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Lmurenant Herpert Doucnas Taytor, for 
three years an associate of the scientific staft 
of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 
search died on October 5, of pneumonia in his 
thirtieth year. Since America entered the 
war Lieutenant Taylor had devoted his tine 
to the instruction of the United States Army 
surgeons for overseas service. 
Water W. Marswauu, formerly instructor 
in zoology in the University of Minnesota, 
died at.Camp Sherman, Ohio, on October 4, 
while attached to the Base Hospital. 
Hampen Huixt, research chemist of the Texas 
Oil Co., Bayonne, N. J., plant, died at St. 
Luke’s hospital, New York City, on September 
23, 1918, as the result of burns due to an ex- 
plosion of gasoline vapors in the laboratory. 
Tue death is announced of Dr. A. Mendoza, 
the pioneer of microphotography in Spain, 
chief of the laboratory of the Beneficencia 
provincial and of the scientific institute in 
charge of Professor Cajal. 
Henry Sursr, author of “A Manual of the 
New Zealand Mollusea,” died in Christchurch, 
New Zealand, on August 1. A correspondent 
in New Zealand writes that he was born in 
Zurich Switzerland, in 1841, and went to New 
Zealand in 1886 to engage in farming, but soon 
relinquished the idea and devoted most of his 
time to studying the indigenous mollusca of 
the antipodean country. He contributed 
papers to the Transactions of the New Zealand 
Institute, the Journal of the Malacological So- 
ciety, London, and other periodical publica- 
tions. In 1913 he produced his “ Manual,” 
which was published for him by the New Zea- 
land government. It contains the diagnoses of 
1,079 species, 108 subspecies and 100 varieties 
of New Zealand molluses. Two years later, the 
government published his atlas to the “ Man- 
ual.” This has 72 plates, containing many 
figures of molluscs from Mr. Suter’s own 
drawings. In later years he gave special at- 
tention to Tertiary molluscs of New Zealand, 
and in 1916 the Geological Survey Department 
published as a bulletin a work by him on “ The 
Tertiary Mollusca of New Zealand.” His 
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death leaves New Zealand without a recognized 
conchologist. 
Tue first regular meeting of the New York 
Section of the American Chemical Society was 
held on October 11. Previous to the regular 
meeting a portrait of the late Charles M. Hall, 
presented to the Chemists’ Club, was unveiled, 
and Mr. Arthur V. Davis, president of the 
Aluminum Company of America delivered an 
address. The regular meeting was devoted to 
the subject of the Bureau of Foreign and Do- 
mestic Commerce, Washington, D. C., and its 
relations to the business side of the American — 
chemical industry, particularly to help us in 
gaining complete national chemical independ- 
ence. C. D. Snow, assistant chief, Bureau of 
Foreign and Domestic Commerce; subject: 
“The ways in which the bureau aids Ameri- 
can chemical business,” with special considera- 
tion to German chemical business methods. 
C. P. Hopkins, editorial department, Bureau 
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, subject: 
“ Our publications and how they help chemical 
business,” special consideration to foreign 
business. Dr. E. R. Pickrell, special agent, 
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 
subject: “ How statistical information is ob- 
tained from import invoices.” Special consid- 
eration to the forthcoming chemicals census. 
Women chemists are needed by the govern- 
ment and also to stabilize the industries by re- 
placing men chemists who have been called 
into service, according to Major F. E. 
Breithut, of the Chemical Warfare Service, 
U. S. A. This call is so urgent that he has 
asked the Women’s Committee of the Council 
of National Defense to cooperate with the 
Army Medical Department in making a census 
of all the available women chemists in the 
country. 
We learn from the Hxperiment Station 
Record that in connection with Idaho Univer- 
sity a substation for the study of problems inci- 
dent to high altitudes was authorized at the 
last session of the legislature. Action has been 
taken by the board of regents looking toward 
its establishment on state land at Felt, in 
Teton County, at an elevation of approximately 
6,300 feet. 
