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Notes  and  News. 
J  Am.  Jour.  Ptiarui. 
1      July,  1911. 
Notes  and  News. 
Prof.  Oscar  Oldberg  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws  at  the  commencement  exercises  of  Northwestern  University 
on  June  14,  191 1. 
Samuel  W.  Fairchild,  former  president  of  the  College  of 
Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York  was  awarded  the  honorary  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Science  at  the  commencement  exercises  of  Colum- 
bia University  on  June  27,  191 1. 
Prof.  J.  W.  Sturm er  of  Purdue  University  was  awarded  the 
degree  of  Doctor  in  Pharmacy  at  the  commencement  exercises  of 
Buffalo  College  of  Pharmacy  on  June  ist,  1911. 
Dr.  Julian  W.  Baird,  Dean  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of 
Pharmacy,  died  on  June  26,  191 1.  Funeral  services  were  held  at 
the  college  building  on  June  28,  191 1. 
Prof.  Harry  Vin  Arny,  Dean  of  the  Cleveland  School  of 
Pharmacy,  has  been  appointed  to  the  chair  of  Chemistry  in  the 
College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York,  succeeding  Prof. 
Virgil  Coblentz,  who  resigned  to  take  charge  of  the  analytical  depart- 
ment of  E.  R.  Squibb  &  Sons. 
Dr.  E.  F.  Kelley,  superintendent  of  the  laboratories  of  Messrs. 
Sharp  and  Dohme,  has  become  director  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Laboratory  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  University  of  Maryland. 
Prof.  John  Attfield,  the  eminent  English  chemist  and  one  of 
the  leading  authorities  in  pharmaceutical  chemistry,  died  on 
March  20,  191 1.  A  very  complete  biographical  sketch  qf  Professor 
Attfield,  written  by  F.  A.  Upsher  Smith,  was  published  in  the 
March  issue  of  this  Journal  for  1906.  An  excellent  portrait  of 
Professor  Attfield  also  accompanies  this  article. 
Professor  Attfield  was  "  a  man  of  many  interests,  and  what- 
ever his  hand  found  him  to  do  he  did  that  with  all  his  might.  And 
he  did  many  things.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference,  for  many  years  Editor  of  its  Transac- 
tions, for  17  years  its  senior  Secretary,  and  on  two  occasions  its 
President.  His  connection  with  the  British  P'harmacopceia  began 
in  1882  and  ceased  on  the  publication  of  the  1898  edition  and  the 
issue  in  1900  of  the  Indian  and  Colonial  Addendum." 
His  body  was  cremated  at  Colder' s  Green  and  in  addition  to 
the  members  of  the  family  who  attended  the  services,  were  a  num- 
ber of  representatives  of  societies  with  which  Professor  Attfield 
had  a  prominent  connection. 
