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present interned in Holland. He had served 

 in the war as a major of artillery in the Belgian 

 army, and took part in the retreat from 

 Antwerp. 



Dr. Warmbold, of Berlin, has been ap- 

 pointed rector of the Agricultural School at 

 Hohenheim. 



Professor Schmidt, of Marburg, has been 

 awarded the doctorate of engineering by the 

 Brunswick School of Technology, in recogni- 

 tion of his services to pharmaceutical chemis- 

 try. 



Professor Oppenheim, of Berlin, has been 

 made an honorary member of the Buenos Aires 

 Society for Psychiatry and Neurology. 



Henry G. &iight, dean of the Wyoming 

 College of Agriculture and director of the sta- 

 tion, O. L. Prien, veterinarian, and J. E. 

 McWilliams, acting animal husbandman, have 

 been granted a year's leave of absence begin- 

 ning September 1, to be spent in study at the 

 University of Illinois, Northwestern Univer- 

 sity and the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 respectively. President C. A. Duniway, of the 

 university, will act as director of the station 

 during this period. 



We learn from Nature that a munitions in- 

 ventions branch of the British ministry has 

 been constituted, with Mr. E. W. Moir as 

 comptroller. The branch will have the duty 

 of considering projects for inventions relating 

 to munitions for warfare on land or matters 

 appertaining thereto. The comptroller and 

 staff of the branch will be assisted in their 

 work of examination, and, if thought neces- 

 sary, in the investigation and development of 

 any projects that may be considered worthy of 

 being developed, by a panel of honorary scien- 

 tific and other experts. The following have 

 accepted Mr. Lloyd George's invitation to act 

 on this panel: Colonel Goold Adams, Mr. 

 Horace Darwin, Mr. M. Duckham, Mr. W. 

 Duddell, Dr. S. Z. de Ferranti, Dr. R. T. 

 Glazebrook, Sir E. Hadfield, Dr. J. S. Hal- 

 dane. Colonel N. B. Heffernan, Sir A. Ken- 

 nedy, Mr. F. W. Lanchester, Dr. A. P. Laurie, 

 Professor Vivian B. Lewes, Mr. M. Longridge, 

 Mr. W. H. Maw, Sir Hiram Maxim, Captain 



Moore, Sir H. Norman, Mr. F. G. Ogilvie, 

 Major-General G. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Mr. W. 

 Stokes, Mr. J. Swinburne, Sir J. J. Thomson, 

 Mr. A. J. Walter, Mr. C. J. Wilson. 



The president of the British board of agri- 

 culture and fisheries has appointed a com- 

 mittee consisting of Lord Middleton, chair- 

 man, Mr. Henry Chaplin, Sir Ailwyn Fel- 

 lowes, the Hon. Alexander Parker, Major Sir 

 M. Burrell, Bart., Sir G. Greenall, Bart., and 

 Captain M. S. Adye to consider and advise the 

 board as to the steps which should be taken to 

 secure the production and maintenance in 

 England and Wales of a supply of horses 

 suitable and sufficient for military purposes. 

 Mr. E. B. Wilson, of the board of agriculture 

 and fisheries, has been appointed secretary of 

 the committee. 



Dr. Herman Fischer, of the German Hos- 

 pital, New York, will head an expedition, con- 

 sisting of twenty surgeons and nurses, to be 

 sent under the auspices of the " American 

 Physicians Committee" to Germany and 

 Austria. The expedition acts in cooperation 

 with the American Red Cross. 



Julius von Payer, the distinguished polar 

 explorer and artist, has died in Vienna at the 

 age of seventy-three years. He was a member 

 of the Austrian Antarctic expedition which in 

 1871 discovered Franz Joseph Land. 



Professor Guido Goldschmiedt, director of 

 the first chemical institute of the University 

 of Vienna, well known for his work in organic 

 chemistry, died, after a prolonged illness, on 

 August 6, at the age of sixty-five years. Pro- 

 fessor and Mrs. Goldschmiedt visited this 

 country in 1912, at the time of the Eighth 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 

 and made many friends in scientific circles. 



There have been killed in the war Dr. Emil 

 Lask, associate professor of philosophy at 

 Heidelberg; Dr. Waldemar Conrad, decent for 

 philosophy at Halle ; Dr. Hugo Schultze, scien- 

 tific assistant in the Reichsanstalt ; Professor 

 Bartel, director of the Archeological Institute 

 of Frankfort ; Dr. Deimler, decent in the Munich 

 School of Technology, and Dr. O. Bondy, 

 decent for gynecology in the University of 



