February 22, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



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Diller Matthew has also been elected to life 

 membership in recognition of his many seri'- 

 ices to the museum and of his scholastic at- 

 tainments. 



Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, professor 

 of naval science, will deliver to the members 

 of tie Yale Naval Training Units and others 

 interested, a series of lectures on international 

 law, and other naval subjects on February 11 

 and 18 and on the first .and third Monday 

 evenings of succeeding months. 



Professor Joseph Frederic Klein, dean of 

 the faculty and head of the department of me- 

 chanical engineering of Lehigh University for 

 thirty-seven years, died suddenly on Feb- 

 ruary 1. 



Dr. Henry M-^udsley, the distinguished 

 British alienist and psychologist, has died at 

 the age of eighty-three years. 



Sir John Wolfe B.\rry, the eminent Brit- 

 ish civil engineer, died on January 22, in his 

 eighty-second year. 



Sir Alexander Me.U)Ows Rendel, known for 

 his important engineering work on docks and 

 railways in England and in India, has died 

 at the age of eighty-eight years. 



Dr. William Green well, F.R.S., of Dur- 

 ham, known for his publications on archeology, 

 died on January 27 in his ninety-eighth year. 



Miss Ethel S.^rgant, the English botanist, 

 died suddenly at Sidmouth, on January 16, at 

 the age of forty-five years. 



Dr. M.\ry.\n Smoluchowski de Smol.w, 

 professor of physics at the University of Cra- 

 cow, known for his work on thermodynamics, 

 has died at the age of forty-five. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that Dr. C. P. Emerson, dean 

 of the Indiana University School of Medicine, 

 has consulted with Governor Goodrich in re- 

 gard to the construction of the new school of 

 medicine to be built on the grounds of the 

 Robert W. Long Hospital. The estimated cost 

 of the new building is $365,000. The present 

 plan is for the state to buy the old medical 

 college building at approximately $150,000, 

 and for the university to pay the remainder of 

 the cost of the new building. 



There is reported to be strong probability 

 of the location in St. Louis of a reconstruction 

 hospital as a government war institution. A 

 site of fourteen or more acres has been tend- 

 ered to the government by the municipal au- 

 thorities, along with such other assistance as 

 may be rendered by the city. It is in Forest 

 Park, adjacent to Barnes Hospital and the 

 Washington Uuiversit.v Medical School, the 

 facilities of both these institutions also being 

 at the disposal of the national authorities, as 

 are also those of St. Louis University. Pre- 

 liminary work by the two universities em- 

 braced a broad survey of the essential advan- 

 tages of St. Loixis for a hospital of the nature 

 stated, the purpose of which is to fit disabled 

 but convalescent soldiers for maintaining 

 themselves, by training them in the line of 

 work best suited to their mental and physical 

 condition. Cooperation also is to extend to 

 finding employment for the men, and to this 

 end the survey included industries in which 

 would be found opportimity for the trained. 

 The hospital, if established as seems probable, 

 will have a capacity of 1,000 or more soldiers, 

 and it will be under direct supervision of the 

 national government and maintained by it. 

 Men to be treated and instructed will enter 

 the institution imder assignment, and the en- 

 tire staff will be selected from Washington. 

 It is understood that these hospitals are to be 

 established in several of the larger cities where 

 are to be found the facilities in which St. 

 Louis abounds. 



The American Museum, as we learn from 

 its Journal, has offered to the National War 

 Work Council of the Young Men's Christian 

 Association the choice of any of its thousands 

 of miscellaneous lantern slides which may be 

 found suitable for the entertainment of sol- 

 diers in camp, either in this country or abroad. 

 A cable received from France by the War 

 Work Council asked for as many colored slides 

 as possible, with a range of subjects embracing 

 architecture, art, science, war and the scenery 

 of various countries. The museum is prepar- 

 ing also a series of lectures to be circulated 

 among the camps. Four of these now in course 

 of preparation are: "Hunting Elephants and 



