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York City on July 23, for Eio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil. They have planned a two-years' trip 

 for the collection of plants and especially the 

 rusts. They expect to cross the Andes early in 

 the coming year, and spend the remainder of 

 the time on the west coast. 



Dr. Frank T. McFarland, who has been 

 spending his sabbatical leave at the University 

 of Wisconsin investigating the relationships 

 of the various claviceps, has returned to the 

 University of Kentucky as head of the Depart- 

 ment of Botany. 



Professor George F. Sykes, of the depart- 

 ment of zoology and physiology in the Oregon 

 State College, will spend a sabbatical year in 

 travel, study and literary work, during which 

 his address will be Warren, Ehode Island. 



Dr. Frederick Starr, of the University of 

 Chicago, is giving a series of illustrated lec- 

 tures at the university as follows: August 5, 

 " Aztec Mexico " ; August 12, " Modern Mex- 

 ico " ; and August 19, " Mexico to-day." 



Dr. Winthrop E. Stone, since 1900 presi- 

 dent of Purdue University, and previously pro- 

 fessor of chemistry, fell from a cliff near the 

 summit of Mt. Eanon, Alberta, on July 16, 

 and was instantly killed. Dr. and Mrs. Stone 

 had nearly completed the initial ascent of the 

 mountain when the accident occurred. 



Professor Alfred Monroe Kenyon, head 

 of the mathematical department of Purdue 

 University, died suddenly at Ashland, Ohio, 

 on July 27, while returning to Lafayette, Ind., 

 by train after attending the funeral of his 

 mother. Professor Kenyon was 52 years old. 



Charles Barney Cory, curator of zoology 

 in the Field Museum of Natural History, died 

 on July 29, at the age of 64 years. Mr. Cory 

 was one of the founders and a past president 

 of the American Ornithologists' Union, a mem- 

 ber of many societies, and widely known for 

 his ornithological writings. 



Charles Howard Eoyce, extension profes- 

 sor of animal husbandry at the New York 

 State College of Agriculture, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, died on August 5, as a result of in- 

 juries suffered in a fall from a silo on his farm 

 here on July 11. 



Edmond Perrier, director of the Museum of 

 Natural History in Paris, died on August 1, 

 aged seventy-seven years. 



Professor Ejiaepelin, of Munich, announces 

 that the Institute for Research in Psychiatry, 

 of which he is director, has received gifts 

 and bequests this year totaling over 1,500,000 

 marks, and the collections and the library have 

 also been notably enriched by gifts. 



According to an announcement made by 

 the secretai-y of the New York Association 

 for Medical Education, Dr. Otto von Huff- 

 man, the Carnegie Foundation has offered to 

 make a donation of $12,000 to the association 

 on condition that the medical profession shall 

 raise $3,000. The raising of this sum will 

 enable the association to continue its activities 

 which have been curtailed of late because of 

 lack of funds. This association was organ- 

 ized two years ago to collect information in 

 regard to postgraduate medical instruction 

 and to develop such courses. 



Instructions have been issued to the 

 representatives of the Bureau of Fisheries on 

 the Pribilof Islands authorizing the taking of 

 30,000 fur-seal skins on both islands during 

 the calendar year 1921. Tentative divisions 

 by classes for the killings on the two islands 

 are as follows: St. Paul, 22,100 three-year- 

 olds, 3,000 four-year-olds, and 600 five-year- 

 olds; and St. George, 2,750 three-year-olds, 

 450 four-year-olds, and 100 five-year-olds. 

 As the season progresses some readjustments 

 as to numbers of the various classes may be- 

 come desirable as the result of observations 

 on the ground. The regular summer sealing 

 season ended on August 5, instead of con- 

 tinuing until August 10, as heretofore. 



An interdepartmental conference was held 

 on July 25, in the Interior Department build- 

 ing, Washington, D. C, to discuss the status 

 of patients arising within the government 

 service, the intention being to foi-mulate a 

 coordination of the views now held in the 

 various bureaus and departments upon this 

 subject, and to work out some concerted 

 method of procedure for handling the patients 

 here considered. Mr. E. C. Finney, assistant 



