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November 10 on "Hunger and Allied Pbe- 

 nomena " and Professor Henry A. Peck, of 

 the Liberal Arts College, whose subject on 

 November 17 was " Some Recent Aspects of 

 the Nature and Extent of the Siderial Uni- 

 verse." 



Me. Charles Hallock, the veteran author 

 and naturalist, founder of Forest and Stream 

 and the International Association for the 

 Protection of Game, is now living at the John 

 Dickson Home in Washington. He is full of 

 interesting reminiscences. He tells the story 

 that he first met the late Dr. Elliott Ooues at 

 the Smithsonian Institution when Ooues was 

 seventeen years old and took him with him on 

 an expedition to Labrador in 1860. They 

 made large collections and placed 164 skins in 

 the late E. D. Cope's museum at Philadelphia. 

 Mr. Hallock would be glad to hear from any 

 of his old friends. 



At the annual meeting of the Mathematical 

 Association, January 9, the president, Sir 

 George Greenhill, gave an address on mathe- 

 matics in artillery science. 



Mr. Hilaire Belloc gave the presidential ad- 

 dress at the annual meeting of the Geograph- 

 ical Association, held on January 7, at the 

 University of London. 



A MEETING in commemoration of the four 

 hundredth birthday anniversary of Vesalius 

 was held at the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine, January 7, at which Dr. William H. 

 Welch, of the Johns Hopkins University, de- 

 livered an address on " Vesalius and the Spirit 

 of the Time " ; Dr. Fielding H. Garrison, 

 editor of the Index Medicus, spoke on " Ana- 

 tomical Illustration Before and After Vesa- 

 lius," and Dr. Harvey Gushing, of the Har- 

 vard Medical School, delivered a lecture on 

 " The Portraits of Vesalius," illustrated by 

 lantern slides. 



PRorESSOR N. C. DuNER, the distinguished 

 Swedish astronomer, secretary of the Swedish 

 Eoyal Society of Science, died on November 

 10, at the age of seventy-five years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on February 2, for 

 engineer of mine-safety investigations in the 



Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, 

 at New York, N. Y., at a salary ranging 

 from $3,000 to $3,600 a year. It also an- 

 nounces an examination for specialist in cot- 

 ton testing in the Office of Markets and Rural 

 Organization, Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, at salaries ranging from 

 $1,800 to $3,000 a year. 



The EoekefeUer Institute for Medical Re- 

 search will receive $200,000 under the will of 

 Henry Rutherford, for cancer research work. 

 This bequest was threatened by a contest of 

 the will filed by a cousin of the testator, but 

 the contest was dismissed and the will ad- 

 mitted to probate. 



A Vienna medical journal, as quoted in the 

 Journal of the American Medical Association, 

 reports 844 eases of cholera with 331 deaths in 

 Austria during the week ended November 7, 

 including 90 cases in Vienna with 10 deaths. 

 During the following week there were 78 cases 

 in Vienna with 19 deaths. 



The international service of astronomical 

 telegrams from Kiel having been interrupted 

 by the war, the management of the "Zentral- 

 stelle " has been passed over to Professor Elis 

 Stromgren, Copenhagen Observatory. 



The Entomological Society of France has 

 resumed the publication of its Bulletin. No. 

 15 of 1914 has just reached this country. At 

 the meeting of October 14, the president, M. 

 AUuaud, in addressing the society stated that 

 in the absence of both of the secretaries at 

 the front the publication of Nos. 13 and 14 had 

 been delayed. He urged members still remain- 

 ing in Paris not to interrupt the regular 

 meetings under any pretext and to attend 

 regularly. He quoted the speech made by 

 Doctor Laboulbene at the meeting of January 

 11, 1871, during the siege of Paris, in which 

 the same course was urged. He further stated 

 that a bomb had been dropped by an aeroplane 

 very near the Museum of Natural History the 

 day before the meeting. He stated that MM. 

 Reymond Morgon and Andre Vuillet had 

 fallen in battle. Vuillet was well known in 

 this country on account of his publications 

 relating to the gipsy moth and its parasites. 



