Decembee 11, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. Ewald Flugel, of the chair of Eng- 

 lish philology at Stanford University, died 

 at his home in Palo Alto on the evening of 

 November 14, in the fifty-first year of his age. 

 He had been connected with the university 

 from its beginning in 1892, coming from the 

 University of Leipzig. 



Dr. Giovan Battista Guccia, professor of 

 higher mathematics in the University of 

 Palermo, died in that city on October 29. 

 Professor Guccia vcas the founder in 1884 of 

 the Circolo Matematico di Palermo and editor 

 of its Bendiconti. 



Dr. Charles Barrett Lockwood, a distin- 

 guished English surgeon, well known as a 

 teacher and as a writer on surgery, has died 

 at the age of fifty-six years from septicemia 

 contracted in the course of an operation. 



Dr. Heinrich Burkhardt, professor of 

 mathematics in the Technical Institute of 

 Munich, has died at the age of fifty-three 

 years. 



Dr. Emil Alfred Weber, emeritus professor 

 of philosophy at Strassburg, has died at the 

 age of seventy-nine years. 



Lieut.-Colonel Sir Davis Prain, director 

 of the Kew Botanical Gardens, has lost his 

 only son, Lieut. T. Prain, who has been killed 

 in action. 



Dr. F. Felix Hahn, assistant curator in the 

 Konigliche Hof Museum, Stuttgart, and lieu- 

 tenant in the Bavarian artillery fell before 

 Nancy on September 8. On receiving his 

 doctorate from Munich in 1911, he came to 

 the paleontological department of Columbia 

 University as the first exchange assistant and 

 curator in paleontology. During his year in 

 this country he did some detailed work on the 

 grapholites leading to the publication of his 

 paper " On the Dictyonema Fauna of Navy 

 Island, New Brunswick." Another contribu- 

 tion was on " The Form of Salt Deposits." 

 Among his papers in German may be men- 

 tioned : " Ergebnisse neuer Spezialf orschungen 

 in den Alpen," " Die neuere regional geolog- 

 ische Spezialliteratur der bayerischen und 

 nordtiroler Alpen," " Ziir Geologic der Berge 



des oberen Saalachtales," " E. O. Ulrichs 

 'Revision der Palaeozoischen Systeme' — ein 

 Merkstein der Stratigraphie als Wissen- 

 schaf t ?," " Untermeerische Gleitungen bei 

 Trenton Falls (Nord Amerika), und ihr 

 Verhjiltniss zu Ahnlichen Storungsbildern." 

 This last paper is one of the most important 

 contributions to structural geology made in 

 this country in the last few years. 



The Carnegie Museum has secured, through 

 Professor C. H. Eigenmann, the pamphlet 

 library of the late Dr. Albert Giinther, long 

 headkeeper of the British Museum of Natural 

 History, justly regarded in his time as the 

 most eminent ichthyologist and herpetologist 

 of Great Britain. The collection comprises 

 almost all the literature relating to fishes and 

 reptiles printed in the periodicals and journals, 

 of learned societies during the eighteenth and; 

 nineteenth centuries. 



The Georgia State Sanitarium at Milledge- 

 ville has been selected by the United States 

 government as a station for experimental work 

 in pellagra cases. The patients will be segre- 

 gated and kept under special treatment and 

 diet, the work being done under the charge of 

 two experts of the United States Public Health 

 Service. 



A SERIES of addresses on subjects connected 

 with the European war is announced at the 

 University of Chicago. They include: "Ra- 

 cial Traits Underlying the War," William I. 

 Thomas, professor of sociology, December 3; 

 " The Balkan Question," Ferdinand Schevill, 

 professor of modern history, January 7; 

 "Russian and Asiatic Issues Involved," Sam- 

 uel N. Harper, assistant professor of Russian 

 language and institutions, January 14; "The 

 Effects of the War on Banlting and Credit," 

 Professor Andrew C. McLaughlin, February 

 4 ; " The Ethics of Nations," James Hayden 

 Tufts, head of the department of philosophy, 

 February 11; "The Rights and Duties of the 

 United States as a Neutral Nation," Charles 

 Cheney Hye, professor of law, Northwestern 

 University, February 18 ; " Geographical and 

 Economic Influences," J. Paul Goode, associ- 

 ate professor of geography, February 25; 



