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rections, including a large number of contri- 

 butions to natural science and books of pop- 

 ular interest, died on May 28, aged seventy- 

 nine years. 



Dr. Mas Thomas Edelmann, professor of 

 physics in the School of Technology of 

 Munich, has died at the age of sixty-eight 

 years. 



Dr. H. Weber, professor of mathematics at 

 Strassburg University, died on May lY, at 

 seventy-one years of age. 



M. Alfred de Foville, permanent secretary 

 of the Academie des Sciences Morales et 

 Politiques, an eminent economist and statis- 

 tician, has died at the age of seventy-one 

 years. 



The death is announced of Friedrich Wil- 

 helm Eistenpart, director of the Observatory 

 at Santiago, Chili. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for soil biochemists 

 at salaries ranging from $1,800 to $2,200 a 

 year, in the Bureau of Soils, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The Canadian Medical Association will 

 hold its forty-sixth annual meeting in London, 

 Ontario, on June 24, under the presidency of 

 Dr. H. A. McCallum. 



The American Medical Association will 

 hold its sixty-fourth annual session at Minne- 

 apolis from June 17 to 20, under the presi- 

 dency of Dr. John A. Witherspoon. The work 

 of the meeting will be distributed among the 

 following sections: The practise of medicine, 

 surgery, obstetrics, gynecology and abdominal 

 surgery, ophthalmology, laryngology, otology 

 and rhinology, diseases of children, pharma- 

 cology and therapeutics, pathology and physi- 

 ology, stomatology, nervous and mental dis- 

 eases, dermatology, preventive medicine and 

 public health, genito-urinary diseases, hos- 

 pitals and orthopedic surgery. 



A TIDAL observatory, the first of its kind in 

 Great Britain, erected near the Castle, Dun- 

 bar, has been opened. One of the main ob- 

 jects of the observatory will be to afford a 



means of examining local vertical movements 

 of the coastline, if any occur, as recommended 

 by the royal commission on coast erosion. 



The Nathan Lewis Hatfield prize of the 

 College of Physicians of Philadelphia, amount- 

 ing to $500, will be awarded in 1916. The 

 deed of trust requires that the prize shall be 

 on a subject of general medicine, medical 

 pathology or therapeutics, the treatment to 

 embody original observations, or researches, 

 or original deductions. Competition for the 

 prize is open to the medical profession and 

 men of science in the United States. The 

 original of the successful essay becomes the 

 property of the College of Physicians. All 

 manuscripts must be sent by May 30, 1915, 

 to the committee, which consists of William 

 G. Spiller, M.D. (chairman), Allen J. Smith, 

 M.D., and William Pepper, M.D. 



An association, called the Union Medicale 

 Franco-Ibero-Americaine, has, as we learn 

 from the British Medical Journal, recently 

 been formed in Paris for the purpose of 

 uniting the doctors of the republics of Central 

 and South America with Spanish and French 

 physicians in a scientific alliance of Latin 

 races. From the initial letters of its title it 

 is called for shortness " Umfia." The presi- 

 dent is Dr. L. Dartigues ; the general secretary 

 is Dr. Gaullier I'Hardy; the vice-presidents, 

 Drs. Bandelac de Pariente (physician to the 

 Spanish embassy in Paris), Manrique and 

 Delaunay. Among the members of the hon- 

 orary committee are the Spanish ambassador 

 to the French republic; Professor Ortega 

 More j on, member of the Spanish Academy of 

 Medicine; Dr. Pulido, senator of Spain; Dr. 

 Eisquez, sometime rector of the University of 

 Caracas, together with the dean of the Paris 

 Faculty, Professor Landouzy, and Professors 

 Ch. Eichet, F. Widal, A. Eobin, Pozzi, Pierre 

 Marie, Pinard, Legueu, Doleris and Bazy, and 

 Dr. Eoux, director of the Pasteur Institute. 

 Membership is open to all doctors through- 

 out the world who speak Spanish or Portu- 

 guese. At present there exist more than 

 twenty autonomous nations of Spanish speech, 

 and it is estimated that the language is spoken 



