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the duos of $1.00 per year, is eligible for mem- 

 bership and should write to the secretary- 

 treasurer. 



We learn from Nature that a course of si.x 

 public lectures on " Physiology and National 

 Needs," arranged in conjunction with the Im- 

 perial Studies CJommittee of tMe University of 

 London, is being delivered at King's College, 

 Strand, W. C. The first lecture was by Pro- 

 fessor W. D. Halliburton on February 5 on 

 " Physiology and the Food Problem," and suc- 

 ceeding lecturers will be Dr. M. S. Pembrey, 

 Professor F. G. Hopkins, Professor A. Harden, 

 Professor D. Noel Patou, and Professor A. 

 Dendy. On February 4, Professor J. T. Mac- 

 Gregor-Morris delivered the first of a course 

 of two lectures at the Royal Institution on 

 " Study of Electric Arcs and their Applica- 

 tions." On February 6, Dr. W. Wilson gave 

 the first of two lectures on the movements of 

 the sun, earth, and moon, illustrated by a new 

 astronomical model. The Friday evening dis- 

 course on February 7 was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor J. G. Adami on medical research in its 

 relationship to the war; and on February 14 

 by Professor Cargill G. Knott on earthquake 

 waves and the interior of the earth. 



The Ilunterian Oration was delivered be- 

 fore the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng- 

 land, on Februai-y 14, by Major General Sir 

 Anthony A. Bowlby. 



Dr. John Wall.\ce Baird, professor of ex- 

 perimental psychology in Clark University, 

 last year president of the American Psycho- 

 logical Association, died on February 2, at 

 the age of forty-five years. 



Captain Theodore de Bogy, the archeologist 

 and explorer, died at his home in Yonkers, 

 on February 18. Captain de Booy was bom in 

 Holland, thirty-six years ago, and came to the 

 United States in 190G. He was in charge of 

 the West Indian archeological work of the 

 Museum of the American Indian in New 

 York City. 



Mr. M. N. Straucmn, formerly of the Bu- 

 reau of Chemistry in Washington, died in 

 Porto Rico on January 9, 1919. 



The death of Sir James Sawyer, formerly 

 professor of pathology and medicine at Bir- 

 mingham, on January 27, in his seventy-fifth 

 year, is announced. 



Figures are printed to the effect that the 

 1,200 casualty lists published by the German 

 army and navy contained the names of 1,158 

 physicians reported slightly wounded, 332 

 severely wounded, 6(53 killed, 422 as succumb- 

 ing to disease, 212 taken prisoner, seventy-two 

 missing and one killed by gas. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces for March 12, an examination for 

 observer and meteorologists, for men only. 

 Vacancies occurring in the Weather Bureau, 

 Department of Agriculture, for duty in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, or in the field, at entrance sal- 

 aries ranging from $1,260 to $1,800 a year, 

 will be filled from this examination. 



The Grasselli Chemical Company, of Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, has announced its intention to 

 found a medal to be awarded annually by the 

 New York Section of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry for the thesis presented before the 

 section which shall, in the opinion of the 

 medal committee, offer the most useful sug- 

 gestions in applied chemistry. 



Professor J. Rotgans, of Amsterdam, was 

 given a sum of money, collected by subscrip- 

 tion, on the recent twenty-fifth anniversary of 

 his entering on the practise of medicine. He 

 has donated this sum as a nucleus of a fund 

 for cancer research in the Netherlands. 



The sum of £3,000 has been given by Mr. 

 G. T. Hawkins, of Northampton, towards the 

 building and equipment of a pathological lab- 

 oratory at the Northampton General Hos- 

 pital. 



The Goodrich conservation bill, which has 

 been the center of controversy in two sessions 

 of the Illinois legislature, has been reported 

 favorably out of committee in the house. 

 The bill calls for a bi-partisan commission of 

 four to take over the work of the state geolo- 

 gist, state entomologist, fish and game com- 

 mission, state board of forestry, and state park 

 board. It al.-o provides for a director who 



