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John R. Johnston, now head of the Office of 
Sanadad Vegetal, Habana. 
Dr. Vern B. Stewart has accepted an ap- 
pointment in the Bureau of Plant Pathology 
at Washington, and is now engaged in work 
on the pathological aspects of market in- 
spection of vegetables. 
Miss ZELMA ZENTMIRE has been appointed to 
fill the place of J. J. Hinman, water chemist 
and bacteriologist at the University of Iowa, 
who leaves soon for service in the Sanitary 
Corps of the Army. 
H. F. Taytor, assistant for developing fish- 
eries and for saving and use of fishery products 
in the Bureau of Fisheries, has visited Boston, 
New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago for the 
purpose of studying the equipment of indus- 
trial laboratories and the assemblage of equip- 
ment to be installed in the Bureau’s labora- 
tory when built. 
Tue University of Pennsylvania expedition 
to the hitherto unknown Indian tribes in the 
mountains between Venezuela and Colombia 
in charge of Theodore De Booy, curator of the 
University Museum, has returned, having ac- 
complished its purpose in a much shorter time 
than was believed possible. This was due 
largely to the assistance of the Venezuelan 
government. 
AccoRDING to a press dispatch Vilhjalmar 
Stefansson, arrived at Dawson, Yukon, on 
August 29. He is recovering from his serious 
illmess and intends to make a Red Cross lec- 
ture tour, beginning in New York in October. 
THE Royal College of Surgeons, London, has 
accepted the invitation of the Royal College 
of Physicians to appoint a joint committee to 
consider the proposals for the establishment of 
a Ministry of Health. This committee has 
co-opted representatives of the Society of 
Medical Officers of Health, and Dr. Hamer, 
London, Dr. H. R. Kenwood, Chadwick pro- 
fessor of hygiene in the University of London, 
and Dr. Robertson, Birmingham, will join the 
committee. The representatives of the col- 
lege of physicians are the president, Dr. Nor- 
man Moore, Sir Bertrand Dawson, Sir J. F. H. 
Broadbent, and Dr. Ormerod (registrar). The 
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representatives of the college of surgeons are 
the president, Sir George Makins, Sir Berkeley 
Moynihan, Mr. Waring and Mr. Ryall. 
Tue trustees of Cornell University have 
passed resolutions in memory of Professor 
Henry Shaler Williams, in which they say: 
As a teacher he was very conscientious; he was 
especially strong as a teacher in his laboratory, 
where his close personal attention and his construc- 
tive criticism gave his students a training of in- 
caleulable value. 
As an investigator he attained a very high rank. 
His studies of Devonian paleontology, of the geo- 
logical history of organisms, and of the evolution 
and geographical and geological modification of 
fossil faunas stand out as important contributions 
to the literature of these subjects. He was hon- 
ored by election to the more important American 
and foreign geological societies. 
Although his devotion to his students and his at- 
- tainments as an investigator gave him eminence, 
yet to those of us asseciated with him he will be 
remembered especially because of his personality. 
His sweetness and gentleness of character and his 
thoughtfulness of others won him the love of all 
who were so happy as to know him. 
Dr. Byron D. Haustep, for nearly thirty 
years professor of botany in Rutgers College 
and botanist for the New Jersey Agricultural 
Experiment Station, died at his home in New 
Brunswick, N. J., on the night of August 27, 
as the result of paralysis. 
Proressor F. P. TREADWELL, the author of 
widely used text-books of analytical chemistry, 
died suddenly of heart-disease at his home in 
Zurich, Switzerland, on June 24 last. Tread- 
well was an American by birth (1857, Ports- 
mouth, N. H.), but spent most of his life 
abroad. His professional activity after sery- 
ing as Bunsen’s lecture assistant from 1878 to 
1871 was at the Eidgendssische Polytechnische 
Schule in Ziirich. 
THE death is reported of M. Maurice Chey- 
reux, the naval engineer. M. Chevreux laid 
claim to having drawn the plans of the first 
Zeppelin which succeeded in navigating the 
air. 
Tue Board of Agriculture of Great Britain 
has made an order authorizing in England and 
Wales the killing on. and after August 1, until 
