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made arrangements with Professor E. F. 

 Miller, head of the department of mechanical 

 engineering, for the testing of materials to be 

 used in construction. 



Dr. Lysander P. Holmes, of the health de- 

 partment of ISTew York City, has been ap- 

 pinted third assistant superintendent in the 

 John Hopkins Hospital. 



Dr. Gaius E. Harmon, instructor in hygiene 

 and preventive medicine in the medical school 

 of Western Reserve University, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant registrar of the Bureau of 

 Yital Statistics to the Cleveland City Divi- 

 sion of Health. 



On December 15, 1915, Dr. C. Stuart Gager 

 addressed the Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety, at Providence, on the effects of electri- 

 city and radium-rays on the growth of plants. 



The Royal Institution, following an ex- 

 ample set by many theaters in London, has ar- 

 ranged that for the present the discourses 

 usually given on Friday evening shall be de- 

 livered at 5.30 P.M. The first was announced 

 for January 21 by Sir James Dewar, on prob- 

 lems in capillarity ; the second, by Dr. Leonard 

 Hill on January 28, on the science of clothing 

 and the prevention of trench feet; and the 

 third, by Professor William Bateson, on Feb- 

 ruary 4, on fifteen years of Mendelism. 



A memorial service for the late Sir Henry 

 Roseoe was held on December 22 at the 

 Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel. We learn 

 from Nature that the Royal Society was repre- 

 sented by the president — Sir J. J. Thomson — 

 Professor Arthur Schuster, Sir Edward 

 Thorpe and Professor Smithells; University 

 College (University of London) by the vice- 

 chancellor, Sir Alfred P. Gould, Sir Thomas 

 Barlow, Professor M. J. M. Hill (chairman of 

 the academic council) and Dr. Gregory Foster 

 (the provost) ; the Victoria University of Man- 

 chester by the vice-chancellor. Sir Henry 

 Miers and Professor H. B. Dixon; the Chem- 

 ical Society by Dr. Smiles and Professor J. C. 

 Philip (secretaries), and Lieut.-Col. A. W. 

 Crossley (foreign secretary) ; the Society of 

 Chemical Industry by Sir Boverton Redwood 

 and Mr. Watson Smith; the ISTational Phys- 



ical Laboratory by Dr. Glazebrook and Dr. 

 Harker; the Lister Institute by Dr. Harden; 

 the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition 

 of 1851 by Mr. Evelyn Shaw. 



Dr. B. L. Millikin, M.D. (Pennsylvania, 

 '79), former dean, of the medical school, West- 

 em Reserve University, and senior professor 

 of ophthalmology and senior consulting sur- 

 geon on eye diseases at Lakeside Hospital at 

 the time of his death, died suddenly on Jan- 

 uary 6. 



Dr. George Thomas Jackson, formerly pro- 

 fessor of dermatology at the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, Columbia University, has 

 died of pneumonia, at the age of sixty-four 

 years. 



Dr. H. Debus, F.R.S., formerly professor of 

 chemistry at the Royal Naval College, Green- 

 wich, and lecturer on chemistry at Guy's Hos- 

 pital, has died in his ninety-second year. 



Mr. W. Rupert Jones, who was for forty 

 years assistant librarian of the Geological 

 Society of London, has died at the age of 

 sixty years. 



It is reported that the commonwealth of 

 Australia is prepared to expend whatever sum 

 is necessary to establish and administer an in- 

 stitution for the development of scientific and 

 industrial research, even if the cost amounts 

 to half a million pounds. 



Work is now under way for the completion 

 of the laboratory building and first range of 

 plant houses at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 

 The completion of these buildings at this time 

 was made possible by the donation, by three 

 friends of the garden, of $100,000 on the con- 

 dition that a like sum be appropriated for the 

 same purpose by the City of New York. 



By resolution of the board of directors it 

 has been decided to name the new building of 

 the University of Pennsylvania Museum the 

 " Charles Custis Harrison Hall." This part of 

 the museum consists of a dome which is 

 unique in American architecture. The dome 

 is 100 feet in diameter and 120 feet in height. 

 In the lower part is an auditorium seating 

 1,000. Above this is an exhibition room, 100 



