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Lecturers before tlie graduate summer quar- 

 ter in medicine of the University of Illinois in- 

 cluded Dr. Sidney I. Kornhauser, assistant 

 professor of zoology in the- Northwestern 

 University, on " Sex determination and the 

 nature of secondary sexual characteristics " ; 

 Dr. Eeuben M. Strong, associate professor 

 of anatomy in the Vanderbilt University, 

 on " Adaptation in bone architecture " ; Dr. 

 Orville H. Brown, of Phcenis, Arizona, on 

 " Asthma," and Dr. Addison Gulick, assistant 

 professor of physiology in the University of 

 Missouri, on " Over-feeding and the calorie 

 problem in human metabolism." 



We learn from Nature that the fifth annual 

 meeting of the Indian Science Congress will 

 be held in Lahore on January 9 to 12 next, 

 under the presidency of Dr. G. T. Walker, 

 F.E.S., Director-General of Observatories. 

 The sectional presidents will be: Dr. L. Cole- 

 man (Agriculture), Dr. Wall Mahomed 

 (Physics and Mathematics), Dr. G. J. Fowler 

 (Chemistry), Dr. Choudhuri (Zoology and 

 Ethnology), Mr. E. S. Hole (Botany), Mr. E. 

 S. Pinfold (Geology). Dr. J. L. Simonsen, of 

 the Presidency College, Madras, is the hono- 

 rary secretary for the meeting. 



Second Lieut. Edward Oslee, E.A., only 

 son of Sir William Osier, died in England on 

 August 31. He was wounded recently while 

 on active duty in France, and had been taken 

 to England for treatment. 



Professor S. B. Kelleher, Erasmus Smith 

 professor of mathematics in the University of 

 Dublin, died on August 18. 



It is reported from London that A. Chester 

 Beatty, a Columbia alumnus, has offered his 

 London house as an American Officers' Hos- 

 pital imder the supervision of the Columbia 

 Hospital Unit. The Colmnbia Unit is under 

 the direction of Dr. George E. Brewer, of the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons and the 

 Presbyterian Hospital. The unit is now in 

 England. It is also stated that American 

 medical officers will take charge of the mili- 

 tary hospitals at Manchester, Salford, Liver- 

 pool, Leeds, Birmingham, and Cardiff, and the 



civil medical practitioners at present in charge 

 of those hospitals will be informed that their 

 services are no longer required. It is 'imder- 

 stood that the reason for the change is that 

 the services of the civilian doctors are required 

 for the needs of the population, who have been 

 inadequately served, owing to the attendance 

 of so many physicians at the military hos- 

 pitals. 



A Chemical Industries Bureau is in course 

 of formation in Sweden, the object of which 

 will be to bring together the Swedish chemical 

 industrial interests. 



The Tootal Broadhurst Lee Company of 

 Great Britain anuounces that " assured of the 

 importance of research and education in the 

 struggle for the world's trade, the directors 

 have decided to set aside £10,000 a year for 

 five years for this purpose." The provisional 

 committee on research and education for the 

 cotton industry will, at the close of the cur- 

 rent holiday season, issue a prospectus of the 

 new government-incepted and aided organiza- 

 tion. This definite industrial research federa- 

 tion of the cotton trade will be followed by 

 the establishment of institutes and labora- 

 tories. A provisional committee to organize 

 textile research associations in the woollen 

 trade has been formed. 



The Proceedings of the Nineteenth Inter- 

 national Congress of Americanists, held at 

 Washington, December 27-31, 1915, has just 

 made its appearance. It is a handsome royal 

 octavo volume of 717 pages, with many illus- 

 trations, and in addition to the proceedings of 

 the congress includes ninety articles on Amer- 

 ican archeology, ethnology, folklore and tradi- 

 tion, history, linguistics, and physical anthro- 

 pology. The work was prepared by Dr. A. 

 Hrdlicka, of the United States National 

 Museum, who was general secretary of the con- 

 gress, and edited by Mr. F. W. Hodge, of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology. 



By the will of Julian A. Hellman, a residu- 

 ary fund, which may amount to $100,000, is 

 created to be used by Mount Sinai Hospital 

 for the purpose of cancer research work. 



