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the committee, Professor Dr. E. x. Tschermak, 

 chairman of the international committee and 

 Dr. Hugo ntis, secretary of the international 

 and local committees. An invitation to the 

 dedication is extended by the international 

 committee to all Americans who contributed 

 to the fund raised for this monument as well 

 as to others interested. The president of the 

 international committee wishes to express to 

 those Americans who contributed his thanks 

 for their participation. The contribution 

 from America was the greatest contributed 

 by men of science in any country, amounting 

 to 4,500 Kronen ($900). The total amount 

 collected was 50,000 Kronen. 



The coimcil of the American Association 

 of Pathologists and Bacteriologists has passed 

 the following resolution : 



The council of the American Association of 

 Pathologists and Bacteriologists record with great 

 regret the death of Dr. Eugene Hodenpyl of New 

 York which occurred on ilay 2, 1910. 



Dr. Hodenpyl was one of the founders of the 

 association, an active and consistent supporter of 

 its interests, a member of the council from 1900 

 to 1904, and president in 1904. 



He brought to the association the results of his 

 own Taluable studies, the critical judgment of a 

 pathologist of wide experience, and the pleasant 

 personality of a genial friend. 



The council, therefore, express their deep sense 

 of loss by his death, and they order that this 

 resolution be placed on the minutes of the asso- 

 ciation, and that a copy of it be sent to his 

 family. 



Assistant Professor Edward A. Bessey, of 

 the department of electrical engineering of the 

 Colorado Agricultural College at Fort Collins, 

 died suddenly of a severe pulmonary hemor- 

 rhage on July 12. After nearly ten years of 

 practical experience as an electrical expert 

 with the General Electric Company at Pitts- 

 field, Mass., he was elected instructor in elec- 

 trical engineering in the Colorado Agricul- 

 tural College in 1909, and after a year of 

 teaching was promoted to the assistant pro- 

 fessorship a few days before his death, by the 

 trustees of the college. He was a member of 

 Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi honor societies 



and of the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers. 



It is announced that Herr Erick, who has 

 been engaged in anthropological exploration in 

 South America, has been murdered by Indians 

 in southern Bolivia. 



Professor T. H. Core, formerly professor of 

 physics at Owens College, Manchester, died on 

 July 9, at the age of seventy-four years. 



Mr. Harry W. Cos, an English maker of 

 scientiiic instruments, died on July 9, as the 

 result of dermatitis contracted several years 

 ago while carrying on experiments to improve 

 the application of X-rays to medical diagnosis. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 T. Zona, director of the observatory at Pal- 

 ermo; of Professor A. P. Sokoloff, until re- 

 cently vice-director of the Pulkova Observa- 

 tory, and of Dr. Wilhelm Winkler, the Ger- 

 man astronomer. 



The arrangements for the Sheffield meet- 

 ing of the British Association which opens on 

 August 31 includes, according to the London 

 Times, numerous garden parties and recep- 

 tions. Lord Eitzwilliam is giving a large 

 garden party at Wentworth-Woodhouse, and 

 the Duke of Norfolk is entertaining about 

 4,000 guests at the Sheffield University on the 

 night before the meeting closes. The Duke of 

 Devonshire is entertaining members of the 

 association at Chatsworth, the Duke of Eut- 

 land at Haddon Hall, the Duke of Portland at 

 Welbeck, and the Duke of iSTewcastle at Clum- 

 ber. !N"\imerous excursions have been ar- 

 ranged as weU as visits to the most important 

 works in Sheffield. 



The thirty-ninth meeting of the French 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 will be held at Toulouse from August 1 to 7 

 under the presidency of Professor Gariel. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that by the sale of the estate 

 of the late George Crocker, the fund which 

 he bequeathed to Columbia University for the 

 study and prevention of cancer will amount 

 to $1,500,000. 



Ij«dia2<a University owns an experimental 



