July 28, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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were apparently in good condition upon their 

 arrival at the laboratory and emergence has 

 just commenced. 



The British Commissioners of 1851 announce 

 the following appointments to science research 

 scholarships (overseas) : 



Canada: J. M. Luck, University of Toronto, 

 biology; W. H. McCurdy, Dalhousie University, 

 physics ; D. P. Stedman, University of British 

 Columbia, physical chemistry. 



Australia: Miss M. Bentivoglio, University of 

 Sydney, crystallography; J. S. Rogers, University 

 of Melbourne, physics. 



New Zealand: J. C. Smith, University of New 

 Zealand, chemistry. 



South Africa: I. Low, University of Stellen- 

 boseh, meteorology. 



Dr. T. T. Read, chief of the information 

 service of the United States Bureau of Mines, 

 has been appointed by the president of the 

 American Institute of Mining and Metallur- 

 gical Engineers as the official representative 

 of the institute to attend the International 

 Congress of Engineering to be held in Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil, in September. Dr. Read ex- 

 pects to leave for Rio de Janeiro about 

 August 15. 



Dr. a. B. Stout, of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, will be in residence as professor at 

 Pomona College during the year 1922-23, being 

 on leave of absence for one year. 



A PABTY in charge of Dr. C. H. Edmondson 

 and Dr. Stanley C. Ball, of the Bishop Museum 

 staif, sailed on July 10 for Fanning Island. 

 They plan to make a study of the bird life 

 and marine fauna and to procure representa- 

 tive collections. 



Professor Arthur John Hopkins, of the 

 department of chemistry of Amherst College, 

 has started on a tour of eleven months through 

 Spain, Italy and Egypt. He will .search for 

 traces of alchemy. 



Dr. W. B. Cannon, professor of physiology 

 at the Harvard Medical School, gave a Mayo 

 Foundation lecture at the Mayo Clinic on June 

 20. His subject Avas "The effects of the emo- 

 tions on the body." 



J. D. SiSLER, of the Pennsylvania Geological 

 Survey, is spending the summer mapping the 



geology of the Myersdale quadrangle in the 

 southwestern part of the state, and M. E. 

 Johnson visited the Tidioute oil pool in the 

 northwest part of the state a few days ago 

 and will shortly resume geologic mapping of 

 the Pittsburgh quadrangle. 



The name of Dr. Keating Hart, who lived 

 in Paris, is gazetted in the Journal Officiel on 

 June 16 as having "deserved well of France 

 and humanity." The order points out that he 

 had specialized for twenty-five years in elec- 

 trical and X-ray therapy, and had rendered 

 great service in research work. During the 

 war he showed the utmost contempt of danger 

 Avhile attending to the wounded under bom- 

 bardment. Injured by exposure to X-rays he 

 underwent two operations on his right hand, 

 but nevertheless he continued his work until 

 his death on January 25 of this year. 



The French Senate has unanimously voted 

 2,000,000 francs to observe the hundredth anni- 

 versary of the birth of Louis Pasteur, which 

 will take place this year. The Senate in voting 

 the appropriation described Pasteur as the 

 "symbol of French science." 



MoRiz Weinrich, sugar expert, well-known 

 in the beet, cane and refining industry through- 

 out the world, died on July 15 in Rosendale, 

 New York, after a brief illness, at the age of 

 seventy-six years. 



Mr. Ernest William Lyons Holt, chief 

 inspector of Irish fisheries, died on June 10, 

 at the age of fifty-seven years. 



Dr. Jacques Bertillon, who had charge of 

 the bureau of statistics at Paris, in which posi- 

 tion his father and grandfather had preceded 

 him, has died at the age of seventy-five years. 



A recent exploration of Palmyra Island, 

 lying about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, has 

 resulted in a map and a large collection of 

 zoological material, especially mollusca and 

 Crustacea, which go to enrich the collections 

 of the Bishop Museum. 



It is announced by Professor E. Perroncito, 

 president of the Second International Con- 

 gress of Comparative Pathology, that this con- 

 gress, which was to have convened at Rome on 

 September 20, 1922, has been postponed until 



