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the late Sir William Osier, in -wliieh he em- 

 phasizes the genial cosmopolitan spirit of this 

 great physician. It appears that Osier was 

 the first physician to inquire into the rmnors 

 concerning the economic condition of the 

 Viennese population after the war and the 

 first to take measures for the relief of the 

 starving Viennese. 



Dr. Jambs Gayley, past president of the 

 Institute of Mining Engineers, has died at 

 the age of sixty-five years. 



Peofessoe Ernest M. Jordan, a member of 

 the faculty of the Boston University Medical 

 School since 1913, and a specialist in nervous 

 diseases, died on March 15. 



Professor Charles Lapworth, for many 

 years professor of geology and physiography 

 in the University of Birmingham, died on 

 March 13 at the age of seventy-seven years. 



Dr. Pier Andrea Saccardo, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of botany in the Royal University of 

 Padua, and long director of the Botanical 

 Garden of that city, has died at the age of 

 seventy-five years. 



Word has been received of the death on 

 December 13 last, of Professor Woldemar 

 Voigt, the eminent mathematical physicist of 

 the University of Gottingen, at the age of 

 sixty-nine years. Being a man of broad mind 

 with friends in all the warring countries, he 

 suffered keenly throughout the war and this 

 is said to have aggravated the heart trouble 

 which was the immediate cause of his death. 

 His writings include papers and books in 

 many fields of physics, but chiefly in magneto- 

 optics and crystal physics. 



The Carnegie Corporation has given to the 

 American College of Surgeons $75,000 to be 

 used for hospital standardization. The pres- 

 ent gift is the second which the corporation 

 has made to the college. In 1916 it gave 

 $30,000, making a total now of $105,000 for 

 hospital standardization. This amount is sup- 

 plemented by funds of the college. 



The Institute of Eeseareh in Animal Nu- 

 trition at Aberdeen has received a gift of 

 £10,000 from Mr. J. Q. Eowett. The amount 



required from public sources for the establish- 

 ment of the institution is £25,000. 



The Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences will hold its 

 thirty-first session during July and August. 

 Investigators can find accommodation at any 

 time during the summer. The usual courses 

 are offered in field zoology by Drs. Walter, 

 Komhauser and Parshley, in comparative 

 anatomy by Dr. Pratt, systematic and field 

 botany by Drs. Harshberger and Stiteler and 

 beginning advanced work under the direction 

 of the various instructors. The Eugenics 

 Record Office, Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, takes advantage of the arrangements 

 for boarding students at Cold Spring Harbor 

 to give its training course for field workers 

 in eugenics at the same time with the session 

 of the Biological Laboratory (Drs. Daven- 

 port and Laughlin.) The announcement for 

 1920 can be secured by addressing the Bio- 

 logical Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. 



During the period of the Christmas meet- 

 ings of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, an anthropological so- 

 ciety was organized in St. Louis, largely under 

 the stimulation of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka who 

 visited the city at that time. The object of 

 the society as stated in the constitution is the 

 promotion of research in all branches of an- 

 thropology. The officers are: president. Pro- 

 fessor R. J. Terry; vice-president, Dr. H. M. 

 Whelpley; secretary-treasurer. Dr. C. H. Dan- 

 forth, councilors, Drs. W. W. Graves, Albert 

 Kuntz, R. Walter Mills, Sherwood Moore, 

 Daniel M. Schoemaker and Mr. J. Max Wul- 

 fing. Two regular meeting have been held. 

 At the first Dr. R. Walter Mills presented a 

 paper on "Variation in Physicial Type and 

 Visceral Eundtion," and at the second Dr. 

 H. M. Whelpley spoke on "Notched Indian 

 Hoes, The Most Specialized of Indian Agri- 

 cultural Implements." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



1 The Medical College of the state of South 

 Carolina has received an appropriation of 



