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flete professorship of chemistry after a tenure 

 of forty years, and his consequent vacation of 

 the professorial fellowship, which he has held 

 for the same period at the college. 



Mr. William McDougall, F.E.S., Wilde 

 reader in mental philosophy at Oxford, has 

 been elected an extraordinary fellow of Corpus 

 Christi College. 



It is stated in Nature that the John Har- 

 ling fellowship for the encouragement of the 

 study and research in physical science, in the 

 University of Manchester, has been awarded 

 to Mr. H. G. J. Moseley, who was until re- 

 cently an assistant lecturer and demonstrator 

 in the department of physics in the university, 

 and to Dr. T. S. Taylor, now instructor of 

 physics in the University of Illinois. 



M. Ahmand Gauthiee, professor of chem- 

 istry in the medical faculty of the University 

 of Paris, has retired. 



Professor Johannes Gad, who last year re- 

 tired from the professorship of physiology at 

 Prague, has celebrated his seventieth birthday. 



We learn. from The Observatory that Mr. B. 

 D. Evans, computer at the Royal Observatory, 

 Greenwich, has been appointed first assistant 

 at the Hongkong Observatory. The director 

 at Hongkong is now Mr. T. F. Claxton, for- 

 merly superintendent of the Mauritius Ob- 

 servatory, and previously on the staff of the 

 magnetic and meteorological department at 

 Greenwich. Mr. Jeffries, now the chief as- 

 sistant, was also a member of the Greenwich 

 staff. 



Dr. William J. Hickson, M.D., has been 

 appointed director of the division of medical 

 research in the department of research of the 

 Vineland Training School, Vineland, New 

 Jersey. 



Dr. J. C. Arthur, of Purdue University, 

 gave a course of lectures on plant pathology, 

 the first week in July at the Macbride Lake- 

 side Laboratory, the summer school estab- 

 lished by the alumni of the Iowa State Uni- 

 versity on Lake Okoboji, Iowa. 



The lecture to the Congress of the Eoyal 

 Sanitary Institute, which will be held at York 



from July 29 to August 3, will be delivered 

 by Professor Karl Pearson, P.E.S., his subject 

 being " Eugenics and the Public Health." 

 Professor H. E. Kenwood will give the pop- 

 ular lecture on " The Healthy Home." 



During the past six months the value of the 

 library of the Chemists' Club, New York City, 

 has been notably increased, first by the gen- 

 erous gift of Mr. Herman Frasch of $10,000, 

 an endowment fund the interest of which is to 

 be used exclusively for the purchase of new 

 books, and second by large gifts by Professor 

 Chandler of 3,200 volumes, by Professor Mallet 

 of 540 volumes and of approximately 700 vol- 

 umes from members, publishers and authors. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed with Mr. 

 Austen Chamberlain as chairman to increase 

 the endowment of the London School of Trop- 

 ical Medicine. Subscriptions amounting to 

 £15,000 have been received. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has made 

 seventeen grants for scientific research from 

 the Rowland Bonaparte fund varying in 

 amount from 2,000 to 3,000 francs. 



The Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts 

 of Bordeaux will celebrate the bi-centenary of 

 its foundation on November 11 and 12 of the 

 present year. 



The planks in the platforms of the Demo- 

 cratic and Republican parties in regard to 

 public health are as follows. Democratic : 

 " We reafiirm our previous declarations advo- 

 cating the union and strengthening of the 

 various governmental agencies relating to pure 

 foods, quarantine, vital statistics and human 

 health. Thus united and administered with- 

 out partiality to or discrimination against any 

 school of medicine or system of healing, they 

 would constitute a single health service, not 

 subordinated to any commercial or financial 

 interests, but devoted exclusively to the con- 

 servation of human life and efficiency. More- 

 over, this health service should cooperate with 

 the health agencies of our various states and 

 cities without interference with their preroga- 

 tives, or with the freedom of individuals to 

 employ such medical or hygienic aid as they 

 may see fit." Republican : " It will strive not 



