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been granted leave of absence for next year, 

 but expects to remain at Columbus. Professor 

 Edwin F. Coddington, of the department of 

 mechanics, now secretary of the college, will 

 be acting dean next year. Professor Cbarles 

 C. Morris, of the department of mathematics, 

 wiU fill the new position of assistant to the 

 dean. 



De. Edmond W. Wilson has been promoted 

 to the position of assistant superintendent of 

 the Boston City Hospital, filling the vacancy 

 caused by the resignation of Dr. Frank H. 

 Holt, who has assumed his new duties as super- 

 tendent of the Michael Eeese Hospital, of 

 Chicago. 



De. Eot K. Flannagan, of Eichmond, has 

 been appointed assistant commissioner of 

 health of Virginia, succeeding Dr. Allen W. 

 Freeman, who resigned to accept the position 

 of epidemiologist in the United States Public 

 Health Service. 



De. Philip J. Castleman has been appointed 

 director of the bacteriological laboratory of 

 the Boston Board of Health to succeed Dr. 

 James J. Scanlon, who died a short time ago. 



De. Albion W. Hewlett, professor of medi- 

 cine at the University of Michigan, has been 

 appointed visiting lecturer on medicine at the 

 Harvard Medical School, and is to serve as 

 visiting physician at the Peter Bent Brigham 

 Hospital. 



Me. William Haepee Davis, of Philadel- 

 phia, at one time assistant in psychology at 

 Columbia and instructor and professor in 

 philosophy and psychology at Lehigh Univer- 

 sity, secretary of the American Psychological 

 Association, etc., who has latterly been en- 

 gaged in business, has accepted the position of 

 librarian to the Public Service Corporation of 

 New Jersey. His address after September 1 

 will be the company's office, Newark, N. J. 



SiE RuPEET Claeke, who in the simuner of 

 last year led an expedition up the Fly Eiver in 

 British New Guinea, has returned to London. 



De. David L. Edsall, professor of clinical 

 medicine at Harvard Medical School, delivered 

 the annual address of the Pathological Soci- 



ety of Philadelphia on April 22, his subject 

 being " Bearings of Industry upon Medicine." 



Slnce Easter, Professor George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy, of Yale University, has lectured on 

 " The Dawn of Art " for the Archeological 

 Institute of America at Eichmond, Va., Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and Eochester, Auburn, Syra- 

 cuse and New York, N. Y. 



Majoe Samuel Flood-Page, who was active 

 in development of electric lighting and wire- 

 less telegraphy, died on April 7, aged eighty- 

 one years. 



Peopessoe Kael Theodoe von Heigel, presi- 

 dent of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, has 

 died at the age of seventy-three years. 



Theee have been killed in the war Dr. Fr. 

 Ostendorf, professor of agriculture in the 

 Technical School at Karlsruhe; Dr. Hans 

 Hammerl, associate professor of hygiene at 

 Gratz, and Dr. August Wolkenhauer, docent 

 for geography at Gottingen. 



The Serbian typhus epidemic may be con- 

 trolled if the proper equipment is made avail- 

 able, according to a cablegram received on 

 April 29 from Dr. Eichard P. Strong, head of 

 an American commission recently sent to 

 Serbia by the American Eed Cross, assisted by 

 the Eockefeller Foundation and the Serbian 

 relief committee. Messages received at the 

 headquarters of the American Eed Cross an- 

 nounce that an international board of health 

 has been formed at Nish. The president of 

 the international board is Prince Alexander of 

 Serbia, the vice-president. Sir Ealph Paget of 

 England. Dr. Strong was made medical di- 

 rector of the board, and the members include 

 the heads of the French, Eussian and English 

 sanitary commissions. Dr. Strong, who is pro- 

 fessor of tropical diseases in Harvard Medical 

 School, appeals for more doctors and sanitary 

 and medical equipment and declares that if 

 Dr. William C. Gorgas, surgeon-general of the 

 United States Army, will accept a commission 

 in combating the typhus in Serbia, the inter- 

 national board just formed will make him 

 medical director and Dr. Strong will serve as 

 his assistant. The remainder of the American 

 commission, which numbered ten sanitarians 



