health Laboratories. 



Dr. W. C. Phalen, formerly geologist in 

 the IT. S. Geological Survey and mining tech- 

 nologist in the Bureau of Mines, has been 

 engaged as geologist by the Solvay Process 

 Co., with headquarters at Syracuse, N. T. 



Me. Lewis Davis, formerly biological chem- 

 ist in the research laboratory of Parke, Davis 

 & Company, Detroit, Mich., is now associated 

 with the Beebe Laboratories, Inc., St. Paul, 

 Minn., as associate laboratory director. 



O. B. Whipple, professor of horticulture 

 in Montana College has resigned to engage 

 in farming in Colorado. 



Lieutenant Colonel Harry Plotz, M.C, 

 U. S. Army, has returned from Einrope after 

 spending several months in investigating the 

 spread of typhus fever in infested regions. 

 Typhus fever is raging in Poland, Southern 

 Russia and Eastern Eurojie. 



Dr. Livingston Faerand, chairman of the 

 American Red Cross, formerly president of 

 the University of Colorado and professor of 

 anthropology in Columbia University, has 

 gone to Europe. 



The Ramsay Memorial Executive Commit- 

 tee has decided to close the general fund. 



The total amount received up to date is £53,402, 

 this sum being exclusive of the fellowships 

 founded by the Dominion and foreign gov- 

 ernments, the capital value of which is esti- 

 mated at about £30,000. Although the gen- 

 eral fund is closed, contributions sent in to 

 the treasurers. Lord Glenconner and Professor 

 J. iN'orman Collie, at University College, Lon- 

 don, can still be included in the complete list 

 of subscriptions which is now being pre- 

 pared. The Ramsay Memorial Fellowship 

 trustees have elected Mr. "William Davies, 

 M.Sc. (Manchester), at present working in the 

 chemistry laboratories of the University of 

 Oxford, to a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship. 

 This election is the first election to a fellow- 

 ship provided from the Ramsay general fund. 



It is proposed to establish in Panama an 

 international institute for research on tropical 

 diseases as a memorial to the late Major-Gen- 

 eral William C. Gorgas. Panama has been 

 chosen in view of the fact that General Gor- 

 gas' most noteworthy work was accomplished 

 there. 



James Wilson, secretary of agriculture in 

 the cabinets of Presidents McKinley, Roose- 

 vent and Taft, previously professor of agri- 

 culture in the Iowa State College and director 

 of the Experiment Station, died on August 26, 

 at the age of eighty-five years. 



Benjamin Smith Lyman, geologist and min- 

 ing engineer of Philadelphia, died on August 

 30, in his eighty-fifth year. Mr. Lyman, who 

 graduated from Harvard in 1855, had traveled 

 extensively in the United States, British 

 America, Europe, India, China, Japan and the 

 Philippines in connection with his geological 

 researches. In 1870 he was employed by the 

 Public Works Department of India, surveying 

 oil fields. From 1873 to 1879 he was chief 

 geologist and mining engineer for the Japanese 

 government. From 1887 to 1895 he was assist- 

 ant geologist of the state of Pennsylvania. 



WiLHELM WuNDT, professor of philosophy at 

 the University of Leipzig, where he established 

 the first laboratory of psychology, died on Au- 

 gust 31, in his eighty-ninth year. 



