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On the occasion of the dedication of the new 

 building of the Medical Department of the 

 University of Georgia, on January 29, the 

 LL.D. degree was conferred on Dr. William M- 

 Polk, dean of Cornell University Medical Col- 

 lege, and Dr. J. A. Witherspoon, president- 

 elect of the American Medical Association. 



Dr. F. Korte, who has been an important 

 figure in the development of medicine in Ger- 

 many, celebrated, on January 16, his ninety- 

 fifth birthday. 



King Christian has decorated Dr. V. Poul- 

 sen and Professor P. O. Pedersen with the 

 medal of merit in gold on account of the honor 

 they have brought to Denmark by their work 

 in connection with wireless telegraphy and 

 telegraphones. 



M. B. Baillahd, director of the Paris Obser- 

 vatory, has been elected president, and M. H. 

 Deslandres, director of the Meudon Observa- 

 tory, vice-president, of the Paris Bureau des 

 Longitudes for 1913. 



Dr. Eberhard Eimann, of the Technical In- 

 stitute at Dresden, has been appointed director 

 of the Geological Survey at Brazil in succes- 

 sion to Professor E. Hussac. 



Dr. E. M. Kindle, since 1901 paleontologist 

 in the U. S. Geological Survey, has accepted a 

 similar position on the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. 



Professor H. E. Clifford, who holds the 

 McKay professorship of electrical engineering 

 at Harvard University, will go in the second 

 half-year to Annapolis, to organize graduate 

 study in electrical engineering at the Naval 

 Academy. 



EiCHARD M. HoLMAN, B.A. (Stanford, '07), 

 senior instructor in botany. University of the 

 Philippines, stationed from June, 1910. to 

 June, 1912, at the College of Agriculture, Los 

 Banos, Philippine Islands, is on leave of ab- 

 sence which extends to September, 1913. He 

 is at present engaged in graduate study at 

 Leipzig University. 



Professor James F. Kemp, of Columbia 

 University, delivered a short course of lectures 

 during the mouth of January, in the Faculty 

 of Applied Science at McGill University, on 



" The Services of Geology to the Mining In- 

 dustry." 



Dr. Martin Fischer, of the University of 

 Cincinnati, delivered the address at the third 

 winter commencement of St. Louis University 

 School of Medicine, January 30, on the sub- 

 ject, " Principles of Treatment of Edema and 

 Nephritis." 



During the week of January 13 to 18, Mr. 

 Vilhjalmer Stefansson visited the University 

 of North Dakota, at which he was a former 

 student, and delivered a series of three lec- 

 tures, as follows : January 13, " Five Years of 

 Arctic Exploration " ; January 14, " The Dis- 

 covery of the Blond Eskimo"; January 15, 

 " The Mind of Primitive Man." Later in the 

 week he was a guest of the Icelandic Society, 

 of which he is a member. 



On January 29, Dr. Joseph Barrell, pro- 

 fessor of structural geology in Yale Univer- 

 sity, gave an illustrated lecture on " A Recon- 

 struction of Connecticut's Geologic Past," 

 under the auspices of the Yale chapter of 

 Sigma Si. 



The seventh of the present course of Harvey 

 Society lectures will be given at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on February 15, by Dr. 

 Theodore C. Janeway, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, on " Nephritic Hypertension : Clinical 

 and Experimental Studies." 



The Mutual Life Insurance Company is 

 providing a series of lectures in New York 

 City. The lecture of January 29 was delivered 

 by Surgeon-General Rupert Blue, United 

 States Public Health Service, who spoke on 

 the bubonic plague and other contagious dis- 

 eases. 



Professor Isaiah Bowman, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, delivered a lecture on " The Physiog- 

 raphy of the Central Andes " before the Geo- 

 logical Department of Columbia University 

 on January 28. 



Dr. Orville Horwitz, until his illness head 

 of the department of Genito-Urinal Surgery 

 in Jeffei-son Medical College, Philadelphia, 

 died on January 28, aged fifty-five years. 



Dr. James P. Tuttle, fifty-six years of age, 

 a practising surgeon and professor emeritus 



