October 8, 1915] 



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through the National Forests of the Eockies 

 and Cascades. 



Dr. David Marine, of the H. K. Gushing 

 Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, West- 

 em Reserve University, has returned from 

 Compiegne, France. 



Miss Mary C. Bliss, instructor in botany in 

 WeUesley College, has been granted a year's 

 leave of absence for graduate work at Kad- 

 cliffe College. 



Mr. H. M. Jennison, assistant professor of 

 botany and bacteriology in Montana State 

 College, will spend the year in research work in 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



A MEMORUL to the late Dr. Hugh Dewar 

 was unveiled in the Abercom Public Gardens, 

 Portobello, Edinburgh, on September 5. It 

 bears the following inscription : " This foun- 

 tain has been erected in remembrance of Dr. 

 Hugh Dewar, Portobello, by his grateful pa- 

 tients and numerous friends, who deplore the 

 loss in the prime of manhood of a kind friend 

 and skilful and beloved physician. His quiet 

 charity was known to the needy. 1866-1914." 



Dr. William Watson, from 1865 to 18Y3 

 professor of mechanical engineering and de- 

 scriptive geometry in the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, since 1884 recording secre- 

 tary of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, has died in his eighty-second year. 



Howard A. Nelson, a graduate student at 

 the University of Minnesota, was drowned 

 while engaged in work on the state and federal 

 geological survey near Ely. 



Professor Kunckel, decent for chemistry 

 at Eostock, has died at the age of forty-seven 

 years. 



By the will of the late Dr. Dudley P. Allen, 

 formerly professor of surgery in the Western 

 Eeserve University, $200,000 has been set aside 

 as a permanent endowment fund for the Cleve- 

 land Medical Library. 



The library of the University of Washing- 

 ton has acquired a complete set of the Philo- 

 sophical Magazine from its establishment in 

 1798 at a cost of approximately $1,000. 



The war is responsible for the disappear- 

 ance of two medical papers, the Allegemeine 

 Wiener medizinische Zeitung, established sixty 

 years ago, and the Prager medizinische 

 Wochenschrift, established forty years ago. 



The awards granted to the Bausch & Lomb 

 Optical Co., at the Panama-Pacific Exposition 

 aggregate four " grand prix," or highest 

 awards, one medal of honor and one gold 

 medal. The award in each case was the high- 

 est prize granted. The four classes in which 

 Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. received the 

 " grand prix " are optical instruments, balop- 

 ticons, engineering instruments and range 

 finders. The first division, called optical in- 

 struments, covers seven classes and covers the 

 company's ophthalmic lenses, microscopes, 

 parabolic and Mangin mirrors, field glasses, 

 microtomes and magnifiers. A medal of honor 

 was awarded Bausch & Lomb photomicro- 

 graphic apparatus; their photographic lenses 

 received the gold medal. 



The New York State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse has received a valuable gift of 120 

 mounted game and water birds, and 21 

 mounted mammals from Congressman Peter 

 G. Gerry, and his brother, Eobert L. Gerry, 

 both of Providence, Ehode Island. This col- 

 lection was secured for the college through the 

 interest and help of Dr. William T. Hornaday, 

 director of the Zoological Garden at Bronx 

 Park. Dr. Charles C. Adams, forest zoologist 

 of the college, had presented to Dr. Hornaday 

 earlier the urgent need of the college for 

 mounted birds and mammals. Soon after this 

 Mr. Eobert L. Gerry wrote to Dr. Hornaday 

 about the disposal of the Gerry game collec- 

 tion, as it wiU be called by the college, and Dr. 

 Hornaday recommended that the collection be 

 turned over to it. Such a collection of mam- 

 mals and birds is of very great value in train- 

 ing foresters, not only to enable them to know 

 at sight the important game and water birds 

 and forest mammals, but also as an aid to an 

 appreciation of their relation to the forest. In 

 some localities in the west the Federal Forest 

 Service wardens are required also to be game 

 wardens. The administrator of forest lands 



