July 9, 1915] 



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 parture. Validating agents will be found at 

 the city ticket offices and the main railway sta- 

 tions in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San 

 Diego, at the Ferry Building, San Francisco, 

 at the Southern Pacific Ferry Pier, Oakland, 

 and at the Western Pacific Station, Oakland. 

 A fee of fifty cents will be charged for the vali- 

 dation of each ticket. 



APPOINTMENTS AT TEE ROCKEFELLER 

 INSTITUTE FOB MEDICAL BESEABCH 



The board of scientific directors of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 

 announces the following appointments and 

 promotions : 



Appointed an associate member: 



Dr. James B. Murphy, hitherto an associate in the 

 department of pathology and bacteriology. 



The following have been made associates: 



Dr. Carrol G. Bull (pathology and bacteriology). 

 Dr. Frederick S. Jones (pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy)- 

 Dr. Clarence J. West (chemistry). 

 Dr. Michael Heidelbeiger (chemistry). 

 Dr. Frederick M. Allen (medicine). 

 Dr. Oswald T. Avery (bacteriology). 

 Miss Angelia M. Courtney (chemistry). 

 Dr. Eduard Uhlenhuth (experimental biology). 



The following have been made assistants : 

 Dr. Harold K. Faber (pathology and bacteriology). 

 Mr. Chester H. Allen (chemistry). 

 Mr. James K. Senior (chemistry). 

 Mr. Glenn E. CuUeu (chemistry).. 

 Miss Mariam Vinograd (chemistry). 



The following new appointments are an- 

 nounced : 

 Dr. E. Werner Marchand, assistant in department 



of animal pathology. 

 Dr. Carl Ten Broeek, associate in the department 



of animal pathology. 

 Dr. Herbert D. Taylor, assistant in pathology and 



bacteriology. 

 Dr. Oswald H. Eobertson, assistant in pathology 



and bacteriology. 

 Mr. Ernest A. Wildman, fellow in chemistry. 

 Dr. Eeginald Fitz, assistant in medicine and assist- 

 ant resident physician. 

 Dr. Arthur L. Meyer, assistant in physiology and 



pharmacology. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Surgeon-General Rupert Blue, of the 

 Public Health Service, was elected president of 

 the Am erican Medical Association at the re- 

 cent San Francisco meeting. 



Lord Fisher, former first sea lord of the 

 British admiralty, has been appointed chair- 

 man of an " inventions board," which will 

 assist the admiralty in coordinating and en- 

 couraging naval science. 



Dr. Viktor von Lang, emeritus professor of 

 physics at Vienna, has been elected president 

 of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. The 

 academy has elected as corresponding mem- 

 bers Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer. 

 Dr. Max Planck, professor of mathematical 

 physics at Berlin, and Dr. P. H. von Groth, 

 professor of mineralogy at Munich. 



Amherst College at its recent commence- 

 ment conferred its doctorate of laws on Pro- 

 fessor Benjamin K. Emerson, class of 1865, 

 for forty-five years teacher of geology in Am- 

 herst College. 



Sherburne Wesley Burnham, for twenty 

 years professor of practical astronomy in the 

 University of Chicago and astronomer in the 

 Yerkes Observatory, was given the honorary 

 degree of doctor of science, at the commence- 

 ment of Northwestern University. 



In conferring the Harvard doctorate of 

 science on Dr. Frank Billings, President 

 LoweU said : " Frank Billings, physician and 

 citizen of Chicago; powerful in his profession 

 and his community, who has inspired medical 

 research, improved medical administration in 

 his own state and promoted a higher grade of 

 medical education throughout the land." 



General Wilhelm Groner, head of the field 

 railways of the German army, has been given 

 honorary degrees by the University of Berlin 

 and the Technical Institute of Stuttgart. 



Among the fellows of the Royal Sanitary 

 Institute recently elected are Dr. Julian Arce, 

 director of the Department of Public Health 

 of the Peruvian Republic, and Dr. Frank Fair- 

 child Wesbrook, president of the University of 

 British Columbia. 



