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health. There were on the program the 

 titles of some 600 papers and some 

 hundred formal discussions distributed 

 among 23 sections. Among the great 

 number of subjects included in the pro- 

 gram there may be mentioned almost 

 at random a discussion on tropical 

 sanitation by Sir Eonald Ross, who 

 advocated a separate department of 

 state to deal with the health of the 

 community; an account by Surgeon 

 General Sir David Bruce of his inves- 

 tigation of sleeping sickness in Nyassa 

 Land, where he found half of the wild 

 animals to be infected; Dr. Van Log- 

 ham, of Amsterdam, foretold the 

 spread of yellow fever to Asia and 

 Australasia through the opening of the 

 Panama Canal; Dr. Ehrlieh explained 

 the mechanics of his laboratory, through 

 which he had obtained his 606 different 

 combinations, of which the last had 

 become so important; Dr. S. Kitasato, 

 of Japan, presented a report on the 

 plague, and Dr. Shirayama on the 

 cause of beri beri; Dr. George W. 

 Crile, of Cleveland, spoke on the sur- 

 gical effects of shock; Dr. Clarence M. 

 Blake, of Boston, on climatic and occu- 

 pational influences in diseases of the 

 ear; Dr. K. F. Wenkelbaeh, of Strass- 

 burg, on the pathology of heart failure. 

 Sir Thomas Barlow, the president of 

 the congress, made an address at the 

 general session and other English rep- 

 resentatives made addresses before the 

 sections over which they presided. Sir 

 E. A. Schafer made the address on 

 physiology; Sir Anderson Crichett, on 

 ophthalmology; Sir Malcolm Morris, on 

 dermatology; Sir J. Mackenzie David- 

 son, on radiology; Sir Lauder Brunton, 

 on therapeutics, and Sir David Ferrier, 

 on neuropathology. 



There were three prizes awarded by 

 the congress, one established at Moscow 

 was given to Professor Ch. Riehet for 

 his work on anaphylaxis; the prize es- 

 tablished at the meeting in Hungary, 

 to Professor "Wright for his work in the 



same subject, and the Paris prize to 

 Professor A. von Wassermann, the 

 newly appointed head of the Kaiser 

 Wilhelm Institute for Experimental 

 Therapy, for his work on immunity. 



The congress passed a resolution to 

 the effect that "It is our conviction 

 that experiments on living animals 

 have proved of the utmost service to 

 medicine in the past and are indis- 

 pensable to its future progress. ' ' The 

 seven thousand members were enter- 

 tained at dinners, garden parties and 

 other functions in the manner which is 

 only possible in the well-organized sys- 

 tem of English society. The meeting 

 of 1917 will be in Munich. Four years 

 later it might well be in the United 

 States. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We record with regret the death of 

 Professor John Milne, distinguished for 

 his work in seismology, and Dr. Robert 

 von Lenderfeld, professor of zoology in 

 Prague. 



M. Pierre Boutroux has accepted a 

 professorship of mathematics at Prince- 

 ton University, and will assume his 

 duties in the autumn. M. Boutroux is 

 a son of the distinguished professor of 

 philosophy, M. Emile Boutroux, and is 

 closely related to the Poincare family. 

 — Dr. J. S. Kingsley, professor of 

 zoology in Tufts College since 1892, 

 has accepted a chair of zoology in the 

 University of Illinois. 



The Kelvin memorial window in 

 "Westminster Abbey was dedicated on 

 July 15. The dean of Westminster 

 made the address and the ceremonies 

 were attended by many distinguished 

 scientific men. The window, which was 

 designed by Mr. J. N". Comper, is in the 

 east bay of the nave on the north side. 

 The light from it falls upon the graves 

 of Kelvin and Isaac Newton, and im- 

 mediately beneath it are the graves of 

 Darwin and Herschel. 



