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Mareli 5 — ' ' The Trophies of the Fossil Hunter, ' ' 

 by A. E. Crook, Ph.D., curator Illinois State Mu. 

 seum, Springfield. 



March 12 — "Alaska Salmon," by H. B. Ward, 

 Ph.D., professor of zoology. University of Illinois, 

 Urbana. 



The University of Oxford has received 

 $2,200, as -we learn from Nature, from friends 

 of the late Professor Gotch, with the view of 

 perpetuating the memory of the late Wayn- 

 flete professor, and of encouraging the study 

 of physiology within the university. The in- 

 come of the fund will be applied, first, to the 

 estaiblishment of a Gotch memorial prize to be 

 awarded annually, after examination, to a 

 student in the physiological laboratory; and, 

 secondly, to the creation and maintenance of 

 a Gotch memorial library in the same labora- 

 tory. A portrait of Professor Gotch has been 

 hung on the walls of the department. 



Samuel Walker Shattuck, for forty-four 

 years professor and comptroller of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, died at his home in Cham- 

 paign on February 13. Professor Shattuck 

 was born in 1841, at Groton, Mass. Since 

 1868 he has served the University of Illinois. 

 For thirty-seven years he was head of the de- 

 partment of mathematics and from 1873 to 

 1912 he looked after the business affairs of the 

 university. In 1912 Professor Shattuck was 

 retired on the Carnegie Foundation. 



Me. F. W. Eddlee, curator of the Museum 

 of Practical Geology, London, died on Jan- 

 uary 23. 



De. Karl Ludwiq Moll, formerly professor 

 of mechanical engineering in the Eiga School 

 of Technology, has died at the age of eighty- 

 three yeaTS. 



De. Nicolas Oumopf, professor of physics 

 at Moscow, has died at the age of sixty-eight 

 years. 



There have been killed in the war, M. Eob- 

 ert Douville, paleontologist in the Paris 

 School of Mines; Dr. Anton Lackner, decent 

 for geometry in the Vienna Technological In- 

 stitute; Dr. Eudolf Eau, formerly professor 

 of physics at Jena, and Dr. Felix Hahn, geol- 

 ogist of the University of Munich. 



The Berlin correspondent of the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association writes that 

 according to the latest official list, 132 medical 

 men have so far been killed in the war, 22 

 wounded, 45 have died and 166 are missing or 

 prisoners. Among the medical victims of the 

 war are three distinguished scientific men, 

 Professor Jochmann, the medical head of the 

 infectious department of the municipal Eu- 

 dolph Virchow Hospital, succumbed to typhus 

 fever which he acquired in the examination 

 and treatment of Eussian prisoners of whom 

 800 are ill with typhus. Professor Sprengel, 

 the superintendent of the surgical department 

 of the Ducal Hospital in Brunswick, died from 

 sepsis at the age of sixty-two, having infected 

 himself at an operation on a wounded soldier. 

 The Freiburg dermatologist. Professor Jakobi, 

 died in the field as a result of disease. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for assistant in agTi- 

 cultural geography, for men only, to fill a va- 

 cancy in this position in the Office of Farm 

 Management, Bureau of Plant Industry, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 at a salary ranging from $1,800 to $2,000 a 

 year. The duties of tliis position will be to as- 

 sist in investigations being carried on in the 

 above office concerning the development of 

 agricultural enterprises under the influence 

 of geographic conditions, such as topography, 

 climate, soU, location, etc. 



The Eobert D. Brigham Hospital for In- 

 curables benefits to the extent of $50,000 by 

 the will of Mrs. Ellen A. E. Goldthwait, of 

 Boston. This sum is to constitute a fund to 

 be known as the Joel and Ellen Goldthwait 

 Eesearch Fund, and the income is to be used 

 for work to increase the knowledge of chronic 

 diseases. 



It is stated in Nature that a meeting of the 

 General Organizing Committee for the Inter- 

 national Botanical Congress, which has been 

 arranged to be held in London next May, took 

 place at the Linnean Society's rooms on Jan- 

 uary 21. A report was given of the work of 

 preparation which had already been carried 

 out by the executive conmiittee, and the mem- 



