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The Lawyers' Club of Buffalo had a dinner April 29, among the guests being Justices Spring and Kruse of the Appellate Division and Justices Emery, Marcus, Pound and Brown of the Supreme Court. Judge John E. Sater of the United States District Court and Governor Harmon of Ohio were given a banquet at Columbus, O., May 7 by the bar of that city. Judges Lurton, Warrington and Severance of the United States Circuit Court were special guests. Judge Milton D. Purdy has resigned from the federal bench in Minnesota. He was assistant to the Attorney-General under the Roosevelt administration, having charge of important anti-trust cases, and Senator Knox had orignally put him in the Department of Justice. Learned Hand has been appointed United States District Judge for the southern district of New York. He is a son of Samuel Hand who was Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a prominent member of the New York bar. Mr. Justice Robert Smith Aikman has just retired from the bench of the High Court of Allahabad, India, to return to England. He won great respect throughout the Indian provinces and did his country a great service by his studious endeavor to bridge the gulf between two civilizations. Chief Justice Ira B. Jones took the oath of office in the Supreme Court room at Colum bia, S. C., April 15. Chief Justice Jones' former place on the Supreme Court bench has been filled by Associate Justice D. E. Hydrick, formerly judge of the seventh circuit of South Carolina, who took the oath at the same time. Judge Mayer Sulzberger of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, who declined the ambassadorship to Turkey, was elected in 1894. Previously he had gained wide prom inence as a lawyer. He is a versatile linguist and has a wide knowledge of Oriental history and customs. His private library is one of the largest in Philadelphia. Hon. William M. Lanning, who has been appointed United States Circuit Judge for the third circuit, succeeding Judge Dallas, was the honored guest of the Mercer County Bar Association at Trenton, N. J., May 1. He advised the lawyers present to give more attention to practice in the United States courts. Judge Lanning, who is of old Colo nial stock, has served in Congress, and in 1904 succeeded the late Andrew Kirkpatrick as United States District Judge. John Rellstab was nominated by President Taft to take his place as United States District Judge for the district of New Jersey.

Judge I. D. Moore retired from the Court of Appeals of Louisiana April 30 to become City Attorney of New Orleans. Members of the local bar expressed their esteem for Judge Moore by presenting him with a beau tiful silver service. To fill this vacancy, Hon. John St. Paul was formally installed as judge of the Court of Appeals of Louisiana, May 1, succeeding I. D. Moore, resigned. Hon. E. K. Skinner took the oath the same day as judge of the Civil District Court suc ceeding Judge St. Paul, and John B. Fisher has become judge of the First City Criminal Court succeeding Judge Skinner. Judge T. Van Clagett, who took the oath of office April 24 as Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Maryland, was presented with a handsome solid ivory gavel by the bar association of Prince George's County, in honor of the event. Judge George C. Merrick, whom Judge Clagett succeeds, re tires after thirteen years of service in this court, having reached the seventy-year age limit. The same county bar association gave him a silver fruit dish and adopted reso lutions expressing its esteem, to the reading of which Judge Merrick feelingly responded in his characteristic graceful manner.

Personal— The Bar Prof. George Grafton Wilson of Brown University gave a lecture at the University of Cambridge May 21 on "International Law and the Recent International Naval Confer ence in London." R. C. Smith, K.C., has been elected batonnier, or president, of the Montreal bar. He has declared himself earnestly in favor of continuing the legislative fight against the commercial collection agencies. Frank B. Kellogg has informed the Admin istration that his relations with it will close when he has done with the cases against the Standard Oil and the Harriman lines. He wishes to return to Minnesota to practise law. The lawyer's career was characterized as the hardest in existence by George S. Munsen of Philadelphia, April 28, in the third of his lectures at Princeton University, before the Princeton Law Club on "The Study of the Law." A Boston lawyer who went to Los Angeles to practise law, Timothy W. Coakley, ex pressed his motive in coming West in this remark to a friend, "Out here, my dear sir, originality is not considered evidence of insanity.' Joseph M. Sullivan of the Boston bar, has compiled a dictionary of "Criminal Slang"