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his work until within less than a week of his 

 death. He was vigorous physically, possessed 

 a charming personality and was greatly be- 

 loved by both students and faculty. 



Mr. F. H. Low, the honorary secretary of 

 the Rontgen Society, London, has died at the 

 age of fifty-eight years. 



Dr. Otto Krijmmel, professor of geography 

 at Marburg, distinguished for his work on 

 oceanography, died on October 12, at the age 

 of fifty-eight. 



Dr. Paul Second, a distinguished Paris 

 surgeon and professor at the University of 

 Paris, died on October 2Y. 



Dr. Benjamin August Freiherr Afschul- 

 TEN, formerly docent for chemistry at Hel- 

 singfors, died at Paris, on September 29, aged 

 fifty-six years. 



Hermann Mune, formerly professor of 

 physiology at the veterinary college in Berlin, 

 died in Berlin on October 1. The Berlin cor- 

 respondent of the Journal of the American 

 Association writes of him : " Munk was born 

 in Posen, February 3, 1839, and studied at 

 Gottingen and Berlin as a pupil of Johannes 

 Miiller, Hanle, Weber, Du Bois-Eeymond, 

 Virchow and Traube. In 1862 he became 

 Privatdozent, and in 1869 professor extra- 

 ordinary in Berlin. Li 1876 he was called as 

 professor ordinary of physiology to the veteri- 

 nary school, and in 1880 he was appointed a 

 regular member of the Prussian Academy of 

 Sciences, and in 189Y regular honorary pro- 

 fessor. After the death of Du Bois-Eeymond, 

 Munk was proposed by the Berlin faculty, in 

 the first place, as his successor. The govern- 

 ment refused in spite of Munk's prominence, 

 and solely on account of his Jewish denomina- 

 tion, to enter into any transaction with him, 

 a fact which, like many other similar occur- 

 rences, does not add to the fame of the Prus- 

 sian government. In 1907 Munk resigned his 

 ofiice for reasons of health. The number of 

 literary works produced by him is very exten- 

 sive. When he was a student he delivered at 

 Gottingen an excellent report of research on 

 the finer structure of primitive muscular 



fibers. In Berlin he wrote a prize work on 

 egg and sperm formation and fertilization of 

 the nematodes. As assistant of Du Bois-Eey- 

 mond, his studies covered chiefly the general 

 physiology of the nerves and muscles, espe- 

 cially the electric phenomena. His collected 

 pioneer works on the cerebral cortex were pub- 

 lished in the eighties under the title ' Ueber 

 die Funktionen der Grosshirnrinde.' His 

 later works treat of the cardiac and laryngeal 

 nerves, cataphonia, milk secretion and the 

 thyroid gland. Munk was an excellent speaker 

 and a beloved teacher, high-minded and mod- 

 est." 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounce an open competitive examination for 

 alloy chemist, for men only, to fill a vacancy 

 in this position at a salary ranging from 

 $2,400 to $3,000 per annum in the Bureau of 

 Mines, Department of the Interior. 



Dr. Eupert Blue, surgeon-general of the 

 U. S. Public Health Service, is making plans 

 to establish a museum or permanent exhibit 

 on sanitation and hygiene. It is one o£ the 

 duties of the Public Health Service to dis- 

 seminate knowledge of sanitation and hygiene, 

 and he. believes that this can be greatly pro- 

 moted by such a permament exhibit. 



The Ohservatory states that it is proposed 

 to establish an astronomical observatory on 

 Grouse Mountain, British Columbia. Mr. T. 

 S. H. Shearman, director of the Vancouver 

 Meteorological Station, appears to be the orig- 

 inator of the scheme, which has the support 

 of the British Columbia Academy of Science 

 and astronomical and meteorological officials 

 in Canada. 



The meeting of the American Society of 

 Naturalists at Cleveland was announced for 

 January 1 and 2, 1913. It is expected, how- 

 ever, that all meetings will be held on the 

 second. 



The thirtieth annual congress of the Amer- 

 ican Ornithologists' Union will convene in 

 Cambridge, Mass., on November 11, at 8 p.m. 

 The evening session will be devoted to the 

 election of officers and the transaction of other 



