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Professor Douglas W. Johnson, of Co- 

 lumbia University, delivered an illustrated lec- 

 ture on " Surface Features of Europe as a 

 Factor in tlie War," at Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity on April 8. On the preceding evening 

 he addressed the Harrisburg Natural History 

 Society on " The Origin of Scenery in the 

 Grand Canyon District." 



On April 16 Mr. E. J. Hammond, chemist of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Mines, lectured at the 

 University of Illinois on " The Eadium In- 

 dustry in America." 



Dr. a. J. Carlson, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, spoke before six hundred students in 

 physiology at the Ohio State University on 

 April 9. He chose as his topic " Some Recent 

 Contributions to the Physiology of the Stom- 

 ach." Dr. Carlson summarized his investiga- 

 tions, giving especial attention to the cause of 

 hunger pangs. This was the final lecture in 

 the annual series ofEeredi by the department 

 of physiology to its students. Professor Carl- 

 son will address a joint meeting of the Alpha 

 Omega Alpha Chapter, of the Western Re- 

 serve Medical School and the Section of 

 Experimental Medicine of the Cleveland Acad- 

 emy of Medicine on May 14 at the Medical 

 Library on " Some Recent Contributions to 

 the Physiology of the Stomach." 



A STATED meeting of the Geographic Society 

 of Chicago was held on April 9, when a lecture 

 was given by Mr. Charles W. Furlong, of Bos- 

 ton, Massachusetts, the title being " Chile and 

 the Fuegian Archipelago." 



Professor Arthur E. Haynes, who for 

 eighteen years held the chair of mathematics 

 at the University of Minnesota until his re- 

 tirement in 1911, died on March 12, at the age 

 of sixty-six years. 



Dr. Ernest P. Magruder, of Washington, 

 D. C, one of the physicians at the head of the 

 American Red Cross unit in Serbia, has fallen 

 a victim to typhus fever. For the last five 

 years before going to Serbia Dr. Magruder had 

 been professor of clinical surgery in George- 

 town University. 



The death is announced from Berlin of 

 Professor Friedrich Loeffler, the distinguished 



pathologist, who in 1884 discovered the diph- 

 theria bacillus. Dr. Loeffler was born on June 

 24, 1852. 



Dr. Arthur Sheriden Lea, formerly uni- 

 versity lecturer at Cambridge, known for his 

 researches in physiological chemistry, died on 

 March 23, at the age of sixty-one years. 



Professor Georg Jochmann, of Berlin, has 

 died from typhus fever, contracted in one of 

 the camps for Russian prisoners. 



Dr. August Volkenhauer, docent for geol- 

 ogy in Gottingen, has been killed in the war. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation records deaths among foreign stu- 

 dents of the medical sciences as follows: A. 

 Birnbacher, professor of ophthalmology at the 

 University of Graz, aged 66, an authority on 

 glaucoma in particular, but best known, per- 

 haps, by his operation for ptosis and for cata- 

 ract and his method of illumination of the 

 eye; J. D. Pinero, professor of anatomy at the 

 L^^niversity of Buenos Aires and chief of the 

 sanitary inspection service of the port and of 

 the vaccine service, member of the national 

 board of health and physician in chief at the 

 hospital for men; J. G. Rueda, president of 

 the board of health for the province of Cor- 

 doba, Argentina, governor, and member of the 

 national senate, aged 53; G. Resinelli, pro- 

 fessor of obstetrics at the University of Flor- 

 ence, aged 50; H. Apolant, a coworker with 

 Ehrlich at Frankfurt, aged 48 ; Ereisarzt Fil- 

 gentrager, of typhus contracted at the Lan- 

 gensalza camp of prisoners; Otto Markus, as- 

 sistant at the Wiirzburg medical clinic, killed 

 by a shell during the Argonne fighting. He 

 leaves unfinished an important work on the 

 histology of the ganglion cells of the nervous 

 system. 



The next annual meeting of the American 

 Psychological Association is set for December 

 28, 29, 30, at Chicago, El. 



Governor Whitman has signed the Walters 

 biU, which appropriates $50,000 for the eradi- 

 cation of the foot and mouth disease. 



Governor Fielder has signed the biU giv- 

 ing to the State Board of Health the power 

 to grant to regularly incorporated colleges. 



