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[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1032 



Professor R. H. Whitebeck, of the de- 

 partment of geology and geography of the 

 University of Wisconsin, has heen granted a 

 leave of absence for the present semester and 

 vein spend the time in research v?ork with the 

 Carnegie Institution at Washington. 



Dr. Lemuel Bolton Bangs, a prominent 

 surgeon of Hew Tork City, professor in the 

 University and Bellevue Hospital School, 

 died, on October 4, at the age of seventy-two 

 years. 



The death in announced at the age of 

 eighty-three years of Mr. Edward Eiley, who 

 was early associated with the production of 

 Bessemer steel. 



Sir Henry G. Howse, at one time senior 

 surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and president of 

 the Eoyal College of Surgeons, England, has 

 died at the age of seventy-three years. 



De. Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, professor 

 of economics in the University of Vienna, 

 member of the Austrian upper house and 

 formerly minister of finance, president of the 

 Vienna Academy of Sciences, died on Au- 

 gust 27, at the age of sixty-three years. 



Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, professor of 

 vulcanology in the University of Naples, was 

 killed in a motor accident last month. 



The British Medical Journal calls attention 

 to the fact that Louvain was in old times, as 

 it is still, chiefly celebrated as a school of 

 theology, but for anatomists it is associated 

 with the great name of Andreas Vesalius. 

 The reformer of anatomy was a student in the 

 pcedagogium castri and also in the Collegium 

 Buslidianum, where he gained that knowledge 

 of the ancient tongues which was to prove of 

 such service to him in the scientific contro- 

 versies of his later life. It was when he was 

 at Louvain that Vesalius secured a human 

 skeleton by climbing the gallows outside the 

 town. He had to convey the bones home se- 

 cretly, reentering the town by a different 

 gate from that by which he had gone out, and 

 articulating his stolen treasures in his rooms. 

 He was afterwards spared the work of " resur- 

 rection" by the liberality of the burgomaster. 



who placed abundance of material for dissec- 

 tion and demonstration at his disposal. In 

 1536 or 1537 he dissected and lectured pub- 

 licly. He seems, however, not to have been 

 altogether comfortable in the theological at- 

 mosphere at Louvain, and some remarks which 

 he made on the seat of the soul excited the 

 suspicions of the heresy hunters. 



In 1902 Dr. and Mrs. Christian A. Herter, 

 of New York, gave to the Johns Hopkins 

 University the sum of $25,000 "for the for- 

 mation of a memorial lectureship designed to 

 promote a more intimate knowledge of the 

 researches of foreign investigators in the realm 

 of medical science." According to the terms 

 of the gift, some eminent worker in physiol- 

 ogy or pathology is to be asked each year to 

 deliver lectures at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity upon a subject with which he has been 

 identified. The selection of the lecturer is to 

 be left to a committee representing the de- 

 partments of pathology, physiological chemis- 

 try and clinical medicine, and if " in the judg- 

 ment of the committee it should ultimately 

 appear desirable to open the proposed lecture- 

 ship to leaders in medical research in this 

 country there should be no bar to so doing." 

 The committee named for this purpose consists 

 of Drs. Welch, Abel and Barker. The eighth 

 course of lectures on the Herter foundation 

 will be given by Thomas Lewis, M.D., lec- 

 turer on diseases of the heart. University Col- 

 lege Hospital Medical School, London. The 

 lectures are being given in the auditorium of 

 the Physiological building, at 4:30 p.m., as 

 follows : 



I. Octoier 6. — "Observations Exemplifying Elec- 

 trocardiography. ' ' 



II. October 8. — ' ' The Eelation of Auricular Sys- 

 tole to Heart Sounds and Murmurs." 



III. Octoier 9. — "Observations upon Dyspnoea, 

 with Especial Reference to Acidosis. ' ' 



An examination for a food chemist at a 

 salary of $100 to $150 a month under the civil 

 service of the State of Illinois will be held on 

 November 7. Further information can be ob- 

 tained from the Illinois State Civil Service 

 Commission, Springfield, Illinois. 



