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Eliot brought out particularly his great ac- 

 comiDlishments for Harvard University in the 

 development of teaching and research in the 

 medical school, and emphasized the remark- 

 able personal qualities that fitted him for this 

 work. 



There was printed in Science last week a 

 list of the fifteen candidates selected by the 

 council for election into the Eoyal Society. 

 The British Medical Journal gives informa- 

 tion in regard to their positions and work 

 which we reproduce. The men are : Dr. F. W. 

 Andrewes, professor of pathology in the Uni- 

 versity of London and pathologist to St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital; Dr. A. W. Conway, 

 professor of mathematical physics. University 

 College, Dublin; Mr. L. Doncaster, superin- 

 tendent of the University Museum of Zool- 

 ogy, Cambridge, well known for his researches 

 into the Mendelian hypothesis; Mr. J. Ever- 

 shed, director of the Solar Physics Observa- 

 tory, Kodaikanal, India; Dr. Walter Morley 

 Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Research 

 Committee established under the Insurance 

 Act; Mr. A. G. Green, professor of tinctorial 

 chemistry. University of Leeds; Mr. H. H. 

 Hayden, director of the Geological Survey of 

 India ; Dr. James Mackenzie, whose researches 

 into the action of the heart in health and dis- 

 ease have made his name well known to the 

 profession; Dr. J. C. McLennan, professor of 

 physics. University of Toronto; Dr. A. T. 

 Masterman, fisheries inspector ; Dr. G. T. Mor- 

 gan, professor of chemistry in the Royal Col- 

 lege of Science, Dublin; Dr. C. S. Myers, di- 

 rector of the laboratory of experimental psy- 

 chology, Cambridge; Mr. G. C. Simpson, im- 

 perial meteorologist, India; Mr. A. A. Camp- 

 bell Swinton, one of the early workers with 

 the X-rays and wireless telegraphy, and Mr. 

 A. G. Tansley, lecturer on botany. University 

 of Cambridge. 



The dedicatory exercises of the new build- 

 ings of the Washington University Medical 

 School will be held April 29 and 30. Accord- 

 ing to the Journal of the American Medical 

 Association the exercises include, in addition 

 to the various entertainments, addresses by 

 the dean of the medical school. Dr. Eugene 



Lindsay Opie; by Dr. William Henry Welch, 

 Baltimore, of Johns Hopkins University; 

 President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard 

 University; President Henry Smith Pritchett, 

 of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching; President George Edgar 

 Vincent, of the University of Minnesota; 

 Drs. William Townsend Porter, Robert James 

 Perry, Fred Towsley Murphy and George 

 Dock, of Washington University, Abraham 

 Flexner, assistant secretary of the general edu- 

 cation board, and Major-General William 

 Crawford Gorgas, surgeon-general U. S. Army. 

 On April 28, exercises in commemoration of 

 Dr. William Beaumont will be held, including 

 the presentation of the manuscripts and letters 

 of William Beaumont to Washington Univer- 

 sity Medical School, the acceptance of the gift 

 by the chancellor of the university, and ad- 

 dresses on "William Beaumont as a Practi- 

 tioner," by Dr. Frank J. Lutz, and " William 

 Beaumont as an Investigator," by Dr. Joseph 

 Erlanger. 



According to Nature the Imperial Society 

 of Naturalists of Moscow has removed the 

 names of Professor Haeckel and Professor 

 Ostwald from the list of members on account 

 of their having signed the address, " To Civ- 

 ilized Nations." 



Professor Victor Hensen, the well-known 

 physiologist of Kiel, has celebrated his eight- 

 ieth birthday. 



Dr. John R. Murlin has been granted leave 

 of absence from Cornell University Medical 

 College, New York City, to accept a tempo- 

 rary appointment as biochemist at the Pel- 

 lagra Hospital of the Public Health Service 

 at Spartanburg, S. C. 



Professor Benj. L. Miller, head of the de- 

 partment of geology of Lehigh University, 

 has left for an extended trip through South 

 and Central America in company with Dr. 

 Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., associate in eco- 

 nomic geology in Johns Hopkins University. 

 Most of their time will be spent in the vari- 

 ous mining districts of the countries visited, 

 but they will make some other geologic in- 

 vestigations, especially in the Andes, where 



