Decemper 20, 1918] 
died at Waynesville, N. C., on October 3 at 
the age of fifty-seven years. The college an- 
nounces the establishment of the Major Harry 
Douglas Gill Scholarship “to give some poor 
New York boy an opportunity to get four 
years’ training in veterinary surgery and med- 
icine.” 
Proressor H. E. J. G. pu Bors, known for 
his contributions to the knowledge of magnet- 
ism, died at Utrecht on October 2. 
Sir Henry THompson, professor of physiol- 
ogy and later of medicine at Dublin, the au- 
thor of important researches on physiological 
chemistry and nutrition, was one of the vic- 
tims of the sinking of the Leinster on October 
10. 
Copies of Nature just received contain obit- 
uary notices of five men who attained to dis- 
tinction in science while engaged primarily 
in other work and who died at the average 
age of ninety years. Sir Edward Fry, a dis- 
tinguished English jurist, who at the same 
time made valuable contributions to botany, 
died on October 18, in his ninetieth year; 
the Rev. A. M. Norman, F.R.S., honorary 
eanon of Durham, and an eminent worker in 
many fields of natural history, died on Octo- 
ber 26, at eighty-seven years of age; Mr. 
Thomas Codrington, who died on October 21, 
aged eighty-nine, was a civil engineer, who 
made important contributions to geology; R. 
Brudenell Carter, the English ophthalmic sur- 
geon and author of works upon ophthalmic 
subjects, died on October 23 at the age of 
ninety years, Sir Herman Weber, the distin- 
guished London physician an authority on 
climatology, died on November 11, in his 
ninety-fifth year. 
THE directors of the Fenger Memorial Fund 
have set aside $500 for medical investigation. 
It is preferred to assist in work of a direct 
clinical bearing which may be carried out in 
an established institution, which will furnish 
the necessary facilities and ordinary supplies 
free of cost. Applications with full particu- 
lars should be sent to L. Hektoen, 637 South 
Wood Street, Chicago, before January 15, 
1919. 
SCIENCE 
617 
THe American Veterinary Medical Asso- 
ciation through its president, Dr. V. A. Moore, 
of Ithaca, N. Y., has appointed committees, 
one of five from the United States and one of 
three from Canada to assist in the war de- 
partments of the respective countries, and 
dealing with veterinary reconstruction prob- 
lems. 
Tue executive committee of the American 
Federation of Biological Societies has voted to 
withdraw the annual meeting scheduled for 
Baltimore this year. It has been suggested 
that a meeting be held some time during the 
spring. 
THE annual meeting of the American Asso- 
ciation of University Professors will be held at 
the Johns Hopkins University Club, Baltimore, 
on Saturday, December 28. The program will 
be largely devoted to a discussion of college 
and university education under conditions of 
reconstruction. Professor John M. Coulter, 
of the University of Chicago, is president of 
the association as well as of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Profesor H. W. Tyler, Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technolgy, is the secretary. 
THE Bay Section of the Western Society of 
Naturalists held a two-day session at Stanford 
University, November 29 and 30, 1918. The 
local committee of arrangements included J. 
R. Slonaker, J. O. Snyder and G. J. Peirce, 
and an enjoyable and profitable program of 
scientific papers and social affairs was pro- 
vided. Those who presented papers were as 
follows: David Starr Jordan, Miss Alice East- 
wood, Ivan ©. Hall, W. E. Allen, J. R. 
Slonaker, A. W. Meyer, Miss Annie May 
Hurd, J. Grinnell, Barton W. Evermann, 
C. H. Shattuck, W. W. Cort, E. B. Babcock, 
J. O. Snyder, E. P. Rankin, R. W. Doane, 
J. A. Long, G. J. Peirce, E. D. Congdon, 
Charles V. Taylor, S. D. Townley, Forrest 
Shreve and D. T. MacDougal. 
L’Italia che Scrive for June last contains 
an article on Italian geographical periodicals 
by Roberto Almagia, which is abstracted in 
the British Geographical Journal. Of these 
the Bollettino della R. Societa Geografica 
