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Dr. Harry Clary Jones, professor of chem- 

 istry in tlie Johns Hopkins University, died at 

 his home in Baltimore on April 9, aged fifty- 

 one years. 



Professor Wells Woodbridge Cooke, assist- 

 ant biologist of the biological survey of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and one of the 

 leading authorities of the United States on 

 bird migration and distribution, died from 

 pneumonia on March 29, aged fifty-eight years. 



Frederick C. Ohm, of the petrographic divi- 

 sion of the United States Geological Survey, 

 died in Washington, on March 14, aged fifty- 

 eight years. 



Dr. ISTathan Oppenheim, the author of sev- 

 eral books and numerous articles on the devel- 

 opment, the hygiene, and the diseases of the 

 growing child, died in ISTew Tork City, on 

 April 5, aged fifty-one years. 



Dr. Theodore Bernard Sachs, one of the 

 leading workers in the antituberculosis cam- 

 paign in the United States and until a few 

 days ago superintendent of the Municipal 

 Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Chicago, conomitted 

 suicide on April 2, at the age of forty-eight 

 years. 



Me. Geoffrey Meade-Waldo, of the entomo- 

 logical department of the British Museum, 

 died on March 11, after a short illness. Mr. 

 Meade- Waldo was the author of numerous 

 important papers on Hymenoptera, and at the 

 time of his death had just completed the ar- 

 rangement of the bees in the museum. 



Sir Alexander Eussell Simpson, formerly 

 dean of the faculty of medicine of the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh, died on April 6, at the age 

 of eighty-one years. 



Sir Charles Ball, regius professor of sur- 

 gery in the University of Dublin, died on 

 March 17, aged sixty-five years. 



Lady Kelvin died on March 16, having sur- 

 vived by nine years Lord Kelvin, who died on 

 December 17, 1907. 



De. Eric Gerard, the director of the Monte- 

 fiore Electrotechnical Institute at Liege, Bel- 

 gium, and professor in the University of Liege, 



died in Paris, on March 27, at the age of 

 sixty years. 



The American Society of ITaturalists has 

 decided to hold its annual meeting of Convo- 

 cation Week, 1916, in New Tork City. 



The next stated meeting of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union will be held at the Acad- 

 emy of ISTatural Sciences, at Philadelphia, from 

 JsTovember 14 to 16. 



At the invitation of the technical committee 

 of the Affiliated Engineering Societies of 

 Atlanta, Ga., the Bureau of Standards wiU 

 hold a conference in that city on May 2, 3 and 

 4, for the purpose of discussing the work of 

 the bureau in connection with the national 

 electrical safety code and the prevention of 

 electrolysis of gas and water pipes, cable 

 sheaths and other metallic underground 

 structures. 



The Puget Sound Marine Station will open 

 its session at Friday Harbor, Wash., on June 

 26, 1916, and continue for six weeks. The 

 teaching stail will consist of the following: 

 Dr. T. C. Prye, University of Washington; Dr. 

 H. S. Brode, Whitman College; Dr. Nathan 

 Fasten, University of Washington; Dr. H. J. 

 Van Cleave, University of Hlinois; Mr. W. L. 

 C. Muenscher, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; 

 Mr. A. C. Jensen, Mt. Pleasant, Utah; Miss 

 Edna M. Perry, Bellingham, Washington; 

 Miss Annie May Hurd, Seattle, Washington; 

 Mr. G. C. Woods, Walla Walla, Washington. 

 The total expense for the six weeks is about 

 $50. Those east of the Missouri River may 

 add to the pleasure of the trip by joining Pro- 

 fessor H. J. Van Cleave's party from the Uni- 

 versity of nUnois. 



The United States Biological Laboratory, 

 Fairport, Iowa, will be open to temporary in- 

 vestigators on June 15. While the laboratory 

 is open the entire year, the mess and other 

 special accommodations for summer workers 

 will not be available until this date. The 

 equipment and facilities of the station pro- 

 vide excellent opportunities for biological in- 

 vestigations of a general and specific nature, 

 with particular reference to freshwater forms, 

 and also for chemical and physical studies 



