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died at his home in Berkeley on February 12, 

 1917. A graduate of the University of Cali- 

 fornia of 1899, Professor Stubenrauch was for 

 ten years in the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, resigning in 1914 his position as pomol- 

 ogist in charge of field investigations to re- 

 turn to service in the University of California. 

 He was the first man to demonstrate that dates 

 could be grown with commercial success in the 

 Imperial Valley, on the desert in southern 

 California; in association with G. Harold 

 Powell he developed the pre-cooling method, 

 which has greatly contributed to success in the 

 shipping of fruit from California; he demon- 

 strated that California grapes could be kept 

 safely in cold storage for months if packed in 

 redwood sawdust. He was of unusual power 

 • as a teacher and a stimulator of scientific ac- 

 tivity. 



Dr. C. V. Burton, known for his contribu- 

 tions to experimental and theoretical physics, 

 died on February 3, owing to an accident at a 

 British aircraft factory. 



The death in Paris is announced of Dr. 

 Jules Dejerine, a member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Medicine and well known as a neurol- 

 ogist, at the age of sixty-eight years. 



A. Pappenheim, privat-docent at the Uni- 

 . rersity of Berlin, noted for his work on the 

 - morphology of the blood and the blood diseases, 

 editor of the Folia hwmatologica, and the au- 

 thor of a work on the chemistry of dyestuffs, 

 recently succumbed to typhus acquired in his 

 professional work. 



It is stated in the Experiment Station 

 Record that plans have been approved by the 

 building committee for the new agricultural 

 building at the Maryland College for which 

 $175,000 was appropriated by the last legisla- 

 ture. A three-story and basement structure, 

 with a front wing 200 by 68 feet, connected by 

 an enclosed bridge with an auditorium seating 

 about 1,000 people, and this in turn connected 

 with a rear wing of the same dimensions as the 

 front, is contemplated. The front wing is to 

 be used for offices and classrooms and the rear 

 wing for stock Judging and exhibitions and ex- 

 perimental work. It is hoped that the struc- 

 ture will be ready for use next fall. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, Dr. Raymond Tripier, of 

 the School of Medicine, Lyons, whose death 

 was announced in December, bequeathed to the 

 University of Lyons 200,000 francs for the en- 

 couragement of special work in operative medi- 

 cine and pathologic anatomy. He also be- 

 queathed to the city of Lyons the sum of 200,- 

 000 francs, the annual interest of which will 

 permit the acquisition of a work of art every 

 five years. 



The Liebig Scholarship Society of Germany 

 has recently been formed, with a capital of up- 

 wards of a million marks from German indus- 

 tries, for the purpose of assisting young Ger- 

 man chemistry students to proceed with their 

 studies, after their examinations, by working 

 as' assistants in the technical high schools. 



There has been organized at the University 

 of North Carolina a mathematical club whose 

 members are drawn from the instructors and 

 graduate students of the mathematical and 

 allied departments. The following officers have 

 been elected: Wm. Cain, president; Archibald 

 Henderson, vice-president; J. W. Larley, Jr., 

 secretary. 



The third annual meeting of Entomological 

 Workers of Ohio was held at Ohio State Uni- 

 versity on February 2, with thirty members in 

 attendance. The program consisted of reviews 

 of projects and reports on investigations of 

 members of the Ohio Experiment Station, the 

 State Division of Orchard and N'ursery Inspec- 

 tion and the department of entomology of the 

 university. 



The council of the British Association of 

 Chambers of Commerce is, as we learn from 

 foreign exchanges, considering draft bills 

 designed to carry out reforms in our systems 

 of weights and measures and of coinage, and 

 should the council approve of them they will 

 be submitted to the Chambers of Commerce 

 throughout the country. If there proves to be 

 general agreement the association's bill will 

 be introduced into Parliament. It is probable 

 that a bill for establishing a decimal coinage 

 will have first attention, the bill for introduc- 

 ing metric weights and measures not being 

 pressed until the country has grown accus- 



