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many occasions shown the deep interest he 

 takes in its work. Age sits lightly upon him; 

 he took an active part in the recent most suc- 

 cessful Special Clinical and Scientific Meet- 

 ing in Loudon, and will be in the chair at the 

 annual meeting to be held at Cambridge in 

 1920. Sir Clifford Allbutt has been Regius 

 l>rofessor of physics in the University of Cam- 

 bridge since 1892. So great is the respect, 

 and, if we may be permitted to say, the affec- 

 tion, in which he is hold by all ranks of our 

 profession, that very many will without doubt 

 wish to join in this presentation to him. 

 It has accordingly been decided to limit the 

 amount of individual subscriptions to one 

 guinea. The treasurer of the British Medical 

 Association is now prepared to receive sub- 

 scriptions of this or lesser amount from any 

 member of the profession. Cheques should be 

 made payable to the ' Sir Clifford Allbutt Pre- 

 sentation Fund,' and crossed London county, 

 TVestminster, and Parr's Bank." 



Sir Johx Eose Bradford will give a dis- 

 course at the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain on Friday, May 30, on filter-passing 

 virus in certain diseases. On the following 

 Friday Sir Ernest Rutherford, who has re- 

 cently succeeded Sir J. J. Thomson as Caven- 

 dish professor of experimental physics at Cam- 

 bridge, will deliver a discourse on atomic 

 projectiles and their collisions with light 

 atoms. 



The Cornell University Medical College con- 

 ducted during the month of May a series of 

 special lectures, as follows : ilay 6, Dr. Burton 

 J. Lee, '■ Surgery of the breast ; " May 3, Dr. 

 Lee, " Military surgery, particularly blood 

 transfusion ; " May 20, Dr. Henry H. M. Lyle, 

 " Military surger>% organization at the front; " 

 May 27, Dr. George W. Hawley, "Military 

 surgery, compound fractures." 



Major Joseph Leidv, M.R.C, U.S.A., med- 

 ical director. Department Gas Defense, de- 

 livered an address, illustrated with lantern 

 slides, on " Poison Gas in War " before the 

 Historical Society of Pennsylvania on ilay 12. 



Professor John C. Merrum, of tlie Uni- 

 versity of California, acting chairman of the 



National Research Council, delivered an ad- 

 dress before the Washington Academy of Sci- 

 ences on May 15, on " Cave hunting in Cali- 

 fornia." The address was illustrated with 

 lantern slides. 



Dr. William E. Castle, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, gave during Health Promotion Week 

 at Northwestern University three free public 

 lectures on genetics and eugenics. The sub- 

 jects of the lectures were as follows : May 14, 

 " Heredity and health," illustrated by lantern 

 slides. May 15, " Principles of race improve- 

 ment," illustrated by lantern slides. May 16, 

 " Can we breed a better hmnan race ? " 



Dr. Joseph Jacobs recently presented to the 

 Crawford Long Infirmary, on the campus of 

 the University of Georgia, Augusta, a life size 

 portrait of the late Dr. Crawford W. Long, dis- 

 coverer of surgical anesthesia. 



Walter Gould Dams, director of the Meteor- 

 ological Bureau of Argentina for many years 

 before 1915, when he resigned from that posi- 

 tion, died on April 30 in Danville. Vt., where 

 he was born in 1851. His earliest scientific 

 work was in civil engineering, especially in 

 railroad surveying through the White Moun- 

 tains. While still a young man he went to 

 Argentina as assistant to Dr. Benjamin 

 Apthorp Gould, director of the astronomical 

 observatory at Cordoba, and later became di- 

 rector himself. From Cordoba he was trans- 

 ferred to Buenos Ayres, and placed at the 

 head of the National Weather Bureau, which 

 he organized and built up. His work in this 

 office gave the Argentine Meteorological Serv- 

 ice a high scientific rank, and won its director 

 an international reputation. 



Alexis Axastay Juliex, curator in geol- 

 ogy at Columbia University from 1897 to 1909, 

 died on May 7, aged seventy-nine years. 



A. McHexry, the Irish geologist, died on 

 April 19. He was for more than forty years on 

 the staff of the Geological Survey. 



Dr. L. S. Dalghebtv, for sixteen years pro- 

 fessor of biology in the State Normal School, 

 Kirksville, Missouri, and later in Missouri 



