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Medical Journal to fill the vacancy caused by 

 the death of Dr. Claude L. Wheeler. Dr. 

 Jelliffe was editor for several years of the 

 Medical News before that periodical was dis- 

 continued, and is now managing editor of the 

 Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 



Dr. Mary Gage Day, a sister of Professor 

 S. H. Gage, of Cornell University, is leaving 

 Kingston, IST. Y., to make her home with her 

 brother in Ithaca and devote her time to re- 

 searches in biology. During the last twenty 

 years she has practised medicine in Kingston. 



Mr. F. E. Kempton, assistant in the depart- 

 ment of botany at the University of Illinois, 

 has been granted leave of absence to take up 

 the work of a plant disease survey for the St. 

 Louis Smelting and Eefining Company in the 

 vicinity of their plant at Collinsville, 111. 



The Arkansas Academy of Sciences was 

 formally organized on January 11 at a ban- 

 quet held at Little Eock for that purpose. 

 Officers for the ensuing year are Charles 

 Brookover, president; Morgan Smith, vice- 

 president; Dewell Gann, Jr., secretary; Her- 

 bert A. Heagney, treasurer; Troy W. Lewis, 

 permanent secretary. The meeting for 1917 

 will be held at Little Rock on October 12 

 and 13. We are requested to state that the 

 Arkansas Academy of Sciences desires to 

 affiliate with other scientific societies. 



The following awards of the Society of 

 Engineers (incorporated) were presented on 

 February 5: The president's gold medal to 

 Professor C. G. Cullis for his paper on " The 

 Mineral Eesources of the British Empire as 

 regards the Production of Non-Ferrous Indus- 

 trial Metals " ; the Bessemer Premium to Pro- 

 fessor W. G. Fearnsides for his paper on " The 

 Mineral Eequirements of the British Iron and 

 Steel Industries " ; the Bemays Premium to 

 Professor J. A. Fleming for his paper on 

 "Engineering and Scientific Eesearch"; the 

 Nursey Premium to Mr. J. E. Lister for his 

 paper on "Modern Coal and Coke Handling 

 Machinery as used in the Manufacture of 

 Gas " ; and the Society's Premium to Mr. 

 Ewart S. Andrews for his paper on " The 

 Design of Continuous Beams." 



A COMMITTEE of the Cornell Society of Civil 

 Engineers is receiving contributions to a fund 

 for a testimonial to Professor Irving Porter 

 Church. A part of the fund will be expended 

 for a portrait of Professor Church to be pre- 

 sented to the university. The remainder will 

 be used for a gift to the university in his 

 honor. 



An oil portrait of Professor O. T. Bloch, 

 according to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, was hung recently with 

 appropriate ceremonies in the hall of the Sur- 

 gical Academy at Copenhagen, in preparation 

 for his approaching seventieth birthday. The 

 surplus left from the subscriptions for the jyor- 

 trait was presented to him, and he turned it 

 over to the building fund of the medical soci- 

 ety. He was for a long time on the editorial 

 staff of the Hospitalstidende and has pub- 

 lished niunerous works in this and in Scandi- 

 navian, British and French surgical journals. 

 He has also published several books, including 

 one on the history of treatment of wounds 

 from the earliest to modem times. 



Dr. Martin H. Fischer and Joseph Eichberg, 

 professors of physiology, University of Cincin- 

 nati, and Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, head of the de- 

 partment of pathology. University of Chicago, 

 have been elected Cutter lecturers on preven- 

 tive medicine and hygiene at Harvard Univer- 

 sity for the academic year 1916-17. 



Dr. a. Hoyt Taylor, head of the depart- 

 ment of physics of the University of North 

 Dakota, has given a series of two lectures at 

 Northwestern University and the Chicago 

 Academy of Science on " Eecent Advances in 

 Radio Communication" with demonstrations 

 of wireless telephony and telegraphy. Eadio 

 signals were amplified so as to be audible to an 

 audience of several hundred and a musical 

 concert was received by wireless telephone 

 from a station some eight miles distant. 



Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson gave the Hunter- 

 ian lecture before the Eoyal College of Sur- 

 geons of England on February 12 on " Dupuy- 

 tren's Life and Surgical Works." 



Arnold Valentine Stubenrauch, professor 

 of pomology in the University of California, 



