July 21, 1922] 



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of electrical contacts to photograph itself at 

 regular intervals during its flight to the target. 



The British commissioners of 1851 announce 

 the following appointments to senior student- 

 ships for 1922 : 



J. Sybrandt Buck, B.Se. (liiverpool), research 

 atudent in chemistry, of the University of Liver- 

 pool. 



Geoffrey T. E. HiU, B.Sc. (London), research 

 student in aeronautics, of the University of Lon- 

 don, University College, late experimental engi- 

 neer and pilot to Handley Page, Limited. 



Albert Edward Ingham, B.A. (Cambridge), 

 research student in mathematics, of the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge. 



John Edward Jones, M.Sc. (Victoria), lecturer 

 in mathematics, of the University of Manchester. 



Cecil Edgar Tilley, B.Sc. (Adelaide and Syd- 

 ney), research student in geology, of the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge. 



The senior studentships are intended to give a 

 few selected students of exceptional promise 

 and proved capacity for original work the 

 opportunity of devoting their whole time for a 

 period of not less than two years to the prose- 

 cution of scientific research. The studentships 

 are of the value of £400 per annum (with addi- 

 tional allowances. The awards are made by 

 selection from among candidates under thirty 

 years of age who are recommended to the com- 

 missioners through the executive authorities of 

 institutions invited to make recommendations. 

 The student is required to devote himself to 

 research in some branch of pure or applied 

 science. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Dr. Leon L. Solomon, New Orleans, has 

 announced that he will give the University of 

 Louisville the sum of $500 annually, for use 

 in the medical research laboratory of the uni- 

 versity. This fund will be known as the Solo- 

 mon Fund. 



The resignation of J. C. Jones, president of 

 the University of Missouri, has been accepted 

 by the curators of the institution, effective 

 at the close of the college year. Dr. Jones has 

 been a member of the faculty for thirty-eight 

 years and desired to be relieved of the respon- 

 sibility, as he is now sixty-six years old. 



Professor Milo S. Kbtchum, professor of 

 civil engineering at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been appointed dean of the engi- 

 neering school of the University of Illinois and 

 director of its extension work. 



Professor Earl B. Millard, professor of 

 materials of engineering, and Professor Har- 

 rison W. Hayward, associate professor of the- 

 oretical chemistry, have been appointed assist- 

 ant directors of the division of industrial co- 

 operation and research of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



Dr. E. S. Conklin, head of the department 

 of psychology of the University of Oregon, 

 has been made acting dean of the Graduate 

 School for the session of 1922-1923, in the ab- 

 sence of Dean George Relbec, who will devote 

 the year to travel and study in Europe. 



Professor Edward C. Stone, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of Trinity College, Hart- 

 ford, Conn., who has been on leave of absence 

 during the past year, has resigned, and Dr. 

 Charles B. Hurd, of Colby College, Waterville, 

 Me., has been appointed his successor. 



Mr. H. J. Waring, dean of the faculty of 

 medicine of the University of London, has 

 been elected vice-chancellor of the university 

 for 1922-1923, in succession to Sir Sydney 

 Russell-Wells. 



Dr. Hugo Obermaier has been appointed to 

 the new professorship of prehistoric arche- 

 ology at the University of Madrid. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 WHICH IS THE HIGHEST WATER FALL IN 

 THE WORLD? 



To THE Editor of Science : Mr. Hardy's re- 

 cent note concerning the reputed height of the 

 Kaieteur Falls in British Guiana raises the 

 moot question as to which really is the highest 

 water fall on earth. 



My physiographic studies in the Yosemite 

 region of California, which is par excellence 

 the land of water falls have led me to collect 

 data on water falls in different part of the 

 world for purposes of comparison. My infor- 

 mation still is far from complete — as necessarily 



