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formerly professor of ear and throat diseases 

 at the University of Naples. 



Dr. Eliot E. Clark, professor of anatomy 

 in the University of Missouri, recently de- 

 livered an address on " Some aspects of the 

 problem of endotheliimi," and Dr. Frederick 

 G. Novy, professor of bacteriology in the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, an address on "Anaphy- 

 laxis" before the faculty and students of the 

 graduate summer quarter in medicine of the 

 University of Illinois. 



The Cavendish lecture of the West London 

 Medico-Chirurgical Society was delivered by 

 Captain Andrew Macphail, Canadian Army 

 Medical Corps, who is professor of the history 

 of medicine at McGill University, Montreal, 

 who took as his subject " A Day's "Work." 



A NEW pedestal for the bust of John Muir, 

 naturalist and explorer, is now being made at 

 the University of Wisconsin to be placed in 

 the Building for Biology, where the bust of 

 Muir now stands. The pedestal will bear this 

 inscription : 



John Muir, 1838-1913 

 author, explorer, naturalist 



A PRIEST AT nature's SHKINE. 



Charles Howard Parmly, professor of 

 physics of the College of the City of New 

 York, died at Ashland, N. H., from cerebral 

 hemorrhage on September 8, aged forty-nine 

 years. 



Dr. G. Stanculeanu, professor of ophthal- 

 mology at the University of Bucharest until 

 the German invasion, who has been lecturing 

 in this country in the interest of the Rouma- 

 nian government, died recently of pneumonia 

 at a sanatorium at Stamford, Conn. 



The death is announced of Dr. Charles 

 Mongour, professor of internal pathology and 

 medical jurisprudence at the Bordeaux Medi- 

 cal School. 



It is stated in Nature that the mycological 

 collection of the late Dr. J. W. Ellis has been 

 acquired by purchase by the herbarium at 

 Kew. It comprises nearly 1,600 dried speci- 

 mens, is especially rich in micro-fungi, and 

 includes a series of mounted specimens of 



those of economic importance. There are also 

 330 microscopic slides. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



As a war measure a limited number of 

 women may be admitted this year to the 

 courses of the Harvard Medical School. They 

 will not receive or be eligible to receive the 

 university degree. Formal action has not 

 been taken by the corporation, but tentative 

 arrangements are being made and will prob- 

 ably become effective by the time college opens 

 for the new session. 



The department of forestry of the Uni- 

 versity of Idaho has recently been segregated 

 from the College of Arts and Science as an 

 independent school. Professor F. G. Miller, 

 formerly head of the department of forestry 

 at Washington State College, has been elected 

 dean of the school, and professor of forestry. 



Dr. Henry Kraejier, for twenty years pro- 

 fessor of botany and pharmacognosy at the 

 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, will suc- 

 ceed the late Dr. Julius O. Schlotterbeek as 

 professor of pharmacognosy of the college of 

 pharmacy of the University of Michigan. 



Almon H. Fuller, dean of the school of 

 engineering at the University of Washington, 

 Seattle, has accepted the appointment to the 

 head of the department of civil engineering at 

 Lafayette College to succeed Professor J. 

 Madison Porter. Donald B. Prentice, of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School, Tale University, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of me- 

 chanical engineering. He will take charge of 

 the work in boilers and heat engineering 

 hitherto cared for by Professor Fitch. 



Dr. H. B. Shaw, former dean of the School 

 of Engineering of the University of Missouri, 

 has been appointed supervisor of the Doherty 

 cadet school. Dr. Shaw's duties will include 

 the selection of men from the universities of 

 the country to become Doherty cadets, to 

 supervise the courses and to recommend cadets 

 for regular posts in the organization. He will 

 make his headquarters, it is expected, in 

 Toledo, Ohio. 



