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years and was acting president in 1912 and 
1913. He was born at Halifax, N. S., in 1855. 
Captain Georce S. Maruers, for three years 
a member of the staff of the McCormick In- 
stitute for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, died 
of pneumonia on October 5, in his thirty-first 
year. At the time of his death Captain 
Mathers was in charge of the laboratory of the 
base hospital at Camp Meade. 
Proressor JoHN Fioyp STEvENs, instructor 
in Cornell University from 1908 to 1913, and 
later assistant professor of electrical engineer- 
ing in the University of North Dakota, who 
had recently gone to Schenectady to enter the 
employ of the General Electric Company died 
on October 1, of pneumonia. 
Sruart C. Vinat, M.S., assistant entomolo- 
gist, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 
Station, died on September 26 at the age of 
twenty-three years. He discovered the pres- 
ence of the European corn borer, Pyrausta 
nubilalis, in this country last year and was en- 
gaged in the study of its habits when seized 
with influenza. 
Tue death is noted in The Auk at the age 
of eighty-four years of Professor Jonathan 
Young Stanton, who occupied the chair of 
Greek and Latin in Bates College from 1863 
until his retirement as professor emeritus in 
1906. Professor Stanton took a deep interest 
in the study of ornithology. For many years 
he conducted classes in this subject both in 
the lecture room and in the field, and after 
his retirement in 1906 until about a year be- 
fore his death continued to give lectures and 
conduct field classes. 
The Auk also announces the death of Col- 
onel William Vincent Legge, a corresponding 
fellow of the American Ornithologists’ Union, 
in Tasmania in his seventy-fifth year. Colonel 
Legge’s chief interests outside of his pro- 
fession were forestry, physiography and or- 
nithology. He was one of the founders of the 
Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union and 
its first president. During his nine years 
service in Ceylon he gathered the materials for 
his most important ornithological work, “The 
Birds of Ceylon” in two volumes, quarto, 
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with colored plates, which he published during 
a subsequent staff appointment in England. 
Among his other ornithological publications 
is his “ Systematic List of Tasmanian Birds.” 
A pitt is under consideration in Congress 
for an appropriation of $250,000 to build an 
addition to the Hygiene Laboratory of the Pub- 
lic Health Service in Washington, D. C., and 
in the house, a special rule has been brought 
in making this bill a special order. 
Ow1nc to the depletion of its staff by the de- 
mands of the war and the difficulty of securing 
a sufficient number of competent assistants 
with the funds available, it is anticipated that 
the investigations with the respiration calorim- 
eter which have been in progress at the Penn- 
sylvania State College under the direction of 
Dr. H. P. Armsby since 1902 with the coopera- 
tion of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture will have to be discontinued for the 
present. The investigations since 1915 have 
been upon the metabolism of dairy cows, with 
the cooperation of the Dairy Division of the 
department, and it is hoped that it may be pos- 
sible to continue such phases of the work as do 
not require the use of the calorimeter. 
ACCORDING to a press dispatch from Paris 
Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Insti- 
tute for Medical Research, of New York, was 
recently seeking a building at Saint Cloud 
suitable for a laboratory and workshop near 
certain hospital centers. He found the house 
he wanted in a park full of splendid trees. 
The “ Verger” (Orchard), as the property was 
called, belonged to Andre Bernheim, who had 
refused the most tempting offers to rent it on 
account of the family souvenirs it contained 
and the art treasures. When Mr. Bernheim 
heard of Dr. Carrel’s wish to lease his house 
he said “Tell Dr. Carrel that I am greatly 
flattered at his choice and that the Verger and 
its surroundings are at his service.’ When 
the question of rent was raised, Mr. Bernheim 
declared, “ No, no, a scientist owes nothing to 
anybody. It is I who am honored.” 
DEPENDENT almost wholly upon Germany for 
potash at the outbreak of the war, the United 
States within two years will be able to manu- 
facture enough to supply the nation’s needs. 
