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of illustrated lectures on " Botanical Rambles 

 in the West," the subject of this lecture being 

 " Our Southwestern Desert." 



Dr. Thomas H. Glenn, formerly in charge 

 of the pathologic and bacteriologic labora- 

 tories of the Northwestern University, Chi- 

 cago, has been placed in charge of the clinical 

 and Eontgen-ray laboratories now being in- 

 stalled at Fort Dodge. 



Peopessor EJ{. BiEKELAND returned to Chris- 

 tiania in July after a sojourn of seven months 

 in Africa, where he continued his researches 

 on the zodiacal light. He will return in Oc- 

 tober and continue the observations for three 

 years. 



A COURSE of twelve lectures on the theory 

 and practise of radio-telegraphy will be de- 

 livered by Professor J. A. Fleming at Uni- 

 versity College, London, on Wednesdays at 

 5 P.M., beginning on October 28. 



Dr. James Ellis Gow, professor of botany 

 in Coe College, the author of contributions on 

 the embryology and morphology of plants, has 

 died at the age of thirty-seven years. 



We have to record somewhat late the death 

 of Overton Westiield Price, at one time asso- 

 ciate forester of the U. S. Forest Service, for 

 the internal administration of which he was 

 largely responsible during the term of office 

 of Mr. Pinchot. 



Sir John Benjamin Stone, for many years 

 a member of the British parliament, knovsra 

 to scientific men for his photographs of scien- 

 tific places, objects and men, has died at the 

 age of seventy-six years. 



VNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Medical School of Western Eeserve 

 University receives by the will of Liberty E. 

 Holden a bequest said to be nearly one million 

 dollars. The fund is to be known as the 

 Albert Fairchild Holden Foundation, in mem- 

 ory of Mr. Holden's son. 



Dr. Hermon Carey Bumpus, business man- 

 ager of the University of Wisconsin, formerly 

 director of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has been elected president of Tufts 

 College. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Dr. Daniel A. K. Steele has 

 been appointed senior dean and head of the 

 department of surgery in the college of medi- 

 cine of the University of Illionois ; Dr. Charles 

 Spencer Williamson, professor of medicine 

 and head of the department; Dr. Charles 

 Summer Bacon, professor of obstetrics and 

 head of the department of obstetrics and 

 gynecology; Dr. Julius Hays Hess, associate 

 professor of pediatrics and head of the division 

 of pediatrics; Dr. Norval Pierce, professor of 

 otology; Dr. Joseph C. Beck, associate pro- 

 fessor of laryngology and rhinology and head 

 of the division; Dr. Oscar Eugene Nadeau, 

 instructor in surgical pathology; Dr. A. O. 

 Shoklee, associate professor of pharmacology; 

 Dr. Roy L. Moodie, instructor in anatomy, and 

 Dr. C. S. Smith, instructor in physiological 

 chemistry. 



Professor H. H. Lane, head of the depart- 

 ment of zoology at the University of Okla- 

 homa, has been granted a sabbatical leave of 

 absence on half salary, to carry on research 

 work at Princeton University. Dr. W. C. 

 AUee, formerly instructor in zoology in 

 Williams College, will be acting head of the 

 department, to which he will be permanently 

 attached as assistant professor. 



Edward J. Kunze, of the Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, has been appointed professor 

 of mechanical engineering in charge of the 

 department of mechanical engineering at the 

 Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege. 



Dr. Ernest Sachs, associate in surgery at 

 Washington University Medical School, St. 

 Louis, Mo., has been appointed associate pro- 

 fesor of surgery at the same institution. 



F. L. Pickett, sometime instructor in 

 botany at Indiana University, and for the past 

 year research fellow at the same institution, 

 has been appointed associate professor of plant 

 physiology at Washington State Agricultural 

 College. 



Jajies Clarence De Voss, M.A. (Colorado, 

 '12), has been appointed professor of psychol- 

 ogy and education in the Kansas State Normal 

 School at Emporia. 



