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any and as director of the Bergen Museum, 

 and editor of Naturen, died in Kome on May 

 20, aged fifty-five years. 



The American Medical Journal writes: K. 

 A. H. Morner, professor of chemistry and 

 pharmacy at the Karolinska Medico-Chirurgi- 

 cal Institute of Stockhohn, died recently, aged 

 sixty-two. Since 1892 he has been rector of 

 the institute, in which position he participated 

 in drawing up the regulations for the prizes of 

 the Nobel prize committees, and since has been 

 president of the ISTobel Medical Committee. 

 Morner's research and publications in chemis- 

 try, especially physiologic chemistry, toxicol- 

 ogy and chemical analysis, were notable. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an open competitive examina- 

 tion for scientific assistant, for men only, on 

 July 25. Vacancies in the Bureau of 

 Fisheries, at entrance salaries ranging from 

 $900 to $1,400, including a vacancy in the 

 position of fishery expert on the Albatross, at 

 $1,200 a year, will be filled from this examina- 

 tion. Further information may be obtained 

 by addressing the Civil Service Commission, 

 or the Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The New Jersey State Board of Health on 

 June 7 denied the application of Rutgers Col- 

 lege, at New Brunswick, for permission to 

 teach and practise vivisection under a law of 

 the state. The denial was based on an 

 opinion from the Attorney General's depart- 

 ment that the law in question could not be 

 applied to Rutgers. The act was drawn par- 

 ticularly for the Rockefeller Institute. The 

 Attorney General's department held that it 

 applied only to institutions for scientific re- 

 search and not to educational colleges or 

 schools. 



By the wiU of the late Mr. Washington S. 

 Tyler, of Cleveland, $200,000 is designated for 

 Lakeside Hospital. Half of this is to be used 

 for construction, and the income from the 

 other half for the maintenance of a maternity 

 hospital to be conducted in connection with 

 Lakeside Hospital. 



We learn from Nature that the late Lord 

 Justice Stirling's herbarimn, consisting chiefly 

 of about 6,000 varieties of mosses and liver- 

 worts from many parts of the world, has been 

 presented by Lady Stirling to the Tunbridge 

 Wells Natural History Society. 



An opportunity for research work in sociol- 

 ogy with some time for other graduate work if 

 desired, awaits a suitable applicant at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago and for this $1,200 has been 

 set aside for each of the two years it is ex- 

 pected the investigation will require. By this 

 announcement it is hoped to secure some one 

 already specializing in sociology. Inquiry for 

 further details may be addressed to Professor 

 Albion W. Small, University of Chicago, or to 

 Dr. E. E. LeCount, Rush Medical College, 

 Chicago. 



The Weehly Bulletin of the New York de- 

 partment of health has received a condensed 

 report of the vital statistics of the city of 

 Petrograd for the year 1915. The population 

 for that year was 1,850,000. What stands out 

 most prominently in the report is the fact that 

 there were 2,100 more deaths than births re- 

 ported during the year, thus showing the effect 

 of the war upon the status of the population. 

 The death rate from typhoid fever was over 

 forty (40) per one hundred thousand, aa 

 against six (6) for the city of New York dur- 

 ing the same period. Four hundred and fifty 

 deaths were reported from smallpox. The 

 death rate for measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria 

 and croup was far above that of the city of 

 New York. Tuberculosis had a death rate 

 double that of New York. Two hundred and 

 fifty, out of every 1,000 born, died during the 

 first year, as compared with 95 in the city of 

 New York. 



Recent accessions to the University of Ari- 

 zona Museum include ethnological collections 

 as follows: Eighty-five representative Apache 

 baskets from Governor G. W. P. Hunt, 

 Phoenix; 300 representative Pima baskets 

 from Perry M. Williams, Maricopa; 9 repre- 

 sentative Paluate baskets; 12 representative 

 Hopi baskets; 10 representative Hopi pottery; 

 native and ceremonial Hopi costumes; native 

 Navajo costumes, by the University of Arizona 



