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morial Laboratory of Engineering Chemistry 
in connection with University College, Lon- 
don. Donations from one shilling upwards 
should be sent to the honorable treasurer, Lord 
Glenconner, at University College, London, 
W.C.1. 
Tue faculty of the medical school of the 
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, has 
adopted a memorial to its former dean, Frank 
Fairchild Wesbrook, M.A., C.N., M.D., presi- 
dent of the University of British Columbia, 
bearing testimony to his qualities as a scien- 
tific man, as a leader and administrative offi- 
eer, and as a councillor and friend. 
Lieutenant Apmont Harsey Cuark, M. C., 
U. S. Army, assistant professor of pathology 
in Johns Hopkins Universily; resident pathol- 
ogist to Johns Hopkins Hospital; who had 
done brilliant experimental work in pneumonia 
and diabetes, died in Johns Hopkins Hospital 
on October 13, from pneumonia, following in- 
fluenza, aged thirty years. 
Mayor Atrrep Reainatp ALLEN, instructor 
in neurology in the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, has been killed in France, aged forty- 
two years. Major Allen was a leading neurolo- 
gist but preferred to enter active infantry 
service. 
Lieutenant Girpert Doouittiez, U. S. Engi- 
neers, son of Dr. Charles L. Doolittle, pro- 
fessor emeritus of astronomy in the University 
of Pennsylvania, was killed in action on Sep- 
tember 25, aged forty-five years. 
Cuartes S. Caverty, M.D., professor of hy- 
giene in the University of Vermont College 
of Medicine, and president of the State board 
of Health since 1891, died, on October 16, in 
Rutland, Vt., Dr. Caverly was widely known 
as a specialist in infantile paralysis. 
Dr. Ernest G. Genovup, a specialist on fer- 
mentation processes and a member of the staff 
of A. D. Little, Inc., died at his home in 
Dorchester, Mass., on October 12, of pneu- 
monia following influenza, aged thirty-eight 
years. 
Witiarp E. Cast, known for his contribu- 
tions to electrical science, died at Auburn, 
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N. Y., on October 30, of Spanish influenza, at 
the age of sixty-one years. 
Wim Mary, formerly professor of chem- 
istry in the University of South Carolina and 
one of the pioneers of the electrical industry, 
died at his home in Piermont, N. Y., on 
October 18,.in his seventy-fourth year. 
Howarp SHELDON Cor, agronomist in the 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
died from pneumonia following influenza at 
Beaumont, Texas, early on the morning of 
October 25, while absent from Washington on 
a field trip. Mr. Coe was born at Orrville, 
Ohio, in 1888, and graduated from the Iowa 
State College of Agriculture, in which insti- 
tution he was for a time assistant instructor 
of botany. In 1913 he was appointed consult- 
ing botanist and plant pathologist at the 
South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, which position he held until he entered 
the service of the United States Department of 
Agriculture, in July, 1914. He was the 
author of numerous botanical and agricul- 
tural papers. 
Dr. Wii1am G. Mattory, associate pro- 
fessor of physics, in Oberlin College, died of 
pneumonia on October 19. He received the 
degree of A.B., from Oberlin in 1905, followed 
by the master’s degree two years later. During 
this time he was serving as a laboratory as- 
sistant. From 1907 to 1909 he was instructor 
in physies at Oberlin. Then followed a year 
of study at Cornell University, after which he 
accepted the professorship of physics and as- 
tronomy at Randolph-Macon College. During 
the winter of 1912-13 Dr. Mallory was a fel- 
low in physies at the University of Chicago, 
and the next year became acting head of the 
physics department at Miami University. In 
1914 he was called to Cornell as instructor in 
physics, holding this position until spring of 
the present year. He received the degree of 
doctor of philosophy from Cornell in June, 
1918, and was chosen to aid in the Carnegie 
Research work at Ithaca. He went to Ober- 
lin in September, taking the work of Dr. 
Samuel R. Williams, head of the Oberlin de- 
