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doptera), with the Army Service Corps; pri- 

 vate C. Court Treatt (Birds), with the 28th 

 City of London; private A. K. Totton 

 (sponges, etc.), with the 28th City of London; 

 Lieutenant Campbell-Smith (Mineralogy), 

 with the 28th City of London. There are also 

 many assistants serving; for example, nine 

 from the department of zoology. All were 

 unwounded as recently as December 4. Many 

 of the museum staff who are unable to go into 

 active service have been formed into a detach- 

 ment of the Eed Cross Society. 



Professor William M. Campbell, of the 

 department of physics of New York Univer- 

 sity, has resigned to take the position of presi- 

 dent of the American Savings Bank. 



E. D. Sanderson, dean of the college of 

 agriculture and director of the West Virginia 

 agricultural experiment station, of West Vir- 

 ginia University, has resigned, to take effect 

 on September 1. It is stated that he expects to 

 pursue graduate studies. 



Walter Harvey Weed, mining geologist, 

 has removed his offices and that of the Copper 

 Randboolc, of which he is editor and owner, 

 to 29 Broadway, New York City. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, of the University 

 of Michigan, president of the American Med- 

 ical Association, was the guest of the St. Louis 

 Medical Society at its meeting on December 

 12, and addressed the members on "Profes- 

 sional Ideals." Dr. Abraham Jacobi, of New 

 York, also delivered a short address. 



A DISCUSSION on preventive inoculation was 

 opened by Professor G. Sims Woodhead at 

 a meeting of the Royal Sanitary Institute at 

 90, Buckingham Palace Road, on December 15. 

 The chair was taken by Sir Shirley Murphy. 



Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock, general secretary 

 of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, at 

 the annual meeting held on December 14 ad- 

 vocated the use of the forest reserve lands of 

 this state as outing grounds for the training 

 of young men in physical endurance. 



Professor U. S. Grant, of Northwestern 

 University, Evanston, 111., lectured on Decem- 

 ber 10 before the State Microscopical Society 



of Illinois, in Chicago, upon " The prepara- 

 tion of rock and mineral sections and their 

 structure." 



Sir Frederic Eve, in his Bradshaw lecture 

 before the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng- 

 land on December 15, dealt with acute hemor- 

 rhagic pancreatitis and the etiology of chronic 

 pancreatitis. 



A MEETING of the John Morgan Memorial 

 Committee of the Philadelphia Alumni Soci- 

 ety, Medical Department, University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been held to consider plans 

 looking toward the erection of a suitable 

 memorial which shall do honor to the man 

 who is called the founder of medicine in the 

 United States. 



Samuel Benedict Christy, professor of 

 mining and metallurgy in the University of 

 California and dean of the college of mining, 

 died in Berkeley, California, on November 30, 

 1914, at the age of sixty-one years. A gradu- 

 ate of the University of California of 1874, 

 he had been continuously a member of its 

 faculty since that time. He was a pioneer in 

 the development of the cyanide process for the 

 treatment of refractory ores. The engineers 

 whom he has trained hold positions of great 

 importance all over the world. At one time 

 there were more of his graduates in important 

 positions in South Africa than from all the 

 other American universities put together. In 

 1902 he was given the degree of Sc.D. by 

 Columbia. The Hearst Memorial Mining 

 Building, built by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst 

 some years ago as a mining laboratory for 

 the university at a cost of $640,000, embodies 

 Professor Christy's ideas as to equipment for 

 mining and metallurgical instruction. 



The death is reported, in his sixty-second 

 year, of Dr. John Nisbet, forestry adviser to 

 the Scottish Board of Agriculture. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association the International Health 

 Commission of the Rockefeller Foundation has 

 established laboratory stations for the diag- 

 nosis and treatment of hookworm at Panama, 

 La Chorrera and Bocas del Toro. The vcork 



