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of hookworm disease in Central and South 

 America. 



Mr. H. Glaueet, of Trinity College, and 

 Mr. H. Jeffreys, of St. John's College, have 

 been elected to Isaac Newton studentships in 

 the University of Cambridge. 



The Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship 

 has been awarded for the year 1914-15 to Miss 

 Ethel Nicholson Browne, Ph.D. (Columbia), 

 now instructor in biology at Dana Hall, Wel- 

 lesley, Mass. Miss Browne will spend the year 

 at the University of Wiirzburg and at the 

 Zoological Station at Naples, doing research 

 work in cytology. 



The Kansas City Section of the American 

 Chemical Society celebrated its one hundredth 

 meeting on March 21. This section was 

 chartered in 1900 and has been holding alter- 

 nate meetings in Lawrence, Kansas, and in 

 Kansas City, Missouri. At this meeting Dr. 

 Wm. McPherson, of the Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, was the guest of honor and delivered an 

 address illustrated with lantern slides upon 

 " European Laboratories and Chemists." 



From May 5 to June 23 a course of eight 

 lectures on the rate of the blood-flow in man 

 in health and disease will be given in the 

 physiological laboratory of London Univer- 

 sity, by Dr. 6. N. Stewart, professor of ex- 

 perimental medicine, Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity. 



It is stated in Nature that the Faraday So- 

 ciety arranged a general discussion on optical 

 rotatory power, to be held in the afternoon 

 and evening of Friday, March 27, in the rooms 

 of the Chemical Society, Burlington House, 

 Professor H. E. Armstrong and Professor 

 Percy F. Frankland, presiding. Papers on 

 various aspects of the subject were to be read 

 by Professor Hans Rupe (Basle), Professor 

 H. Grossmann (Berlin), Professor Leo Tschu- 

 gaeff (St. Petersburg), Dr. Darmois (Paris), 

 Dr. T. M. Lowry, Mr. T. W. Dickson, Mr. H. 

 H. Abram, Dr. R. H. Pickard, Mr. J. Kenyon 

 and Dr. T. S. Patterson. 



Dr. Harry Burrows, lecturer in chemistry 

 in the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Lon- 



don, died on March 15, at the age of forty-two 

 years. 



Professor Joaci-iimsthal, director of the 

 University Hospital at Berlin for the surgical 

 treatment of cripples, died on February 28, 

 aged fifty-two years. 



Dr. Adelbert von Waldenhofen, emeritus 

 professor of applied physics in the Vienna 

 Technological School, has died at the age of 

 eighty-six years. 



The House committee has favorably re- 

 ported the bill providing that the historic 

 botanic garden, located for many years at the 

 foot of Capitol Hill, be removed to Rock 

 Creek park, in the far northwest section of 

 the city. The bill also provides that the 

 garden is to pass from the direct control of 

 congress to that of the department of agricul- 

 ture. 



Mr. John Lambert Cadwalader left $195,- 

 000 to public institutions with which he was 

 associated, and gave valuable works of art to 

 the Metropolitan Museum, and books to the 

 New York Public Library. The public insti- 

 tutions which received legacies are the New 

 York Public Library, $100,000; the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art and Princeton Univer- 

 sity, $25,000 each; Harvard University Law 

 School and the New York Zoological Society, 

 $20,000 each, and the Alumni Association of 

 the Harvard Law School, $5,000. 



A Mathematics Club is in process of or- 

 ganization at the Ohio State University. Pro- 

 fessors and students will have an equal share 

 in discussing mathematical literature and 

 some of the newer developments in the science. 

 At the first meeting of the club, Professor R. 

 D. Bohannan, head of the department of 

 mathematics, will speak on the spirit of the 

 old mathematics as related to the new, show- 

 ing the quality of research, and of critical in- 

 vestigation which has taken the place of former 

 unthinking respect for authority. 



Through the generosity of M. Spendiaroff 

 of St. Petersburg, the International Geological 

 Congress presents at each session a prize 

 amounting to about 450 roubles for the best 



