Febeuaky 11, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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Beliring in the Marburg Institute for Hygiene 

 in memory of the twenty-fifth anniversary of 

 Behring's publication of his work on serum 

 therapy. 



On recommendation of the council of the 

 Biological Society of Washington the follow- 

 ing resolution drawn up by L. O. Howard, 

 Frederick V. Coville and Paul Bartsch has 

 been adopted: 



Wheeeas, Dr. George M. Sternberg, former Sur- 

 geon General of the U. S. Army, a distinguished 

 worker in the biological sciences as applied to 

 medicine, long time an active member of the Bio- 

 logical Society of Washington and its president 

 during the years 1895 and 1896, has passed from 

 this life, therefore be it 



Besolved, That the Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington keenly regrets his death and offers its 

 warmest sympathy to Mrs. Sternberg, and will al- 

 ways be grateful to his memory for the important 

 part which he took in the affairs and discussions 

 ■of the Society and for the distinction which his 

 ■eminent name adds to its list of past-presidents. 



Dr. Thomas H. Eussell, professor of clin- 

 ical surgery in the Yale Medical School and 

 surgeon at the ISTew Haven General Hospital, 

 died on February 3, at the age of sixty-three 

 years. 



Dr. Oswald Kulpe, professor of philosophy 

 and psychology at Munich, has died at the 

 age of fifty-three years. 



The death is announced of Dr. Georg 

 Griipler, who in his laboratories at Leipzig 

 and Dresden carried on physiological and bac- 

 teriological research in connection with the 

 proteins, the enzymes and bacteriological 

 stains. 



The Medizinische Klinik of December 26 as 

 quoted in the Journal of the American Med- 

 ical Association gives figures showing that the 

 names of 1,084 physicians have appeared on 

 the 400 casualty lists that had been published 

 by that date in Germany. The list includes 

 37 civilian physicians, 377 active medical offi- 

 cers, 373 of the reserve force and 287 assistant 

 medical officers. Of this total, 361 have been 

 killed, 142 severely and 388 less severely 

 wounded, 102 have been taken prisoners, and 

 90 are missing. 



The University of Colorado Mountain Labo- 

 ratory, which is now in its eighth year of 

 operation, will hold a six-weeks' session, begin- 

 ning on June 26, 1916. Courses in zoology 

 are in charge of Professor Frank Smith, of 

 the University of Hlinois ; those in botany will 

 be given by Professor Francis Eamaley, of 

 the University of Colorado, at Boulder. The 

 mountain laboratory does not duplicate work 

 of the regular college year, but offers courses 

 primarily concerned with ecology and distribu- 

 tion. Most of those who attend are graduate 

 students and high-school and college in- 

 structors. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Contracts have been let recently by the 

 board of directors of the Texas Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College for a new hospital for 

 which the legislature recently appropriated 

 $50,000, and a new dairy barn to be erected at 

 a cost of $10,000. President Bizzell has an- 

 nounced that plans and specifications are 

 about completed for the new Animal Hus- 

 bandry Building to cost $40,000 and a new 

 hog cholera serum plant, for which $15,000 

 are now available. Professor E. Adelsperger, 

 head of the department of architecture and 

 architectural engineering at the college, will 

 begin immediately on plans and specifications 

 for the new college auditorium to be erected 

 at a cost of $100,000 and a new "Veterinary 

 Medicine Building to cost $100,000. The 

 funds for these two buildings will not be 

 available until September 1, 1916. 



A NEW forestry building costing $40,000 has 

 been authorized by the board of regents and 

 will be erected on the Oregon Agricultural 

 College campus during the coming spring and 

 summer. It will be a brick structure, three 

 stories high and 80 feet wide by 140 feet long. 

 A large laboratory for logging-engineering 

 will be located on the first floor, with smaller 

 laboratories for the manufacture of wood prod- 

 ucts. The second and third floors will be oc- 

 cupied by offices, classrooms and smaller ex- 

 perimental laboratories. The building will be 

 ready for occupancy at the opening of the 

 next college year, September, 1916. 



