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would have any opportunity for making hos- 

 tile use of his knowledge. While in London 

 Professor Penck has been given all facility 

 for his studies in the government museums 

 and libraries, and in the rooms of the Geo- 

 logical Society of London. 



According to Das TJmschau, Dr. Oskar Iden- 

 zeller and his wife, sent last year by the Ham- 

 burg Museum of Ethnology to make explora- 

 tions in northern Siberia, have been impris- 

 oned. The St. Petersburg Academy of Sci- 

 ences has sent a protest to the Russian min- 

 ister of the interior. 



The Cutter Lectures in Preventive Medi- 

 cine for the year 1915 will be given at the 

 Harvard Medical School by Dr. Victor C. 

 Vaughan, professor of hygiene and physiolog- 

 ical cheniistry and dean of the school of medi- 

 cine and surgery of the University of Michi- 

 gan, and Dr. Joseph Goldberger, surgeon. 

 United States Public Health Service, Wash- 

 ington, D. 0. Dr. Vaughan will lecture on 

 " The Phenomena of Infection " on April 14, 

 15 and 16. Dr. Goldberger's subject will be 

 " Diet and Pellagra " and will be given in one 

 lecture on April 2. These lectures are given 

 annually under the terms of a bequest from 

 John Clarence Cutter, whose will provided 

 that the lectures so given should be styled the 

 Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine, and 

 that they should be delivered in Boston, and be 

 free to the medical profession and the press. 

 Others interested are cordially invited. 



Dr. Clinton Wagner, formerly a well- 

 known physician of New York, and first pro- 

 fessor of laryngology and rhinology in the 

 New York Post Graduate Medical School, has 

 died in Switzerland at the age of seventy- ' 

 four years. 



Sir Egbert Simon, professor of therapeutics 

 in the University of Birmingham, has died at 

 the age of sixty-four year^. 



Dr. Karl Schnabel, formerly professor in 

 the Prussian mining school at Clausthal, has 

 died at the age of seventy-two years. 



Professor Otto Sackur has been killed by 

 an explosion in the laboratory of the Kaiser. 

 Wilhelm Institute at Dahlem, where experi- 



ments in high explosives were being con- 

 ducted. 



Dr. Herbert Stance, decent for chemistry 

 at Giessen, and Dr. F. W. Hinrichsen, decent 

 for chemistry at the Berlin Technical School, 

 have been killed while serving as lieutenants 

 in the German army. 



Dr. M. Heyde, decent for surgery at Mar- 

 burg, and Dr. Karl Miiller, assistant in the 

 Institute of Oceanography at Kiel, have died 

 from typhoid fever contracted while serving 

 as physicians with the German army. 



The Civil Service Commission of Cook 

 County, HI., will hold an examination during 

 the latter part of January, 1915, for the posi- 

 tion of director of the Psychopathic Institute 

 of the Juvenile Court. The director is re- 

 quired to make a thorough physical and mental 

 examination,' including laboratory and psy- 

 chological tests, of the delinquent and depend- 

 ent children referred to the institute by the 

 court, and must interpret the tests and make re- 

 ports of the examinations for the guidance of 

 the judge in deciding the cases. The position 

 pays $5,000 per year, and any citizen of the 

 United States may apply for entrance to the 

 examination, but the applicants should have 

 a medical degree or at least an experience in 

 nervous and mental diseases, in practical psy- 

 chology, or in psychopathic work among 

 juveniles or adults, either in connection with 

 courts or clinics. Persons interested in the 

 examination may secure applications by ad- 

 dressing Cook County Civil Service Commis- 

 sion, Chicago, niinois. 



The report of the proceedings of the general 

 committee for promoting the establishment of 

 an Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture 'is 

 referred to in the Pioneer Mail ai December 4 

 and quoted in Nature. It is stated that Mr. 

 E. N. Lyne, director of agriculture, Ceylon, 

 says he thinks that the West Indies will now 

 support Ceylon's claims to be the home of the 

 college. The committee resolved to take steps 

 to raise £40,000 for building and endowing the 

 college, of which £20,000 should be asked from 

 the governments concerned, including India, 

 and the remainder be raised by public suh- 



