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Professor A. Brill, of the University of 

 Tiibingen, and M. Planck, of the University 

 of Berlin, have been elected members of the 

 Aceademia dei Lincei of Eome. 



Dr. J. A. Murray has been appointed act- 

 ing director of the British Imperial Cancer 

 Research Fund. 



Dr. Theobald Smith went last week to Chi- 

 cago to investigate conditions among cattle 

 that are suffering from foot and mouth dis- 

 ease. Dr. Smith met members of the faculty 

 at the University of Illinois and made sug- 

 gestions as to the handling of the situation 

 by state authorities. 



Leave of absence has been given by Eoyal 

 College of Surgeons, London, to the conserva- 

 tor. Professor Arthur Keith, for six weeks, 

 for the purpose of going to America to de- 

 liver a course of five lectures on anthropology 

 at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 

 Ohio. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of McGill 

 University, has, on account of impaired 

 health, been granted leave of absence for 

 the remainder of the present session. His ad- 

 dress until September will be Carmel, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Professor John Dutton Wright, of the 

 Wright Oral School for the Deaf of New 

 York City, has been elected a director of The 

 American Association to Promote the Teach- 

 ing of Speech to the Deaf. 



Captain H. G. Lyons, F.R.S., has been 

 elected president of the Royal Meteorological 

 Society and Mr. F. Campbell Bayard and 

 Commander W. F. Cabome secretaries for the 

 ensuing year. The new members of the coun- 

 cil are Mr. J. S. Dines, Mr. A. P. Jenkin and 

 Sir J. W. Moore. 



The officers of the various sections of the 

 New York Academy of Medicine for the year 

 1915 are as follows : Dermatology and syphilis, 

 Dr. Charles M. Williams, chairman, Dr. 

 Walter J. Heimann, secretary; surgery. Dr. 

 Clarence A. McWilliams, chairman, Dr. John 

 Douglas, secretary; neurology and psychiatry. 

 Dr. Israel Strauss, chairman, Dr. Foster Ken- 



nedy, secretary; pediatrics, Dr. Walter L. 

 Carr, chairman. Dr. Royal S. Haynes, secre- 

 tary; otology, Dr. C. D. Van Wagenen, chair- 

 man, Dr. John A. Robinson, secretary; 

 ophthalmology, Dr. H. H. Tyson, chairman. 

 Dr. George H. Bell, secretary; medicine. Dr. 

 T. Stuart Hart, chairman. Dr. Nellis B. Fos- 

 ter, secretary; genito-urinary diseases. Dr. Leo 

 Buerger, chairman. Dr. A. R. Stevens, secre- 

 tary; orthopedic surgery. Dr. Arthur H. Cilley, 

 chairman, Dr. P. W. Roberts, secretary; ob- 

 stetrics and gynecology. Dr. LeRoy Broun, 

 chairman. Dr. George W. Kosmak, secretary; 

 laryngology and rhinology. Dr. Hubert Arrow- 

 smith, chairman. Dr. Francis W. White, sec- 

 retary. 



On the Richard B. Westbrook Free Lecture- 

 ship of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, 

 four lectures on Invisible Light, illustrated 

 with experiments and lantern slides, are being 

 given by Professor Robert Williams Wood, of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, on Tuesdays, 

 February 9, 16 and 23 and March 2. 



At the regular monthly meeting of the Cos- 

 mos Club, Washington, on February 8, Gen- 

 eral A. W. Greeley delivered an address on 

 " The Continent of Antarctica." 



Professor J. C. Bose, of Calcutta, India, 

 gave two lectures toward the end of January 

 at the University of Illinois, the first on 

 " Plant Autographs and their Revelations," 

 the second on " The Curve of Life and Death." 



The annual Samuel D. Gross lecture has 

 been delivered at the Jefferson Hospital, Phil- 

 adelphia, by J. Chalmers Da Costa, professor 

 of surgery at the Jefferson Medical College. 



The Galton dinner and lecture instituted 

 last year by the Eugenics Education Society 

 in honor of the memory of Sir Francis Gal- 

 ton, will be held this year, as before, on the 

 anniversary of his birth, Feibruary 16. Pro- 

 fessor J. A. Thomson will deliver a lecture 

 which will deal with eugenics and the war. 



We learn from Nature that Professor 

 George Forbes, who has been entrusted by 

 Lady Gill with the dtity of preparing a me- 

 moir of her late husband, would be glad to be 

 favored with any letters which have been pre- 



