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science of Buenos Aires, known through his 

 explorations of Patagonia. 



Sir Arthur Newsholme, lecturer on public 

 health administration, school of hygiene and 

 public health, Johns Hopkins University, de- 

 livered the annual Frederick A. Packard Lec- 

 ture of the Philadelphia Pediatric Society in 

 Thompson Hall, College of Physicians, Feb- 

 ruary 10, on " ITeo-Natal Infant Mortality." 



At the meeting of the Institute of Medicine 

 of Chicago, January 30, at the City Club, Dr. 

 Victor C. Vaughan, of the University of 

 Michigan, Ann Arbor, presented a paper on 

 " Remarks on the Chemistry of the Protein 

 Molecule in Relation to Infection," and Dr. 

 Karl K. Koessler spoke on " The Relations of 

 Proteinogenous Amins to Medicine." 



Among the speakers at " Farmers' Week " 

 at the Michigan Agricultural College from 

 February 2 to 6 inclusive, were Dr. E. V. Mc- 

 Collum, of the Johns Hopkins University; 

 Dr. F. J. Alway, of the University of Minne- 

 sota, and Dean Alfred Vivian, of the Ohio 

 State University. Being members of the 

 American Chemical Society they were the 

 guests of honor at a luncheon given by the 

 local section of that society on February 5, 

 at which about forty members were present. 



As a permanent memorial of Dr. Christian 

 R. Holmes, his friends have inaugurated plans 

 to raise a fimd of $1,000,000 for medical re- 

 search, the endowment to be known as the 

 Christian R. Holmes Medical Research Fund. 

 The Carnegie Corporation has made a gift of 

 $250,000 to the medical college of the Univer- 

 sity of Cincinnati, as a tribute to Dr. Holmes's 

 services and to endow a chair in his memory. 



Robert Hollister Chapman, for many 

 years topographical engineer of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, died of pneumonia in 'New 

 York where he was attending a meeting of 

 the American Alpine Club, of which he was 

 secretary. After the United States entered 

 the war Mr. Chapman became a major in the 

 Engineers' Reserve Corps. He was bom in 

 New Haven in 1868. 



Dr. Elmer Ernst Southard, Bullard pro- 

 fessor of neuro-pathology at the Harvard Med- 



ical School, died from pneiunonia on Feb- 

 ruary 8, aged forty-four years. 



Sir Thomas R. Eraser, F.R.S., emeritus 

 professor of materia medica. University of 

 Edinburgh, died on January 4, at seventy- 

 eight years of age. 



Dr. Edwin A. Strong, emeritus professor 

 of physics at the Michigan State ITormal 

 College, died on February 4 at the age of 

 eighty-six years. He devoted nearly sixty 

 years of his life to the promotion of educa- 

 tion and science in Michigan in long terms of 

 service at Grand Rapids and Ypsilanti. 



A REGULAR meeting of the American Phys- 

 ical Society will be held in Fayerweather Hall, 

 Columbia University, New York, on Saturday, 

 February 28. If the length of the program re- 

 quires it, there wiU also be sessions on Friday, 

 February 27. The next following meeting of 

 the society wiU. be held in Washington on April 

 23 and 24. 



Mr. James Simpson, vice-president of Mar- 

 shall Field & Co., Chicago, will present the 

 Field Museum of Natural History with a large 

 assembly hall or theater. The seating capacity 

 will be 925, exclusive of lobbies extending 

 around three sides of the theater. The theater 

 is to be in the west wing of the main building 

 of the museum. 



A Pasteur Institute has been inaugurated 

 at Managua, Nicaragua, presented to that 

 country by the President of Mexico. The 

 institute has therefore been named Institute 

 Antirabico Carranza. 



Under the auspices of the Pan-Pacific Union, 

 arrangements are being made for a scientific 

 conference to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, Au- 

 gust, 1920. The purpose of the conference is 

 to outline some of the fundamental scientific 

 problems of the Pacific Ocean region and to 

 formulate methods for their solution. The 

 plan involves the cooperation of representative 

 scientists and institutions from the countries 

 whose interests lie within or about the Pacific 

 with the hope that a program of research may 

 be developed which will eliminate duplication 



