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kins University : ' ' The scientific basis for the arti- 

 ficial feeding of infants. ' ' 



The Society of the Liebig Museum held its 

 second meeting in the Liebig Laboratory at 

 Giessen. It will be remembered that this 

 society purchased last year the laboratory for 

 fifteen thousand dollars. Many gifts con- 

 nected with the life of the great chemist have 

 been received. 



Eev. Gr. W. Taylor, curator of the Canadian 

 Marine Biological Station at Departure Bay, 

 near Nanaimo, B. C, died at his residence 

 near the station on August 22. Mr. Taylor 

 has been most widely known in the fields of 

 entomology and conchology, but his interests, 

 particularly as a collector, extended over the 

 whole range of systematic zoology. 



M. LuciEN Levy, the distinguished French 

 mathematician, has died at the age of fifty- 

 nine years. 



Dr. Francois Alphonse Forel, known for 

 his researches on the Lake of Geneva and on 

 glaciers, died at Berne on August 8, aged 

 seventy-one years. 



Mr. Alexander Dean, a British authority 

 on horticulture, has died at the age of eighty 

 years. 



Mr. a. Brothers, of Manchester, the author 

 of several works and inventions concerned 

 with photography, has died at the age of 

 eighty-six years. 



Dr. Ajndrew Wilson, lecturer on physiology 

 and health under the George Combe trust and 

 the author of numerous books and articles for 

 the popularization of science, died on August 

 25. 



We are informed that a number of thefts of 

 platinum from laboratories have occurred re- 

 cently, and as a warning to those responsible 

 we are requested to publish the following de- 

 scription of the thief : " A German Jew, with 

 a German accent ; age, about 40 years ; height, 

 5 feet 8 inches; weight, about 200 pounds; 

 peculiar shaped head; bald; clean shaven; 

 large, short neck; heavy jaws; dark com- 

 plected; dark hair and eyes; intelligent; when 



last seen wore blue serge suit and panama hat, 

 and representing himself to be a book and 

 magazine agent." 



We learn from Nature that the collection of 

 foreign Lepidoptera bequeathed by the late 

 Mr. H. T. Adams, of Enfield, has been re- 

 ceived at the Natural History Branch of the 

 British Museum. It is contained in 68 cab- 

 inets, and is stated to comprise about 150,000 

 specimens. The estimated value of the col- 

 lection is between £40,000 and £45,000. 



The congress before adjournment passed an 

 amendment to the food and drug act which 

 the president has signed, making it illegal 

 " If its package or label shall bear or contain 

 any statement, design, or device regarding the 

 curative or therapeutic effect of such article, 

 or any of the ingredients or substances con- 

 tained therein, which is false and fraudulent." 

 It will be remembered that the act of 1906 

 declared that a drug is misbranded " the pack- 

 age or label of which shall bear any statement 

 . . . which shall be false or misleading in any 

 particular . . . " ; but the supreme court by a 

 majority of five to three decided that this did 

 not refer to false statements regarding the 

 curative effect of a drug. 



The congress also passed the bill carrying 

 out the fur seals treaty, including a closed 

 season for five years in the Pribilof Islands. 



The fifteenth International Congress on 

 Hygiene and Demography will, as has already 

 been announced, be held at Washington, D. C, 

 September 23-28, 1912, with Mr. Taft as hon- 

 orary president. The president of the con- 

 gress is Dr. Henry P. Walcott, of Massachu- 

 setts; the secretary. Dr. John S. Fulton, Sen- 

 ate Annex, Washington, D. C. Thirty-two 

 foreign countries have accepted the invitation 

 of this government to take part. The German 

 Medical Society of New York will hold a re- 

 ception on the evening of September 18 in 

 honor of the German and Austrian physicians 

 who will come to this country to attend the 

 congress. 



At the International Otological Congress 

 held in Boston, under the presidency of Dr. 

 Clarence J. Blake, it was decided to hold the 



