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dation. Mr. Charles A. Collidge, of Boston, 

 architect of the Rockefeller Institute and of 

 . the Harvard Medical School buildings, has 

 been engaged to draw plans for a 200-bed 

 hospital to be added to the equipment of 

 Union Medical College. 



Fred V. Larkin, assistant professor of me- 

 chanical engineering at Lehigh University, 

 who was absent on leave last year, has re- 

 signed and will continue in the employ of the 

 Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company. 



Advices from Mr. Boy Chapman Andrews, 

 May 18, indicate that conditions in China will 

 not interfere with the carrying out of the plans 

 of the American Museum's expedition there. 

 Mr. Andrews intends to work in Fukien Prov- 

 ince, until the arrival of Mr. Edmund Heller, 

 when the expedition will proceed into Kwei- 

 chow Province. 



Dr. Herbert J. Spinden has returned from 

 Venezuela, where he has spent some months 

 in an archeological reconnaissance for the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



G. W. Hunter, of New York University, has 

 returned from the Tropical Besearch Station 

 established by the New York Zoological Soci- 

 ety in Kalacoon, British Guiana. He brought 

 with him a collection of birds and reptiles. 



The Boyal Society of Edinburgh has 

 awarded its Keith prize for the biennial period 

 1913-15 to Dr. J. H. Ashworth for his papers 

 on " Larvae of Lingula and Pelagodiscus " and 

 on " Sclerocheilus," published in the Transac- 

 tions of the society, and for other papers on 

 the morphology and histology of Polychosta. 



Professor Lafayette B. Mendel delivered 

 the address before the annual commencement 

 joint meeting of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta 

 Kappa at Yale University. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the medical 

 school of the University of Michigan, delivered 

 an address on " The Eradication of Disease " 

 at the meeting of the health officers of Mon- 

 tana held at Miles City on July 10 and 11. 



The Harben lectures for 1916, on " Rivers 

 as Sources of Water Supply," were delivered 

 by Dr. A. C. Houston at the Royal Institute of 

 Bublic Health, London, on July 13, 20 and 27. 



The department of geography in the Co- 

 lumbia University summer session has ar- 

 ranged the following course of public illus- 

 trated lectures on consecutive Monday even- 

 ings: 



July 17, "Turkey and the War," by Dr. Ells- 

 worth Huntington. 



July 24, "The Philosophy of Present and Pros- 

 pective Boundaries in Europe," by Professor Al- 

 bert Perry Brigham, Colgate University. 



July 31, "Surface Features of Europe as a 

 Factor in the War," by Professor Douglas W. 

 Johnson, Columbia University. 



August 7, "An Interpretation of the Scenery of 

 the White Mountains, ' ' by Professor James Walter 

 Goldthwait, Dartmouth College. 



The first annual meeting of the Association 

 of Resident and Ex-resident Bhysicians of the 

 Mayo Clinic was held in Rochester, Minn., on 

 June 9 and 10. A surgical clinic was given at 

 the hospital, and in the evening papers were 

 read. At the banquet the following officers 

 were elected: President, Dr. Harold L. Foss, 

 Danville, Pa.; Vice-president, Dr. Donald C. 

 Balfour, Rochester, Minn.; Secretary, Dr. 

 William C. Carroll, St. Paul; Treasurer, Dr. 

 Arthur H. Sanford, Rochester, Minn., and 

 Governors, Drs. Edward S. Judd and William 

 F. Braasch, Rochester, Minn., and Otis F. 

 Lamson, Seattle. 



Dr. Paul J. Hanzlik, associate in pharma- 

 cology, Western Reserve University, gave a 

 lecture on July 6, in the Graduate School in 

 Medical Sciences, University of Illinois, Chi- 

 cago, on " The Behavior of Salicylate in the 

 Body." 



Professor William Cole Esty, professor 

 emeritus of Amherst College, from 1865 to 

 1905 Walker professor of mathematics and 

 astronomy, died on July 27, at the age of sev- 

 enty-eight years. 



Dr. William Simon, professor of chemistry 

 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Baltimore, known for his work on chromates, 

 died on July 19, aged seventy-two years. 



Charles Rudolph Edward Koch, secretary 

 of the Northwestern University Dental School, 

 past adjutant general of the Grand Army of 

 the Republic, died on July 20, at the age of 



