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pteridophytes. His work will have a particu- 

 lar bearing on certain problems in the study 

 of plant life that are being worked out in 

 North Dakota. 



Pkopessoe Henry E. Crampton, of Co- 

 lumbia University and the American Museum 

 of Natural History, is at present on leave of 

 absence and is taking part in an expedition 

 which has penetrated the interior of South 

 America in search of zoological material. 



Dr. J. George Adami, professor of pathology 

 in McGill University, has gone to Europe 

 to attend the Tuberculosis Conference in 

 Rome. 



Dr. p. G. Spinelli, professor of gynecology 

 in the University of Naples, is making a study 

 of hospitals in the United States. 



Messrs. V. Kotchetkoff, of the depart- 

 ment of agriculture, Moscow, and D. Rood- 

 zinski, director of the Selection Station of the 

 Moscow Agricultural Institute, spent several 

 days recently in a study of the work of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry and especially the 

 work of the bureau farm at Arlington, Va., 

 as an introduction to a six months' investiga- 

 tion of agricultural methods and conditions 

 in the United States. 



The Harvey Society has secured the follow- 

 ing distinguished lecturers for the coming 

 season: Professor W. B. Cannon, of Harvard 

 Medical School; Professor R. H. Chittenden, 

 of Yale University ; Dr. Simon Flexner, of the 

 Rockefeller Institute; Professor H. S. Jen- 

 nings, of Johns Hopkins University; Pro- 

 fessor Albrecht Kossel, of Heidelberg Univer- 

 sity; Dr. H. E. Osborn, of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History; Dr. J. J. Putnam, 

 of Harvard Medical School; Professor T. W. 

 Richards, of Harvard University; Professor 

 W. T. Sedgwick, of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology; Dr. W. S. Thayer, of the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School, and Professor 

 Verworn. The following lectures will be de- 

 livered during the month of October : " Local 

 Specific Therapy of Infections," by Dr. Simon 

 Flexner, on the 7th ; " The Chemical Struc- 

 ture of the Cell," by Professor Albrecht Kos- 



sel, on the 14th ; " Anesthesia," by Professor 

 Verworn, on the 28th. 



Mr. J. R. Mortimer, of Driffield, England, 

 known for his work in prehistoric archeology, 

 died on August 20, in his eighty-seventh 

 year. 



Dr. G. F. Blandford, formerly lecturer on 

 psychological medicine at St. George's Hos- 

 pital, London, and known for his work on in- 

 sanity, has died at the age of eighty-two years. 



Dr. Emanuel von Hibler, professor of 

 pathological anatomy in the University of 

 Innsbruck, has died from sepsis contracted in 

 the post-mortem room. 



Dr. Georges Dieulafot, formerly professor 

 of clinical medicine at the University of 

 Paris, has died at the age of sixty-two years. 



The death is also announced of Professor 

 Swarts, of the University of Genth, known for 

 his contributions to chemistry. 



Dr. Franz Czermak has bequeathed a mil- 

 lion crowns to the Vienna Academy of Sci- 

 ences without restriction as to its use. 



A settlement has been arrived at in re- 

 gard to the question of the South Kensington 

 site by the terms of which the Natural His- 

 tory Museum retains all the land allotted to it 

 in 1899, and the boundary then agreed upon 

 is not to be disturbed. The Science Museum 

 will be proceeded with on the land to the 

 north of the boundary of the Natural History 

 Museum. 



Nature reports that at the National Con- 

 gress of Applied Chemistry, which is to be 

 held at Turin from September 23 to 28, a gen- 

 eral discussion will take place on the fiscal 

 and customs practise in regard to the indus- 

 trial use of alcohol, and Professor Miolati 

 will give an experimental demonstration of 

 the use of atmospheric nitrogen for industrial 

 purposes. 



It is stated in the British Medical Journal 

 that the third Congress of the International 

 Surgical Society will be held at Brussels at 

 the end of the month. The members will be 

 received on Monday evening, September 25, 



