October 6, 1905.] 



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Professor Podwyssotzki, dean of the med- 

 ical faculty of Odessa, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Institute for Experimental Medi- 

 cine at St. Petersburg. 



Dr. Herman S. Davis, after six years' in- 

 vestigation of the variations of latitude for 

 Columbia University, New York, and five 

 years' for the International Geodetic Associa- 

 tion, retires from this line of research on 

 November 1, on which date his resignation as 

 director of the observatory at Gaithersburg, 

 Maryland, takes effect. 



The following members of the advisory 

 board of Panama Canal engineers have sailed 

 for the Isthmus on the steamship Colon: Gen. 

 George W. Davis ; William Barclay Parsons ; 

 Professor W. IT. Burr, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity; Gen. Henry H. Abbott; Eugene Tin- 

 cauzer, German delegate; Edouard M. Quel- 

 lenac, of the Suez Canal staff; Isham 

 Randolph; F. P. Stearns; Joseph Ripley; W. 

 H. Hunter, of the Manchester Canal; Adolph 

 Guerard, Trench delegate; J. W. Welcker, 

 Dutch delegate, and Capt. John C. Cakes, 

 secretary. 



A CABLEGRAM from London states that Will- 

 iam P. Byrne, principal clerk of the home 

 office; Dr. Horatio B. Donkin, a commissioner 

 of prisons and consiilting physician to West- 

 minister Hospital; Dr. William H. Dickinson, 

 consulting physician to St. George's Hospital 

 and former president of the Eoyal Medical 

 and Chirurgical Society; J. C. Dunlop and 

 Mrs. Pinsent, composing the sub-committee 

 of the Royal Commission on the care and con- 

 trol of the insane, sailed from Liverpool for 

 New York, on September 30, on the Cunard 

 Line steamer Etruria, to investigate American 

 methods of treating the insane. 



Dr. H. p. Bowditch, professor of physiol- 

 ogy at the Harvard Medical School, has been 

 granted leave of absence for the coming year. 



The Herter Lectures, established by Dr. C. 

 A. Herter at the New York University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, will be 

 given this year by Professor Carl von Noor- 

 den, chief of the City Hospital, of Frankfort, 

 Germany. His subject will be ' Diabetes.' 

 The lectures, six in number, will be given in 



English in the large auditorium of the Car- 

 negie Laboratory, 338 East 26th Street, Oc- 

 tober 9 to 14, inclusive, at 4 o'clock in the 

 afternoon. Visitors are welcome to these 

 lectures. Reserved seats are to be had on 

 application to the college. 



At the first fall meeting of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, Professor Robert W. 

 Hill will lecture on ' The Republic of Mexico, 

 its Physical and Economic Aspects.' The lec- 

 ture will be given in the large lecture hall of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 and all interested are invited to attend. 



The Harben Lectures of the Royal Institute 

 of Public Health will be delivered in the lec- 

 ture room of the institute, on October 10, 12 

 and 17, by Professor Thomas Oliver, physi- 

 cian to the Royal Infirmary, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne. The subject of the lectures will be, 

 ' Some of the Maladies caused by the Air 

 we Breathe in the Home, Factory and the 

 Mine, including a Description of Caisson Dis- 

 ease or Compressed Air Illness.' 



Professor William Osler, regius professor 

 of medicine at Oxford University, has ac- 

 cepted the post of Thomas Young lecturer on 

 medicine at St. George's Hospital, and will 

 give a series of lectures and demonstrations 

 at the hospital next spring on the diagnosis 

 of abdominal tumors. 



Dr. a. M. Fairbairn, principal of Mansfield 

 College, Oxford, England, who has accepted 

 an appointment as Deems lecturer at New 

 York University, will deliver his course of lec- 

 tures in January. 



Professor Charles Schuchert, of Yale 

 University, has returned from a geological 

 trip extending over the ancient formations of 

 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and eastern 

 Quebec. 



A CABLEGRAM to the daily papers states that 

 Mylius Ericksen is preparing a Danish ship 

 and a sledge party for an expedition to the 

 hitherto unexplored regions of the northeast- 

 ern coast of Greenland. The plans have been 

 in course of elaboration since Ericksen's re- 

 turn from his last , expedition, and have been 

 approved by many societies, including the 

 American Geographical Society and the Royal 



