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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1043 



Philadelphia; Treasurer, Frederick B. Pratt, 

 secretary, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Dr. George W. Crile, of the Medical 

 School of Western Eeserve University, will 

 leave Cleveland on December 30 for the Amer- 

 ican Ambulance Hospital, near Paris, to assist 

 in its work. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Eockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research, is making a 

 study of the French military medical estab- 

 lishments at the front under the auspices of 

 the government. 



Dr. Elie Metchnikoff, the eminent Rus- 

 sian pathologist, who for the last twenty-six 

 years has been engaged in research at the 

 Pasteur Institute in Paris, will be seventy 

 years old next year, and a Festschrift for him 

 has been in preparation at Paris for this anni- 

 versary. The Journal of the American Med- 

 ical Association states that Dr. Emil von 

 Behring, of Marburg, had intended to con- 

 tribute an article to it, but the breaking out 

 of the war prevented his article reaching the 

 publishers on time, that is before September 

 1. He now publicly announces (November 

 12) that he hopes " before the anniversary in 

 question, next May, to manifest in some other 

 way my respect and unwavering friendly 

 sentiments for Metchnikoff on the occasion 

 of his seventieth birthday. 



On December 7, Professor C. J. Keyser, who 

 was a guest of the faculty of Washington Uni- 

 versity at a smoker held at the Faculty Club 

 of that institution, spoke on the demand for 

 advanced avocational instruction and the ob- 

 ligation of universities to provide it. On the 

 following evening he delivered an address on 

 " Science and Religion " under the auspices 

 of the Washington University Association. 



Dr. a. G. Worthing, of the Nela Re- 

 search Laboratory, Cleveland, addressed a 

 meeting of the physics colloquium of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois on December 9, on " Optical 

 Pyrometry and some of Its Applications." 



Dr. E. Rdggles Gates, of the University of 

 London, lectured before the Washington Uni- 

 versity Association, St. Louis, in November, 



on " The Modern Study of Heredity " and 

 " The Present Status of Evolution." 



The death is announced of Colonel Edward 

 Daniel Meier, past president of the American 

 Society of Mechanical Engineers. 



Fayette Clay Ewing, Jr., associate pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering in the University 

 of the South, died suddenly of heart failure 

 at Sewanee, Tenn,, on November 28. Mr. 

 Ewing, who was in the twenty-eighth year of 

 his age, was a young engineer and teacher of 

 marked promise. He graduated at the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia in 1910 with the degree of 

 C.E., and, before going to Sewanee last May, 

 had been connected with railway practise. 



Archibald Ross Colquhoun, the British 

 traveler and explorer, died on December 18, at 

 the age of sixty-six years. 



Dr. Charles Perier, president of the French 

 Academy of Medicine, one of the most dis- 

 tinguished surgeons in France, died on De- 

 cember 13, aged seventy-eight years. 



Among those killed in the war are: Dr. Al- 

 fred Grund, professor of geography in the 

 German University of Prague; Dr. Franz 

 Waterstradt, professor of agriculture in the 

 Agricultural School at Hohenheim; Dr. Fritz 

 Ludwig Kohlrauseh, professor for work in 

 radium in the mining school at Freiburg, and 

 Dr. Fricke, professor of forestry in the Forest 

 Academy at Miinden. 



Large bequests for public purposes are made 

 by the vtIU of Mrs. Mary Anna Palmer 

 Draper, to whom in her lifetime science was 

 greatly indebted for intelligent and generous 

 support. Mrs. Draper bequeaths $150,000 to 

 the Harvard College Observatory for the 

 Draper memorial, established in memory of 

 Dr. Henry Draper, her husband, whose photo- 

 graphic plates and apparatus are also be- 

 queathed to the observatory. The sum of 

 $450,000 is given to the New York Public 

 Library, $200,000 for a memorial to Dr. John 

 S. Billings, and $200,000 as a memorial to her 

 father, Courtland Palmer. The income of 

 these funds is to be used for the purchase of 

 books, and an additional trust fund of $50,- 



