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mellitus. He also obtained a grant from the 

 minister of culture and education in Vienna 

 for the specific purpose of studying the res- 

 piration calorimeter in the new Nutrition 

 Laboratory, with a view to the possible con- 

 struction and installation of a similar appa- 

 ratus in the I Medical KlinLk in Vienna. 

 Since his arrival in this country, Dr. Falta's 

 intimate knowledge of diabetes mellitus has 

 resulted in his being called upon for a number 

 of addresses before the medical and scientific 

 societies, both in Boston and in New York. 

 Just before leaving for Vienna, he gave one 

 of the Harvey Society lectures in New York 

 City. 



In a letter to the Boston Transcript Mr. 

 George N. Lovejoy says : " It is extremely diffi- 

 cult to realize the sad termination, in all 

 probability, of the career of Professor Mark 

 W. Harrington, formerly at the head of the 

 astronomical department in Michigan Univer- 

 sity, and latterly chief of the United States 

 Weather Bureau, Washington. One of the 

 brightest intellects and most successful in- 

 structors, whose work as a teacher, not only 

 in this country, but in China, years ago, 

 brought him into prominence among scholars 

 everywhere; whose career, though brief, at 

 Washington was such as to redound to his 

 credit and the honor of the government; a 

 man of rare conversational gifts, an interest- 

 ing personality, genial at all times, it is hard, 

 indeed, to realize that such an one to-day — 

 as for ten years past — has been an inmate 

 (until recently his identity unknown) of an 

 insane asylum, his mind a melancholy blank." 

 A Cleveland Memorial Association has 

 been formed, its object being to erect in 

 Princeton a suitable memorial of the late 

 President Cleveland. By contributions 

 throughout the state of New Jersey, a fund 

 of $100,000 is to be collected for this purpose. 

 A general committee of fifty prominent 

 citizens will be in charge of the project, with 

 smaller local committees in each county of 

 the state. Just what form the memorial will 

 take has not as yet been decided. 



A MARBLE bust of Hermann von Helmholtz 

 by the sculptor Ernst Herter will be erected 



in the hall of the Wilhelm's Military Acad- 

 emy in Berlin, where he was student. 



The death is announced of Mr. Oliver Wel- 

 don Barnes, of New York City, a civil engi- 

 neer, who had been identified with railroad 

 construction work in various parts of this 

 country for the last sixty years. 



Mr. Albert Craw, formerly entomologist 

 under the California State Board of Horticul- 

 ture, and since 1904 superintendent of ento- 

 mology of the Hawaiian Board of Agriculture, 

 has died at the age of fifty-eight years. 



The foot and mouth disease prevails in 

 twelve counties of the state of Pennsylvania, 

 and has been discovered in the stock yards of 

 east Buffalo. Stringent methods are being 

 used to prevent the spread of the disease. 

 Those whose stock is destroyed will be in- 

 demnified, the state making good one third of 

 the loss and the federal government two thirds. 

 The British Board of Agriculture has for- 

 bidden the importation of cattle, hay and 

 straw from Pennsylvania, New York and New 

 Jersey. So far as is known this is only the 

 second time the disease has appeared in North 

 America, the first outbreak having occurred in 

 the New England States in 1892. 



The International Tuberculosis Exhibit was 

 opened on December 1 in the new northwest 

 wing of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York City. Eobert W. De 

 Forest, president, and Mayor McClellan de- 

 livered the principal addresses. Health Com- 

 missioner Darlington, Controller Metz, Pro- 

 fessor Henry Fairfield Osborn and Dr. Alfred 

 Meyer made addresses. 



The annual meeting and dinner of the 

 American Alpine Club will be held in Balti- 

 more on January 2, 1909, at the time of the 

 winter meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. Members 

 are requested to note the time and place and 

 arrange, if possible, to be present. The Geo- 

 logical Society of America and the Association 

 of American Geographers will also be meeting 

 in Baltimore during convocation week. In- 

 teresting reports from members and addresses 

 from distinguished guests will be made. 



