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grad, has been appointed Halley lecturer for 

 the year 1916 at the University of Oxford. 



Dr. George E. De Schweinitz, of Philadel- 

 phia, was elected president of the American 

 Ophthalmological Society at the annual meet- 

 ing held recently in New London, Connecticut. 



The council of the Eoyal Society of Edin- 

 burgh has awarded the Makdougall-Brisbane 

 prize for the biennial period 1912-14 to Pro- 

 fesor 0. E. Marshal, Dundee and St. Andrews, 

 for his studies on pharmacological action of 

 tetra-alkyl ammonium compounds. 



The Physikalisch-Medizinische Gesellschaft 

 at Wiirzburg, the local scientific society to 

 which Rontgen presented his first report on 

 the Eontgen rays, has recently had his three 

 communications on the subject reprinted in 

 pamphlet form. 



As has been noted in Science the Osiris 

 prize of $20,000 was recently awarded for anti- 

 typhoid vaccination to Professor Vincent and 

 Professors Chantemesse and Widal. We learn 

 from the Journal of the American Medical 

 Association that Dr. Chantemesse has devoted 

 his share to the preparation and gratuitous 

 distribution of antityphoid vaccine in Prance. 

 Dr. Widal has presented his share to the 

 Assistance publique as a contribution to the 

 construction and the maintenance of the lab- 

 oratory of the Cochin Hospital. 



The University of Leeds, as we learn from 

 Nature, conferred on July 3 honorary degrees 

 as follows: Doctor of Science: Mr. Harold W. 

 T. Wager, P.R.S., inspector of schools, who 

 began his professorial career at the Yorkshire 

 College, known for his researches in cytology 

 and other biological fields. Master of Science : 

 Mr. T. H. Nelson, of Eedcar, author of " The 

 Birds of Yorkshire"; Mr. W. Denison Roe- 

 buck, joint author of " Handbook of the Verte- 

 brate Fauna of Yorkshire " ; Mr. T. Sheppard, 

 curator of the Hull Museums, author of " Geo- 

 logical Rambles in East Yorkshire," " The Lost 

 Towns of the Yorkshire Coast," and many geo- 

 logical and archeological memoirs; Mr. J. W. 

 Taylor, author of a " Monograph of the British 

 Land and Freshwater Mollusca " ; Mr. J. G. 

 Wilkinson, past-president of the Leeds Nat- 



uralists' Club, distinguished by his extensive 

 and exact knowledge of the structure of plants, 

 though blind; Dr. T. W. Woodhead, lecturer in 

 biology at the Technical College, Huddersfield, 

 honorary secretary of the Yorkshire Natural- 

 ists' Union, and author of various biological 

 memoirs. 



Dr. Alfred Schultze has been promoted to 

 be professor and member of the Reichsanstalt, 

 at Charlottenburg, and Dr. Walther Meissner 

 to be an associate in the institution. 



A laboratory of the U. S. Public Health 

 Service for the investigation of occupational 

 diseases is to be established in Pittsburgh under 

 the supervision of Dr. J. W. Schereschewsky, 

 of Washington. 



Professor H. S. Jackson, head of the botany 

 and plant pathology department of the Oregon 

 Agricultural College, has resigned to become 

 chief of the botany department of the Purdue 

 University Experiment Stations. 



Dr. Henry S. Graves, chief of the U. S. 

 Forestry Service, has gone to Alaska to inspect 

 the Alaskan forest reserves. 



Drs. Harry Plotz and George G. Bohrer, 

 both of the staff of Mt. Sinai Hospital, New 

 York, have sailed on the Greek steamer Themis- 

 tocles. They took with them a complete bac- 

 teriologic outfit supplied by the hospital and 

 will proceed to Nish where they will join Dr. 

 Richard P. Strong, the head of the Serbian 

 sanitary commission. 



Joseph B. Umpleby, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, will spend the year 1915-16 at the 

 University of California as acting professor of 

 geology, serving in the stead of Professor 

 George D. Louderbaek, who is to spend a sec- 

 ond year in China investigating the oil de- 

 posits of China in behalf of the Standard Oil 

 Company. 



Professor Lyman C. Newell, head of the 

 department of chemistry in Boston University, 

 has returned from his sabbatical year and will 

 resume his teaching upon the opening of the 

 university in September. 



Dr. Joseph Austin Holmes, director of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Mines since its establishment 



