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has been appointed resident physician in the 

 hospital to succeed Dr. Dochez. The follow- 

 ing have been made associates : Dr. Louise 

 Pearce, pathology and bacteriology; Dr. Fred- 

 erick L. Gates, pathology and bacteriology. 

 The following have been made assistants : Dr. 

 Oswald Robertson, pathology and bacteriology; 

 Ernest Wildman, chemistry. The following 

 new appointments have been made : Dr. Rhoda 

 Erdmann, associate in the department of ani- 

 mal pathology; Dr. Rufus A. Morrison, assist- 

 ant in medicine and assistant resident physi- 

 cian; Dr. John Northrop, assistant in the de- 

 partment of experimental biology; Dr. Jean 

 Oliver, assistant in the department of pathol- 

 ogy and bacteriology; Dr. Ernest W. Smillie, 

 fellow in the department of animal pathology; 

 Dr. William D. Witherbee, assistant. Dr. 

 Hardolph "VVasteneys, hitherto an associate in 

 the department of experimental biology, has, as 

 has already been noted in Science, accepted 

 an appointment as associate professor of 

 pharmacology in the University of California. 



Under the auspices of the Botanical Sem- 

 inar of the Michigan Agricultural College, Dr. 

 William Crocker, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, gave a public address recently on the 

 " History of Our Present Knowledge of Plant 

 Nutrition." 



At the sixty-fourth annual meeting of the 

 Maine Medical Association, held in Portland, 

 an illustrated lecture on " Experiences of the 

 Layman on a Journey of Three Months in 

 Japan, Korea and China with Three Promi- 

 nent Medical Men " was delivered by Dr. Wal- 

 lace Butterick, secretary of the General Edu- 

 cation Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Mr. Leonard Darwin gave the presidential 

 address at the annual meeting of the Eugenics 

 Education Society held in London on July 6. 



Charles William ELenry Kirchoff, a past- 

 president of the American Institute of Mining 

 Engineers and for many years editor of The 

 Iron Age, died on July 23, at the age of sixty- 

 three years. 



Sir Victor Horsley, the distinguished Eng- 

 lish surgeon, neurologist and author, died on 



July 16, at the age of fifty-nine years, at 

 Amara, in Mesopotamia, from a sun stroke. 



The death is announced of Prince Boris 

 Galitzin, professor of physics in the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences, Petrograd, known espe- 

 cially for his work in seismology. 



Gaston Maspero, the well-known Egyptol- 

 ogist, permanent secretary of the Academie 

 des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, died 

 on June 30. 



The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 British Museums Association was held at Ips- 

 wich on July 11 and 12, under the presidency 

 of Mr. E. Rimbault Dibdin, curator of the 

 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. 



Sir William Osler has sent word to a num- 

 ber of American surgeons that there are 

 vacancies for 120 young American medical 

 graduates in the military hospitals of London 

 and its immediate neighborhood. The term of 

 service is six months. There will be a small 

 salary and passage will be paid both ways. 



An isolation hospital having a capacity of 

 forty beds is being erected in connection with 

 the State University of Iowa, College of Medi- 

 cine. It is reported that $42,000 has been set 

 aside for the construction of the institution. 



The United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey vessel Surveyor, was launched at Mani- 

 towoc, Wis., on July 22. It is a steel steamer 

 of about 1,000 tons displacement, with triple 

 expansion engines, and will use crude oil for 

 fuel. Sixty-six officers and men can be ac- 

 commodated. The vessel can carry enough 

 fuel and stores to remain at sea for three 

 months. The Surveyor is held to be the most 

 modern type of vessel ever built for surveying 

 purposes, and will be used for work on the 

 Pacific coast and Alaska. It is intended that 

 she shall be finished this fall in time to leave 

 the Great Lakes before the close of navigation. 

 Miss Elizabeth Brent Jones, daughter of the 

 superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, named the vessel. 



The results of a large number of recent 

 physical tests of road-building rock have been 

 published by the U. S. Department of Agri- 



