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Dr. Eichaed Henry Whitehead, professor 

 of anatomy and dean of the department of 

 medicine of the University of Virginia, died 

 at his home in Charlottesville, on February 6, 

 after a week's illness with pneumonia. He 

 was in his fifty-first year. 



Dr. J. WiLHELM ElCHARD Dedekestd, the 

 distinguished mathematician, died at Bruns- 

 wick on February 2, aged eighty-three years. 



Professor Paul Sorauee, of the University 

 of Berlin, known for his work on plant pathol- 

 ogy, has died at the age of seventy-seven years. 



Dr. Alzheimer, professor of psychiatry at 

 Breslau, died on December 19, aged fifty-two 

 years. 



Professor Gross, editor of the ArcMv fur 

 Kriminal-Anthropologie, has died in Graz at 

 the age of sixty-seven years. 



Dr. Eodolphe Engel, former professor jf 

 cfcemistry at the Montpellier School of Medi- 

 (ane, has died at the age of sixty-six years. 



We learn from Nature that Dr. Eeginald 

 Koettlitz and his wife have died from dysen- 

 tery at Somerset, South Africa, where Dr. 

 Koettlitz was in practise. He joined the 

 fackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition in 

 1894 and was senior medical officer in the late 

 Captain Scott's expedition of 1902. In these 

 expeditions and in South America and Africa 

 he had carried on important work of explora- 

 tion. 



William Inchley, lecturer in mechanical 

 and electrical engineering at University Col- 

 lege, Nottingham, author of valuable publica- 

 tions on mechanics and heat engineering, was 

 killed on December 19 at the age of thirty-two 

 years, while serving as second lieutenant in 

 the British army. 



The Journal of the American Medical 

 Association records the following deaths: 

 Tiburcio Padilla, one of the leaders of the pro- 

 fession in Argentina, ex-governor of his prov- 

 ince, Tucuman, aged eighty; F. L. von Neuge- 

 bauer, of Warsaw, noted for his numerous 

 articles on gjnecologie subjects but especially 

 for his study and publications on hermaphro- 



ditism and allied conditions; L. E. Lorentzen, 

 of Copenhagen, president for a number of 

 terms of the Danish Medical Association, 

 aged sixty-three; M. De Cristoforis, to whose 

 efforts is due in large part the leading place 

 taken by Milan in public hygiene, aged eighty; 

 T. Langhans, until recently professor of path- 

 ologic anatomy at the University of Bern, 

 aged seventy-six; A. Mendonga, chief of the 

 bacteriologic institute connected with the 

 medical school at S. Paulo, Brazil, and 

 founder of the Bevista Medica de 8. Paulo. 



The University of California has annoim.ced 

 a series of Saturday morning lectures, open to 

 the general public on the problems of tropical 

 medicine, a field of work to which particular 

 attention is being paid by members of the staff 

 of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Ee- 

 search of the University of California. These 

 lectures, at the University of California Hos- 

 pital in San Francisco, are as follows: 



January 15 — Dr. E. L. Walker, "The Scope of 

 the Literature on Tropical Medicine. ' ' 



January 22 — Professor Walker, ' ' Entamoe- 

 biasis, ' ' with a clinical discussion by Dr. H. C. 

 Moffitt. 



January 29 — Professor Walker, "Leishmani- 

 oses, ' ' with a demonstration of cultures and liv- 

 ing organisms. 



February 5 — ^Dr. K. E. Meyer, "Trypanosomi- 

 ases," with a demonstration of living organisms. 



February 12 — ^Professor Walker, "Malaria in 

 California, ' ' with a demonstration of material. 



February 19— Dr. H. C. Moffitt, "Clinical As- 

 pects of Malaria in California." 



February 26 — Dr. K. F. Meyer, "Piroplasmi- 

 ases, " with demonstrations. 



March 4 — Dr. H. F. Nichols, " Spirochetiases. " 



March 11 — Dr. Billings, "The More Important 

 Helminthiases. ' ' 



March IS— Dr. K. F. Meyer, "Yellow Fever, 

 Dengue and Pappataci. ' ' 



March 25 — Dr. K. F. Meyer, "Typhus, Spotted 

 Fever and "Verruga Peruviana." 



April 1 — Dr. Howard Morrow, "Leprosy and 

 Tropical Skin Diseases. ' ' 



April S — Dr. Billings, ' ' Beriberi and Pellagra, ' ' 

 with demonstrations. 



April 15 — Dr. E. L. Walker, "Parasitic Insects 

 and the Role of Insects in the Transmission of 

 Tropical Diseases." 



