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[N. S. Vol. XLV. No. 1170 



Sir "William Osler delivered the annual 

 oration of the Medical Society of London on 

 May 14. His subject was " The anti-venereal 

 campaign." 



The Sydney Einger biennial memorial lec- 

 ture was delivered on Friday, May 25, at the 

 University College Hospital Medical School, 

 London, by Professor A. R. Cushny, on " Digi- 

 talis and auricular fibrillation." 



A STATUE of Berthelot, the great chemist, 

 has been unveiled in the gardens of the Col- 

 lege de France. He did much of his work in 

 the laboratories of the college. 



Miss ISTellie Fosdick, instructor in botany 

 at Wellesley College, died on May 19. 



Miss Ruth Holden, Alice Freeman Palmer 

 fellow in botany at Wellesley College from 

 1914 to 1915, has died in Moscow, Russia, from 

 typhoid fever, contracted during her work as 

 a member of the Red Cross relief work for 

 Polish refugees in Russia. 



Sir MIarc Armand Ruffer. distinguished 

 for his work in preventive medicine, has lost 

 his life while engaged in Red Cross work. 



Major P. G. Bailey, known for his work in 

 genetics, was killed in action on April 26. 



The death is announced at Paris of Louis 

 Landouzy, known for his work in tuberculosis, 

 aged seventy-two years. 



Professor H. F. E. Jungersen, professor of 

 zoology and director of the zoological museum 

 in the University of Copenhagen, has died at 

 the age of sixty-three years. 



A new journal for physical anthropology has 

 been established in Italy. It will be known as 

 the Oiomale per la Morfologia dell' Uomo e dei 

 Primati, and is edited and published by Pro- 

 fessor G. L. Sera, of the University of Pavia. 



The Angrand prize of the Bibliotheque Na- 

 tionale of Paris, of the value of 5,000 francs, is 

 to be awarded in 1918 for the best work pub- 

 lished during 1913-17 on the pre-Columbian 

 history, ethnography, archeology or linguistics 

 of the American aborigines. 



We learn from the Bntish Medical Journal 

 that the triennial prize of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons of England, consisting of the John 



Hunter medal in gold to the value of fifty 

 guineas, or, at the option of the author, a 

 medal executed in bronze, with an honorarium 

 of £50, will be awarded for the best essay on 

 " The development of the hip-joint and the 

 knee-joint of man." Essays must be received 

 at the college not later than Tuesday, Decem- 

 ber 31, 1918. The subject of the Jacksonian 

 prize for this year, essays in competition for 

 which must be received on December 31, 1917, 

 is " The causation, diagnosis and treatment of 

 traumatic aneurysm, including arterio-venous 

 aneurysm." As already announced, the sub- 

 ject of the prize for 1918 is " Injuries and dis- 

 eases of the pancreas and their surgical treat- 

 ment." 



The Lakeside laboratory of the Iowa State 

 University on the shores of Lake Okoboji, be- 

 gun nine years ago by President Emeritus 

 Thomas H. Macbride, will open its annual ses- 

 sion on June 18. The staff of instruction, in 

 addition to members from the university, will 

 include Professor T. C. Stephens, of Morning- 

 side College, zoology, and Mr. A. F. Ewers, of 

 St. Louis, botany. Dr. F. C. Stromsten, of the 

 university, has charge of work on aquatic ani- 

 mals. Professor R. B. Wylie, also of the uni- 

 versity, is the director. 



The annual summer courses which are given 

 at the marine station of the University of 

 Washington, Friday Harbor, are scheduled to 

 begin on June 18, and wiU last six weeks. 

 The work this session will be on the develop- 

 ment of marine animals and wiU be under the 

 supervision of Hjalmar L. Osterud, instructor 

 in zoology at the university. He will be as- 

 sisted by Dr. John. Bovard, professor of zool- 

 ogy in the University of Oregon, who will give 

 the general course in marine zoology. Dr. H. 

 S. Erode, of Whitman College, wiU lecture in 

 ecology, while Dr. Theodore C. Frye, professor 

 of botany at the State University, will teach 

 algology. 



Professor Nelson C. Brown, head of the 

 department of forest utilization at the New 

 York State College of Forestry, Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, has obtained a leave of absence for one 

 year and a half, and will go to Europe as a 

 government trade commissioner in an invest!- 



