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Institute in Copenhagen, the Lister Institute 

 for Preventive Medicine in London, the Pas- 

 teur Institute in Paris, and is now at the Pas- 

 teur Institute in Algiers. Under appointment 

 as Alice Freeman Palmer Pellow she will con- 

 tinue work in connection with the study of 

 anaerobic wound infection and tropic diseases. 

 The board of trustees of the University of 

 Maine has established the following committees 

 at the suggestion of the National Kesearch 

 Council: From the Faculty: J. S. Stevens, 

 Eaymond Pearl, C. D. Woods, M. A. Chrysler 

 and C. B. Brown. Representing the Alumni: 

 W. H. Jordan, G. P. Merrill, Allen Eogers, L. 

 E. Gary and H. W. Bearce. Representing the 

 Trustees: S. W. Gould, W. H. Looney and P. 

 H. Strickland. 



The following resignations from the med- 

 ical faculty and the instructing staff of the 

 college of physicians and surgeons have been 

 accepted by the trustees of Columbia Univer- 

 sity: Dr. George E. Brewer, as professor of 

 surgery; Dr. Virgil P. Gibney, as professor of 

 orthopedic surgery; Dr. Herman Von W. 

 Schulte, as associate professor of anatomy, and 

 Dr. Homer Fordyce Swift, as associate pro- 

 fessor of medicine. 



Dr. Edward Cameron Eirk, dean of the den- 

 tal school of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and Drs. Matthew H. Cryer and Edwin T. 

 Darby, of the faculty, have retired under the 

 University age limit rule of 65 years. 



We learn from the Journal of the Am erican 

 Medical Association that with the close of this 

 term Italy loses from her teaching force, on 

 account of the age limit, three well-known 

 professors, C. Golgi, professor of general 

 pathology and histology at the University of 

 Pavia, who has contributed so much to our 

 knowledge of the nerve cell ; G. F. Novara, pro- 

 fessor of clinical surgery at the University of 

 Genoa, and G. Eoster, professor of hygiene at 

 the University of Florence. 



Dr. Charles W. Pilgrim, president of the 

 New York State Commission in lunacy, has 

 been appointed superintendent and medical 

 director of the Manhattan state hospital for 

 the insane, to succeed the late Dr. Mabon, and 



Dr. Walter G. Eyan, medical inspector of the 

 State Hospital Commission, has been ap- 

 pointed superintendent and medical director 

 of the Hudson Eiver State Hospital at Pough- 

 keepsie. 



The Canadian government has recently ap- 

 pointed Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, F.E.S.C, to be 

 consulting zoologist, in addition to his duties 

 as Dominion entomologist and chief of the 

 entomological branch of the Department of 

 Agriculture. The duties of the office will be to 

 advise in matters relating to the protection of 

 birds and mammals and the treatment of 

 noxious species. 



D. W. Blakeslee, formerly assistant pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering at the Univer- 

 sity of Arkansas, and now engaged in indus- 

 trial work, has received his commission as first 

 lieutenant in the Engineer Section, Officers' 

 Eeserve Corps of the army. 



Dr. Isaac F. Harris, formerly director of the 

 Lederle Antitoxin Laboratories of New York 

 and later director of the Arlington Eesearch 

 Laboratories of Yonkers, New York, has 

 moved from Bronxville, N. Y., to New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., where he is head of the department 

 of biochemistry in the research and biological 

 laboratories of E. E. Squibb & Sons. 



Professor Edwin Oakes Jordan, chairman 

 of the department of hygiene and bacteriology 

 at the University of Chicago, is at present en- 

 gaged in investigations in Argentina. 



Assistant Surgeon General Henry E. 

 Carter, U. S. Public Health Service; Mr. 

 Frederick L. Hoifman, statistician of the Pru- 

 dential Life Insurance Company; Dr. Oscar 

 Dowling, Shreveport, president of the state 

 board of health, and Dr. William H. Seemann, 

 New Orleans, state bacteriologist, began a tour 

 of Louisiana on April 9, to make a survey of 

 the malaria conditions. The survey will in- 

 clude thirty-five towns and cities and will be 

 ended April 19. 



Theodoor de Bogy, of the Museum of the 

 American Indian, Heye Foundation, has re- 

 turned to New York after a six months' archeo- 

 logical survey of the Danish West Indies, now 

 the American Virgin Islands. A large num- 



