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pathology, and have made definite provision 

 for an endowment sufficient to yield this in- 

 come. The inunediat'e purpose of the position 

 is to be a continuance of investigations in 

 which much valuable work has already been 

 accomplished by Dr. Claypole, in collaboration 

 with Dr. F. P. Gay, professor of pathology in 

 the University of California, in regard to im- 

 proved methods for immunization against 

 typhoid and methods for the treatment of that 

 disease. 



The name of Curie, in honor of the discov- 

 erers of radium, has been given to a small park 

 formed by the tearing down of the old rue 

 Dauphine in Paris. 



At commencement at the University of 

 California, honorary degrees were conferred 

 on Chancellor David Starr Jordan and Presi- 

 dent John Caspar Branner, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, and on the Hon. Alfred Deakin, of 

 Melbourne, the first prime minister of the 

 commonwealth of Australia. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Physicians, held in Wash- 

 ington, Dr. Henry Sewall, Denver, Colo., was 

 elected president, and Dr. George Dock, St. 

 Louis, vice-president. 



Dr. Llewellys F. Barker, of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, was elected president 

 of the American Neurological Association at 

 the meeting held recently in New York City. 



There is exhibited at the Eoyal Academy 

 this year a portrait of Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 painted by Mr. E. G. Eves for presentation to 

 the Eoyal Society. 



The Pereira medal of the British Pharma- 

 ceutical Society has been awarded to Miss 

 Dora P. White, and its silver and bronze 

 medals to Mr. A. J. Somer and Mr. E. W. 

 Bowles, respectively. 



Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Philadelphia, whose 

 renomination as Pennsylvania state commis- 

 sioner of health was sent to the senate by the 

 governor, on May lY, was confirmed on May 18. 

 This is the third reappointment of Dr. Dixon 

 to this position which he has now held for 

 nearly ten years. 



Dr. Eoscoe W. Hall has succeeded Dr. 

 David K. Henderson as resident physician of 

 the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital. 

 Dr. Henderson has been appointed euperia- 

 tendent of the Eoyal Asylum of Scotland, 

 Glasgow. 



Mr. G. Masses has retired from his position 

 as head of the cryptogamic department in the 

 herbarium at the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



A DEPUTATION from the Eoyal Society and 

 the Chemical Society was received by the presi- 

 dents of the boards of trade and education on 

 May 6. The deputation was introduced by 

 Sir William Crookes, president of the Eoyal 

 Society, and Professor W. H. Perkins, Sir 

 WUliam Tilden, Professor P. Frankland, Pro- 

 fessor W. J. Pope and Dr. M. O. Porster spoke 

 in support of memorials from the two societies, 

 indicating the steps which might be taken to 

 improve the status and efficiency of the chem- 

 ical industries and those engaging in them in 

 the United Kingdom. 



The Irish Naturalist, as quoted in Nature, 

 states that the following naturalists in Ireland 

 are among those who have been given commis- 

 sions in the army: Professor Gregg Wilson, 

 professor of zoology, and Dr. A. E. Dwerry- 

 house, lecturer in geology. Queen's University, 

 BeKast; Professor H. A. Cummins, professor 

 of botany and agriculture. University College, 

 Cork; Mr. C. M. Selbie, of the National Mu- 

 seum, Dublin ; Mr. G. P. Farran and Mr. A. B. 

 HiUas, of the Fisheries Office; Mr. H. T. Ken- 

 nedy and Mr. E. L. Valentine, of the Geolog- 

 ical Survey. 



Mr. Charles H. Martin, of Abergavenny, 

 was killed in the war on May 3 at the age of 

 thirty-three years. He was known for his re- 

 searches on the protozoa. 



According to the Bevue Anihropologique, 

 two noted French pre-historians, Joseph 

 Dechelette and Captain M. Bourlon, have died 

 at the front. Dechelette will long be remem- 

 bered for his great work entitled " Manuel 

 d'archeologie prehistorique, celtique et gallo- 

 romaine," of which the first volume appeared 

 in 1908 and the third part of the second and 

 last volume in 1914, only a short while before 



