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January he is arranging a trip to several mid- 

 dle western universities. 



Dr. Paul V. Neugebaueb has been ap- 

 pointed observer in the astronomical institute 

 of the University of Berlin in succession to 

 Professor P. Lehmann. 



The Harvard corporation has appointed 

 Arthur W. Carpenter, of Boston, to the Cen- 

 tral American fellowship in archeology, with 

 an income of $600 a year. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 socioition states that the salaries of Dr. Haven 

 Emerson, sanitary superintendent, and Dr. 

 William H. Park, general director of labora- 

 tories in the New York Health Department, 

 have been increased to $6,000 a year on the con- 

 dition that they give their full time to the 

 work, relinquishing private practise and their 

 work in Columbia University. 



Dr. Albert Calmette, the eminent pathol- 

 ogist, director of the Pasteur Institute at 

 Lille, who has been acting as one of the chiefs 

 of the medical service of the French army, 

 has been missing for some time. It is now re- 

 ported that he is a prisoner of war at Miinster. 

 Dr. Calmette is a brother of the late editor of 

 the Figaro, Gaston Calmette. 



Dr. F. F. Buckhemer, third incumbent of 

 the exchange curatorship in paleontology at 

 Columbia, is a prisoner of war in Brest, 

 France, and Dr. Hiilsenteck, fourth incum- 

 bent, is a prisoner of war in Gibraltar. 



The Iron Cross has been awarded to Dr. 

 Karl Thomas, of Professor Eubner's labora- 

 tory in Berlin, who was in charge of a field 

 hospital near Mons, for courageous action dur- 

 ing the retreat. 



Dr. Felix von Luschan, director of the 

 Berlin Museum of Ethnology and professor 

 in the university, lectured before the German- 

 istic Society in New York on December 2, on 

 " Peoples of West Asia," and at Columbia 

 University on December 9 on " Excavations 

 in Asia Minor." 



Dr. Henry S. Graves, chief forester of the 

 United States, lectured before the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences on December 3, on 



" The Place of Forestry in the Natural Sci- 

 ences." 



Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, of Yale 

 University, will give a course of lectures under 

 the Herter foundation, at the University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, on Decem- 

 ber 10, 11, 14 and 15. The subject of the lec- 

 tures, which will be given at four o'clock in 

 the afternoon, is " Aspects of the Physiology 

 and Pathology of Growth." 



Mr. p. Macleod Yearsley lectured upon the 

 " Classification of the Deaf Child for Educa- 

 tional Purposes " at a meeting of the Child 

 Study Society at the Royal Sanitary Insti- 

 tute, London, on November 5. 



We learn from the Cornell Alumni Weehly 

 of the death of Daniel Elmer Salmon, the first 

 chief of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 at Butte, Mont. He was born at Mount Olive, 

 Morris county, N. J., in 1850, and entered 

 Cornell University when it opened in 1868. 

 He became interested in the study of veteri- 

 nary medicine after becoming acquainted with 

 Dr. James Law, who had just come to Cornell 

 from Scotland. After practising for several 

 years, Dr. Salmon was from 1878 till 1884 

 connected with the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture as an investigator of animal diseases. 

 The Bureau of Animal Industry was estab- 

 lished in 1884, and Dr. Salmon was appointed 

 chief of that bureau, holding the office till 

 1906. 



Dr. George L. Manning, professor of phys- 

 ics at Eobert College in Constantinople, has 

 died in Florence, Italy, while on his way 

 home, after a recent illness. Dr. Manning 

 was 50 years old. He was graduated from 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 and had taught at Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology and at Cornell University. 



The Reverend Dr. Addison Ballard, at one 

 time professor of science and mathematics at 

 Marietta College and Ohio University, and 

 later professor of phili5sophy at Lafayette Col- 

 lege and at New York University, has died at 

 the age of ninety-two years. 



