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Morris Jastrow, of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, and will treat of Babylonian medi- 

 cine; the subsequent lectures will be by Pro- 

 fessor Elliot Smith, on Egyptian medicine, and 

 by Professor E. Caton, on Greek medicine. 



Professok von Baelz, for thirty years pro- 

 fessor of medicine in the University of Tokyo, 

 the author of contributions to medicine and 

 anthropology, has died at Stuttgart, aged sixty- 

 four years. 



Peofessoe John Eobie Eastman, professor 

 of mathematics in the navy from 1865 to 1898, 

 when he was retired for age, died on September 

 26, at the age of seventy-seven years. In 1906 

 Professor Eastman was promoted to the rank 

 of rear admiral in the navy. He had made dis- 

 tinguished contributions to solar, stellar and 

 meteoric and planetary astronomy. 



Dr. John Green Cuetis, from 1876 to 1909 

 professor of physiology in the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, and since emeritus professor, died on 

 September 20, aged sixty-nine years. 



Dr. Charles Lester Leonard, professor of 

 roentgenology in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, died on September 23, aged fifty-two 

 years, from X-ray dermatitis, contracted in 

 the course of his work nine years ago. 



Dr. Arnold Eossel, formerly professor of 

 chemistry at Bern, has died at the age of sixty- 

 eight years. 



Professor Paul Adolf Nacke, director of 

 the insane asylum at Colditz, known for his 

 contributions to psychiatry, has died at the 

 age of sixty-three years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Georg 

 Both, emeritus professor of mathematics at 

 ■ Strassburg. 



The Washington Biologists Field Club has 

 passed the following resolution: 



In the death of Edward Lyman Morris, one of 

 the founders of the Washington Biologists Field 

 Club, on September 14, 1913, at Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 this association has lost a member whose deep 

 interest in its affairs never failed from the first 

 days of organization to the last moments of his 

 life. Although duty called him to another city, he 

 never lost an opportunity to advance the interests 



of the club, and on the week preceding his death 

 he spent three days at his beloved island and re- 

 corded on the register the flowering of a rare 

 plant. 



The members of this club mourn the loss of an 

 ardent worker, a congenial companion, a re- 

 spected associate and friend. 



Resolved, that the Washington Biologists Field 

 Club extend to the family of our deceased mem- 

 ber its sincerest sympathy and condolence. 

 For the Club, 



E. A. SCHWAKZ, 



A. K. Fisher, 

 H. C. Fuller 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for associate physicist 

 in theoretical and experimental optical re- 

 search to fill a vacancy in this position in 

 the bureau of standards. Department of Com- 

 merce, Washington, D. C, at a salary of 

 $2,500 a year. 



Examinations will also be held for quarry 

 technologist to fill a vacancy in the Bureau of 

 Mines at Washington, D. C, at a salary rang- 

 ing from $2,500 to $3,000, and for junior 

 physicist in the Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., and other places as they may occur, at a 

 salary ranging from $1,020 to $1,200 a year. 



The seventh annual convention of the 'Ra.- 

 tional Society for the Promotion of Industrial 

 Education and the organization meeting of the 

 National Educational Guidance Association 

 will be held at Grand Eapids, Mich., from 

 October 19 to 25. 



The annual meeting of the A m erican Insti- 

 tute of Chemical Engineers will be held in 

 New York from December 10 to 13. 



Under the auspices of the school of mines at 

 Berlin, there are offered prizes amounting to 

 2,000 marks for promoting safety in mines. 



Arrangements are being made for an expedi- 

 tion to King Edward the Seventh's Land, a 

 tract stretching from the Great Ice Barrier, to 

 start in August next year. It will be under 

 the command of Mr. J. Poster Stackhouse, who 

 was intimately associated with Captain Scott 

 in organizing the voyage of the Terra Nova. 

 It is proposed that the members of the expedi- 



