OCTOBEK 29, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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Professor Eberth, formerly professor of 

 pathologic anatomy in Halle, discoverer of the 

 typhoid bacillus, celebrated his eightieth birth- 

 day on September 21. 



The officers elected by the Medical Eesearch 

 Club of the University of Illinois for the 

 year 1915-16 are: Dr. J. J. Moore, president, 

 and Dr. Roy L. Moody, secretary. 



Dr. Theodore Mortensen, curator of the 

 National Museum at Copenhagen, is in Los 

 Angeles conducting scientific research as a 

 guest of the biology department of the Uni- 

 versity of Southern California. 



Dr. Daniel J. McCarthy, professor of med- 

 ical jurisprudence in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has returned from the American 

 Ambulance Hospital in Paris and will make 

 a report on th>:: influence of the war on the 

 nervous system and mental future of the sol- 

 diers. 



Margaret Harwood (EadclifEe, '07), later 

 at Harvard Observatory until June, 1912, and 

 since then, by annual award, astronomical 

 fellow of the Nantucket Maria Mitchell As- 

 sociation, has been appointed for an indefinite 

 term fellow of the association and director of 

 its observatory. This year, which is the 

 " quadrennial " provided for in the fellowship, 

 Miss Harwood is studying at the University 

 of California. Her new year at the Nantucket 

 Observatory will begin June 15, 1916. A five 

 hundred dollar Maria Mitchell fellowship for 

 research work at Harvard Observatory will be 

 available for the three years 1916 to 1919. 



Professor H. Eies, of the department of 

 geology, of Cornell University, will give a 

 course of ten lectures on economic geology, at 

 Columbia University during the first term, 

 in the absence of Professor J. P. Kemp, who 

 is absent on leave. 



At the November meeting of the Central 

 Association of Science and Mathematics 

 Teachers, Professor L. C. Karpinsky, of the 

 University of Michigan, will give a paper on 

 the story of algebra. After this paper an 

 hour will be devoted to the discussion of the 

 place of the history of mathematics in ele- 

 mentary science. 



Professor Heinrich O. Hofman, acting head 

 of the department of mining and metallurgy at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ad- 

 dressed on October 20 the Pranklin Institute 

 in Philadelphia on " The Metallurgy of 

 Copper." 



The opening address at the college of medi- 

 cine, University of Elinois, was delivered by 

 Dr. Wm. H. Welker, assistant professor of 

 physiological chemistry. 



In his annual report. President Charles F. 

 Thwing, of Western Eeserve University, pays 

 tributes to Dr. Dudley P. Allen and Dr. Hunter 

 H. Powell, referred to as having performed 

 distinguished services as members of the 

 faculty of the School of Medicine. President 

 Thwing says: 



Among the gifts included in the donation of 

 $1,000,000 for the endowment of the School of 

 Medicine was the sum of $40,000 given by mem- 

 bers of this board with the request that this sum 

 be used in some form to give aid to the work in 

 which Dr. Powell was interested. I therefore ven- 

 ture to renew a recommendation made in a previ- 

 ous report that a fund be formally established to 

 bear the name of Dr. Powell, of which the income 

 shall be used for the support of the department 

 to which he gave his life. To the $40,000 which 

 should be thus set aside might fittingly be added 

 at least $10,000. I also beg leave to express the 

 hope that, in recognition of Dr. Allen's great 

 service rendered to the cause of surgery in and 

 through the School of Medicine, a special fund 

 may be secured to bear his name, the income of 

 which shall be used for research in the science of 

 surgery, or for the support of its practise. 



At the meeting of the faculty of the Cor- 

 nell University Medical College held at the 

 College on Friday, October 15, 1915, the fol- 

 lowing memorial was read and adopted: 



Austin Flint, M.D., LL.D., professor emeritus 

 in the Cornell University Medical College, passed 

 away September 22, 1915, in the eightieth year of 

 his age. A student of Claude Bernard and of 

 Eobin, he early achieved distinction. Thus, in 

 1862, at the age of twenty-five, he discovered a 

 substance in human feces which he called ster- 

 corin, recognizing it as a derivative of cholesterin. 

 This discovery was awarded honorable mention 

 by the Institute of France. It did not receive full 

 recognition because of an unfavorable pronounce- 



