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gion, will be due in San Francisco next No- 

 vember. 



J. J. Taubenhaus, assistant plant pathol- 

 ogist of the Delaware College Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, delivered an address on 

 July 14, 1912, on " Our Present Knowledge of 

 the Sweet Pea Diseases and Their Control," 

 before the American Sweet Pea Society which 

 held its annual exhibit in the Horticultural 

 Hall of Boston, Mass. 



At the eighty-fourth convocation of the 

 University of Chicago, which will be held on 

 August 30, the convocation orator, Dr. Henry 

 Churchill King, president of Oberlin College, 

 will have for his subject " The Contribution 

 of Modern Science to Ideal Interests." 



"William S. Weedon, Ph.D. (Hopkins), 

 since 1904 research chemist for the E. I. du 

 Pont de Nemours Powder Co., died in Wil- 

 mington, Del., on July 10, aged thirty-five 

 years. 



Mr. Robert Holfoed Macdowall Bosan- 

 QUET, F.E.S., fellow of St. John's College, 

 Oxford, knovsTi for his researches in acoustics 

 and magnetism, died on August 7, aged sev- 

 enty-one years. 



Dr. Humphrey Owen Jones, F.R.S., of 

 Clare College, Cambridge, his wife and a 

 Swiss guide, lost their lives on August 15 

 owing to an accident which occurred while 

 they were ascending the Aiguille Eouge de 

 Penteret, in the Alps. Mr. Jones was 

 in his thirty-sixth year and only married on 

 the first of this month. For some years he 

 had been demonstrator to the Jacksonian pro- 

 fessor of natural experimental philosophy at 

 Cambridge, and was amongst the most bril- 

 liant of the younger British chemists. He was 

 elected into the Royal Society this year. Mrs. 

 Jones was a member of Newnham College, 

 and had been doing research work in the 

 chemical laboratory in Cambridge for the 

 past year. An even more eminent Cambridge 

 man of science. Professor Francis Maitland 

 Balfour, lost his life on the same mountain 

 in July, 1882. 



A valuable collection of British lepidop- 

 tera, made by the late Mr. John A. Finzi, has 



been presented by Mrs. and Miss Finzi to the 

 Zoological Museum at University College,. 

 London. 



At the meeting of the German Geological 

 Society in Reiswald on August 8, a paleonto- 

 logieal society was established. The organ of 

 the society. Die Paleontohgische Zeitschrift,. 

 will be published in Berlin by Borntraeger. 



The third Clinical Congress of Surgeons of 

 North America will be held in New York,. 

 November 11-16. The place of registration is, 

 as we learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, the ball room of the 

 Waldorf-Astoria, where the daily program 

 will be bulletined one day in advance and 

 where printed programs of each day's clinics 

 will be distributed. The work of the congress 

 will be divided into six branches, namely: 

 general surgery, gynecology, genito-urinary 

 surgery, orthopedics, obstetrics and eye, ear, 

 nose and throat surgery. In the evenings 

 literary and scientific programs will be given 

 as follows : 



Monday, November 11 — Presidential Meeting — 

 Albert J. Oehsner, Chicago : Address of the re- 

 tiring president. Edward Martin, Philadelphia 

 (president's address) i "Treatment of Hepatic 

 Cirrhosis." WiUiam J. Mayo, Rochester, Minn.: 

 ' ' Surgery of the Large Bowel. ' ' Discussion by 

 Charles H. Peck, New York City. 



Tuesday, November 12 — George W. Crile, Cleve- 

 land: "Kinetic Theory of certain Diseases, with 

 special reference to Internal Secretions. ' ' Howard 

 A. Kelly, Baltimore: Paper on Kidney Surgery. 

 Discussion by George E. Brewer, New York City. 

 Otfried Foerster, Breslau,, Germany: "Indications 

 and Besults of Excision of the Posterior Spinal 

 Nerve-roots."' Charles H. Frazier, Philadelphia: 

 Paper on Surgery of the Spinal Cord. Discussion 

 by Charles A. Elsberg, New York City. 



Authors and editors concerned with the 

 preparation of illustrations for scientific pur- 

 poses will find a booklet by L. P. Mosler on 

 " Die moderne graphische Reproduction " of 

 great service. It is issued by the firm of 

 Gustav Fischer (Jena), famous for the su- 

 perb illustrations in the scientific works bear- 

 ing ita imprint. Simple explanations are 

 giveaai of tLe- principles underlying the 



