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has been appointed by the New York State 

 Health Department to inaugurate a state-wide 

 plan in cooperation with local authorities for 

 the after care of patients who have suffered 

 from infantile paralysis. 



Dr. B. K. Nabours, professor of zoology in 

 the Kansas State Agricultural College, has re- 

 cently returned from a trip around the world. 

 Some time was given to further study of the 

 Karakule sheep situation in Bussia and 

 Turkestan. He reports it unlikely that any 

 live stock can be transported from these coun- 

 tries for scientific or other purposes during 

 the war. 



Dr. E. Tait McKenzie, head of the depart- 

 ment of physical education at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, has returned after a year's 

 leave of absence at Aldershot Military Camp 

 and Hospital, of England, where he had charge 

 of training convalescents. He was commis- 

 sioned major in the regular army of the Brit- 

 ish Empire. 



Dr. E. W. Shufeldt, of Washington, D. C, 

 has been selected to take charge of the depart- 

 ment of wild flowers in The American Forestry 

 Magazine, beginning with the November 

 number. 



Dr. S. W. Williston, professor of paleontol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago, lectured 

 before the Science Club at the Kansas State 

 Agricultural College, on September 23, on 

 " Some Principles of Evolution." He also 

 addressed the student assembly on certain as- 

 pects of progress in education. 



Dr. Albert John Cook, D.Sc, formerly 

 professor of entomology in the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, for eighteen years pro- 

 fessor of biology in Pomona College and more 

 recently for five years state commissioner of 

 horticulture in California, died on September 

 29, at the age of seventy-four years. 



Professor Foster E. L. Beal, a well-known 

 economic ornithologist connected with the 

 Biological Survey in Washington, D. C, and 

 a civil war veteran, died at his home in 

 Branchville, Md., on October 1, in his seventy- 

 seventh year. 



The death is announced of Pierre Duhem, 

 professor of theoretical physics in the Uni- 

 versity of Bordeaux. 



The death in Berlin is announced of Dr. 

 Emil Deckert, professor of geography in the 

 new University of Frankfort. Professor 

 Deckert spent many years traveling in and 

 studying the United States. His book, " Nord 

 Amerika," gives the most complete description 

 of the United States in the German language. 



The New England Intercollegiate Excur- 

 sion has been postponed to October 28. The 

 excursion is to the Blue Hills region of 

 eastern Massachusetts and will be conducted 

 by Professors W. O. Crosby and C. H. Warren 

 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



A step looking to a thorough sanitary 

 supervision of the students of Tale Univer- 

 sity has been taken in the establishment of 

 the university board of health. Student work- 

 ing and living conditions are to be studied 

 and improved, and all students participating 

 in athletics are to be carefully examined. Dr. 

 James C. Green way, '00, formerly on the med- 

 ical attending staffs of the New York Hospital 

 and of the Seton Hospital for Tuberculosis 

 of New York, has been appointed university 

 health officer. The board of health includes 

 Dean George Blumer, of the medical school; 

 Professor C.-E. A. Winslow, Dr. W. G. Ander- 

 son, of the gymnasium, and the deans of the 

 undergraduate schools. 



The Municipal Eeference Library of New 

 York City has completed plans for establish- 

 ing a public health division on the fifth floor 

 of the Health Department building at 139 

 Center Street. It will specialize on child 

 hygiene, drugs, food analysis, food inspec- 

 tion, food regulations, food supply, hospitals, 

 health insurance, milk supply, occupational 

 hygiene, school inspection, contagious dis- 

 eases and vital statistics. 



The American Public Health Association 

 will meet in Cincinnati, October 24 to 27. 

 Its membership 'includes approximately 2,500 

 health officers of the leading cities in the 

 United States and Canada; the executive 

 officers of most of the state and provincial 



