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on the staff of the Tuberculosis Hospital at 

 Washington. 



Dr. Edward C. Hill has been appointed 

 chemist in charge of the state station of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture re- 

 cently opened in Denver. 



A DINNER was given at Saranac Lake on 

 December 19, at which Dr. Baldwin presented 

 Dr. E. L. Trudeau with two volumes of re- 

 prints on the " Studies in Tuberculosis " by 

 his pupils in commemoration of his sixtieth 

 birthday. Dr. Walter V. James presented 

 Dr. Trudeau with letters from personal friends 

 congratulating him on the occasion. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the French govern- 

 ment has conferred the decoration of the 

 Legion of Honor on Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, of 

 Havana, in appreciation of his discoveries in 

 regard to the transmission of infection by 

 mosquitoes. The presentation of the decora- 

 tion was celebrated, at the same time as his 

 seventy-fifth birthday, at a special meeting of 

 local and national notables in the assembly 

 hall of the Academy of Sciences, Havana. 

 At the same time a decree of the provisional 

 governor was read setting forth the impor- 

 tance to the Cuban people of the professional 

 services of Dr. Einlay, especially in connec- 

 tion with the discovery of the means of trans- 

 mitting yellow fever. This decree provides for 

 the retirement of Dr. Einlay at his own re- 

 quest and because of his advanced age, from 

 the position of chief sanitary oiEcer, and for 

 his appointment as honorary president of the 

 National Board of Sanitation and Charities, 

 which office is created for his life time and 

 will terminate with his death. The salary of 

 this position is to be $2,500 per year. The 

 decree also provides for the publication by the 

 government of a volume of selections from the 

 writings of Dr. Finlay, not to exceed 500 pages 

 nor 1,000 copies. 



The Board for Biology and Geology at 

 Cambridge University has adjudged the 

 Walsingham medal for 1908 to 0. C. Dobell, 

 B.A., fellow of Trinity College, for his essays 

 entitled " Protista parasitic in frogs and 

 toads," and " Chromidia and the binuclearity 



hypotheses " ; and a second Walsingham medal 

 to G. R. Mines, B.A., Sidney Sussex College, 

 and D. Thoday, B.A., Trinity College. Mr. 

 Mines's essay was entitled, " The spontaneous 

 movements of amphibian muscles in saline 

 solutions " ; and Mr. Thoday's essay was en- 

 titled, " Increase of dry weight as a measure 

 of assimilation." 



Professor Frederick Starr, of the depart- 

 ment of anthropology of the University of 

 Chicago, gave, on December 9, a lecture at 

 the Ohio State University on "The Peoples 

 of the Congo Free State." This lecture was 

 the first to be given by the Society of Sigma 

 Xi under the J. C. Campbell Lecture Fund. 



George Washington Hough, professor of 

 astronomy at Northwestern University and 

 director of the Dearborn Observatory, known 

 for his important observations on Jupiter and 

 for measurements of double stars, vice-presi- 

 dent of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science in 1902, died at Chicago 

 on January 1 at the age of seventy-three 

 years. 



Dr. J. P. GoRDY, professor of the history 

 of education in New York University, and his 

 wife committed suicide on December 31, fol- 

 lowing the death of their only child. Dr. 

 Gordy was born in Salisbury, Md., 1852, re- 

 ceived the doctor's degree at Leipzig in 1884, 

 and was professor at Ohio University and 

 Ohio State University until he came to New 

 Tork University in 1901. He was the author 

 of works on psychology, American history and 

 the history of education. 



Dr. Eichard A. F. Penrose, formerly pro- 

 fessor in the University of Pennsylvania, and 

 eminent as a physician and surgeon, died in 

 Philadelphia on December 26, at the age of 

 eighty-two years. 



Mr. Joseph Lomas, lecturer in geology in 

 Liverpool University, has been killed by a 

 railway accident in Algeria, where he was 

 carrying on geological investigations. 



Dr. Charles Edward Beevor, known for 

 his contributions to the knowledge of our 

 nervous system, died in London on December 

 5 at the age of fifty-four years. 



