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tunnels or building foundations. Professor 

 Berkey has constructed a map of the city 

 on whieh will be plotted the findings of such 

 borings to be used for future reference. In 

 this way the substrata of the entire city will 

 in time be plotted on the map and engineers 

 working on any project will be spared the 

 trouble and expense of new determinations. 



Before the Geographical Society of Chicago 

 on January 14 there was an illustrated lecture 

 by Mr. Anthony Fiala entitled " Through the 

 Brazilian Jungles with Colonel Eoosevelt " ; 

 on January 28, Professor "William I. Thomas, 

 of the University of Chicago, will lecture on 

 " The Comparative Mental and Moral Worth 

 of Eaces." 



Dr. Prank G. Speck, assistant professor of 

 anthropology in the IJniversity of Pennsyl- 

 vania, lectured before the Geographical Soci- 

 ety of Philadelphia on January 14 on " Hunt- 

 ing Territories and Game Eights of the Tribes 

 of the Lower St. Lawrence." 



At the 221st meeting of the Elisha Mitchell 

 Scientific Society, held in the Chemistry Hall 

 of the University of North Carolina on Decem- 

 ber 14, the program consisted of an address on 

 " Some Phenomena of Fluid Motion and the 

 Curved Flight of a BasebaU," by Dr. W. S. 

 Franklin, formerly professor of physics, 

 Lehigh University. On December 20 Professor 

 Franldin delivered a lecture at the laboratory 

 of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 

 at Washington, entitled, " On the Limitations 

 of One-to-one Correspondences in Physics." 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave an illustrated address 

 at the Carnegie Institution of Washington on 

 December 9 on " Our Earth a Great Magnet." 



Dr. J. J. Tauberhaus, associate plant pa- 

 thologist of the Delaware Experiment Station, 

 will deliver the John Lewis Eussell lecture be- 

 fore the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 on March 27, on " Diseases of Sweet Peas." 



At the annual meeting of the trustees of 

 the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium, Decem- 

 ber 21, Dr. Walter B. James, New York City, 

 was elected president; Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, 

 Saranac Lake, vice-president; Mr. George S. 

 Brewster, secretary-treasurer, and Dr. Fred- 



erick H. C. Heise, Trudeau, resident physician. 

 The trustees adopted a resolution paying trib- 

 ute to the memory of Dr. Edward L. Trudeau 

 and directing that this tribute be spread on 

 the records of the^meeting. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the Presse Medicale gives 

 an illustration of the large tablet to be erected 

 under the arcade of the great staircase of the 

 medical department of the University of Paris. 

 In October the design, already in place, con- 

 tained the names of sis members of the 

 faculty, victims of the war (Galland, Legrand, 

 Moog, Pelissier, Schrameck and Reymond— 

 the latter the aviator). There are also in- 

 scribed the names of forty-seven students, and 

 of twenty-six former graduates of the institu- 

 tion. Landouzy comments on this total of 

 seventy-nine medical victims that the new 

 methods of warfare have incredibly increased 

 the dangers and privations of the medical men 

 with the army. They keep right with the 

 men in the trenches and toil on while others 

 sleep. 



Francis Marion Webster, of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, died on January 3 in Colum- 

 bus, O., at the age of sixty-six years. 



Dr. James Clarke White, adjunct professor 

 of chemistry in the Harvard Medical School 

 from 1866 to 1871, and professor of dermatol- 

 ogy from 1871 until his retirement as pro- 

 fessor emeritus in 1903, died on January 6, in 

 his eighty-third year. 



Professor Egbert James Davidson, since 

 1891 professor of chemistry at the Virginia 

 Polytechnic Institute and dean of the scien- 

 tific department, died suddenly on December 

 19, in his fifty-third year. 



Dr. Walter L. Capshaw, for seven years 

 professor of anatomy at the University of 

 Oklahoma, died suddenly of pneumonia at his 

 home in Norman on Christmas morning. He 

 was a graduate of St. Louis University and 

 intended studying in one of the eastern schools 

 while on sabbatic leave this year, but was pre- 

 vented on account of ill health. 



Dr. Charles Clifford Barrows, professor 

 of gynecology at the Cornell University Med- 



