June 15, 1917] 



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the Ernest Kempton Adams research fellow- 

 ship at Columbia University. 



Dr. M. C. Merrill, who has done graduate 

 work at Cornell, Chicago, Harvard and Wash- 

 ington universities, and who has been director 

 of the department of agriculture of the Idaho 

 Technical Institute for the past two years, has 

 been appointed horticulturist at the Utah Agri- 

 cultural College. He will take up his work at 

 Logan on July 1. 



Dr. Isadore Dyer, of Tulane University, has 

 received an appointment as major in the Med- 

 ical Officers' Reserve Corps. 



Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, director of the 

 Saranac Lake Laboratory, delivered the an- 

 nual address before the Alpha Omega Alpha 

 Honorary Medical Fraternity at Western Re- 

 serve Medical School on May 14. The subject 

 was " Latent tuberculosis, its importance in 

 military preparation." 



Arnold Lockwood Fletcher, research as- 

 sistant in geology at Trinity College, Dublin, 

 has been killed in the war. 



Dr. Felix Le Dantec, professor of tropical 

 pathology in the University of Bordeaux, died 

 on June 7. 



According to Nature progress has been made 

 with the proposal to establish a national me- 

 morial to the late Captain E. C. Selous, killed 

 in action while leading his men in an attack 

 on a German post in East Africa early in Jan- 

 uary last. An influential and representative 

 committee has been formed under the chair- 

 manship of the Rt. Hon. E. E. Montagu, M.P., 

 with Mr. E. North Buxton and the Hon. W. P. 

 Schreiner, C.M.G., as vice-chairmen. Among 

 others who have joined the committee are Vis- 

 count Buxton, G.C.M.G., the Earl of Coven- 

 try, Dr. David (headmaster of Rugby), Lord 

 Desborough, Viscount Grey, Colonel T. Roose- 

 velt, Lieutenant-General J. C. Smuts, and rep- 

 resentatives of the Royal Geographical Society, 

 the Zoological Society, the Entomological So- 

 ciety, the British Ornithologists' Union, the 

 Royal Colonial Institute and the British South 

 Africa Company. The committee has decided, 

 with the permission of the trustees of the Brit- 

 ish Museum, to place a mural tablet in the 



Natural History Museum, where many of 

 Selous's finest trophies are exhibited. There is 

 a general desire that some additional form of 

 perpetuating his memory should be established. 

 It is therefore proposed to found a Selous 

 scholarship at Rugby (his old school), for the 

 sons of officers, primarily of those who have 

 fallen in the war. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that Major Hugh-Hampton 

 Young, M. R. C, Baltimore, director of the 

 James Buchanan Brady Institute at the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital, has been selected to head 

 the special mission under the direction of 

 General William C. Gorgas, Washington, D. 

 C, and the Council of National Defense that 

 is to study medical necessities at the battle 

 front, and will have entire charge of the 

 medical • care of the American Army in 

 France. Dr. Young has already started on 

 his mission and on his arrival in England 

 will report to Surgeon-General Sir Alfred 

 Keogh. He and his staii will also report on 

 the advisability of establishing in this country 

 a hospital for the care of wounded and dis- 

 abled American soldiers who may have to be 

 sent home. Dr. Young will be accompanied 

 by Captain Louis C. Lehr, of Georgetown Uni- 

 versity, Captain Montague L. Boyd, of Emery 

 College, Atlanta, and Lieutenant Howard L. 

 Cecil, of the Brady Institute, Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 Mr. Alfred T. Davies, of the Board of Educa- 

 tion, has written under the title " Student 

 Captives " a short account of the British 

 prisoners of war book scheme (educational), 

 whose object is to provide British prisoners 

 of war interned in enemy or neutral countries 

 with educational books. His pamphlet shows 

 how much trouble has been taken by the com- 

 mittee to provide the prisoners with mental 

 interests, and to make suitable provision for 

 their education so as to enable them to re- 

 deem the time of their captivity. It includes 

 letters of approval from Lord Crewe and 

 the president of the Board of Education. 

 Letters of inquiry should be addressed to 

 A. T. Davies, Esq., C.B., Board of Educa- 



