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tributions to science, especially on the Gulf 

 Stream, as well as for bis services as an officer 

 in the navy, has died at the age of seventy- 

 three years. 



EiCHAKD Bliss, -wiho died at Newxwrt on Jan- 

 uary 7, was at one time an assistant in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 and bibliographer of the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey and the Northern Trans-conti- 

 nental Survey. For thirty-one years, until his 

 ^retirement in 1914, he was librarian of the 

 Redwood library at Ifewport. 



Dr. S. Mackay, professor of chemistry at 

 Dalhousie University since 1896, died from 

 pneumonia in Halifax, ]!f. S., on January 6. 

 Dr. MJackay was born in Nova Scotia in 1864. 

 He was educated at Dalhousie and the Johns 

 Hopkins Universities. 



The Senate has passed a joint resolution 

 appropriating $500,000 to be used by the 

 Public Health Service in combating influenza. 

 The resolution directs the Public Health 

 Service to investigate influenza and allied 

 diseases in order to discover their causes and 

 prevent their spread. It requires the allot- 

 ment of money to imiversities, colleges and 

 other research institutions for scientific in- 

 vestigation. The Public Health Service is 

 accorded the privilege of making selection of 

 such institutions. 



A MEETING of surgeons, representing the 

 surgical staffs of all the great teaching hos- 

 pitals of Britain, assembled in the theater of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 

 January 8, as we learn from Nature, under 

 the chairmanship of Sir Rickman J. Godlee, 

 and resolved to form an " Association of Sur- 

 geons of Great Britain and Ireland." British 

 surgeons have thus followed the precedent set 

 by their colleagues the physicians, who formed 

 a similar association a number of years ago. 

 The object of the newly formed association 

 is to permit surgeons as the staffs of the 

 hospitals to meet together from time to time 

 at various centers in order to exchange ob- 

 servations and compare residts. The associa- 

 tion will stand as the representative body for 

 British surgeons, and in that capacity will 



represent British interests at international 

 surgical congresses. Sir John Bland-Sutton 

 was elected president of the new association. 



There has been formed recently in Chicago 

 a Scientific Laboratory Workers' Union, No. 

 16,986, American Pederation of Labor. This 

 includes fifteen members, physicians, chemists 

 and bacteriologists of the Bureau of Labora- 

 tories of the Chicago Department of Health. 



At the annual general meeting of the In- 

 ventors Union, held in London, the provisions 

 of the Patents and Designs Bill were warmly 

 discussed in view of the inadequate protection 

 the bill provides to British inventors. A reso- 

 lution was carried to the effect that the gov- 

 ernment should be approached to consider the 

 creation of an all-empire patent to replace 

 the present system which entailed an initial 

 outlay of several hundred pounds to secure 

 protection in Great Britain and the domin- 

 ions and colonies for the simplest invention. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The corporation of Tale University having 

 requested Dr. Fred T. Murphy to make a sur- 

 vey and report as to the school of medicine 

 and Dr. Murphy having presented his views 

 and recommendations, the eommittee on edu- 

 cational policy unanimously recommended the 

 following minutes which were adopted by the 

 corporation : 



1. That there is a clear and definite opportunity 

 and obligation of the university to medieal educa- 

 tion. 



2. That the Yale School of Medicine has a valu- 

 able nucleus of men and material and sound tra- 

 ditions, which richly justify the development of 

 an institution for mediical education of the highest 

 type. 



3. That the corporation accept as a policy the 

 development of a medical school of the highest 

 type to include the pre-clinioal and clindeal years of 

 instruction upon such principles of medical educa- 

 tion as may be approved by the corporation, after 

 conference with the medical faculty. 



4. That every effort be made to obtain at the 

 earliest possible date the necessary funds with 

 which to expand and develop the buildings, the 



