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but also that death overtook him in the very shadow 

 of the great conflict which brought him so great 

 personal loss and sorrow and robbed him of the 

 mellow years which were so fully his due. 

 (Singned) 



C. H. Bunting, 

 Henry A. Christian, 



A. S. LOEVENHART, 



Committee 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, of tte John Mc- 

 Oormick Institute for Infectious Diseases, 

 Chicago, has been elected honorary member of 

 the Pathological Society of Philadelphia. 



Dr. E. V. McCoLLUM, professor of chemical 

 hygiene, school of hygiene and public health, 

 Johns Hopkins University, has been made cor- 

 responding member of the Academie Royale 

 de Medecine de Belgique. 



Dr. Herbert E. Gregory, Silliman professor 

 of geology, Yale University, sailed on February 

 17, to resume his duties as acting director of 

 the Bishop Museum at Honolulu, Hawaii. 

 Professor Gregory will return to New Haven 

 in September. 



Dr. William T. Sedgwick, senior professor 

 of the Institute of Technology and head of the 

 defpartment of biology and public health, will 

 be the first exchange professor with the British 

 universities of Cambridge and Leeds. Dr. 

 Sedgwick will leave for England early in April, 

 and expects to spend the summer in Europe, 

 returning to Boston in September. 



Dr. Egbert W. Hegner, associate professor 

 of protozoology in charge of the department of 

 medical zoology in the School of Hygiene and 

 Public Health, has been appointed a delegate 

 from The Johns Hopkins University to the 

 Congress of the Royal Institute of Public 

 Health which meets in Brussels from May 20 

 to May 24, 1920. Dr. Hegner wiU read a paper 

 at the Congress on " The relation of medical 

 zoology to public health problems." He ex- 

 pects to spend the months of June, July and 

 August in study at the Liverpool and London 

 Schools of Tropical Medicine and in visiting 



other institutions in Europe and Africa where 

 medical zoology is being taught or investigated. 



Ernest F. Burchard, geologist in charge of 

 the iron and steel section, U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has been granted a ten months' ab- 

 sence and will make geologic investigations in 

 the Philippines. 



Dr. M. W. Lyon, Jr., formerly professor of 

 pathology and bacteriology, George Washing- 

 ton University, and at one time connected 

 with the Division of Mammals, U. S. National 

 Museum, and captain in the Medical Corps 

 during the war, has left Washington to take 

 charge of pathological work at South Bend, 

 Indiana. 



We learn from the Journal of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association that, foUovdng the 

 usual custom. Professor Laveran, formerly 

 vice-president, has assumed the duties of pres- 

 ident of the Paris Academy of Medicine for 

 the year 1920. Dr. L. G. Eichelot, hospital 

 surgeon and professor of medicine in the Uni- 

 versity of Paris, was chosen vice-president for 

 the year 1920, and Dr. Arcard, also of the 

 University of Paris, was elected secretary for 

 the year. Dr. E. Lejars, professor of clinical 

 surgery, has been elected president of the 

 Surgical Society for the year 1920. 



It is announced in Nature that Professor 

 R. T. Leiper, reader in helminthology in the 

 University of London, has been awarded the 

 Straits Settlement gold medal by the senate 

 of the University of Glasgow. The medal was 

 founded some years ago by Scottish medical 

 practitioners in the Malay States, and is 

 given periodically to a graduate in medicine 

 of the Scottish universities for a thesis on a 

 subject of tropical medicine. 



Dr. Carlos E. Porter, editor of the Eevista 

 Chilena de Eistoria Natural, of Santiago, 

 Chile, is about to publish a work, upon which 

 he has been engaged for fifteen years, on the 

 museums and naturalists of Latin America. 

 The work will comprise three volumes abun- 

 dantly illustrated. Dr. Porter is enabled to 

 publish this work through the financial sup- 

 port of Dr. Chistobal M. Hicken, professor of 

 botany and geology in the faculty of natural 



