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developed and corrections determined for 

 records of velocity already accumulated. Ex- 

 perimental values of the factors or constants 

 of anemometers, throughout the range of ve- 

 locities occurring in nature, are now available 

 for the first time, and much information useful 

 in the design and construction of these instru- 

 ments has been obtained. In advance of pub- 

 lication of final results it may be stated that 

 the velocities recorded by the standard Robin- 

 son anemometer now in use are about 22 per 

 cent, too high and that the rate of the instru- 

 ment is more nearly constant than that deter- 

 mined by means of tests on whirling-machines. 

 The three-cup pattern suggested by Dr. Pat- 

 terson, of the Canadian Meteorological Oflice, 

 appears to be more satisfactory than the four- 

 cup pattern in general use. This investiga- 

 tion is being conducted by Messrs. S. P. Fer- 

 gusson and R. N. Covert, of the Instrument 

 Division. 



It is stated in Nature that a biological expe- 

 dition has left Antwerp for Brazil. It is under 

 the direction of Professor C. Massart, of the 

 department of botany in the University of 

 Brussels, and there are four other members of 

 the expedition, two of whom are students. For 

 several years before the war the universities of 

 Belgium and Holland organized expeditions to 

 enable students to go into the field under the 

 guidance of their professors, and it is one of 

 these expeditions, to Brazil, which has now 

 been promoted by the University of Brussels. 

 The party will not aim at exploring Brazil ; the 

 object is rather to put the young naturalists 

 directly in touch with tropical nature; they 

 will have the opportunity of collecting botan- 

 ical and zoological material for study and 

 demonstration and of making ethnological ob- 

 servations. Brazil has been chosen on account 

 of its salubrity and also because, some twenty 

 days' journey from the Starting-plaee, the 

 party will be in the virgin forest. The expe- 

 dition will remain in Brazil from August until 

 January or February next, and visits will be 

 paid to the state of Rio de Janeii-o and Bahia, 

 to the Campos de Minas Geraes, a region in 

 the state of Bahia which is almost deserted, 

 and to some of the peaks of the Sierra de 

 Mantiqueira. 



The Eiigenical Neivs states that, under date 

 of June 4, 1922, Dr. A. Govaerts, secretary of 

 the Societe Beige d'Eugenique, who spent eight 

 months, from September, 1921, to May, 1922, 

 studying the organization of eugenics in the 

 United States, writes that efforts to establish 

 a governmental eugenics office in Belgium have 

 been successful. The new office will be located 

 in the Institute Solvay in Brussels and will be 

 supported by the government. It has been de- 

 cided to provide regular courses of lectures in 

 eugenics in the State School of Social Service. 

 This school is an organization which prepares 

 its students to undertake actual social sei'vice 

 in connection with societies and institutions 

 devoted to charity, the protection of children, 

 and other welfare activities. Professionally, 

 the students of this school will, in the future, 

 be trained, not only as visiting nurses and 

 social workers, but also as eugenical field work- 

 ers. Dr. Govaerts will organize and give the 

 courses of lectures in eugenics. In general, the 

 courses will be modeled after the instruction 

 provided for the annual training corps of the 

 Eugenics Record Ofiiee. Closest contact will 

 be maintained between the Belgian and the 

 American organizations. In Dr. Govaerts' fii-st 

 course of weekly lectures, the following sub- 

 jects will be treated: Meaning of eugenics; 

 laws of heredity in plants, animals and man; 

 selective matings; the relation between natality 

 and mortality and the national welfare; the 

 technique of eugenics; the field workers' inter- 

 views and questionnaires; charting family 

 pedigrees; tracing the descent and recombina- 

 tion of human traits in actual pedigrees; men- 

 tal and physical measurements in man. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Princeton University has established a 

 library of industrial relations, the expense of 

 v.'hich, $12,000 a year, will be defrayed for the 

 first five years by a gift from Mr. John D. 

 Rockefeller, Jr. 



Mission and educational bodies of East 

 China have set in motion a project to build in 

 Shanghai a union medical school at a cost of 

 $500,000. St. John's University of Shanghai, 



