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_ Dr. A. D. Ins, professor of biology, Uni- 
versity of Allahabad, has been appointed 
forest zoologist to the government of India. 
A Reuter’s telegram states that Dr. King- 
horn, who is at present in Northwestern Rho- 
desia, has transmitted the Trypanosoma rho- 
desiense by means of Glossina morsitans. 
AT a meeting of the Pellagra Investigation 
Committee on December 12, in London, Dr. 
Louis Sambon and Dr. A. J. Chalmers gave 
an account of the work of the Field Commis- 
sion on Pellagra, from which they have just 
returned. The commission visited Hungary, 
Roumania, the Austrian Tyrol, North Italy 
and Spain, examining the districts in the sev- 
eral countries where pellagra prevails. 
Dr. Wittis RopNey WHITNEY, director of 
the research laboratory of the General Electric 
Company, lectured before the Middletown Sci- 
entific Association on January 9, his subject 
being “ Research Laboratory Notes.” 
Proressor G, F. Sway, of Harvard Univer- 
sity, has returned to Cambridge from a trip 
to the middle west, where he gave the annual 
Sigma Xi lectures at the University of Kan- 
sas, the University of Missouri and Washing- 
ton University. 
At the recent meeting of the American 
Physiological Society in Baltimore Dr. W. B. 
Cannon, of the Harvard Medical School, de- 
livered a memorial address on the late Pro- 
fessor Henry Pickering Bowditch. 
Masor OLarENcE Epwarp Dutton, U.S.A., 
retired, distinguished for his services in the 
civil war and later in the ordnance corps of 
the army and eminent for his contributions 
on volcanoes and earthquakes, died on Jan- 
uary 4 at his home in Englewood, N. J., aged 
seventy years. 
Dr. ArtHuR V. Meics, of the third genera- 
tion of a family of noted physicians and sur- 
geons, and widely known as a physician and 
author of medical works, died on December 
31 at his home in Philadelphia, at the age of 
sixty-one years. 
Mr. Georce R. M. Murray, F.R.S., for 
many years on the staff of the department of 
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botany of the British Museum, known for his 
contributions on funge and alge, died on 
December 15, aged fifty-three years. 
M. Pavut Toprnarp, the distinguished 
French anthropologist, has died at the age of 
eighty-one years. 
M. Rapau, member of the astronomical sec- 
tion of the Paris Academy of Sciences, has 
died at the age of seventy-seven years. 
ProFressor Opiton Marc LANNELONGUE, the 
celebrated pathologist and surgeon, died in 
Paris on December 22, at the age of sixty-one 
years. At the time of his death he was presi- 
dent of the Paris Academy of Medicine and 
a member of the French parliament. 
Tue third annual meeting of the Paleonto- 
logical Society was held at the new National 
Museum building, December 28-30, 1911, with 
59 of its 186 members present. The results of 
the election of officers for the society for 1912 
were as follows: 
President—Davyid White, Washington, D. C. 
First Vice-president—J. C. Merriam, Berkeley, 
Cal. 
Second Vice-president—Rudolf Ruedemann, Al- 
bany, N. Y. 
Third Vice-president—H. W. Berry, Baltimore, 
Md. 
Secretary—R. 8. Bassler, Washington, D. C. 
Treasurer—Richard 8. Lull, New Haven, Conn. 
Editor—Charles R. Eastman, Cambridge, Mass. 
Tue American Society for Pharmacology 
and Experimental Therapeutics held its third 
annual meeting in the Pharmacological Lab- 
oratory of the Johns Hopkins University, De- 
cember 27 and 28. Thirty-one papers and 
demonstrations were presented and discussed. 
On the afternoon of the 27th there was a joint 
meeting with the American Physiological So- 
ciety. Dr. J. J. Abel was reelected president 
and Dr. John Auer was elected secretary. 
The following new members were elected: T. 
S. Githens, of the Rockefeller Institute; Y. 
Henderson, of the Yale Medical School; D. R. 
Hooker, of the Johns Hopkins Medical School; 
L. Nelson, cf the Harvard Medical School; J. 
D. Pilcher, of the Western Reserve Univer- 
sity Medical School, and G. B. Roth, of the 
University of Michigan. 
