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ograpliers' Club at Columbia University in 

 New York, and the geological department of 

 Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. 



On the occasion of the initiation ceremonies 

 of the Tale Chapter of the Society of the 

 Sigma Xi, on March 18, Professor J. McKeen 

 Cattell, of Columbia University, gave the ad- 

 dress, his subject being " Scientific Research 

 as a Profession." 



Professor S. A. Mitchell, director of the 

 Leander McCormick Observatory of the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, delivered a lecture in 

 Ottawa on March 22 before the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society of Canada on the subject 

 " The Exact Distances of the Stars." 



Professor Francis G. Benedict, of the Nu- 

 trition Laboratory in Boston, lectured, March 

 14, at Wellesley College on " Living Without 

 Food for Thirty-one Days. A Study in Pro- 

 longed Fasting." 



Mr. Frank C. Baker, zoological investi- 

 gator of the New York State College of For- 

 estry, at Syracuse, addressed, on February 25, 

 the Syracuse Chapter of Sigma Xi on the 

 " Relation of Molluscs to Fish in Oneida 

 Lake." 



Professor M. Weinberg, of the Pasteur In- 

 stitute, Paris, delivered a lecture on bacterio- 

 logical and experimental researches on gas 

 gangrene, with epidiascope demonstration, be- 

 fore the Royal Society of Medicine, London, 

 on March 10. 



Professors Maragliano, of Genoa, and 

 Rummo, of Naples, vice-presidents of the 

 Italian Society of Internal Medicine, have is- 

 sued an appeal for funds for the erection of a 

 statue of the late Professor Baccelli to be 

 placed in the Policlinico at Rome, in the 

 foundation of which Baccelli took a leading 

 part. 



The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society held 

 in the chemistry hall of the University of 

 North Carolina on March 14, a memorial meet- 

 ing in honor of Joseph Austin Holmes, late 

 chief of the Bureau of Mines. The speakers 

 were : Dr. F. P. Venable, Dr. J. H. Pratt and 

 Dr. K. P. Battle. 



Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, of Cambridge, 

 Mass., an engineer who made a specialty of 

 pumping and mining machinery, past presi- 

 dent of the American Society of Mechanical 

 Engineers, died on March 11, aged eighty 

 years. 



Elton Fulmer, Washington state chemist 

 and senior member and dean of the faculty of 

 the Washington State College, Pullman, was 

 killed in a railroad wreck at Cheney, Wash- 

 ington, on February 20, 1916. 



Miss Adele Marion Fielde, known to scien- 

 tific men for her work on ants, carried on at 

 the Marine Biological Laboratory during a 

 number of simimers, died at Seattle on Febru- 

 ary 22, aged seventy-seven years. Miss Fielde 

 was a missionary in Siam and China from 

 1866 to 1889, and is the author of several hooka 

 concerned with Chinese conditions and Chi- 

 nese folklore. She had been for many years 

 active in movements for civic and social 

 betterment. 



The death is announced, at Streatham, on 

 February 18, of Professor R. H. Smith, for- 

 merly professor of engineering at the Imperial 

 University, Tokio, and afterwards professor 

 of civil, mechanical and electrical engineer- 

 ing at the Mason College, Birmingham. 



Dr. T. S. Hall, lecturer in biology in the 

 University of Melbourne, and previously di- 

 rector of the School of Mines at Castlemaine, 

 has died at the age of fifty-eight years. 



Dr. Charles Giraed, professor of clinical 

 surgery at the University of Geneva, Switzer- 

 land, has died in his sixty-seventh year. 



Dr. Walter Loeb, head of the chemical de- 

 partment of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in 

 Berlin, died on February 7, aged forty-four 

 years. 



Dr. Wilhelm Deachaes, curator of geology 

 in the Hanover Museum, has been killed in the 

 war. 



On April 1 the Illinois State Civil Service 

 Commission will hold an examination for the 

 position of geologic clerk in the office of the 

 State Geological Survey. This position pays 

 a starting salary of $75 a month with possi- 



