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seventy-two years. Colonel Koch, who was one 

 of the best known dentists in the United 

 States, spent many years of his life in working 

 for the interests of the Grand Army of the 

 Eepublic as well as for the interests of the 

 dental profession. 



The Memorial Hospital, a part of The Med- 

 ical College of Virginia Corporation, has re- 

 cently received $250,000 from the citizens of 

 Richmond and a few outside friends. These 

 funds will be used for the addition of a new 

 ward for Negroes, a contagious ward and a 

 nurses' home. 



The Civil Service Commission has an- 

 nounced that the applications received for the 

 examination for scientific assistant in oceano- 

 graphy, male, previously announced to be held 

 on July 5, 1916, were insufficient; the exami- 

 nation has been postponed, and will be held 

 on August 23. From the register of eligibles 

 resulting from this examination certification 

 will be made to fill a vacancy in this position 

 at $900 a year in the Bureau of Fisheries, De- 

 partment of Commerce, Washington, D. C, 

 and vacancies as they may occur in positions 

 requiring similar qualifications. Additional 

 information may be obtained on application to 

 the Civil Service Commission, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The new wharf and library-museum build- 

 ing of the Scripps Institution for Biological 

 Research of the University of California at 

 La Jolla will be dedicated on August 9. 



Professor C. W. Howard, of the state farm, 

 is in charge of sixteen University of Minne- 

 sota students who, under his direction, are 

 endeavoring to exterminate mosquitoes in a 

 section of Minneapolis covering 8 square miles. 

 The work includes the covering, screening and 

 destroying of tin cans, rain barrels and other 

 water containers and the oiling of stagnant 

 pools and swamps. 



The Harvard Medical School has estab- 

 lished four fellowships in medicine, to be 

 known as the Boston Dispensary Fellowships. 

 Applicants must have graduated from a med- 

 ical school of good standing and must have had 



a hospital internship or its equivalent. Ap- 

 pointments will be made jointly by the author- 

 ities of the Harvard Medical School and of 

 the Boston Dispensary. The fellows will be 

 expected to give a portion of their time to 

 treating the sick in their homes in the district 

 service of the dispensary, and a portion of 

 their time to such study, teaching, laboratory, 

 research or clinical work as may be assigned 

 by the medical school. The stipend of a fel- 

 lowship will be $500 for part time, or $750 for 

 the physician's entire time. 



Arrangements for the course of lectures on 

 illuminating engineering to be given at the 

 University of Pennsylvania in September are 

 rapidly being completed. These lectures will 

 be open to all engineers, surgeons, manufac- 

 turers, and others interested in illuminating 

 engineering, and the course is designed to indi- 

 cate the proper coordination of those arts and 

 sciences which constitute illuminating engi- 

 neering and to furnish a condensed outline of 

 study suitable for elaborating into an under- 

 graduate course, and to give engineers an op- 

 portunity to obtain a conception of the science 

 of illuminating engineering as a whole. 



At a recent meeting held in the rooms of 

 the Chemical Society, London, the Association 

 of British Chemical Manufacturers, which has 

 been under consideration for some time, was 

 definitely formed. Among its main objects 

 are to promote cooperation between British 

 chemical manufacturers, to act as a medium 

 for placing before the government and govern- 

 ment officials the views of such manufacturers 

 upon matters affecting the chemical industry; 

 to develop technical organization and promote 

 industrial research; to keep in touch with the 

 progress of chemical knowledge and to facil- 

 itate the development of new British industries 

 and the extension of existing ones, and to en- 

 courage the sympathetic association of British 

 chemical manufacturers with the various uni- 

 versities and technical colleges. The mem- 

 bership is confined to British firms engaged in 

 chemical manufacture or closely allied indus- 

 tries. The minimum annual subscription is 

 25 guineas in respect of a subscribed capital 

 of £50,000 or less, rising by 2j guineas for 



