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Hopkins University, have returned from a 

 seven months' tour of South and Central 

 America, bringing with them a valuable col- 

 lection of ores. 



Dr. Walter Penck, decent for geology at 

 Leipzig, has accepted a chair of geology at 

 Constantinople. 



Dr. Frederick Parker Gay, professor of 

 pathology in the University of California, has 

 been chosen by his colleagues in the faculty of 

 the University of California as faculty re- 

 search lecturer for 1916, and will give this 

 annual public address on the results of his own 

 research in some special field at the University 

 of California on the evening of Charter Day, 

 March 23, 1916. His selection was in recog- 

 nition of his recent work in developing im- 

 proved methods for the treatment of pneu- 

 monia, a new method for the treatment of 

 typhoid fever by the use of a sensitized vac- 

 cine, his researches, in collaboration with Dr. 

 Edith J. Claypole, in the field of immuniza- 

 tion against typhoid, and his development in 

 association with Dr. J. N. Force of a skin 

 test as to immunity against typhoid. 



A SERIES of free public lectures for amateur 

 gardeners and those interested in plant growth 

 has been established at the University of 

 Pennsylvania. The lectures are being given on 

 Wednesday evenings by Dr. John M. Mac- 

 farlane, professor of botany and director of the 

 botanical gardens of the university. 



Professor Egbert A. Millikan, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, addressed the Washington 

 University chapter of Sigma Xi in St. Louis 

 on November 30 on the subject "Atomism in 

 Modern Physics." 



A BUST of Alphonse Bertillon has been un- 

 veiled in the Paris Bureau of Anthropometry. 



Dr. a. Alexander Smith for many years 

 professor of medicine in the Bellevue Hospital 

 Medical College, and in the combined Uni- 

 versity and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 

 lege, died on December 13, in his sixty-ninth 

 year. 



Dr, Alexander T. Ormond, president of 

 Grove City College, formerly professor of 

 philosophy at Princeton University and a dis- 



tinguished writer on philosophical subjects, 

 died on December 18, aged sixty-seven years. 

 Lieut.-Col. Charles S. Bromwell, head of 

 the Army Engineer Corps at Honolulu, died 

 by suicide on December 10 at the age of forty- 

 six years. He had served as superintendent of 

 public buildings in Washington and as mili- 

 tary aid to President Roosevelt. During the 

 past year he had been in Honolulu, where he 

 was in charge of the engineering work in con- 

 nection with the improvement of the harbor 

 and the construction of the new breakwater at 

 Hilo. 



Dr. Peter Vogel, professor of mathematics 

 in the artillery and engineering school at Mu- 

 nich, has died at the age of fifty-eight years. 



Dr. Friedrich Quods, assistant in the chem- 

 ical laboratory of the Charlottenberg Tech- 

 nical Institute, has been killed in the war. 



Surrogate Cohalan has upheld objections 

 by Mrs. Lida Pope Colburn to the will of her 

 husband, Richard T. Colburn, on the ground 

 that the laws of the state of New York do not 

 permit a testator whose wife is living to be- 

 queath more than one half of his estate to 

 educational or scientific institutions. He died 

 on December 9, 1914, and left the bulk of his 

 estate of $297,537 to the Carnegie Research 

 Fund [Carnegie Institution of Washington] 

 and the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science for original research in 

 " physical or psychic demonstrable sciences." 

 Mr. Colburn gave an annuity of $1,200 to his 

 widow, and said he gave her no more " in order 

 not to tempt her into unsound investments, 

 speculations or lures of fortune hunters, char- 

 latans or parasites. A modest scale of expendi- 

 ture is my injunction to her." The two insti- 

 tutions will divide half the estate and each will 

 receive about $75,000. 



At the annual meeting of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, on December 20, at the 

 Hotel Manhattan, through the courtesy of the 

 telephone company, there was arranged a some- 

 what extensive program of communication with 

 the Pacific coast. This included photographs 

 of the line and of its construction, conversa- 

 tion between officers of the California Academy 



