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University of California, was elected president 

 and Dr. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner 

 of Education, and President Harry B. Hut- 

 chins, of the University of Michigan, vice- 

 presidents. 



On the evening of October 19 a testimonial 

 dinner vras tendered to Dr. McCormick by the 

 faculty and trustees of the University of Pitts- 

 burgh, on the completion of his tenth year as 

 chancellor of that institution. 



At a largely attended dinner at the Sherman 

 Hotel, Chicago, on November 9, the Chicago 

 Pathological Society presented Dr. George 

 Howitt Weaver with an appropriate testi- 

 monial of its appreciation of his efficient 

 services as secretary of the society for twenty 

 consecutive years. Short addresses were made 

 by Dr. J. B. Herrick, Dr. Wm. E. Quine, and 

 Dr. L. Hektoen; Dr. Weaver responded. 



De. Simon Flexner has been in Chicago to 

 study the hoof and mouth disease and will 

 continue the investigation by cultures in the 

 Eockefeller Institute for Medical Eeseareh. 



Dr. Allen J. McLaughlin, formerly of the 

 Public Health Service, assumed the duties of 

 his office as health commissioner of Massachu- 

 setts, at the beginning of November. 



Dr. Henry P. Walcott has been reappointed 

 chairman of the Metropolitan Water and 

 Sewerage Board of Boston. 



Dr. Arthur Harmount Graves has resigned 

 his position as assistant professor of botany in 

 the Sheffield Scientific School of Tale Uni- 

 versity, and is at present engaged in research 

 at the laboratory of Professor V. H. Black- 

 man, professor of plant physiology and pathol- 

 ogy, Eoyal College of Science, South Kensing- 

 ton, London. 



Mr. p. B. Sherwood, B.S. (1912, North 

 Carolina A. and M. College), has been ap- 

 pointed assistant chemist to the North Caro- 

 lina Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Dr. Jacob Eriksson has resigned the posi- 

 tion of chief of the phytopathological experi- 

 ment station at Stockholm, Sweden. 



On account of the war it has been agreed by 

 the University of Chicago and the ministry of 



public instruction in Paris to postpone the 

 lectures arranged to be given at the Sorbonne 

 by Professor James Eowland Angell, head of 

 the department of psychology and dean of the 

 faculties of arts, literature and science. 



Professor William E. Lingelbach delivered 

 his inaugural address as president of the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Philadelphia on Novem- 

 ber 4. His topic was " Geography in Eussian 

 History." He was presented to the society by 

 Mr. Henry G. Bryant, whom he succeeds as 

 president. 



On October 19, Dr. C. E. Ferree, of Bryn 

 Mawr College, lectured before the Section of 

 Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences on the effi- 

 ciency of the eye under different systems of 

 lighting. 



The Syracuse Chapter of the Sigma Xi has 

 held two meetings this autumn. On October 2 

 Professor E. D. Eoe reported on the meetings 

 of the American Mathematical Society at 

 Brown University and the American Astro- 

 nomical Society at Chicago, while Professor 

 E. A. Harvey reported on Professor Euther-" 

 ford's Washington lectures. On November 6 

 an address was given by Dr. E. C. Day on 

 " Electric Currents Generated in the Eye by 

 Light " and another by Professor L. H. Pen- 

 nington on " Studies in Forest Fungi." 



At the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, tablets set in the 

 walls of the hospital were dedicated to the 

 honored dead. The Journal of the American 

 Medical Association states that one of these 

 tablets is in memory of Dr. John Hewetson 

 who was assistant resident physician at the 

 hospital from 1890 to 1894. Another in the 

 lobby of the main hospital building is in- 

 scribed with the name of the late Dr. D. C. 

 Gilman, first president of the university, one 

 with that of Dr. James W. Lazear, who gave 

 his life to study yellow fever and one with 

 that of Dr. Eupert Norton who died a short 

 time ago while assistant superintendent of 

 the institution. 



The German newspapers print obituary 

 notices of four university professors killed La 



