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[N. S. Vol. XXXIX. No. 1010 



address on the " Etiology and Distribution of 

 Typhus Pever." 



Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, director of 

 the Museum of the California Academy of 

 Sciences, delivered the address at the annual 

 meeting of the Beta Kappa Alpha Society of 

 the University of California, at Berkeley, on 

 the evening of April 16. His subject was 

 " The Alaska Fur-seal Herd and its Proper 



The building of the College of the City of 

 New York, hitherto known as the Mechanic 

 Arts Building, will, by vote of the trustees, 

 hereafter be called " Compton Hall," after Pro- 

 fessor Alfred G. Compton, late head of the de- 

 partment, who died in the autumn of 1913. 



The municipality of Saint-Georges-sur- 

 Cher has decided to erect a monument to Bre- 

 tonneau, of Tours, one of the distinguished 

 names in the history of French medicine, who 

 was born there in 1774. 



Philippe Edouard Leon Van Tieghem, emi- 

 nent French botanist, died in Paris on April 

 28 at the age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. Karl Chun, professor of zoology at 

 Leipzig, distinguished for his oceanographic 

 studies, has died at the age of sisty-two years. 

 Dr. Paul Ehrenreich, the distinguished 

 ethnologist, docent in the University of Ber- 

 lin, has died at the age of fifty-eight years. 



Professor Adolf Fischer, director of the 

 Museum for Asiatic art, founded last October 

 at Cologne, has died at the age of fifty-eight 

 years. 



The medical college of Cornell University 

 and the General Memorial Hospital will es- 

 tablish a cancer hospital, towards which it is 

 said $1,000,000 have been subscribed, inclu- 

 ding $500,000 from Dr. James Douglas. 



The cornerstone has been laid for a build- 

 ing for a Servian Academy of Science in Bel- 

 grade, the cost of which is to be about a mil- 

 lion dollars. 



The Memorial Institute for Infectious Dis- 

 eases, of Chicago, has moved into its new build- 

 ing at 629 South Wood St., to which address 

 all communications should be sent. This is 



also the new address of The Journal of Infec- 

 tious Diseases. 



The late Mr. Henry Bloom Noble, of Doug- 

 las, Isle of Man, left practically all his estate 

 for educational and charitable purposes in the 

 island. The trustees of his will have decided 

 to devote £20,000 for the fostering of agricul- 

 ture. 



Through the generosity of Mr. George 

 Manierre, of Chicago, the mounted skeleton of 

 the American mammoth which has for many 

 years been exhibited in the museum of the Chi- 

 cago Academy of Sciences, has been trans- 

 ferred to the Field Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. This skeleton long remained the only 

 mounted skeleton of the mammoth in America 

 and it still forms one of the best representa- 

 tives of this animal known. 



The American Museum of Natural History 

 has acquired from the estate of the late Edwin 

 E. Howell, of Washing-ton, a well-known col- 

 lector and dealer, the entire collection of 

 meteorites which belonged to his establishment 

 at the time of his death. The collection con- 

 sists of representatives of fifty-four falls and 

 finds, aggregating about one hundred kilo- 

 meters in weight. It includes two which have 

 not been heretofore represented in the museum, 

 namely, the Ainsworth and Williamstown 

 irons. This acquisition was made possible 

 through the generosity of Mr. J. P. Morgan. 



After a conference with the trustees of the 

 University of Pennsylvania following the close 

 of the trial of Professor J. E. Sweet for cruelty 

 to animals and the disagreement of the jury. 

 Dean William Pepper, of the department of 

 medicine, announced that the continuation of 

 the experimental work in the medical school 

 was authorized. It was agreed by all that the 

 university owes it to humanity to continue the 

 work without interruption. 



Last spring the attention of the Maine 

 Agricultural Experiment Station was called 

 to maggots infesting blueberries towards the 

 end of the season. Accordingly larvas were 

 reared and the insect ascertained to be the 

 same species which infests the apple, Rhago- 

 letis pomonella. 



