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The death is reported of Mr. T. L. Wilson, 

 of Ottawa, Canada, known for his inventions 

 concerned with acetylene gas and carbide. 



Sm Clements Maekham, who took part in 

 the Arctic expedition of 1850 in search of Sir 

 John Franklin, and subsequently engaged in 

 many geographical explorations, president of 

 the Eoyal Geographical Society from 1893 to 

 1905, died on January 30, at the age of eighty- 

 six years. 



Sir Francis Henry Lovell, dean of the 

 London School of Tropical Medicine, died on 

 January 28 in London. Sir Francis had been 

 chief medical officer of Mauritius and a mem- 

 ber of the legislative council and he had 

 served as surgeon-general and as a member of 

 the executive and legislative councils of the 

 colonies of Trinidad and Tobago. 



Sir H. Eatelyn Oakeley, author of mathe- 

 matical works and reports on educational sub- 

 jects, has died, aged eighty-two years. 



Graf zu Solms-Laubach, who held the chair 

 of botany first at Gottingen and afterwards at 

 Strasburg, has died at the age of seventy-two 

 years. 



GuiDO Baccelli, professor of clinical medi- 

 cine at the University of Rome and chief of 

 the general hospital, the Policlinico, the erec- 

 tion of which was mostly his work, has died, 

 aged eighty-four years. 



The New York Academy of Sciences will 

 celebrate in May, 1917, the centenary of its 

 foundation. The president has been author- 

 ized by the council of the academy to appoint 

 five committees in charge of exhibition, meet- 

 ings, funds, history and membership. 



At the close of the Nineteenth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Americanists, held in 

 "Washington, December 27-31, 1915, a formal 

 invitation was accepted from Brazil to hold 

 the next American Congress at Eio de Janeiro 

 in June of 1918. The invitation was extended 

 through Dr. A. C. Simoens da Silva, by the 

 National Museum, National Library, National 

 Archive, the Brazilian Historical and Geo- 

 graphical Institute and the Society of Geog- 

 raphy, at Eio de Janeiro, and the Historical 

 and Geographical Institute Fluminense. 



At the tenth annual meeting of the Ento- 

 mological Society of America, held at Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, December 29 and 30, the following 

 officers were elected : President, F. M. Webster, 

 U. S. Bureau of Entomology; First Vice- 

 president, E. P. Felt, New York State Ento- 

 mologist; Second Vice-president, A. L. Me- 

 lander, Washington State College; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, J. M. Aldrich, U. S. Bureau of 

 Entomology, West LaFayette, Indiana; Addi- 

 tional Members of the Executive Committee, 

 H. T. Fernald, Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College; W. E. Britton, state entomologist of 

 Connecticut; P. J. Parrott, entomologist. New 

 York Agricultural Experiment Station; E. D. 

 Ball, Oregon Agricultural College; C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, Dominion entomologist. 



The Florida Entomological Society has re- 

 cently been organized at Gainesville, Florida, 

 with fifteen charter members. The first officers 

 elected were Professor J. R. Watson, entomol- 

 ogist of the Florida Experiment Station, Pres- 

 ident; Mr. Wilmon Newell, plant commis- 

 sioner of Florida Plant Board, Vice-president, 

 and Mr. R. N. Wilson, U. S. Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, Secretary-Treasurer. A paper was 

 read on the Velvet Bean Caterpillar (Anti- 

 carsia gemmatilis), by Professor Watson, and 

 another by Dr. E. W. Berger, entomologist of 

 the Florida Plant Board, on the fungus dis- 

 eases of scales and white flies on citrus. 



At the annual meeting of the Brooklyn 

 Entomological Society, held on the thirteenth 

 inst., the following officers were elected for 

 1916: President, W. J. Davis; Vice-president, 

 W. T. Bather; Treasurer, Chris. E. Olsen; Be- 

 cording Secretary, J. E. de la Torre Bueno; 

 Corresponding Secretary, R. P. Dow; Librar- 

 ian, A. 0. Weeks; Curator, Geo. Frank; Pub- 

 lication Committee, C. SchaefPer, R. P. Dow 

 and the recording secretary, ex-officio. 



While the aniline dye, potash and other 

 chemical industries have attracted a great deal 

 of attention since the beginning of the Euro- 

 pean war, little has been heard about the great 

 impetus the war has given our electrochemical 

 industries. Many electrochemical products 

 such as chlorine and hydrogen, which were a 



