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The following appointments to lectureships 

 have been made by the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians of London : Goulstonian lectures, Dr. 

 A. J. Jex-Blake; Oliver Sharpey lectures. Dr. 

 A. D. Waller, F.R.S. ; Lumleian lectures. Dr. 

 F. de Havilland Hall; Croonian lectures, 

 Professor C. S. Sherrington, P.E.S., and 

 FitzPatrick lectures. Dr. C. A. Mercier. 



Dr. T. B. McClintic, of the United States 

 Public Health Service, died in Washington 

 on August 13 of Rocky Mountain spotted 

 fever, contracted while investigating the dis- 

 ease in Montana. Dr. McClintic had done 

 important work in the investigation and sup- 

 pression of this fatal disease and in other di- 

 rections. He was thirty-nine years of age and 

 had been connected with the U. S. Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service for fif- 

 teen years. He was a native of Virginia and 

 a graduate of the University of Virginia. 



Dr. Melville Amasa Scovell, director of 

 the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion and dean of the College of Agriculture 

 of the Kentucky State University, died at his 

 residence, near Lexington, on August 15, 

 after an illness of two weeks. By his distin- 

 guished services as an educator, chemist, agri- 

 culturist and authority on all matters per- 

 taining to dairying and live stock, and as a 

 broad-minded, public spirited citizen. Dr. 

 Scovell made a deep impress on the affairs of 

 the state and nation. 



Professor John Craig, head of the depart- 

 ment of horticulture of the New York State 

 College of Agriculture, Cornell University, 

 known for his contributions to pomology and 

 agricultural education, died at Siasconset, 

 Mass., on August 12. He was born at Lake- 

 field, Canada, in 1864. 



Professor John Alsop Paine, state botanist 

 of New York in the early sixties, professor of 

 natural sciences in Roberts College, Constanti- 

 nople, and later curator in the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art, New York City, has died at 

 the age of seventy-two years. 



Mr. Allan Octavian Hume, known as an au- 

 thor on Indian ornithology, the donor of some 

 seventy-five thousand skins and eggs of Indian 



birds to the British Museum, died on July 31, 

 aged eighty-three years. 



Mr. Harold Donaldson, of the British Na- 

 tional Physical Laboratory, the author of re- 

 searches on fused silica standards was drowned 

 while bathing on July 29, at the age of twenty- 

 five years. 



Among the contributions recently made to 

 the fund for the acquisition of new premises 

 for the Royal Geographical Society, London, 

 are a donation of £1,000 from the Argentine 

 government, and the promise of £1,000, 

 which is to be placed upon the estimates by 

 the government of the Australian common- 

 wealth. 



The ninth International Otological Con- 

 gress opened its sessions at the Harvard Med- 

 ical School on August 12. Professor Kernel 

 von Lichtenberg opened the congress and Dr. 

 E. H. Bradford, dean of the Harvard Medical 

 School, delivered the address of welcome. 

 Professor Adam Politzer, Vittorio Grazzi, 

 Urban Pritchard and E. J. Moure, honorary 

 presidents, made short responses. 



The first Mexican Scientific Congress will 

 be held in the City of Mexico on December 

 9 to 14. The congress is organized by the 

 scientific society Antonio Alzate, and is under 

 the auspices of the minister of public instruc- 

 tion. The congress will meet in eight sec- 

 tions as follows : (1) philosophy, (2) sociology, 

 (3) linguistics and philology, (4) mathe- 

 matical sciences, (5) physical sciences, (6) 

 natural sciences, (7) applied sciences, (8) 

 geography, history and archeology. 



Notice has been received at the Canadian 

 Geological Survey of the fifth shipment of 

 specimens from British Columbia for the 

 Natural Museum of Ottawa, made during the 

 past twelve months as a result of orders issued 

 by Sir William Mackenzie on behalf of the 

 Canadian Northern Railway. The specimens 

 were found a short distance from Kamloops, 

 B. C, and consist of bones ploughed up in a 

 burrough pit in the side of the river. There 

 are also some objects made of beaten copper 

 and of bone and deer skin. 



