August 19, 1921] 



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botany, horticulture, and natural history, Y5Z. ; 

 Mr. W. E. Hodgkinson, in recognition of his 

 valuable scientific work in the public service, 

 lOOZ. ; and Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, in recog- 

 nition of his services as a teacher, and of his 

 valuable and distinguished contributions to 

 physical science, lOOL 



The title of emeritus professor of philosophy 

 and comparative psychology in the University 

 of London has been conferred on Mr. Carveth 

 Read. 



A STATUE of Bonders, the great Dutch 

 ophthalmologist and physiologist, was recently 

 "unveiled at Utrecht where he had been profes- 

 sor of ophthalmology and of physiology until 

 his death in 1889. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, a tablet has been placed 

 in the provincial hospital at Madrid commem- 

 orating the work of Dr. Achucarro, the prom- 

 ising young histologist whose untimely death 

 -occurred a few years ago. 



The name of Virtudes street in Havana has 

 been ofiicially changed to " Mayor Gorgas," 

 .and metal plates with the new name have been 

 .affixed. 



A TABLET with a portrait medallion of Sir 

 William Eamsay, by Charles L. Hartwell, will 

 be placed in Westminster Abbey as part of the 

 Eamsay memorial. 



George Trumbull Ladd, professor and 

 •emeritus professor of philosophy at Yale 

 University for forty years, died on August 8, 

 .at the age of seventy-nine years. Dr. Ladd 

 was the author of important books on phi- 

 losophy and a leader in the development of 

 physiological and experimental psychology. 



Dr. O. Schmiedeberg, formerly professor of 

 pharmacology at the University of Strasbourg, 

 has died at the age of eighty-three years. 



An examination for scientific assistant 

 '($1,400 a year) in the United States Bureau 

 of Fisheries, will be held on September 21. 

 Applicants will be rated chiefly upon zoology 

 in its relation to the fisheries, and general 

 (biology. 



A BILL to create a Department of Health 



has been introduced in the Japanese House 

 of Eepresentatives, in order to bring the 

 various health organizations of the empire 

 under the control of one department. 



An Institute of Pathological Anatomy, 

 named after Professor Hlava, has recently 

 been inaugurated at the University of Prague. 

 The institute is described as being the largest 

 and best equipped of its kind in Europe. 



The Committee of the Fifth Cuban Medical 

 Congress, which will be held in December 

 next, has decided to invite American, French 

 and Spanish physicians and surgeons to 

 attend. 



An international exhibition for the pro- 

 motion of hygiene will be held at Amsterdam, 

 Holland, from October 8 to November 8. 

 The exhibition includes the following: Feed- 

 ing, clothing, housing, bodily cleanliness, 

 labor hygiene, sport, dental care, infants' care, 

 nursing, food adulterations, quack remedies, 

 alcoholism, anti-tuberculosis movement, ma- 

 laria, typhus, sex diseases, tropical hygiene, 

 historical section. Apart from the above, 

 there will be a commercial exhibition of 

 clothing, foodstuffs and their packing, hous- 

 ing devices, wall and floor coverings, wash- 

 stands, bathroom fixtures, kitchen utensils, 

 suction sweepers, baby clothing, baby articles, 

 sport clothing, sport articles, surgical instru- 

 ments, dressing, equipment for operating 

 rooms, dentists' and oculists' equipment, etc. 

 Further particulars may be had from the 

 Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, Beaver 

 Street, New York City. 



The Journal of the American Medical 

 Association states that in the 1921 budget of 

 the Grorman government department for 

 science and art, one specification is for 800,000 

 marks to continue the study of the Fried- 

 mann remedy for tuberculosis. Already 

 several hundred thousand marks of govern- 

 ment appropriations have been spent on the 

 committee conducting the research. The 

 Deutcshe medizinische Wochenschrift is quoted 

 as remarking that it would be better to devote 

 the money to maintaining the sanatoriums 

 which are closing their doors for lack of 



