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Dr. W. S. Thayer, of tHe Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, has been elected an overseer 

 of Harvard University. 



The title of professor of horticulture, 

 emeritus, has been conferred by the Univer- 

 sity of California upon Edward J. Wickson, 

 authority on the fruits, vegetables and flowers 

 of California, a member of its agricultural 

 faculty since 1880, and dean of the college of 

 agriculture from 1909 to 1912. 



Professoe Charles Lee Crandall, of the 

 college of civil engineering, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, has retired from the facility after a serv- 

 ice of forty-two years, and has been elected 

 professor emeritus. Both the board of trus- 

 tees and the university faculty have adopted 

 resolutions with respect to his retirement. 



Professor S. C. Lind has resigned the chair 

 of general and physical chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. He has already been ab- 

 sent from the university for two years on leave 

 as a member of the Denver U. S. Bureau of 

 Mines Experiment Station, where he will con- 

 tinue his work on radium. 



Dr. Walter Rytz has been elected curator 

 of the collections of the Botanical Gardens at 

 Berne. 



Dr. Allen W. Freeman, of Eichmond, Va., 

 has resigned as assistant state health commis- 

 sioner to become epidemiologist for the United 

 States Public Health Service at Washington. 



Governor Walsh, of Massachusetts, has ap- 

 pointed to the commission on terminal facili- 

 ties in Boston, Professor C. M. Spoiiord, head 

 of the department of civil and sanitary engi- 

 neering at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. Professor Spofford recently fin- 

 ished his work with the committee in Cam- 

 bridge on a proper system of taxation for the 

 city. 



A POSITION as research associate in pathology 

 has been added to the department of pathology 

 of the University of California for 1915-16 

 through the gift of Mr. James K. Moffitt, of 

 San Erancisco, a regent of the university. To 

 this position wiU come Dr. H. T. Chickering, 

 of the Rockefeller Institution for Medical Re- 

 search. He will be associated with Professor 



F. P. Gay in investigations on the treatment 

 of typhoid by the use of sensitized vaccine. 

 This research associateship is in addition to 

 a research associateship in pathology for 

 which other donors a few weeks ago agreed to 

 provide an annual gift of $1,200, and an 

 eventual endowment of $25,000. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer, director of the magnetic 

 observatory of the Carnegie Institution at 

 Washington, has presented to the Brown Uni- 

 versity Library a complete set, Volumes I. to 

 XX., of the Journal of Terrestrial Magnetism, 

 and Atmospheric Electricity, founded and 

 edited by him. 



Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson, for the last 

 twenty-five years ethnologist in the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, died on June 24, at the 

 age of sixty-five years. 



The Vassar alumnae of the early seventies 

 have started a movement for the purpose of 

 erecting a monument to the memory of Pro- 

 fessor James Orton, who occupied the chair 

 of natural history at the college from 1869 

 until his death in 1877. Professor Orton was 

 bom at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1830 and 

 was educated at Williams College and Andover 

 Theological Seminary. In 1866 he was ap- 

 pointed instructor in the natural sciences at 

 Rochester University. In 1867 a scientific ex- 

 pedition to the Andes and the River Amazon 

 was organized under the direction of the 

 Smithsonian Institution and Professor Orton 

 was placed in charge. On his return he ac- 

 cepted the chair of natural science in Vassar 

 College, which he occupied until his death 

 eight years later on his third expedition to 

 equatorial America. 



Frederick W. Spanutius died in Hastings- 

 on-Hudson, on June 20, at the age of forty- 

 seven years. He was instructor in chemistry 

 in the Pennsylvania State College, Iowa State 

 University and Lehigh University. Later he 

 engaged in industrial work and owned works 

 at Hastings called the Pan Chemical Com- 

 pany. 



Mr. F. H. Neville, F.R.S., late lecturer on 

 physics and chemistry in Sidney Sussex Col- 



