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specter of Harvard University, has resigned 

 to organize and direct the bacteriological re- 

 search department of the Scientific Labora- 

 tories of the Digestive Ferments Co., Detroit, 

 Mich. 



E. S. Dickinson, formerly assistant pro- 

 fessor of mining at the University of Kansas, 

 has taken a position on the mining staff of the 

 Canadian Copper Company at Copper Cliil, 

 Ont. 



Dr. L. H. Pennington, professor of forest 

 pathology in the New York State College of 

 Forestry, is spending the summer on the Pa- 

 cific coast, where he is paying special attention 

 to the work which the national government is 

 doing in the control of diseases of forest trees 

 on the national forests. 



A MONUMENTAL cross bearing the inscription 

 " James F. Donnelly, staff physician, New 

 York City, U. S. A," has been erected over the 

 grave of Dr. Donnelly, who died while treating 

 typhus fever in Serbia. 



Dr. Thomas Stillman, the well-known 

 chemical engineer, died of heart disease, on 

 August 10, at the age of sixty-three years. 

 Dr. Stillman was professor of analytical 

 chemistry at the Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology for thirty-five years, retiring on a 

 Carnegie pension in 1909. 



Mr. H. S. Bion, assistant superintendent of 

 the Geological Survey of India, died at Cal- 

 cutta on June 6. 



Mr. Herbert Kynaston, director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of the Union of South Africa, 

 died at Pretoria, on June 28, aged forty-six 

 years. 



Captain C. F. Balleine, fellow of Exeter 

 College, Oxford, who had done work in arch- 

 eology, was killed in Flanders on June 2. 



Ernest Lee, lecturer in agricultural botany 

 at the University of Leeds, has been killed in 

 the war. 



Dr. J. F. Eykman, professor of organic 

 chemistry at Groningen, has died at the age 

 of sixty-four years. 



The death is announced of M. A. Arnaud, 

 who occupied the chair of chemistry at the 



Museum of Natural History in Paris, and was 

 distinguished for his work in chemistry and 

 pharmacology. 



Dr. Karl Kraepelin, formerly director of 

 the Hamburg Natural History Museum, has 

 died at the age of sixty-seven years. 



The sixty-seventh annual session of the 

 American Medical Association will be held at 

 Detroit, June 12 to 16, 1916. The house of 

 delegates will convene on June 12, and the 

 scientific sections on June 13. 



The petition of the Royal Astronomical So- 

 ciety has been granted, and a supplementary 

 charter to permit the election of women as 

 fellows and associates has been received. Pro- 

 posals of women for admission as fellows can 

 now be made. 



Construction work on the new building of 

 the Field Museum of Natural History, which 

 is to be built on Chicago's lake front, just 

 south of Twelfth street, began on July 15, 

 after twelve years of planning and negotiation. 

 The structure will be completed in less than 

 three years, according to plans. More than 

 3,000 men will be employed in the work. It is 

 said that it will be the largest marble build- 

 ing in the world and one of the largest mu- 

 seums. It will consist of three stories and a 

 basement and will cover an area of 700 X 350 

 feet. The floor area of the museum will be 

 670,000 square feet, of which 400,000 square 

 feet will be devoted to exhibition purposes. 

 The remainder will be used for scientific lab- 

 oratories, lecture halls, offices and a restaurant. 



The children of William H. Singer, Pitts- 

 burgh, will erect a laboratory for investiga- 

 tions into the origin of disease, which will" be 

 operated in connection with the Allegheny 

 General Hospital. The cost of construction, 

 equipment and endowment will amount to 

 $400,000. 



Mr. J. S. DiLLER has been studying Lassen 

 Peak on the ground in cooperation with offi- 

 cials of the Forest Service and has reported 

 to the director of the geological survey as 

 follows : " The great eruptions of Lassen 

 Peak of May 20 and May 22 spent the energy 

 of the old volcano and put a lid on it. The 



