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dress of the evening was given by Dr. Harry 

 Beal Torrey, of Eeed College, on " Researcli 

 and the Elementary Student of Science." At 

 this meeting the Biological Society voted to 

 drop its organization in favor of the newly 

 organized Pacific Coast Branch of the Amer- 

 ican Society of Naturalists. 



The forty-third annual meeting of the 

 American Public Health Association, the fif- 

 teenth annual conference of the Sanitary 

 Officers of the State of New York, and the 

 annual meeting of the New York State Sani- 

 tary Officers' Association, will be held in 

 Eoehester, N. Y., September 6 to 10. 



Before the American Public Health Asso- 

 ciation on Tuesday evening, September 7, the 

 presidential address will be delivered by Pro- 

 fessor William T. Sedgwick, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, his subject being 

 " Achievements and Failures in Public Health 

 Work." Other speakers at the meetings are 

 Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, New York state com- 

 missioner of health; Dr. W. 0. Gorgas, sur- 

 geon-general United States Army, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, and the Hon. William C. Eedfield, 

 secretary of commerce. 



Dr. Albert Eulenberg, the distinguished 

 neurologist of the University of Berlin, has 

 celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. 



Dr. von STRiiMPELL, professor of medicine at 

 Leipzig, has been elected rector for the ensuing 

 year. 



Sir a. Selby-Bigge, permanent secretary of 

 the British board of education, has been ap- 

 pointed special secretary to the committee of 

 the privy council for the organization and de- 

 velopment of scientific and industrial research 

 in Great Britain. 



The gold medal of the Company of Dyers, 

 London, has been awarded to Professor A. G. 

 Green, University of Leeds, and to Mr. W. 

 Johnson, a research student of the University 

 of Leeds, for research work in connection with 

 the art of dyeing. 



The trustees of the American Medicine Gold 

 Medal award have selected Surgeon-General 

 Eupert Blue, of the Public Health Service, as 

 the American physician who has done most 



for humanity in the domain of medicine during 

 1914, and the medal has been awarded to him 

 for his work in national health and sanitation. 



The governor of Indiana has appointed a 

 commission to investigate the causes and pre- 

 vention of mental deficiency in the state. The 

 medical members of the commission are Drs. 

 George F. Edenharter, superintendent of the 

 Central Indiana State Hospital, Indianapolis; 

 Samuel E. Smith, superintendent of the 

 Eastern Indiana State Hospital, Eichmond'; 

 Charles P. Emerson, dean of the Indiana Uni- 

 versity School of Medicine, Indianapolis; 

 Walter C. Van Nuys, superintendent of the 

 Indiana Village for Epileptics, Newcastle ; and 

 Dr. George S. Bliss, superintendent of the 

 State School for Feeble-minded Youths, Fort 

 Wayne. 



The British secretary of state for the col- 

 onies has appointed a committee, presided over 

 by Mr. A. D. Steel Maitland, parliamentary 

 under-secretary of state for the colonies, to 

 consider and report upon the present condition 

 and the prospects of the West African trade in 

 palm kernels and other edible and oil-pro- 

 ducing nuts and seeds and to make recom- 

 mendations for the promotion, in the United 

 Kingdom, of the industries dependent on them. 

 Mr. J. E. W. Flood, of the colonial office, is 

 secretary of the committee. 



Dr. J. A. Udden, geologist of the bureau of 

 economic geology in the University of Texas, 

 has been appointed acting director of the 

 bureau, the former director, Dr. Wm. B. 

 Phillips, having resigned to become president 

 of the Colorado School of Mines. 



Sir Aurel Stein, who has been making ex- 

 plorations in Central Asia, has arrived safely 

 as Kashgar. 



Mr. Charles P. Lodnsbury, chief of the de- 

 partment of entomology of the South African 

 Union, expected to arrive in San Francisco 

 about September 1. He has been spending 

 some time in Australia and other points en 

 route in furthering the interests of his de- 

 partment. He expects to be in America for 

 several months. 



