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London County Council, and others took part 

 in the discussion. 



Dr. George D. Hubbard, head of the depart- 

 ment of geology of Oberlin College, will ad- 

 dress the annual meeting of the Central Asso- 

 ciation of Teachers of Science and Mathe- 

 matics at Columbus, Ohio, which will be held 

 from November 30 to December 1, on " Why 

 should geography be taught in the high 

 schools ? " Dr. Hubbard has recently been re- 

 tained in Toledo in connection with certain 

 problems of physiography and geography in- 

 volved in the riparian case in litigation in 

 which agricultural and fishing industries 

 clashed. 



Dr. E. H. Waed, of Troy, IST. Y., known for 

 his work in microscopy and from 1869 to 1892 

 professor of botany in the Renssellaer Poly- 

 technic Institute, died on October 29, aged 

 eighty years. 



Sm William James Hersohel, discoverer 

 and developer of the system of identification by 

 fingerprints, died on October 24. Sir William 

 was born in 1833. He was the grandson of 

 Sir William Herschel, the English astronomer, 

 and the son of Sir John Frederick William 

 Herschel, whom he succeeded in the baronetcy 

 in 1871. 



The death is announced of Mr. Charles 

 Latham, at Glasgow. Mr. Latham was the first 

 Dixon professor of mining in Glasgow Uni- 

 versity. 



William Egbert Sykes, the inventor of the 

 lock-and-block system of railway signalling, 

 died on October 2, at the age of seventy-seven 

 years. 



Under an agreement between the executors 

 of the estate of the late James Buchanan 

 Brady and his heirs, most of the estate, esti- 

 mated at $3,000,000, is now available for the 

 !New York Hospital, and makes possible the 

 establishment of the James Buchanan Brady 

 Foundation of Urology, which is in accord- 

 ance with the testator's plans. Dr. Oswald 

 S. Lowsley, who was named by Mr. Brady as 

 director, has the plans of the foundation in 

 charge. 



The Eobert Dawson Evans Memorial for 

 Clinical Eesearch and Preventive Medicine of 

 the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital will 

 receive about $1,000,000, as residuary legatee 

 of the estate of Maria Antoinette Evans. 



The forty-fifth annual convention of the 

 American Public Health Association opened in 

 Washington on October 18. Herbert C. 

 Hoover, director of the United States Food 

 Administration, addressed the convention at 

 its first general session. The program for the 

 afternoon called for a joint session of the as- 

 sociation with the American Social Hygiene 

 Association, the Baltimore Medical Society 

 "and the Maryland Society for Social Hygiene. 

 A symposium on easily preventable disease 

 control in the army, the navy and the civilian 

 community was given by Colonel F. F. Eus- 

 sell, U. S. A. ; Surgeon E. C. Holcomb, U. S. 

 'N.; Eaymond B. Fosdick, chairman of the 

 commission on training camp activities; As- 

 sistant Surgeon General J. W. Kerr, of the 

 Federal Public Health Service, and Surgeon 

 William H. Frost, director of the Eed Cross 

 Sanitary Service. 



The Civil Service Commission of the State 

 of New York announces examinations for the 

 State Department of Health for a physiologi- 

 cal chemist at a salary of $1,500 ; for a labora- 

 tory assistant in chemistry at a salary of 

 $720 to $1,200 and for a laboratory assistant in 

 bacteriology at a salary of $720 to $1,200. 

 These positions are open to non-residents and 

 to citizens of other countries except those at 

 war with the United States, and in the first 

 two positions a degree from a college maintain- 

 ing a standard satisfactory to the commission 

 or an equivalent education is required. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Columbia University, New York University 

 and the Presbyterian Hospital are beneficiaries 

 in the will of Kate Collins Browne, who died 

 on August 19. They will share the residue 

 of the estate after half a million dollars is 

 distributed in bequests. 



