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ical department of the University of Cincin- 

 nati, and in 1909 the Miami Medical College 

 also become a part of the university. 



The building of the present medical college 

 and the city hospital was largely the achieve- 

 ment of Dr. Christian E. Holmes, through 

 whose efforts the University of Cincinnati 

 Medical College has taken front rank in med- 

 ical education. 



At the exercises on November 6, Dr. J. C. 

 Oliver gave a historical sketch of the college 

 and Dr. William T. Sedgwick, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, spoke on the 

 relationship of medicine to public health. Dr. 

 Joseph Eansohoff reviewed work of Drake and 

 Holmes and other teachers in the college. 

 Pollowing the addresses, honorary degrees were 

 conferred, and a portrait in oil of Dr. Chris- 

 tian R. Holmes was unveiled. 



At the banquet in the evening the principal 

 address was made by the British Ambassador, 

 Sir Auckland Geddes, formerly professor of 

 anatomy at McGill University. President 

 Frederick C. Hicks was the toastmaster and 

 other speakers were : Hon. John Galvin, Judge 

 John Barton Payne, Dr. James E. Angell, Dr. 

 Charles E. Stoekard and Dr. Louis Schwab. 



Honorary degrees conferred were as follows: 

 Doctor of laws, James Rowland Angell, 

 President of the Carnegie Foundation; Mrs. 

 Mary Muhlenberg Emery; Sir Auckland 

 Geddes; Ludwig Hektoen; professor of path- 

 ology. University of Chicago; Christian E. 

 Holmes; Frederick S. ISTovy, professor of 

 bacteriology. University of Michigan; Hon. 

 John Barton Payne, secretary of the interior; 

 Joseph Eansohoff, professor of surgerj', Lon- 

 don; William Thompson Sedgwick, professor 

 of biology and public health, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology; Louis Schwab, phys- 

 ician. Doctor of science: Charles Cassidy 

 Bass, professor of experimental medicine, 

 Tulane University; Eoss Granville Harrison, 

 professor of comparative anatomy, Yale Uni- 

 versity; Dean DeWitt Lewis, professor of 

 surgery, University of Chicago; Eobert Wil- 

 liamson Lovett, professor of orthopaedic sur- 

 gery, Harvard Medical School; Elmer Vernes 

 McCollmn, professor of chemical hygiene. 



Johns Hopkins University; William Snow 

 Miller, University of Wisconsin; Charles E. 

 Stoekard, professor of anatomy, Cornell Med- 

 ical College; Henry B. Ward, professor of 

 geology. University of Illinois; John C. Web- 

 ster, professor of gynecology. University of 

 Chicago; Edwin O. Jordan, professor of bac- 

 teriology. University of Chicago. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers, which will hold its annual meeting 

 from December 7 to 10, in the Engineering 

 Societies' Building, New York City, has ar- 

 ranged a memorial program in honor of Dr. 

 John Alfred Brashear, scientific man and 

 maker of astronomical instruments, who died 

 last April in Pittsburgh at the age of eighty 

 years. The principal eulogy of Dr. Brashear 

 will be delivered by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, 

 president of the Carnegie Foundation for the 

 Advancement of Teaching. 



Dr. William C. Braisted, surgeon-general, 

 U. S. Navy, and president of the American 

 Medical Association, has been awarded the 

 Navy distinguished service medal for meri- 

 torious service during the war. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. William S. Miller, pro- 

 fessor of anatomy in the University of Wis- 

 consin Medical School, has been formally pre- 

 sented to the university at exercises held in 

 Science Hall. The portrait was painted by 

 Christian Abrahamson and is the gift of Dr. 

 Miller's colleagues, friends in the medical pro- 

 fession, and former students. 



Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, of the Eockefeller 

 Institute, has been made a knight of the 

 Legion of Honor of the French Eepublic in 

 recognition of his services in organizing the 

 French campaign against tuberculosis. 



Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, profes- 

 sor of geology in the University of Sydney, has 

 been appointed a knight commander of the 

 Order of the British Empire for services in 

 connection with the war. 



Professor F. O. Bower has been elected 

 president of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh 



