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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIII, No. 1115 



Nature states that the applications received 

 for admission to Miss E. A. Browne's lecture 

 on " Our Tropical Industries," at the Imperial 

 Institute, London, on Wednesdays, have been 

 so numerous that no further tickets for "Wed- 

 nesdays can be issued. It has, however, been 

 decided to repeat the lectures on Thursdays in 

 April, Hay and June, at 3 o'clock, commencing 

 on April 27, and tickets for Thursdays may 

 now be obtained at the Imperial Institute. 



Under the auspices of the Geographical So- 

 ciety of Philadelphia, the annual Heilprin 

 Memorial Lecture was given in the auditorium 

 of the University of Pennsylvania Museum on 

 Wednesday evening, April 19, by Professor 

 Lawrence Martin, of the University of Wis- 

 consin. His subject was: "The Gorge of the 

 Upper Mississippi as a Eival of the Rhine 

 Gorge." 



The Le Conte Memorial Fellowship endowed 

 by the alumni of the University of California 

 in memory of John and Joseph Le Conte has 

 been awarded for 1916-17 to John Hezekiah 

 Levy, for graduate work at Columbia Univer- 

 sity in international law. 



" ToLAND Amphitheater " has been selected 

 as the name of the amphitheater in the new 

 University of California Hospital in San 

 Francisco, in honor of Dr. Hugo H. Toland, 

 the founder and long a member of the faculty 

 of Toland College of Medicine, which eventu- 

 ally grew into the present University of Cali- 

 fornia Medical School. 



LuciEN Ira Blake, A.B. (Amherst, '77), 

 Ph.D. (Berlin, '84), professor of physics and 

 electrical engineering at the University of 

 Kansas from 1887 to 1905 and later chief engi- 

 neer of the Submarine Signal Co., died in 

 Boston, on May 4, aged sixty-one years. 



Sir Colin Campbell Scott-Moncrieff, dis- 

 tinguished as a soldier, as an engineer, and as 

 an administrator, died on April 6, at the age 

 of seventy-nine years. 



Mr. J. H. Collins, an authority on geology 

 and mining in Cornwall, died on April 12, at 

 the age of seventy-five years. 



The. death of Octave Lignier, professor of 

 botany at the University of Caen, celebrated 



for his contributions to paleobotany, occurred 

 on March 19. 



The first niunber of Physiological Abstracts 

 has been issued under the sponsorship of the 

 Physiological Society of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, with the cooperation of the American 

 Physiological Society, and other American, 

 British and continental scientific bodies. 



The first number of a bimonthly journal 

 entitled Revista de Matemaiicas has appeared 

 at Buenos Aires under the editorship of 

 Manuel Guitarte. 



The Journal of the A m erican Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the Army Medical Museum 

 possesses a valuable collection of medals rela- 

 ting to medicine which was started and fostered 

 by the late Dr. John S. Billings, and it is 

 highly desirable that this collection should be 

 added to and completed, so far as possible. 

 The assistance and advice of physicians who 

 are collectors of medical medals is respectfully 

 solicited. The museum appropriations will 

 avail to purchase individual medals which are 

 not in the collection, the purchase of private 

 collections, or of individual items in them, 

 will be carefully considered, and private dona- 

 tions of separate medals or groups of medals 

 will be most welcome and will be duly credited 

 to the donors, and the transmission of cata- 

 logue of medals for sale is requested. 



The contract between the Ohio State Board 

 of Administration and the Otho Sprague 

 Memorial Institute for the establishment of a 

 laboratory at the Chicago State Hospital for 

 research work in dementia praecox has been 

 signed, and the opening of the laboratory now 

 awaits only the selection of a director. The 

 medical director of the Sprague Memorial 

 Laboratory is Dr. H. Gideon Wells of the 

 University of Chicago. 



Dr. W. a. Murrill, assistant director of the 

 N'ew York Botanical Garden, writes that there 

 has just come to his notice, through Mrs. 

 Rufus Hatch, of Pelham Manor, ISTew York, a 

 very serious ease of mushroom poisoning in 

 which the poisonous specimens were taken 

 from mushroom beds and were supposed to be 

 a new edible variety. The common mush- 



