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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIX. No. 1254 



the advent of Lord Lister to King's College 

 Hospital in 1877. 



Dr. Eossiter Worthington Eaymond, the 

 well-known mining engineer, died on Decem- 

 ber 31 aged seventy-eight years. 



The Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry reports the deaths of Dr. Harry 

 Percival Corliss, until recently an industrial 

 fellow in the Mellon Institute of Industrial 

 Research, University of Pittsburgh, at Hay, 

 Arizona, on ^November 16, of pneumonia fol- 

 lowing influenza at the age of thirty-two years, 

 and of Dr. Frank Amon, who had also been 

 connected with the Mellon Institute as re- 

 search fellow for some months and who had 

 enlisted in the U. S. Gas Defense work in 

 1917. Dr. Amon died of pneumonia, at 

 Souilly, France, on October 12. 



Professor Golden, emeritus professor of 

 practical mechanics in Purdue University, and 

 since 1884 a member of the faculty, died on 

 December 18, aged fifty-eight years. 



Dr. Eeginald Percy Cockin, assistant hel- 

 minthologist of the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine died on December 9 in his fortieth 

 year. 



The death is announced at the age of fifty- 

 four years of Dr. Gustave Bouchardat, pro- 

 fesseur agrege in the Paris medical faculty 

 and honorary professor in the school of phar- 

 macy. Dr. Bouchardat has been a member 

 of the Academie de Medecine, section of phys- 

 ical and medical chemistry, since 1882. 



The medical college in Peking, China, under 

 the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, 

 which is now under construction, will cost 

 $6,000,000, and will be open in 1920. Eighteen 

 university buildings, forty faculty residences 

 apd a hospital with 200 beds will be con- 

 structed. A medical school will also be estab- 

 lished at Shanghai and subsidiary medical sta- 

 tions will be established throug-hout China. 

 Subsidies will be granted to existing mission- 

 ary hospitals which will be standardized and 

 will oflier internships for the university. The 

 work will require a total expenditure of $10,- 

 000,000 with an additional $250,000 to $500,- 

 000 annually for support. 



Mr. p. W. Sprague, of Boston, has given 

 farming lands to the Maine Agricultural and 

 Industrial League to conduct as it sees fit. It 

 is to be known as the league's demonstration 

 farm. The property consists of five distinct 

 farms, which have a total of more than 1,000 

 acres of land. On each farm is a set of build- 

 ings occupied by the families of the superin- 

 tendent and caretakers. 



The .honorary treasurers of the Ramsay Me- 

 morial Fund announce that it is now just 

 over £40,000. The aim of the appeal was £100,- 

 000. There are still a number of contributions 

 to be received from the overseas committees 

 which are collecting contributions. The Mil- 

 lion Shilling Fund, opened by a donation of 

 1,000 shillings by the Prince of Wales, now 

 totals over 58,000 shillings. 



Announcement is made by the Association 

 of the Alumni of the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons in the City of New York of 

 its biennial Cartwright Prize of $500 to be 

 awarded at commencement, 1919. Comprti- 

 tive essays, which must contain records of orig- 

 inal investigations made by the writer, must be 

 presented on or before April 1, 1919, typewrit- 

 ten in English and accompanied by the usual 

 safeguarding device or motto. 



The London Times calls attention to the 

 serious effects of the influenza epidemic in In- 

 dia. In Bombay city there were 15,000 deaths, 

 and in Delhi city, in a population of 200,000 

 the death-rate at one time reached 800 daily. 

 In the rural tracts beyond the reach of effec- 

 tive prophylactic measures the loss has been 

 tremendous. A recent report shows that in 

 the Punjab it followed much the same course 

 as in places attracting more public notice. 

 The first signs appeared in August. In Sep- 

 tember it persisted in a mild form, and from 

 the middle of October until November 8 it was 

 acute. It is estimated that the number of 

 deaths ranges from 5 to 10 per cent, of the 

 population. The death-roU is heaviest 

 amongst young adults and women. The num- 

 ber of deaths in the Punjab is estimated at 

 250,000. When the final results of the epi- 

 demic are summed up it will probably be 



