September 29, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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Professor H. Maxwell Lefroy has been 

 on special duty with the British army in 

 Mesopotamia connected with fly investigations. 



The John B. Murphy Memorial Associa- 

 tion has been incorporated in Illinois by Drs. 

 William A. Evans, James E. Keefe, Allan B. 

 Kanavel, Frank H. Martin and Erank Crozier. 

 It is planned to raise half a million dollars 

 for a memorial to the distinguished surgeon. 

 The two requisites of the memorial are said 

 to be that it be permanent and that it be a 

 " living power making for the advancement of 

 surgery on both the scientific and moral sides." 



LeRoy Clark Cooley, emeritus professor of 

 physics in Vassar College, where he was head 

 of the department from 1874 to 1907, died on 

 September 20, at the age of eighty-three years. 



Joseph Hoeing Kastle, director of the ex- 

 periment station of the University of Kentucky, 

 died in Lexington, Ky., on September 23, aged 

 fifty-three years. Dr. Kastle became chief of 

 the division of chemistry in the hygienic labo- 

 ratory of the United States Health and Marine 

 Service in 1905 and remained in that position 

 until 1909, when he accepted a call as pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the University of Vir- 

 ginia. 



Sir T. Lauder Brunton, F.B.S., distin- 

 guished for his work in pharmacology and 

 therapeutics, died September 16, at the age of 

 seventy-two years. 



Dr. Enrique Nunezy Palomina, secretary 

 of sanitation in the government of Cuba, and 

 professor of medicine in the University of 

 Havana, died in New York on September 15, 

 aged forty-four years. 



A. E. Eminson has been killed in action 

 while serving with the British army. Mr. 

 Eminson had recently carried out some valu- 

 able investigations into the bionomics of 

 Glossina morsitans in northern Rhodesia. 



Dr. W. Zurhellen, assistant at the Royal 

 Observatory, Berlin, died on July 15, aged 

 thirty-six years. It is noted in the Observa- 

 tory that Dr. Zurhellen was one of the mem- 

 bers of the Eclipse Expedition from the Ber- 

 lin Observatory to the Crimea to observe the 



total eclipse of 1914, August 21. The last 

 news which we had obtained of this expedi- 

 tion was that Zurhellen, being of military age, 

 had been interned in Russia, whilst the older 

 members of the expedition were allowed to re- 

 turn to Germany. After a year in Russia, 

 Zurhellen was allowed to return to Germany; 

 he joined the Bonn contingent, and was killed 

 in the fighting in north France. 



The Electrical World quotes from an article 

 in the Electrician, by F. G. Donnan, in which 

 he urges a separate department of state to be 

 called the " Ministry of Science." Some of 

 the functions of this department are to estab- 

 lish national laboratories and " bureaus " for 

 the purpose of undertaking extensive investi- 

 gations; to guide the domestic and foreign 

 policy of the cabinet by having ready at a 

 moment's notice complete and detailed infor- 

 mation concerning every question relating to 

 science; to foster, endow and promote the 

 teaching and investigation of science in the 

 universities of the country by giving much 

 larger grants of money to the scientific labor- 

 atories. The establishment of a great national 

 bank is also suggested, whose special concern 

 would be the fostering of new and old indus- 

 tries based on scientific method and scientific 

 research. 



The United States Senate on August 29 

 ratified the treaty with Canada extending to 

 all migratory birds the same protection on 

 both sides of the Canadian border. The 

 American Game Protective and Propagating 

 Association, of which Mr. Edward F. Quarles 

 is vice-president, drew up the provisions for 

 that treaty, recommended them to congress 

 and urged them in Canada. According to the 

 New York Sun Mr. Quarles said that the regu- 

 lations approved by the Canadian government 

 provide for exactly the same degree of pro- 

 tection for migratory birds that is insured to 

 them within the borders of the United States. 

 By the act of congress, approved March 4, 1913, 

 all migratory birds — wild geese, wild swans, 

 wild ducks, snipe, woodcock, rail and all other 

 migratory game and insectivorous birds — 

 which, as the act reads, in their northern mi- 

 grations pass through or do not remain per- 



