March 10, 1916] 



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Dr. Francis Wyatt, of New York City, an 

 authority on fermentation and brewing, haa 

 died at the age of sixty-one years. 



Professor Johan Christian Mobeeg, of the 

 University of Lund, the distinguished paleon- 

 tologist and stratigrapher, died on December 

 30, 1915, at the age of sixty-one years. 



News has been sent us of the death of Alan 

 Owston, naturalist and merchant, of Yoko- 

 hama. Mr. Owston was born in England in 

 1853 and, while a boy, went to Yokohama, 

 where he was engaged in a general export and 

 import business. In connection with this, 

 however, he undertook deep-sea dredging, 

 fitting up different yachts, the best one being 

 the Golden Hind, with which he made numer- 

 ous explorations of the deep sea. Among other 

 things, he discovered many new species of 

 fishes. These have been described by Dr. 

 Jordan and his associates, Dr. Gilbert and 

 Professors Snyder and Starks, and by Dr. 

 Tanaka, of the Imperial University of Tokyo. 

 Part of his collections are in the National 

 Museum and the British Museujn, but the bulk 

 of them has been purchased by the Carnegie 

 Museum of Pittsburgh. In addition to his 

 work as a naturalist and explorer of the deep 

 sea. Dr. Owston took a very deep interest in 

 the cause of national peace, writing under the 

 pen name of " Asio," numerous articles in 

 Japan in opposition to the war system. Re- 

 cently he became one of the editors of a jour- 

 nal known as Commercial Japan. 



Mr. Warren K. Moorehead, of Andover, 

 Massachusetts, is preparing a volume on 

 Indian stone ornaments and problematical 

 forms. He will be glad to receive communica- 

 tions from museum curators and those inter- 

 ested in technical study of prehistoric stone 

 ornamental objects and the distribution of 

 such forms. Mr. Moorehead will present a 

 nmnber of maps showing areas in which orna- 

 mental and problematical forms known as 

 banner, winged and bird stones, charms and 

 amulets, etc., are found. The relation of these 

 to the distribution of linguistic stocks will be 

 indicated. 



The President of the United States has 



issued a proclamation, dated February 11, 

 stating that whereas, certain prehistoric 

 aboriginal ruins situated upon public lands 

 of the United States, within the Santa Fe 

 National Forest, in the state of New Mexico, 

 are of unusual ethnologic, scientific and edu- 

 cational interest, and it appears that the pub- 

 lic interests would be promoted by reserving 

 these relics of a vanished people, with as much 

 land as may be necessary for their proper pro- 

 tection, therefore a national monimient is 

 established to be known as the Bandelier Na- 

 tional Monimient. 



The department of chemistry of the College 

 of the City of New York announces special 

 lectures to be given at 3 p.m., as follows: 



March 10 — "Food Control in. New York City," 

 by Mr. Lucius P. Brown, director, Bureau of 

 Food and Brugs, Dept. of Health, New York City. 



March 17 — "The Extraction of Eadimn from 

 Its Ores, ' ' by Dr. Chas. L. Parsons, mineral tech- 

 nologist. United States Bureau of Mines. 



April 7 — ' ' Chemical Control of Medical Sup- 

 plies Purchased for the United States Army," by 

 Lieutenant D. W. Fetterolf, Medical Relief 

 Corps, United States Army. 



April 14 — ' ' Science in the Humanities, ' ' by Mr. 

 Elwood Hendrick. 



May 5 — ' ' The Emancipation of American Chem- 

 ical Industries," by Dr. Thomas H. Norton, com- 

 mercial agent, U. S. Department of Commerce. 



May 12 — "Food Poison," by Mr. James P. 

 Atkinson, chemist. Food and Drug Laboratory, 

 Department of Health, New York City. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



The University of Illinois has purchased 

 for its school of pharmacy a new site located 

 at the corner of Wood and Flournoy Streets, 

 Chicago, immediately opposite the new Cook 

 County Hospital, and ailording a frontage of 

 201 feet on Wood Street and 128 feet on 

 Flournoy Street. The purchase includes two 

 substantial brick buildings erected for the 

 Chicago Homeopathic Medical College and 

 Hospital some years ago. These buildings wiU 

 be put into shape at once, and it is expected 

 that the school will remove to its new quarters 



