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dentist. The ceremony was presided over by 

 M. Dastre, who delivered an address on be- 

 half of the Academy of Medicine. 



Professor Kobert Parr Whitfield, curator 

 in the American Museum of Natural History 

 since 187Y, the author of important contribu- 

 tions to paleontology and geology, died on 

 April 6, at the age of eighty-two years. 



Dr. Borden Parker Bowse, professor of 

 philosophy and dean of the Graduate School 

 of Arts and Sciences of Boston University, 

 well known for his works on philosophy and 

 theology, died on April 1, at the age of sixty- 

 three years. 



Dr. Harry Walker Jayne, of Philadelphia, 

 an authority on coal-tar products, died on 

 March 7, at the age of fifty-three years. 



Dr. Eichard Abegg, professor of chemistry 

 at the University of Breslau, was killed, on 

 April 4, in landing after a balloon ascension. 



The surgeon-general of the army announces 

 that preliminary examination of applicants 

 for appointment as first lieutenants in the 

 army medical corps, will be held on July 18, 

 1910, at various army posts throughout the 

 country. Full information concerning the ex- 

 amination can be procured upon application 

 to the " Surgeon-General, U. S. Army, Wash- 

 ington, D. C." The essential requirements to 

 securing an invitation are that the applicant 

 shall be a citizen of the United States, shall 

 be between 22 and 30 years of age, a graduate 

 of a medical school legally authorized to con- 

 fer the degree of doctor of medicine, shall be 

 of good moral character and habits, and shall 

 have had at least one year's hospital training 

 or its equivalent in practise. The examina- 

 tion will be held concurrently throughout the 

 country at points where boards can be con- 

 vened. Due consideration will be given to 

 localities from which applications are re- 

 ceived, in order to lessen the traveling ex- 

 penses as much as possible. The examination 

 in subjects of general education (mathemat- 

 ics, geography, history, general literature and 

 Latin) may be omitted in the case of appli- 

 cants holding diplomas from reputable liter- 

 ary or scientific colleges, normal schools or 



high schools, or graduates of medical schools 

 which require an entrance examination satis- 

 factory to the faculty of the Army Medical 

 School. Applications must be in possession of 

 the adjutant general on or before June 27. 

 There are at present 123 vacancies in the med- 

 ical corps of the army. 



The Oeeanographical Museum at Monaco, 

 established by the Prince of Monaco, was 

 opened on March 29. The different European 

 governments and the principal scientific so- 

 cieties were represented at the ceremony. 



The University of Michigan Museum has 

 received from an alumnus, C. A. Hughes, of 

 Chicago, a collection of natural history speci- 

 mens from British East Africa and an assort- 

 ment of anthropological specimens from Brit- 

 ish East Africa, Uganda, Zanzibar, Zululand 

 and other countries on the east coast of 

 Africa. The mainmals include: eland, topi, 

 Jackson's hartebeest, wildebeest, bushbuck, 

 waterbuck, wart hog, Coke's hartebeest, im- 

 pala. Grant's gazelle, oribi, oryx, Petersi, 

 steiubuck and Thompson's gazelle. Mr. 

 Hughes was a member of the W. D. Boyce 

 African Expedition, which invaded the inter- 

 ior of Africa with balloons and box kites for 

 the purpose of making aerial pictures of game 

 in the wild state, getting a photographic 

 record of the topography of the country and 

 pictures of the natives in their homes, and 

 at work, hunting, play, etc. Besides Mr. 

 Boyce, who personally led the expedition, and 

 Mr. Hughes, there was a large staff of pho- 

 tographers. The expedition was entirely suc- 

 cessful. 



Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, an- 

 nounces the establishment of a second fellow- 

 ship in pathology which will be known as the 

 Eugene Meyer, Jr., fellowship. The income 

 of the new fellowship, like that of the George 

 Blumenthal, Jr., fellowship, established in 

 1908, is $500 per annum. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The new general engineering building of 

 Union College will be formally opened on 

 April 28. 



