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[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1097 



Dr. Frank Angell, professor of psychology 

 in Stanford University, has sailed for England 

 to take part in Belgian relief work. 



Professor Joseph M. Flint, of the Yale 

 Medical School, has returned to IsTew Haven 

 after five months of work among wounded 

 soldiers in the hospital at Chateau de Passy 

 in France. 



Dr. John F. Aitderson, formerly director of 

 the Hygienic Laboratory, United States Public 

 Health Service, and now director of the re- 

 search and biological laboratories of E. R. 

 Squibb & Sons, New Brunswick, N"ew Jersey, 

 has sailed for England and France to study the 

 methods in use in the armies of those countries 

 for the prevention and treatment of wound 

 infections. 



Professor Jacques Loeb, of the Eockefeller 

 Institution for Medical Eesearch, delivered an 

 address on "Adaptation" at the meeting of 

 the Philadelphia County Medical Society on 

 December 8, which was followed by a reception 

 and supper. The meeting was arranged by the 

 committee of the medical society on coopera- 

 tion among allied agencies and institutions. 



Dr. Alexander C. Abbott, professor of hy- 

 giene and bacteriology, the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, delivered an illustrated lecture on 

 " The Transmissibility of Diseases and the 

 Public Health" at Franklin Institute on the 

 evening of December 15. 



Dr. Henry E. Crampton, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity and the American Museum, delivered 

 the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Asso- 

 ciation of the University of Pennsylvania on 

 December 4. Dr. Crampton took for his sub- 

 ject " Science, Culture and Human Duty." 



Professor Edward ELisnee, of Columbia 

 University, spoke on " Some Unsolved Mathe- 

 matical Problems " at the College of the City 

 of New York on December 16. 



The Herbert Spencer Lecture at Oxford 

 University for 1916 wiU be delivered by Pro- 

 fessor J. Mark Baldwin. The subject of the 

 lecttu-e is not yet announced. 



The Croonian Lecture of the Royal Society 

 was delivered on December 9, by Dr. W. M. 



Fletcher and Professor F. G. Hopkins, on 

 " The Respiratory Process in Muscle, and the 

 Nature of Muscular Motion." 



A BRONZE portrait plaque has been placed in 

 the Evans Dental Institute, to the memory of 

 W. D. Miller, a graduate of the Dental School 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, class of 

 1879. The plaque is the gift of the Interna- 

 tional Dental Federation. At the annual con- 

 vention held in Berlin in 1909, a resolution 

 was passed to present a bronze memorial 

 plaque to the Dental School of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, dedicated to one of its most 

 distinguished graduates, W. D. Miller, who was 

 a distinguished scientific man and one of the 

 most eminent men in his profession. 



Daniel Giraed Elliot, distinguished for 

 his contributions to mammalogy and ornithol- 

 ogy, died at his home in New York City, on 

 December 24, aged eighty-one years. 



David Williams Cheever, emeritus professor 

 of surgery in the Harvard Medical School, died 

 at his home in Boston, on December 27, in the 

 eighty-fifth year of his age. 



Dr. James Holms Pollok, for many years 

 on the staff of the Royal College of Science 

 for Ireland, in the chemical department of 

 which he was lecturer on physical and metal- 

 lurgical chemistry, died on November 26. 



Mr. C. J. Wollaston, known for his pioneer 

 work in submarine telegraphy, has died at 

 ninety-five years of age. 



The death is announced of Charles Rene 

 Zeiller, a member of the French Institute, chief 

 engineer of mines and professor of paleobotany 

 in the Paris School of Mines. 



Adolphe Greiner, director-general of the 

 foremost steelworks in Belgimn, this year 

 president of the Iron and Steel Institute, died 

 at his residence near Liege on November 20, 

 aged seventy-three years. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an open competitive examina- 

 tion for fish pathologist in the Bureau of 

 Fisheries on January 19, 1916. The duties 

 of the fish pathologist are primarily to investi- 

 gate the causes, the nature and the effects of 



