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the Centralhlatt who have had an opportunity 

 of seeing the declaration have withdrawn their 

 names from and resigned their editorial con- 

 nection with it. Among these are Dr. Peter 

 McBride, Dr. H. J. Davis, Dr. Logan Turner 

 and Dr. Watson-Williams. Their American 

 collaborator, Dr. Emil Mayer, has also severed 

 his connection with the journal. 



A BRONZE bas-relief — the work of Mr. S. N. 

 Babb — is about to be erected in St. Paul's 

 Cathedral in memory of Captain Scott and 

 his companions who perished in the Antarctic. 

 At the request of the committee responsible 

 for the memorial an inscription has been 

 written by Lord Curzon, which reads as fol- 

 lows: "In memory of Captain Robert Falcon 

 Scott, C.V.O., E.N., Dr. Edward Adrian 

 Wilson, Captain Lawrence E. G. Gates, Lieut. 

 Henry R. Bowers and Petty Gfficer Edgar 

 Evans, who died on their return journey from 

 the South Pole in February and March, 1912. 

 Inflexible of purpose, steadfast in courage, 

 resolute in endurance in the face of imparal- 

 leled misfortune. Their bodies are lost in 

 the Antarctic ice. But the memory of their 

 deeds is an everlasting monument." 



Dr. Donald McIntosh, professor of veteri- 

 nary science at the University of Illinois, died 

 on September 6, at his summer home in Port- 

 land, Me. Dr. Mcintosh was elected to his 

 permanent position in June, 1886. At that 

 time the total faculty of the university num- 

 bered but twenty-seven, of whom only Dr. 

 Burrill, Professor Rieker, Professor Rolfe, 

 Professor Baker and Professor Forbes are left. 



The death is announced at the age of eighty- 

 eight years of Mr. F. Manson Bailey, colonial 

 botanist for Queensland from 1881 until within 

 a short time of his death. 



Dr. J. J. T. QuENSEL, professor of patholog- 

 ical anatomy at the University of Upsala, has 

 died at the age of seventy years. 



Dr. Richard Kiepert, the German carto- 

 grapher, has died at the age of sixty-nine 

 years. 



Captain W. E. G. Atkinson and Captain 

 Arthur Kellas were killed at the Dardanelles 

 on August 6. The former was known for his 

 experimental work on varieties of wheat, the 

 latter for work in psychiatry and physiology. 



Lord Brabourne has been killed in the war 

 in the twenty-ninth year of his age. He had 

 returned recently from South America where 

 he was collecting material for the work on 

 " The Birds of South America " which he 

 was writing in conjunction with Mr. Charles 

 Chubb and of which one part had appeared. 



The Berlin correspondent of the Journal 

 of the American Medical Association writes 

 that the " Langenbeck-Virchow Haus," built 

 by and for the Berlin Medical Society and the 

 German Surgical Association was opened on 

 August 1. The ceremonial opening was post- 

 poned until after the conclusion of the war. 

 The auditorium, three stories high, has a seat- 

 ing capacity of 900. The galleries have a seat- 

 ing capacity of 335. The room is lighted by 

 day through a skylight and in the evening by 

 eighteen electric arc lamps of 25,000 candle 

 power. The auditorium is 13 meters high, 24 

 meters long and 17.5 meters wide. Artificial 

 ventilation is provided for so that the air may 

 be renewed every hour. On the first floor is a 

 smaller hall with a seating capacity of 200. 

 Both rooms are provided with epidiascopes and 

 kinetoscopes and can rapidly be darkened. 

 Small rooms, contiguous to the auditorium, are 

 provided for waiting rooms for patients, and 

 in one a small laboratory has been installed. 

 The reading room and library, containing 200,- 

 000 volumes, is on the third floor. One small 

 room contains the library bequeathed to the 

 Berlin Medical Society by Virchow. The 

 larger reading room is furnished with twenty- 

 five tables at each of which two may be seated. 

 Other small rooms are provided for such read- 

 ers as wish to work quietly and undisturbed. 

 Refreshments may be had on the first floor. 

 Stores occupy the first floor front, and will be 

 rented to concerns identified with medicine, 

 such as instrument houses, book dealers, etc. 



UNIFEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Guy's Hospital has received $125,000 from 

 the trustees of the will of the late Sir William 

 Dunn for the endowment of a lectureship in 

 pathology in the Guy's Hospital Medical 

 School, to be known as the " Sir WiUiam Dunn 

 Lectureship in Pathology." 



