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SCIENCE 



[N. S., Vol. XL., No. 1028 



Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



7:30 P.M. Trustees' Banquet. Liederkranz 

 Club. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The British government lias appointed a 

 committee to consider questions in relation to 

 the supply of drugs as affected by the war. 

 The members of the coramittee are : Dr. J. 

 Smith Whitaker, Sir Thomas Barlow, Sir 

 Lauder Brunton, Dr. A. Cox, Professor A. E. 

 Cushny, Dr. E. Eowland Fothergill, Dr. B. A. 

 Eichmond, Dr. F. J. Smith, Dr. W. Hale 

 White, with Dr. E. W. Adams as secretary. 



Dr. William H. Welch, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, president of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, is among the large 

 number of American men of science detained 

 on the continent by the war. 



Dr. Ewald Hering, professor of physiology 

 at Leipzig, celebrated on August fifth his 

 eightieth birthday. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 a prize of $600 to Dr. H. Vincent, for his 

 work on typhoid fever. 



Dr. Josef Melan, professor of bridge build- 

 ing at Prague, has been given an honorary 

 doctorate of engineering by the Technical 

 School at Brunn. 



Dr. Eranz Fischer has been appointed head 

 of the newly established institute for fuel in- 

 vestigation at Miilheim. 



Dr. S. W. Patterson has been engaged by 

 the government of Madras to undertake an in- 

 vestigation into the causation, prevention and 

 possible cure of diabetes. The sum of 50,000 

 rupees has been given by the Eaja of Pitha- 

 puram for the purpose. 



Dr. G. Angenheister has been appointed 

 director of the Geophysical Observatory at 

 Apia, Samoa. 



Dr. Virgil H. Moon, of the Memorial Insti- 

 tute for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, has been 

 appointed head of the pathological department. 



The convocation orator at the University of 

 Chicago on August 28 was Dr. Eoscoe Pound, 



professor of jurisprudence in Harvard Univer- 

 sity and formerly professor of law in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. The subject of his address 

 was " Legalism." Dr. Pound was for eleven 

 years director of the Botanical Survey of the 

 state of Nebraska. He is a fellow of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence and a member of the Botanical Society of 

 America. 



Lieutenant Sedopf, who two years ago 

 headed an Arctic expedition to Eranz Josef 

 Land, fell ill and died, it is said, in an effort to 

 reach the North Pole. Survivors of the expe- 

 dition have arrived at Archangel. 



Dr. Alfred Hegar, formerly professor of 

 medicine at Ereiberg, has died at the age of 

 eighty-five years. 



Sir Anthony Home, late surgeon-general in 

 the British army, died on August 9, aged 

 eighty-seven years. 



Plans have been made for the founding of 

 an Australian Institute of Engineers. 



Next year's conference of the British Phar- 

 maceutical Society is to be held at Scarbor- 

 ough under the presidency of Mr. Saville 

 Peck. 



The International Seismological Congress, 

 which was to have been held at St. Peters- 

 burg, has been postponed, as has also the 

 Meteorological Conference, which was to have 

 taken place in Edinburgh in September. 



Dr. Karl Bensinger, of Mannheim, has 

 given 30,000 marks to the University of Erei- 

 burg for the investigation of wireless teleg- 

 raphy. 



The Prussian Academy of Sciences has of- 

 fered a prize of 5,000 marks for the best study 

 of " Experience as a Factor in Perception." 

 The articles may be in German, Latin, French, 

 English or Italian and must reach the acad- 

 emy by December 31, 1916. 



A special despatch from Philadelphia fur- 

 nished by the American Osteopathic Associa- 

 tion, begins with the remarkable statement: 

 " Announcement was made here to-day at the 

 International Osteopathic convention that 



