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Institute in Paris a supply of anti-meningitis 

 serum which was successfully used in com- 

 bating that epidemic. 



Surgeon-General William C. Gorgas, U. S. 

 Army, has been awarded the Dr. Louis Living- 

 ston Seaman medal by the American Museum 

 of Safety as a recognition of his work in 

 making the Panama Canal Zone habitable and 

 sanitary. 



Dr. Josiah Eoyce, since 1885 professor of 

 the history of philosophy at Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has been transferred to the Alford pro- 

 fessorship of natural religion, moral philos- 

 ophy and civil polity, vacant by the retirement 

 of Professor Palmer. 



Dr. Julius von Hann, professor of cosmieal 

 physics at Vienna, has celebrated his seventy- 

 fifth birthday. 



Professor C. S. Sherrington, Waynflete 

 professor of physiology in the University of 

 Oxford, has been elected a member of the 

 Eoyal Danish Academy of Sciences. 



Zurich University has conferred the honor- 

 ary degree of doctor of natural sciences upon 

 Professor Alfred Werner, of Ziirich, winner of 

 the last Nobel Prize for chemistry. 



Dr. Lawrence Martin, associate professor 

 of physiography and geography at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the Kaiserlieh-konigliche 

 Geognaphische Gesellschaft in Vienna. 



Secretary Lane, of the Department of the 

 Interior, has appointed Professor R. H. Fer- 

 nald, of the University of Pennsylvania, as 

 consulting engineer to the Bureau of Mines. 

 He will be sent to England, France, Belgium, 

 Germany and Austria to investigate improve- 

 ments with gas producers in the development 

 of metallurgical and power operations. 



Dr. Hans Mdrschhauser, of the Akadem- 

 ische Kinder-Klinik in Diisseldorf, has been 

 appointed research associate of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, attached to the 

 nutrition laboratory at Boston. 



Dr. Frederick M. Meader has resigned as 

 city bacteriologist of Syracuse, and has been 

 succeeded by Dr. Oliver W. H. Mitchell, assist- 



ant professor of bacteriology and preventive 

 medicine in the University of Missouri. Dr. 

 Mitchell also succeeds Dr. Leverett D. Bristol 

 as assistant professor of bacteriology in Syra- 

 cuse University. 



Mr. Alfred E. Cameron, board of agricul- 

 ture scholar in entomology, Manchester, 

 England, is spending the summer at the 

 entomological department of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J. 

 He has recently arrived from England. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of McGill 

 University, will spend the period from May 1 

 to September 15, at the coastal laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. 



Mr. Stewart Culust, curator of the depart- 

 ment of ethnology of the Brooklyn Museum, 

 is at present in the far east in order to collect 

 ethnological material. His itinerary has taken 

 him to Japan, China, Korea, India and Ceylon. 



The Congo expedition of the American 

 Museum of Natural History under Messrs. 

 Herbert Lang and James Chapin, which in 

 cooperation with the Belgian government has 

 been carrying on active field work in central 

 Africa for the past four years, will return to 

 New York early in the summer. 



Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, pathologist to 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden, delivered a 

 series of five lectures before the members of 

 the department of forestry of the University 

 of Toronto, in March, on " Diseases of Trees 

 and Structural Timbers." 



Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin gave, on 

 April 20, 21 and 22, three lectures at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago as follows : " The Bridge 

 between the New Logic and the Old," " The 

 Indispensable Requirements of a Color Hy- 

 pothesis," " Graphic Representation of Color 

 Relations and Recent Views on Color." 



The second open meeting of the Society for 

 Biological Research of the University of Pitts- 

 burgh for the year 1913-14 was held on April 16, 

 at which time Dr. John F. Anderson, director 

 of the hygienic laboratory of the U. S. Marine 

 Hospital and Public Health Service, gave an 



