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base hospitals of a given sector at the front. 

 The object of such a unit is to secure at all 

 times uniformity and continuity of oversight 

 in the treatment of the wounded from the 

 time of the first field dressing to the comple- 

 tion of convalescence. 



At the meetings of the States activities 

 committee resolutions were introduced and 

 acted upon in regard to the universal training 

 of young men above. 19 for a period of six 

 months, for the rehabilitation of rejected 

 physically defective conscripts, and for the 

 prophylaxis, control, and treatment of ve- 

 nereal disease. 



DEATHS AMONG ORNITHOLOGISTS 



The Auh publishes obituary notices of sev- 

 eral ornithologists who have died recently from 

 which we take the following facts : 



Dr. Emil August Goeldi died suddenly at 

 Bern, Switzerland, July 5, 1917, in the fifty- 

 eighth year of his age. He was born at Ennet- 

 biihl, Canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, August 

 28, 1859. He studied at the Zoological Station 

 at Naples and was assistant of Professor 

 Ernst Haeckel at the Zoological Institute at 

 Jena. In 1884 he went to Brazil and became 

 associated with the museum in Rio de Janeiro. 

 After the fall of the Emperor Dom Pedro II., 

 in 1889, he retired from this position and lived 

 for four years in the state of Rio de Janeiro. 

 About 1894 he founded the museum in Para, 

 now known as the Museu Goeldi. This insti- 

 tution which comprised not only a museum but 

 also a zoological garden and a botanical gar- 

 den was taken over by the state a few years 

 later and Goeldi then became honorary di- 

 rector. In 1905, after twenty years of life in 

 the tropics, he returned to Switzerland and 

 took up his residence in Bern where, since 

 1908, he has been professor of zoology in the 

 Cantonal University. He visited the United 

 States in August, 1907, at the time of the 

 meeting of the Seventh International Congress 

 of Zoology in Boston. Dr. Goeldi has pub- 

 lished a number of papers in English, German 

 and Portuguese on various branches of zool- 

 ogy, but chiefly on mammals, birds and fishes- 



Alfred John North died of heart failure at 

 Sydney, Australia, May 6, 1917, only five 

 months after the death of his former chief and 

 associate. Dr. E. P. Ramsay. He was bom in 

 North Melbourne, Australia, June 11, 1855, 

 and was educated in the public and grammar 

 schools of Melbourne. Later he worked at the 

 jeweler's trade for some years. At an early 

 age he developed an interest in ornithology 

 which was stimulated by visits to the National 

 Museum at Melbourne and by the officers of 

 this institution. Sir Frederick McCoy the di- 

 rector, and John Leadbeater in charge of 

 ornithology. In 1878 he corresponded with 

 Ramsay and eight years later went to Sidney 

 to arrange the Ramsay collection of birds and 

 the collection of eggs of the Australian Mu- 

 seum. After spending several months at this 

 task he was asked to prepare the " Descriptive 

 Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds 

 found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania " 

 which was published in 1889. About this time 

 he was appointed an assistant to the curator, 

 Dr. Ramsay, and in 1891 was made ornitholo- 

 gist of the museum, a position which he re- 

 tained until his death. He has published 

 many papers on the birds of Australia. 



Rev. William Rogers Lord died in Dover, 

 Mass., February 2, 1916, in the sixty-ninth 

 year of his age. He was born in Boston, Mass., 

 May 6, 1847. He graduated from Amherst 

 College with the degree of A.B., in 1875 and 

 from the Union Theological Seminary, in New 

 York, in 1878, and had held pastorates in the 

 East and in the West. 



Mr. Lord was deeply interested in birds 

 and especially in popularizing bird study and 

 bird protection. 



Dr. Bert Heald Bailey died at Cedar Rap- 

 ids, Iowa, June 22, 1917. He was born at 

 Farley, Iowa, May 2, 1875. Dr. Bailey grad- 

 uated from Coe College in 1897 and received 

 his master's degree from the same institution 

 in 1900. In 1900 he also completed his course 

 and received an M.D. degree from Rush Med- 

 ical College, Chicago. In September, 1900, he 

 became professor of zoology and curator of 

 the Museum of Coe College, a position which 

 he held at the time of his death. 



