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partment of the New York State Department 

 of Health. He has been assigned to the dis- 

 trict comprising Albany and Rensselaer 

 counties. 



The Ellen H. Richards Memorial Fellow- 

 ship, offered jointly by the trustees of the 

 Memorial Fund and the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been awarded to Minna C. Denton, 

 B.S. and A.M. (Michigan). Miss Denton's 

 teaching experience at Milwaukee-Downer 

 College, Lewis Institute and Ohio State Uni- 

 versity has been supplemented with recent work 

 as fellow in physiology of the University of 

 Chicago. She is at present at work -on the 

 alterations in nutritive value of vegetable 

 foods due to boiling and canning. The fellow- 

 ship carries a stipend of $500 and tuition fees 

 for the year 1917-18. 



Assistant Professor J. Wendell Bailey, 

 of the General Science School of the Missis- 

 sippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, has 

 accepted an appointment with the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy, and is engaged in research work on insects 

 affecting cereal and forage crops. He is now 

 at Tempe, Arizona, in the irrigated section 

 of the Salt River Valley. 



Dr. "W. S. Miller, professor of anatomy in 

 the University of Wisconsin, recently de- 

 livered an address on " The architecture of 

 the lung," before the faculty and students of 

 the graduate summer quarter in medicine of 

 the University of Illinois. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that a large party of 

 medical men and others who were delegates 

 from the medical faculty of the University of 

 Buenos Aires and other medical organizations 

 of Argentina sailed to Rio de Janeiro recently 

 to visit the profession at Rio. The party bore 

 with them a large bronze tablet to be placed 

 in the Bacteriologic Institute founded and 

 directed by Oswaldo Cruz. It represents 

 Argentine medical science, humanity and 

 hygiene decorating with laurel the memorial 

 inscription to the great hygienist who cleared 

 Rio de Janeiro of yellow fever. The physi- 



cians were welcomed by the authorities as 

 guests of the nation during their stay. They 

 also presented the Museum of Natural His- 

 tory with plaster casts of the five skulls on 

 which F. Ameghino based his anthropologic 

 theory of the fossil American man. 



The geology and paleontology committee of 

 the National Research Council has passed the 

 following resolution : 



We desire to record our keen sense of loss in the 

 death of our colleague. Dr. William Bullock Clark. 



Since the organization of this committee, six 

 months ago. Dr. Clark 's extraordinary executive 

 ability has been devoted without reserve to its 

 aims, and the work which he organized, as chair- 

 man of the important subcommittee on roads and 

 road materials, has proceeded with celerity and 

 accuracy over the entire Atlantic seaboard from 

 Maine to Florida. 



He gave an invaluable service to his country 

 with intense devotion, and we feel that he has 

 made the supreme sacrifice. 



The death is announced at the age of 

 seventy-four years of Robert Helmert, pro- 

 fessor in the University of Berlin and director 

 of the Geodetic Institute. 



Dr. Theodor Kocher, professor of surgery 

 at the University of Berne, has died at the age 

 of seventy-sis years. Dr. Kocher was dis- 

 tinguished for his work on goiter and in other 

 directions. The Nobel prize which he re- 

 ceived in 1909 he gave to the University of 

 Berne for medical research. 



M. Paul HLuiiot, author of works on fungi 

 and algae, and for many years in practical 

 charge of the collections of the lower plants at 

 the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris, 

 died on July 5, fi'om diabetic complications. 

 The broad-minded liberality and tireless pa- 

 tience with which M. Hariot always placed the 

 treasures of his department of the musexmi at 

 the service of the scientific men of the world 

 will long be held in grateful remembrance by 

 a considerable number of American botanists. 



Professor J. H. Barnes, agricultural 

 chemist to the government of India, and late 

 principal of the Government College of Agri- 

 culture, Lyallpur, Pimjab, died in India on 

 June 2. 



