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of the regular army. He is now chief in- 

 si)ector o£ airplanes and motors in the 

 Aviation Eepair and Supply Depot at Rock- 

 well Feld, Coronado, California. 



Dr. Henri M. Ami, who has been in Wash- 

 ington at the British Embassy for the last 

 four years, is leaving that post to resiime his 

 work at Ottawa, Canada, in connection with 

 the Geological Survey of Canada, Department 

 of Mines. During his stay at the oapitol Dr. 

 Ami was asked to take charge of war metals 

 and minerals and derivatives, and is now re- 

 turning to Canada to devote his time to 

 paleontology and chronological geology in 

 which he was formerly engaged. 

 ' ITeil M. Judd, curator of American archeol- 

 ogy, U. S. National Museum, returned to 

 Washingtton on October 1 after having spent 

 the preceding five months in Utah, Arizona 

 and New Mexico, engaged in archeologieal in- 

 vestigations for the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology and the National Geographic Society. 



Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the Eockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research, delivered the first 

 of the Harvey Society Lectures at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine, on Saturday even- 

 ing, October 6. His subject was " The pro- 

 teins and colloidal chemistry." 



The Cutter lectures on Preventive Medicine 

 and Hygiene will he given on October 19 and 

 20 in the Harvard Medical School from five to 

 six P.M. by Dr. Theobald Smith, director of 

 the department of animal pathology of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 Princeton, N. J., on " Medical research and the 

 conservation of food-producing animals." 



At a special meeting of the Cleveland 

 Academy of Medicine, October 8, Dr. Harvey 

 Cushing, Moseley professor of surgery at Har- 

 vard University, surgeon in chief of the Peter 

 Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, delivered an 

 address on " The Special Field of Neurolog- 

 ical Surgery." 



The Harveian Oration before the Royal 

 College of Physicians of London will be de- 

 livered by Sir Frederick Andrewes, M.D., 

 F.R.S., professor of pathology in the Univer- 



sity of Xondon and pathologist to St. Bar- 

 tholomew's Hospital, on October 18. 



The first Murphy Memorial Oration of the 

 American College of Surgeons was delivered 

 by Sir Berkeley Moynihan on October 11 

 during a meeting of the College in Montreal. 

 The oration has been founded in honor of the 

 late Dr. J. B. Murphy, of Chicago. On the 

 same occasion Sir Berkeley Moynihan pre- 

 sented to the college a mace, the gift of the 

 surgical considtants of the British Army 

 during the war. 



By the will of Mrs. Jones an oil portrait 

 of the late Professor George W. Jones, for 

 years a teacher of mathematics at Cornell 

 University, has been bequeathed to the uni- 

 versity. 



The New York Academy of Medicine has 

 received a cash bequest of $5,000 and a 

 library valued at $4,567 in accordance with 

 the conditions of the will of the late Abraham 

 Jacobi. 



Frederick Henry Gerrish, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of surgery in the Medical School of 

 the University of Maine, died on September 

 9, aged seventy-five years. After serving as 

 lecturer and professor of therapeutics, materia 

 medica and physiology at the University of 

 Michigan, Dr. Gerrish returned to his alma 

 mater in 1875 as professor of materia medica 

 and therapeutics. He became professor of 

 anatomy in 1882. 



Adolph Gehrmann, emeritus professor of 

 bacteriology and hygiene in the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, died on 

 October 3, at the age of fifty-two years. 



A correspondent writes that Dr. F. 

 Hasenohel, professor of physics at the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna, successor to the well-known 

 physicist Boltzmann, was killed in action in 

 the autumn of 1915. 



The United Sta:tes Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces that the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey is in need of junior engineers and 

 deck officers and that an examination will be 

 held on December 8 and 9. The entrance sal- 



