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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1040 



During the week ending November 14, Pro- 

 fessor George Grant MacGurdy lectured twice 

 for the Pittsburgh Academy of Science and 

 Art, once at Swarthmore College, and once for 

 the Hartford (Conn.) branch of the Areheo- 

 logical Institute of America. 



A PORTRAIT of the late Director E. A. Puertes 

 which was presented to the university by the 

 alumni of the College of Civil Engineering of 

 Cornell University was accepted by the trustees 

 on November 7. It was resolved that, in ac- 

 cordance with the suggestion of the donors, the 

 portrait hang in the oiSce of the college in 

 Lincoln Hall. 



A BUST of the late Professor Leuckart, the 

 well-known zoologist, has been presented by 

 his widow to the University of Leipzig. 



Dr. Theodor Lipps, professor of psychology 

 and philosophy at the University of Munich, 

 ias died at the age of sixty-three years. 



Dr. Euddlp Emmerich, professor of hy- 

 giene and bacteriology in the University of 

 Munich, has died at the age of sixty-two 

 years. 



Mr. Douglas S. Martest, at one time on the 

 editorial staff of The Electrical World, who 

 left New York in August to enroll in the 

 mounted forces of Great Britain, has died in 

 the Bolougne Hospital from shrapnel wounds 

 received at the battle of Messines, on the Bel- 

 gian border. 



We learn that Dr. Hermann Strebel, widely 

 known on account of his researches in anthro- 

 pology and malacology, especially of Mexico, 

 where he was long a resident, died at Ham- 

 burg, Germany, on November 6, in his 

 eighty-first year. His scientific activities 

 continued almost to the time of his death. 



The death is also announced of Dr. J. 

 Borgmann, professor of physics in the Uni- 

 versity of Petrograd, and author of works on 

 electricity and magnetism. 



Dr. Emile Eeymond, the distinguished 

 French surgeon and senator of the Depart- 

 ment of the Loire, has been killed while re- 

 •connoitering in an aeroplane above the Ger- 



man lines. Dr. Eeymond was born in 1865, 

 the son of the eminent engineer, Francis Eey- 

 mond. 



The deaths of scientific men who had been 

 with the German army at the front are an- 

 nounced as follows: Dr. E. Stumpf, decent 

 and first assistant in the Pathological Insti- 

 tute of the University of Breslau; Dr. Franz 

 Velisek, professor of mathematics in the 

 Technical Institute at Prague; Dr. G. Paur, 

 decent for statistics in the Eoyal Academy at 

 Posen; Dr. Franz Marshall, director of the 

 experimental laboratory of the Agricultural 

 Institute of the University of Halle; Dr. Con- 

 stantin Guillemaup, decent in geology in the 

 Technical School at Aix, and Dr. Oswald 

 Loeb, decent for pharmacology in the Uni- 

 versity of Gottingen. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 the German medical staff has already suffered 

 very severely in the present war. Up to the 

 middle of October 135 medical officers were 

 reported killed, wounded or missing, 74 of 

 these having been killed. Among them is 

 Friedrich Konig, professor of surgery in the 

 University of Marburg, and son of the late 

 Professor Franz Konig, of Berlin; he was 

 killed in action at the eastern seat of war. 

 In the entire Franco-German war of 1870-71 

 only 11 German surgeons died on the battle- 

 field or from wounds there received. Accord- 

 ing to the Berliner med. Wochenschrift of 

 October 19, the decoration of the iron cross 

 had then been bestowed on 120 medical officers. 



The anniversary dinner of the Eoyal So- 

 ciety, usually held on St. Andrew's Day, will 

 not take place this year. The council of the 

 Physical Society of London has also decided 

 not to hold its annual exhibition of physical 

 apparatus. 



The Western American Phytopathological 

 Society will hold a meeting at Oorvallis, Ore- 

 gon, on December 28, 29 and 30. This society 

 was organized at the State Fruit Growers' 

 Convention at Davis, California, last spring, 

 and, while its principal aim is to discuss mat- 

 ters of technical plant pathology, practical 



