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signed from the university to accept the posi- 

 tion of geologist with the Union Pacific E. E. 

 Co., with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. 



F. W. LoMMEN, formerly research chemist 

 in the Sprague Memorial Institute, Chicago, 

 is now research chemist with the National Car- 

 bon Company at Cleveland. 



The Proceedings of the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences records resignations from the 

 scientific service of the government as fol- 

 lows: Mr. A. H. Taylor, of the photometer 

 section of the Bureau of Standards, has ac- 

 cepted a position at the Nela Research Labora- 

 tory of the General Electric Company. Mr. 

 F. H. Tucker, associate chemist at the Bureau 

 of Standards, has taken up research work at 

 the New York laboratories of the Chile Ex- 

 ploration Company. Mr. Reeves W. Hart has 

 resigned from the Leather Section of the 

 Bureau of Standards, to become research 

 chemist at the Benicia tannery, California. 

 Mayo D Hersey, chief of the Aeronautic In- 

 strument Section of the Bureau of Standards, 

 has taken the position of associate professor 

 of properties of matter, in the department of 

 physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. He is succeeded at the bureau by Dr. 

 E. L. Hunt. Dr. Harrison E. Patten has re- 

 signed from the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, to accept a posi- 

 tion as dhief chemist with the Provident 

 Chemical Company of St. Louis, Missouri. 

 Kenneth P. Mtonroe, of the color laboratory of 

 the Bureau of Chemistry, has accepted a posi- 

 tion at the Jackson Laboratory of E. I. du 

 Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, 

 Delaware. 



At the meeting of the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society on November 5 the program con- 

 sists of an illustrated paper by the president 

 of the society. Professor William B. Scott, on 

 " The Astrapotheria, a remarkalble group of 

 prethistoric South American animals." 



A GENERAL discussion on " The physics and 

 chemistry of colloids, and their bearing on 

 industrial questions," was arranged jointly by 

 the Faraday Society and the Physical Society 

 of London, on October 25. The discussion 



was presided over by Professor Sir W. H. 

 Bragg, and was introduced by Professor Sved- 

 berg, of the University of Upsala. 



Professor Leotta, of Rome, Dumas, of 

 Paris, and S. Rossi, of Montevideo, have 

 recently delivered scientific lectures in Vienna. 



Arthur Searle, Phillips professor emeritus 

 of astronomy at Harvard University, died at 

 his home in Cambridge on October 23. Pro- 

 fessor Searle, who was born in England in 

 1847 and graduated from Harvard in 1856, 

 became assistant in the Harvard College Ob- 

 servatory in 1869, retiring from active service 

 in 1912. 



Professor Yves Delage, professor of zool- 

 ogy at the Sorbonne, Paris, died October 8, at 

 sixty-six years of age. 



SvEN Leonhard Toenquist, Professor of 

 geology at Lund, died on September 6 at the 

 age of eighty years. 



Dr. F. Hofmann, professor of hygiene at 

 the University of Leipzig, has died at the age 

 of seventy-seven years. 



General William C. Gorgas, former sur- 

 geon general of the Army, left an estate 

 valued at $20,600, according to the petition of 

 the probate of his will filed by his widow, Mrs. 

 Marie D. Gorgas. The estate includes a house 

 at Chevy Chase, Md., and life insurance. 



The dean of the medical faculty of the 

 University of Paris has been authorized in the 

 name of the university to accept from Mme. 

 Auguste Klumpke, widow of Professor De- 

 jerine, the gift of the pathologico-anatomic 

 collection of Dr. Dejerine, as well as a fund 

 yielding 100,000 francs annually. A museum 

 of neurology, including a laboratory, will be 

 established which will bear the name of the 

 J. Dejerine Foundation 



A Ramsay Memorial Fellowship of the 

 value of £300 a year for three years has been 

 founded by subscriptions received from the 

 Swiss Government and from Swiss donors, 

 through the good offices of Professor Ph. A. 

 Guye, of Geneva. The first Fellow to be 

 elected is M. Etienne Roux, of Vich (Vaud), 



