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[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 975 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 In honor of Professor John Milne and to 

 continue his work in seismology, it is pro- 

 posed to collect a fund for endowment. His 

 seismological observatory will probably be 

 moved from the Isle of Wight to Oxford. 



The Hanbury medal of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society will be presented to Dr. P. B. Power, 

 director of the Wellcome Eesearch Labora- 

 tories, London, on the occasion of the opening 

 of the School of Pharmacy in October, when 

 Dr. Power will give the inaugural address. 



Dr. Richard P. Strong, professor of trop- 

 ical diseases in the Harvard Medical School; 

 Dr. Ernest E. Tyzzer, assistant professor of 

 pathology and director of cancer research at 

 Harvard, and Dr. C. T. Brues, of the Bussey 

 Institution, have returned from the expedition, 

 on which they started on April 30, to study 

 tropical diseases in Peru and Ecuador. 



Professor von Noorden has resigned his 

 chair in the University of Vienna and will 

 return to Frankfort. 



The council of the University of Leeds has 

 accepted with regret the resignation of Mr. 

 Eoberts Beaiimont, professor of textile indus- 

 tries, and has placed on record its appreciation 

 of his services lasting over a period of thirty- 

 four years. 



Dr. J. L. Prevost has retired from the chair 

 of physiology at Geneva on reaching the limit 

 of age. 



Dr. Louise Pearce, of the staff of the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been appointed 

 assistant to Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research. Dr. 

 Pranz Knoop, associate professor of physio- 

 logical chemistry at Freiburg, has declined a 

 call to the institute. 



The Glasgow City Corporation has arranged 

 to send on a tour to this country Mr. W. W. 

 Lachie, the engineer of the electricity depart- 

 ment, together with the convener of the elec- 

 tricity committee, for the purpose of collecting 

 information regarding the cost and operation 

 of the largest electrical installations of this 

 country. 



Dr. Mario Piacenza, the Italian Alpinist, 

 has succeeded in reaching the summit of 

 Mount ISTumzkum, a peak 22,000 feet high in 

 the Himalayas. 



The death is announced, in his fifty-first 

 year, of Professor Edwin Goldmann, honorary 

 professor of surgery at Freiburg. 



Dr. C. M. Figueira, long professor of clin- 

 ical medicine of Lisbon, and one of the few 

 scientific men of Portugal, has died at the age 

 of eighty-four years. 



Dr. Carl Basch, of Prague, known for his 

 work in physiology, has died at the age of 

 fifty-four years. 



The forty-first annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Public Health Association will be held in 

 Colorado Springs, Colo., from September 9 to 

 13, under the presidency of Dr. Rudolph Her- 

 ing, of New York. The work of the associa- 

 tion has been divided into the following sec- 

 tions: Laboratory Section, Professor F. P. 

 Gorham, of Providence, R. I., chairman, and 

 Dr. D. L. Harris, of St. Louis, secretary; Sec- 

 tion in Vital Statistics, Dr. W. S. Rankin, of 

 Raleigh, N. C, chairman, and Mr. David S. 

 South, of Trenton, N. J., secretary; Section of 

 Public Health Officials, Dr. P. M. Hall, of 

 Minneapolis, chairman, and Dr. E. C. Levy, of 

 Richmond, Va., secretary; Section in Sanitary 

 Engineering, Colonel J. L. Ludlow, of Win- 

 ston-Salem, chairman, and Dr. H. D. Pease, 

 of New York, secretary; Sociological Section, 

 Mr. Homer Folks, of New York, chairman, 

 and Mr. S. Poulterer Morris, of Denver, sec- 

 retary. 



The international committee, which met in 

 Paris recently to decide upon the place and 

 time of the next meeting of the International 

 Eugenics Congress, has decided to accept the 

 invitation to hold the next congress in New 

 York in 1915, on or about September 20. The 

 American delegates to the recent congress were 

 Dr. Frederick Adams Woods and Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan. The arrangements for organiz- 

 ing the nest congress rest with the American 

 delegates and the Eugenics Record office at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



