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his home in Pasadena, CaL, on October 11, 

 aged sixty-four years. 



Dr. a. Oppel, professor of anatomy at the 

 University of Halle, has died, aged fifty-three 

 years. 



The winter meeting of the American Insti- 

 tute of Chemical Engineers will be held in 

 Baltimore, Md., from January 12 to 15. The 

 date selected is somewhat later than usual be- 

 cause the summer meeting was held late in 

 August instead of in June, as is customary. 

 Baltimore is the center of a considerable num- 

 ber of important chemical industries. Excur- 

 sions to a number of these will be arranged. 

 The experimental laboratories of the Johns 

 Hopkins University and the ISTaval Academy 

 at Annapolis, Md., will also be visited. A 

 number of papers on recent and important 

 developments in some of the chemical indus- 

 tries of the United States are being arranged 

 for. 



The program of the eleventh lecture course 

 of the Harvey Society, to be given on Satur- 

 day evenings at the New York Academy of 

 Medicine, is as follows : 



October 16. — Professor C. W. Stiles, Hygienic 

 Laboratory, Washington, D. C. "Recent Studies 

 on Scliool Children, with Special Eeference to 

 Hookworm Diseases and Sanitation." 



November 6. — Professor A. J. Carlson, Univer- 

 sity of Chicago. ' ' Recent Contributions to the 

 Physiology of the Stomach." 



November 27. — Dr. Eugene F. Du Bois, Cornell 

 University. ' ' The Respiration Calorimeter in Clin- 

 ical Medicine. ' ' 



December 18. — Professor Florence R. Sabin, 

 Johns Hopkins University. ' ' The Method of 

 Growth of the Lymphatic System. ' ' 



January 15. — Dr. Donald D. Van Slyke, The 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. ' ' The 

 Present Significance of the Amino Acids in Physi- 

 ology and Pathology." 



February 5. — Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, The Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research. "Spi- 

 rochetes. ' ' 



February 26. — Professor Warfield -T. Longcope, 

 Columbia University. ' ' The Susceptibility of 

 Man to Foreign Proteins." 



March 11. — Professor Henry A. Christian, Har- 

 vard University. "Some Phases of the Nephritic 

 Problem. ' ' 



March 25.— Dr. R, T. Woodyatt, University of 

 Chicago. ' ' A Conception of Diabetes. ' ' 



April 8. — Professor Stanley R. Benedict, Cornell 

 University. "Uric Acid in its relations to Meta- 

 bolism." 



April 29.— Professor William H. Welch, Johns 

 Hopkins University. "Medical Education in the 

 United States." 



The following specimens have been stolen 

 from one of the exhibits in the mines building 

 of the Panama-Pacific International Expo- 

 sition at San Francisco : Eough diamond, 4.39 

 carats; rough diamond, 0.72 carat; facetted 

 black diamond, 17.99 carats; extremely hard 

 diamond, rudely polished; gold specimen from 

 Transylvania; gold nugget; platinum nugget. 

 Any information leading to the recovery of 

 these specimens may be communicated to Pro- 

 fessor A. F. Eogers, Department of Geology, 

 Stanford University, California. 



It is stated in Nature that on September 23, 

 a fire was discovered in the Technical School 

 buildings, Market Street, Newton Abbot, and 

 although the firemen succeeded in confining 

 the outbreak to one room, much damage was 

 done to the school museum, which included 

 the life-long collection of the late Mr. W. 

 Vicary, of The Priory, Exeter, bequeathed 

 some years ago to his nephew, Mr. W. Vicary, 

 chairman of the governors of the Technical 

 School. The collection was considered to be one 

 of the finest out of London, and many speci- 

 mens were believed to be unique. It included 

 thousands of specimens of minerals, some being 

 very fine and rare. There were also some fine 

 old flints from Dartmoor, stone implements, 

 and a valuable collection of corals. Specimens 

 from all parts of the world were included in 

 the collection, and many can not be replaced. 

 There was also an extensive collection of 

 butterflies of numerous varieties, and some 

 magnificent examples of sampler work, some 

 dating from the sixteenth century. The mas- 

 sive cases, valued at about £300, were com- 

 pletely destroyed, and it is probable that the 

 bulk of the collection is rendered useless by 

 the great heat. Other things lost are the rec- 

 ords of the school from 1868, the year of its 



