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during December and January by Dr. Thomas 
J. Jehu. The subject of the course, which 
consists of twelve lectures, is “ Man and his 
ancestry.” 
Proressor J. Paut Goons, of the University 
of Chicago, gave an address entitled “The 
Prussian dream of world conquest” at the an- 
nual convention of the National Association 
of Investment Bankers, at Hotel Traymore, 
Atlantic City, December 9. 
A MEMORIAL service for Samuel Wendell 
Williston, formerly professor of paleontology 
in the University of Chicago, was held at the 
university on December 8. The speakers were 
Professor E. ©. Case, of the University of 
Michigan, and Professor Stuart Weller, of the 
department of geology and paleontology, and 
Professor Frank R. Lillie, chairman of the de- 
partment of zoology. 
B. O. SEVERSON, associate professor of ani- 
mal breeding in the Kansas State Agricultural 
College, died of influenza on December 4. 
Caprain ADELBERT P. Mitts, assistant pro- 
fessor of materials in the college of civil engi- 
neering, Cornell University, died at a hospital 
in France, on October 20, of cerebro-spinal 
meningitis, aged thirty-five years. 
Louis C. STERN, a civil engineer, died on 
November 80, of pneumonia, following epi- 
demic influenza, in Boulder, Col. Mr. Stern 
was connected for some years with the Bureau 
of Surveys of Philadelphia and with the Penn- 
sylvania State Department of Health, in the 
supervision of water supplies and sewage dis- 
posal throughout the state. At the time of his 
death he was instructor in sanitary engineer- 
ing at the University of Colorado. 
Mr. Rosert JoHN Pocock, director of the 
Nizamiah Observatory, Hyderabad, died on 
October 9, aged twenty-nine years. 
Nature states that the success of the British 
Scientific Products Exhibition, held at King’s 
College, London, during the past summer, has 
led the British Science Guild to decide to or- 
ganize another exhibition next year. The 
main object of the new exhibition will be to 
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stimulate national enterprise by a display of 
the year’s progress in British science, inven- 
tion and industry. 
Contests for the production of wheat of 
pure quality have been announced by the 
Italian Minister of Agriculture. All entrants 
must cultivate land in the Roman Campagna, 
and the kind of wheat to be grown must be 
selected from those announced by the Ministry 
which grew most favorably in that district. 
Contestants, to be eligible to the prizes must 
raise at least 20,000 pounds of wheat, of which 
at least half must be good for seed. The 
prizes offered are $400, $300, $240, $200, $160 
and $100. 
AccorpInG to a press report an institute for 
scientifie-technical research for problems con- 
nected with iron and steel manufacture is 
‘being established by the Ernesto Breda Com- 
pany, of Milan. This is one of the first in- 
stances in Italy of the linking together of a 
scientific institute with an industrial concern. 
At the Breda plant in Milan new scientific 
theories and methods formulated in the insti- 
tute for research will be tried out in the 
plants. The institute will offer to young men 
desirous of learning the iron and steel in- 
dustry an opportunity of learning not only 
the science of metallurgy, but also its prac- 
tical application. The establishment of the 
institute at the Ernesto Breda plant in Milan 
came in response to an appeal for the estab- 
lishment of such institutes issued by the 
Scientifice-Technical National Committee for 
Italy. 
Art the annual meeting of the Rhode Island 
Medical Society, the trustees of the Fiske 
Fund proposed the following subject for the 
prize essay for 1919: “Recent Classification 
and Treatment of Pneumonia.” The prize 
for the best essay is $200. Each competitor 
must forward to the secretary of the trustees, 
on or before May 1 of the year of the com- 
petition, a copy of his dissertation. The trus- 
tees are Drs. Gardner T. Swarts, John M. 
Peters and Jesse E. Mowry, all of Providence. 
Dr. Peters is secretary. 
