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the New Yorh Medical Journal and prominent 

 for his contributions to medical organizations. 



The death of Dr. Charpy, professor of anat- 

 omy at the Faculte de medecine de Toulouse, 

 is announced. 



The it. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination to fill a vacancy in 

 the position of metallurgical chemist in the 

 Bureau of Mines, for field duty, at a salary of 

 $3,000 per annum. 



We learn, from Nature that the geological 

 and archeological collections made by the late 

 Eev. E. Maule Cole, all the objects of which 

 are connected veith East Yorkshire, have been 

 presented to the Hull Municipal Museum by 

 Lady Philadelphia Cole. 



The third National Conservation Congress 

 ■will be held in Kansas City, September 25, 26 

 and 27, 1911. The general objects of the Na- 

 tional Conservation Congress as set forth in 

 its constitution are (1) To provide for discus- 

 sion of the resources of the United States as 

 the foundation for the prosperity of the peo- 

 ple. (2) To furnish definite information con- 

 cerning the resources and their development, 

 use and preservation. (3) To afford an agency 

 through vphich the people of the country may 

 frame policies and principles affecting the 

 conservation and utilization of their re- 

 sources, to be put into effect by their repre- 

 sentatives in state and federal governments. 



The seventh International Esperanto Con- 

 gress began at Antwerp on August 21 with 

 1,700 delegates, including 60 from America. 

 The U. S. departments of state, war and com- 

 merce are represented, respectively, by Edwin 

 C. Reed, secretary of the Esperanto Associa- 

 tion of North America; Dr. H. W. Teamans, 

 vice-president of the American Association, 

 and E. C. Kokeloy. Dr. Yeamans, who was 

 president of the sixth congress, held in Wash- 

 ington last year, opened the convention. One 

 of the features of the first session was the 

 ovation accorded to Dr. Ludwig L. Zamenhof, 

 of Poland, the inventor of Esperanto, when 

 the Spanish consul presented to him on be- 

 half of King AKonso the Cross of the Order 

 of Isabella. 



The University of Chicago Magazine gives 

 some details in regard to the Otho S. A. 

 Sprague Memorial Institute which was or- 

 ganized early in 1911, and is supported by a 

 fund donated by Mr. Otho S. A. Sprague, for 

 many years a resident of Chicago, who died 

 two years ago in California. The donor desig- 

 nated his brother, A. A. Sprague, his own son, 

 A. A. Sprague, 2d, and Messrs. A. C. Bartlett, 

 J. P. Wilson, Charles L. Hutchinson, Byron 

 L. Smith, Martin A. Eyerson, and Dr. Frank 

 Billings as trustees of the fund. The direc- 

 tors have decided upon medical research as 

 the chief object for which the income of the 

 fund shall be expended, and have elected H. 

 Gideon Wells, associate professor of pathol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago and Rush 

 Medical College, to direct the research in 

 medical problems. The work will be done in 

 cooperation with existing institutions, namely, 

 the University of Chicago, Rush Medical Col- 

 lege, the Presbyterian Hospital, and the Chil- 

 dren's Memorial Hospital of Chicago. The 

 institute will command a definite number of 

 beds in the Presbyterian Hospital for the 

 study of any disease under investigation. An 

 advisory council has been appointed, consist- 

 ing of Dr. Frank Billings, Professor E. R. 

 Le Count, Professor Ludvig Hektoen, head of 

 the department of pathology and bacteriology. 

 Dr. James B. Herrick, Edwin 0. Jordan, pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology. Dr. Joseph Miller, and 

 Professor Julius Stieglitz, of the department 

 of chemistry. Dr. Wells has already organized 

 his force of workers, in the laboratories of the 

 University of Chicago and Rush Medical Col- 

 lege, and work is already under way. Among 

 those already appointed members of the re- 

 search staff are Dr. E. T. Woodyatt, Dr. 

 Evarts Graham, Mr. H. J. Corper and Miss 

 Maude Slye. At an early date also several 

 fellowships will be awarded to provide for in- 

 vestigation in various problems concerning 

 human health and disease. 



Statistics compiled by the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey show that the production of 

 spelter or metallic zinc from ore for the first 

 six months of 1911 was 140,196 short tons, a 

 gain of more than 5,000 tons over haK the 



