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states that, since the president of a small 

 South American republic, already overtaxed, 

 had donated a memorial to an American, it 

 was the duty of all American citizens, not only 

 American physicians, to provide a suitable en- 

 dowment fund with which to carry on the work 

 of the institute. 



The conference of the British Museums 

 Association has noted: "That in the opinion of 

 the Museums Association the time has arrived 

 when it is desirable in the interests of the 

 country to appoint a royal commission to 

 investigate and report upon the work of muse- 

 ums in relation to industries and general cul- 

 ture." -!;!• 



At its recent meeting, the Eugenics Research 

 Association voted that it was its sense that 

 Germany should be granted membership on 

 the International Eugenics Commission. 



The Canadian Horticultural Council, which 

 was recently organized with headquarters at 

 Ottawa, has taken steps towards the organiza- 

 tion of a system for the registration of new 

 varieties of plants. Through the agency of 

 Mr. W. B. Lobjoit, controller of horticulture 

 for Great Britain, the secretary of the Cana- 

 dian Horticultural Council will be kept in- 

 formed of the efforts being made not only in 

 England but on the continent, to provide a 

 means for the registration of horticultural 

 plants, shrubs and trees. The secretary of the 

 council has also got into touch with the horti- 

 cultural authorities in the United States who 

 are interested in this matter. It is expected 

 that a conference on the subject will be ar- 

 ranged for during the present year. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



By the will of Miss Harriet S. Hazeltine, 

 Middlebury College receives $25,000. 



According to the Bulletin of the American 

 Mathematical Society, the title of the chair of 

 "differential and integral calculus" in the Uni- 

 versity of Paris has been changed to "the 

 theory of groups and the calculus of variation." 



Dr. Marcus P. Neal, assistant professor of 

 pathology and bacteriology at the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, 



has accepted a position as professor of pathol- 

 ogy and bacteriology at the University of Mis- 

 souri School of Medicine, Columbia. 



Dr. Leroy S. Palmer, associate professor of 

 agricultural biochemistry in the University of 

 Minnesota, has been promoted to a full pro- 

 fessorship. 



8. W. Geisee, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), has 

 been appointed assistant professor of zoology 

 in Washington University, St. Louis. 



P. B. ISELT, dean and professor of biology at 

 Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, 

 has accepted a similar position with Texas 

 Woman's College at Port Worth, Texas. L. S. 

 Hopkins, of Kent, Ohio, becomes dean and 

 professor of biology in Culver-Stockton Col- 

 lege. 



Mr. Eliott Frost has resigned his position 

 as director of the Industrial Management 

 Council of the Rochester Chamber of Com- 

 merce to accept the headship of the department 

 of psychology at the University of Rochester, 

 the directorship of its Department of Exten- 

 sion, and of its Summer School. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 THE SPECTRUM OF HELIUM IN THE 

 EXTREME ULTRA-VIOLET 



Mr. Frickb and I showed (Phil. Mag., 41, 

 May, 1921) that in the extreme ultra-violet 

 the arc spectrum of helium probably contained 

 but one line with a wave-length near 585 A.U. 



I have recently attacked the subject again, 

 using a vacuum spectroscope so an-anged that 

 a good vacuum could be maintained in the body 

 of the apparatus while the discharge tube con- 

 tained helium at a pressure of about a milli- 

 meter. No window was employed, the success 

 of the device depending on the use of a very 

 short and narrow slit and upon the suitable 

 application of a powerful pump. 



With a continuous current the line at 584.4 

 is of very great strength, and is accompanied 

 by three new lines at 537.1, 522.3 and 515.7 

 whose intensities decrease with their wave- 

 length and in a manner strongly suggesting a 

 series relation. Luckily the fii'st three mem- 

 bers appear in the second order spectrum, a 



