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will have charge of the scientific research lab- 

 oratories of the hospital. 



Dr. Thomas B. Shea, Boston, has been ap- 

 pointed chief of the medical division of the 

 department of health. Dr. H. Mulloney, form- 

 erly a member of the Boston Board of Health, 

 has been appointed a deputy health commis- 

 sioner. Dr. Francis H. Slack, formerly secre- 

 tary of the board of health, has been made 

 deputy in the bacteriologic department. 



F. L. Drayton has been appointed assistant 

 botanist at the Canadian Experimental Farms, 

 and George W. Muir, assistant animal hus- 

 bandman at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Col- 

 lege. J. A. Sinclair has succeeded J. Stand- 

 ish in the veterinary department, and 0. A. 

 Good has been appointed assistant entomolo- 

 gist. 



Dr. Friedrich Hildebrandt, formerly pro- 

 fessor of botany at Freiburg, has celebrated his 

 eightieth birthday. 



The "Weber-Parkes prize of the Eoyal Col- 

 lege of Physicians for 1915 has been awarded 

 to Dr. Noel Dean Bardswell. 



A. MiJLLER, of Berlin, who has perfected the 

 accumulator used in submarine boats, has been 

 made doctor of engineering by the Technical 

 School of Hanover. 



A BRONZE bust of the late Dr. S. Weir 

 Mitchell has been presented by Mr. and Mrs. 

 Walter D. Ladd to the Jesup Memorial Li- 

 brary in Bar Harbor. 



Dr. Edward Nelson Tobey, of St. Louis, 

 was a passenger on the fruit steamer Maro- 

 wijne, which has not been heard from since Au- 

 gust 13, and is believed to have been wrecked 

 by a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or the 

 Caribbean Sea on that date. Dr. Tobey was 

 one of the medical party sent by the St. Louis 

 University to British Honduras at the begin- 

 ning of the summer. He was a lecturer in the 

 medical department of the university and an 

 assistant city bacteriologist. 



Charles Hallet Wing died on September 

 13 in his eightieth year. He was born in Bos- 

 ton and was graduated from Harvard College. 

 Li 1870 he became professor of chemistry at 

 Cornell University, from which place he went 



in 1874 to Boston to accept a like position at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 where he remained for ten years. 



John E. Sinclair, professor emeritus of 

 higher mathematics at the Worcester Poly- 

 technic Institute, died on September 12. He 

 was born in 1838 and attended the Exeter 

 Latin School and later the Chandler School 

 at Dartmouth College. After he was gradu- 

 ated he went to Adrian, Mich., to teach, and 

 later to St. Louis, Mo. In 1863 he returned 

 to Dartmouth as professor of mathematics and 

 was awarded the degree of Ph.D. there. In 

 1869 he went to Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute as professor of higher mathematics, from 

 which position he retired six years ago as pro- 

 fessor emeritus. 



Professor B. Fischer, director of the hy- 

 gienic laboratory of the University of Kiel, 

 has died in one of the military hospitals at the 

 age of sixty-three years. 



Professor M. Eothmann, of Berlin, died on 

 August 12, aged forty-seven years. He is 

 known for his work on the localization of brain 

 functions and was responsible for the estab- 

 lishment of the anthropoid station in Ten- 

 eriffe. 



G. Cattaneo, for half a century professor 

 of surgery at the University of Pavia, has died 

 at the age of eighty-three years. He be- 

 queathed most of his property to found an in- 

 stitution there for treatment of the maimed 

 and crippled. 



As a piece of constructive work in conser- 

 vation, the New York State College of For- 

 estry, at Syracuse, has begun this summer an 

 ecological survey of Oneida Lake. Special at- 

 tention will be given to the fishes. Oneida 

 Lake has an area of 81 square miles, a maxi- 

 mum depth of 55 feet, a length of 21 miles and 

 an average width of about 6 miles. It has a 

 large area of shallow water, is bordered by ex- 

 tensive swamps, abounds in fish, and a state 

 fish hatchery is located on it at Constantia. 

 Mr. Frank C. Baker, recently acting director 

 of the Chicago Academy of Science, a well- 

 known specialist on molluscs, will study the 

 relation of molluscs to the feeding and breed- 



