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organizations in New York and Philadelphia, 

 The following officers were elected: President, 

 Dr. James B. Herrick; vice-president, Dr. 

 K, B. Preble; secretary, Dr. Sidney Strauss; 

 treasurer, Prank 0. Hibbard. 



The sixth annual clinical session of the 

 American Congress on Internal Medicine held 

 in Rochester, Minn., April 3 to 6, was attended 

 by about three hundred physicians. Dr. Syd- 

 ney R. MiUer, of Baltimore, was re-elected 

 president, and Dr. H. S. Plummer, of Roches- 

 ter, first vice-president of the organization. 



Professor Harold E. Babcock, of Cornell 

 University, has sailed for Bermuda at the re- 

 quest of the Colonial Government, and will 

 remain there a month to assist the agricultural 

 population of the islands to increase theii- 

 efficiency in the production and distribution of 

 their crops. 



The Entomological Club of Madison (Wis- 

 consin) arranged for a radio phone lecture on 

 "Bugs and Antenna" by Dr. E. P. Felt, state 

 entomologist of New York, sent out by the 

 broadcasting station of the Greneral Electric 

 Company at Schenectady on April 24. Mad- 

 ison is well within the range of this station 

 with fair conditions and the lecture could 

 therefore be heard over much of the eastern 

 United States and Canada. 



Db. C. H. Mayo delivered the Joyce lecture 

 in neurologic surgery 'before the Academy of 

 Medicine at Portland, Oregon, and the Jerome 

 Cochran lecture before a meeting of the Med- 

 ical Association of the State of Alabama at 

 Birmingham. 



Sib Thomas Lewis will deliver the Noble 

 Wiley Jones lectures under the auspices of the 

 medical school of the University of Oregon 

 between May 15 and 19. The lectures will deal 

 with auricular fibrillation, quinidine and 

 digitalis. 



Dh. p. Chalmers Mitchell gave two lec- 

 tures during March at the Royal Institution on 

 "The cinema as a zoological method." 



The Oxford Romanes lecture for 1922 wiU 

 be delivered on May 24 by Professor A. S. 

 Eddington, Plumian professor of astronomy at 

 Cambridge and president of the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society. The subject will be "The 



theory of relativity and its influence on scien- 

 tific thought." 



LiNGAN Strotheb RANDOLPH, Consulting en- 

 gineer and professor of mechanical engineer- 

 ing at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute for 

 twenty-five years, died on March 7, at the age 

 of sixty-three years. 



Geoege Ballard Mathews, F.R.S., who was 

 lecturer in pure mathematics and then pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at the University College 

 of North Wales, Bangor, from 1884 to 1896, 

 has died at the age of sLxty-one years. 



The death is announced, at the age of fifty- 

 four years, of Professor Emil Hejm, director 

 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fiir Metall- 

 forschung, Berlin-Dahlem. 



A FELLOWSHIP at the University of Man- 

 chester for the encouragement of research in 

 preventive medicine has been instituted in mem- 

 ory of the late Auguste Sheridan Delepine, 

 professor of public health and bacteriology in 

 the univei-sity from 1891 to 1921. 



The John Macoun Memorial Committee of 

 the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club announces 

 that, as the number of copies to be issued of 

 the autobiography of the late Professor John 

 Macoun, naturalist to the Geological Survey 

 of Canada, is limited, orders, with or without 

 the subscription price of $3.00, should be sent 

 in by May 15, addressed to Mr. Arthur Gib- 

 son, treasurer, John Macoun Memorial Com- 

 mittee, Birks Building, Ottawa, Canada. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation says in regard to the centennial of the 

 birth of Pasteur, who was professor of chem- 

 istry at Strasbourg from 1852 to 1854, that 

 two celebrations are planned in that city, one 

 on the exact date, and another, with great cere- 

 mony, on June 1, 1923, when an exhibition will 

 be opened to demonstrate the progress that has 

 been realized in consequence of Pasteur's dis- 

 coveries, and the Pasteur monument will be un- 

 veiled. Professor Borrel, 3 rue Koeberle, 

 Strasbourg, is in charge of the exposition. 

 The Academy of Medicine has decided to de- 

 vote one of its sessions in honor of the work 

 of Pasteur. As the Pasteur Institute intends 

 to commemorate this armivei-sary on the exact 

 date, December 27, 1922, the Academy of Medi- 



