NOVEMBEE 1, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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As oil portrait of Dr. John Guiteras has 

 been hung in the position of honor in the 

 eastern amphitheater of the medical labora- 

 tories of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 ■where he was professor of pathology until his 

 return to Havana in 1900. The painting is 

 by Armando Menocal, of Havana. 



Dr. Albert E. Leach, formerly of the 

 Massachusetts Board of Health, has accepted 

 the position of chief of the new United States 

 Food Inspection Laboratory to be established 

 at Denver. 



The following appointments have been 

 made to the staff of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research: Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, 

 promoted to associate in pathology; Dr. G. W. 

 Heimrod, assistant in biological chemistry; 

 Dr. W. A. Jacobs, fellow in biological chem- 

 istry; Mr. P. A. Kober, scholar in biological 

 chemistry; Dr. R. V. Lamar, scholar in 

 pathology. 



Professor R. M. Wenley, of the University 

 of Michigan, has been appointed to the Bald- 

 win lectureship for the year 1908-9. 



Dr. Mazyck p. Ravenel, who had just re- 

 turned to Philadelphia from Berlin, where he 

 took part in the Fourteenth International 

 Congress of Hygiene and who has now left 

 for Madison, to take the chair of bacteriology 

 at the University of Wisconsin, was given a 

 farewell dinner at the University Club on 

 October 17. 



Dr. Robert Koch has returned from his 

 work at Uganda on the sleeping sickness, and 

 was expected to arrive in Berlin about No- 

 vember 1. 



Professor William Bateson is about to re- 

 turn to Cambridge after giving a number of 

 lectures in this country. On November 2 he 

 will lecture at Harvard University on " He- 

 redity, as illustrated by Mendel's Law"; on 

 October 30 he lectured before the New York 

 Academy of Sciences on " The Inheritance 

 of Color in Animals and Plants." 



At the request of the government of Mauri- 

 tius, the colonial oiSce has arranged with 

 Major Ronald Ross, professor of tropical 

 medicine in the University of Liverpool, to 



proceed to Mauritius in order to advise the 

 government of that colony as to the best 

 methods of dealing with malaria. 



Professor Charles Schuchert, the curator 

 of the geological department of Peabody Mu- 

 seum, Tale University, spent the greater part 

 of the summer collecting fossils and studying 

 the geology of New Jersey, Maryland, Vir- 

 ginia and western Tennessee. 



Dr. George B. Gordon has reached Seattle, 

 after spending the summer in archeological 

 explorations in Alaska for the archeological 

 department of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 He cabled from Nome that he had been adrift 

 in Behring Sea for twenty days. 



Dr. Charles Peabody, of the anthropolog- 

 ical department of Harvard University, has 

 returned from a four-months' archeological 

 tour abroad. He officially represented the 

 Peabody Museum and the Division of Anthro- 

 pology at the Prehistoric Congress of France 

 held at Autun, and at the International Re- 

 union of Anthropologists held at Cologne. 



Professor W. B. Cannon, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, addressed the Academy of 

 Medicine, Cleveland, O., October 11, on 

 " Some Physiological Processes in the Region 

 of the Pylorus." 



Dr. Hector Mackenzie opened a discussion 

 on the complications and sequelse of pneu- 

 monia and the possibilities of treatment by 

 serum or vaccine at the first meeting of the 

 medical section of the newly-established Royal 

 Society of Medicine, which met on October 

 22, at 5 :30 p.m. 



Mr. a. Henry, reader in forestry at Cam- 

 bridge University, gave his inaugural lecture 

 on October 15, the vice-chancellor presiding. 

 Mr. Henry dwelt upon the causes which had 

 retarded the scientific development of forestry 

 in Great Britain, pointed out the necessity of 

 reafforesting the waste lands and described the 

 course he purposed to pursue in developing 

 the teaching of and research in forestry in 

 the university. 



Friends of the late Walter Frank Raphael 

 Weldon, M.A., D.Sc, formerly Linacre pro- 

 fessor of comparative anatomy at Oxford and 



