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increasing mortality. It consists of Drs. W. 

 H. Welch and William Osier, of Jolins Hop- 

 kins, Baltimore; E. G. Janeway, L. E. Holt 

 and T. M. Prudden, of New York; Theobald 

 Smith, of Harvard; Frank S. Billings, of 

 Chicago, and John H. Musser, of Philadel- 

 phia. 



Professor Eonald Eoss, of the University 

 of Liverpool, will after his return from 

 Panama, deliver a series of lectures in the 

 Medical Department, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, on "' Causes and Cure of Ma- 

 larial Fever.' 



Sir Clifford Allbutt, regius professor of 

 medicine at Cambridge, Dr. Horatio C. Wood 

 and Dr. John H. Musser made addresses at 

 the opening of the medical department of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, on September 30. 



The Et. Hon. James Bryce, M.P., will de- 

 liver the Godkin lectures in Sanders Theater, 

 Harvard University, on October 24, 26, 28, 31, 

 and November 3. He will speak on ' The 

 Study of Popular Governments.' He has ac- 

 cepted the invitation of Columbia University 

 to deliver the first series of lectures upon the 

 Carpentier foundation. The lectures will be 

 given at 4 p.m., on October 10, 12, 14, 17, 19 

 and 21. Mr. Bryce's general subject will be : 

 ' The Law in its Eolations to History.' 



Professor Frederick Starr, who holds the 

 chair of anthropology, at the University of 

 Chicago, has given a summer course of five 

 weeks in studying the savage tribes as shown 

 in the various exhibits at the St. Louis Fair. 



Professor A. C. Abbott, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, gave the opening address be- 

 fore the faculty of medicine of McGill Uni- 

 versity, his subject being ' The Study of 

 Medicine and Eecent Advances in Medical 

 Science.' 



Dr. I. C. White, state geologist of West 

 Virginia, sailed for Brazil, on July 5, where 

 he will examine and report on the coal fields 

 of Eio Grande do Sul. 



Dr. G. W. Lewis, of the department of 

 chemistry at Harvard University, has been 

 given a two years' leave of absence to accept 

 a government position in the Philippines. 



Mr. a. J. Cox, instructor in chemistry in 

 Stanford University, has returned after two 

 years spent at the University of Breslau. 



Mr. Ernst Bessey, who for three years has 

 been studying abroad, has resumed his duties 

 in the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washing- 

 ton. During Mr. Bessey's stay abroad he has 

 acted in various capacities for the govern- 

 ment. Several expeditions have been made 

 by him into southwestern Eussia and the Med- 

 iterranean coast region in search of new plants 

 and seeds. A number of the promising forage 

 crop seeds secured by him in Turkestan are 

 now being grown and tested under the direc- 

 tion of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



We learn from The American Geologist that 

 at a recent meeting of the Virginia Board of 

 Agriculture an appropriation was voted for a 

 Geological Survey of the mineral resources of 

 Virginia. The sui-vey will be conducted 

 jointly by the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 

 Dr. Thomas L. Watson, professor of geology 

 in the Polytechnic Institute, was appointed 

 geologist in charge of the survey. 



Dr. a. E. McDonald retired on October 1, 

 1904, from the superintendency of the Man- 

 hattan City Hospital, Ward's Island, N. T. ; 

 Dr. J. T. W. Eowe is retained as acting super- 

 intendent. 



A memorial tablet to Dr. Jesse Lazear, who 

 died in Cuba in 1900 while investigating the 

 causes of yellow fever, has been unveiled at 

 the new surgical building of the Johns Hop- 

 kins Hospital. 



Major Henry F. Alvord, chief of the dairy 

 division of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, died at St. Louis on October 1, 

 as the result of a stroke of paralysis. 



Mr. Clarence M. Daly, for sixteen years 

 employed in the experimental department of 

 Mr. Edison's laboratory, has died as a result, 

 it is said, of cancerous growths on his hand 

 caused by work with X-rays. 



Dr. 0. Eembold, formerly professor of med- 

 icine at Innsbriick, has died at the age of sev- 

 enty-one years. 



Mr. Eonald William Henry Turnbull 

 Hudson, lecturer in mathematics at the Uni- 



