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Henry Head, F.R.S., on May 26 in recognition 

 of his eminent services to neurology as editor 

 of Brain for seventeen years. Sir Charles 

 Sherrington, president of the Royal Society, 

 was in the chair and addresses were made by 

 Sir David Ferrier and Dr. Head. Dr. Gordon 

 Holmes has been made editor of the journal. 



Dr. Leon C. Havens, associate in immunol- 

 ogy in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene 

 and Public Health, has been appointed director 

 of laboratories of the State Board of Health 

 at Montgomery, Alabama. 



H. A. Notes has severed his connection with 

 the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research of 

 the University of Pittsburgh to accept the posi- 

 tion of research chemist for the Michigan De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



J. A. McClintock, plant physiologist at the 

 Greorgia Experiment Station, has resigned, 

 effective July 1, to accept the position of asso- 

 ciate plant pathologist at the University of 

 Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station. 



De. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, has left for the Cana- 

 dian Rockies to continue geological explora- 

 tions. 



Professor J. G. Needham, head of the de- 

 partment of biology and entomology in Cornell 

 University, is to exchange for the college year 

 1922-3 with Dr. William A. Hilton, of the de- 

 partment of zoology, Pomona College, Clare- 

 mont, California. 



Dr. G. Canbt Robinson, acting professor of 

 medicine at the Johns Hopkins University 

 during the current year, will spend the summer 

 in study at the University of Copenhagen be- 

 fore assuming his duties as professor of medi- 

 cine at Vanderbilt University. 



Dr. John Rice Miner, associate in the de- 

 partment of biometry and vital statistics of 

 the School of Hygiene, the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been granted leave of absence 

 for the next academic year and will spend the 

 time in study and travel abroad. During Dr. 

 Miner's absence, his position in the department 

 will be filled by Dr. Flora D. Sutton, who has 

 the degree of doctor of philosophy in mathe- 



matics from Johns Hopkins University, and 

 has for some time been connected with the 

 department of biometry and vital statistics. 



Dr. J. W. TuRKENTiNE, formerly director of 

 the Experimental Kelp-Potash Plant of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture at Summer- 

 land, California, has obtained furlough from 

 the department for a period of six months to 

 act as consulting chemist for the U. S. Kelp 

 Products Corporation, the newly organized 

 concern which has purchased the government's 

 plant and is now proceeding with the manu- 

 facture of kelp products. 



Professor Frank Thillt, professor of 

 philosophy at Cornell University left on June 

 8 for Houston, Texas, to give the commence- 

 ment address at the Rice Institute. From 

 Houston he plans to go to Los Angeles to give 

 a course of lectures before the Summer School 

 of the Southern Division of the University of 

 California. 



On June 6, at the Denver Public Library, 

 Dr. C. P. Gillette, director of the Colorado 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, delivered a 

 lecture on "Heredity and the improvement of 

 man," under the auspices of the Genetic Foun- 

 dation of Colorado. 



Professor Eugene C. Bingham gave an 

 illustrated lecture in Philadelphia on the even- 

 ing of June 15 before the Philadelphia Section 

 of the American Chemical Society on the sub- 

 ject of "Fluidity and plasticity." 



A Mendel festival was organized at Vienna 

 by the Zoologic-Botanical Society to commem- 

 orate the hundi-edth anniversary of the birth of 

 Gregor Johan Mendel on June 7. 



Dr. William Careuthers, from 1859 to 1895 

 assistant and keeper of botany in the British 

 Museum, known for his work in paleobotany, 

 died on June 2, at the age of ninety-two years. 



Professor William Gowland, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of metallurgy in the Royal School of 

 Mines, London, has died at the age of seventy- 

 nine yearSi 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 C. V. Zanetti, director of the Institute of Phar- 

 macological Chemistry of the University of 



