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[N. S. Vol. XLII. No. 1093 



Professor W. W. "Watts; Editor of the Jour- 

 nal, L. J. Spencer; Ordinary Members of 

 Council, Dr. J. J. Harris Teall, F. K. Asli- 

 eroft, Professor H. Hilton, A. Russell, W. 

 Campbell Smith, Dr. J. W. Evans, Dr. P. H. 

 Hatch, J. A. Howe, T. V. Barker, G. Barrow, 

 Dr. C. G. Cullis, P. P. Mennell. 



Dr. W. p. M. Goss, dean of the College of 

 Engineering of the University of Illinois, has 

 made a final report to the Chicago Association 

 of Commerce on his investigation in railroad 

 smoke abatement. With this report Dean 

 Goss finished his labors as chief engineer of 

 the expert commission that was appointed five 

 years ago, after having devoted two years to it, 

 being on leave of absence from the university 

 in order to serve the commission. 



The annual gardeners' banquet in St. Louis, 

 provided for in Mr. Shaw's will, was held on 

 November 19 at the Liederkranz Club. Mr. 

 John K. M. L. Parquhar, of Boston, president 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 and past president of the Society of American 

 Plorists and Ornamental Horticulturists was 

 the speaker of the evening. 



Dr. Joseph E. Pogue, associate professor of 

 geology and mineralogy of Northwestern Uni- 

 versity, will lecture before the Geographic So- 

 ciety of Chicago on December 16, his subject 

 being " Through the Heart of Colombia." 



At the recent National Conference on Mar- 

 keting and Farm Credits held in Chicago, Dr. 

 F. H. Newell, head of the department of civil 

 engineering at the University of Illinois, gave 

 an address in which he urged the adoption of 

 a system of rural credits which would meet the 

 needs of farmers operating irrigated lands. 



The Long Fox lecture was delivered by Dr. 

 Richardson Cross, at the University of Bristol, 

 on December 1, on " The Evolution of the 

 Sense of Sight." 



The untimely death of Mr. Chas. F. Adams, 

 well-known physics teacher of Detroit (Octo- 

 ber 29, 1914), has been the inspiration for 

 many to join in a college scholarship fund in 

 his honor. The Charles Francis Adams Memo- 



rial Scholarship Fund raised by citizens, 

 teachers and former students, now amounts to 

 $1,300, but it is expected wiU reach $1,500. 

 Mr. R. V. Allman, former instructor in the 

 University of Michigan, succeeds Mr. Adams. 

 The Detroit Central High School is one of the 

 pioneers giving a full year's junior college 

 work in biology, chemistry, physics and lan- 

 guages, now accepted by the University of 

 Michigan. 



The medical staff and patients of the Work- 

 men's Circle Sanatorium, Liberty, have adopted 

 resolutions regretting the death of Dr. Edward 

 Livingston Trudeau, who had for thirty-one 

 years worked untiringly and unselfishly in the 

 interest of the consumptive workingmen and 

 women, and expressing their appreciation of 

 his work by conferring on the hospital build- 

 ing of the Workmen's Circle Sanatorium, the 

 name " Trudeau." 



At a meeting of the directors of the Wash- 

 ington Association for the Prevention of 

 Tuberculosis, resolutions were drafted paying 

 tribute to the unselfish character of General 

 George M. Sternberg, late president of the 

 association, and to his valuable contributions 

 to preventive medicine. 



Orville Adelbert Derbt, distinguished for 

 his work in geology, died by suicide in Rio 

 Janeiro, on November 2Y. He had been chief 

 of the geological survey of Brazil since 1907 

 and previously since 1875 connected with the 

 survey and the National Musemn, except for 

 two years when he was instructor in Cornell 

 University. He was born in New York State 

 in 1851. 



Dr. Charles Callaway, of Cheltenham, who 

 was one of the pioneers in the study of the 

 Archsean rocks of the British Isles, has died 

 at the age of seventy-seven years. 



Nature records the death, in his eighty-sixth 

 year, of Mr. Charles Fortey, who was for many 

 years honorary curator of the Ludlow Natural 

 History Society's Museum. 



Mr. J. Sinclair, author of works on stock- 

 breeding and agriculture, died on November 5 

 at the age of sixty-three years. 



