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a fellow of the Royal Society in 1889, and re- 

 ceived the Lyell medal of the Geological So- 

 ciety in 1891, when he acknowledged the value 

 of his intimate association with Sir Charles 

 Lyell, with whom he made many geological 

 tours during his early years. As Sedgwick was 

 elected Woodwardian professor in 1818 he and 

 his successor have between them occupied the 

 chair for ninety-nine years. 



HoRAS T. Kennedy, geologist of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Ireland, was killed on June 

 6 while serving as lieutenant in the British 

 Army. 



The annual meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society will be held in Boston on 

 September 11, 12 and 13. We learn from the 

 Journal of Industrial and Engineeri,ng Chem- 

 istry that the N'ortheastern Section has been 

 requested by the directors to omit the usual 

 annual banquet and excursions, and to arrange 

 a program characterized by simplicity and 

 seriousness, and bearing as fully as possible 

 on questions concerning the activities of chem- 

 ists both in the government service and in the 

 industries during the present war. The gen- 

 eral meeting will be held on Tuesday morn- 

 ing. This will be followed in the afternoon 

 by a general conference to be opened by Dr. 

 W. H. Nichols, chairman of the committee 

 on chemicals of the National Defense Council, 

 and by Dr. M. T. Bogert, chairman of the 

 Chemistry Committee of the National Re- 

 search Council, the conference then to be con- 

 tinued from the floor. It is expected that 

 an informal, get-together meeting of a social 

 character will be held on Tuesday evening, 

 at which time opportunity will be given for 

 informal discussion of problems of the day. 

 "Wednesday morning will be devoted to divi- 

 sional conferences, and the afternoon to divi- 

 sional meetings, with papers, or a continua- 

 tion of the conferences, as the divisions may 

 decide. The presidential address wiU be de- 

 livered on "Wednesday evening. Thursday, 

 both morning and afternoon, will be given to 

 divisional meetings. 



The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded 

 contracts for the building of two hospitals 



to cost $3,000,000. One of these wiU be 

 located in Pekin and the other in Shanghai, 

 and both will be for the work of the China 

 Medical Board. It is also announced that the 

 Foundation will send a hospital ship to the 

 Moros and allied tribes of the Sulu Archi- 

 pelago. The Philippine government is co- 

 operating in this enterprise. The ship will 

 cruise for five years among the many islands 

 in the southern Philippine group. The 

 foundation has learned that many of the 

 Moros are suffering from skin diseases, ma- 

 laria, hookworm, dysentery and other diseases. 

 The state health commissioner of Massa- 

 chusetts has appointed as a committee on the 

 conservation of child life, Drs. David L. 

 Edsall and "WiUiam J. Gallivan, members of 

 the public health council, and Dr. Lyman A. 

 Jones, director of the division of hygiene of 

 the state health department. As consulting 

 members he has named Drs. Fritz B. Talbot, 

 pediatrist and chief of the children's medical 

 department, Massachusetts General Hospital; 

 Richard M. Smith, Boston, pediatrist, as- 

 sistant in pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ; 

 "Walter E. Fernald, psychiatrist, superintendent 

 of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble- 

 minded, and "WiUiam Healy, psychologist, 

 director of the psychopathic institute of the 

 Chicago Juvenile Court, and Miss Mary 

 Beard, director of the Instructive District 

 Nursing Association. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that on June 20, a session was 

 held at the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, Philadelphia, at which physicians past 

 the age for medical service organized for the 

 reclamation of men physically unfit for the 

 United States Army or Navy. Dr. "W. "W. 

 Keen was elected president of the organiza- 

 tion and as vice-presidents, Drs. John B. 

 Deaver and James M. Anders. Physicians 

 more than 55 years of age, doctors who can 

 not pass the reserve corps medical examina- 

 tion and physicians who for other reasons 

 can not go to the front, will form the mem- 

 bership of the organization which will include 

 also dental surgeons, pharmacists and chiro- 

 podists. The plan is to have a camp where 



