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Dr. "Wm. r. Proutt, of the department of 

 geology of the University of North Carolina, 

 has accepted a part time engagement as pale- 

 ontologist for the West Virginia Geological 

 Survey, in the study and description of the 

 fossil faunas of the Devonian, Silurian, Ordo- 

 vician and older beds of that state. Dr. 

 Prouty is spending the summer vacations in 

 the field making collections and stratigi'aphic 

 studies. For the present year his work will be 

 in Mercer, Monroe and Summers counties in 

 connection with Mr. David B. Reger, assistant 

 geologist, in the latter's studies of the geology 

 of this area. Dr. John L. Tilton's paleonto- 

 logic work for the West Virginia Geological 

 Survey will be confined principally to the 

 study of the fossil fauna and flora of the 

 Monongahela and Dunkard beds of the state. 



M. T. Jenkins, of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, has been detailed to the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station of Iowa State Col- 

 lege for cereal breeding experiments on the 

 relative value of the pure line theory of select- 

 ing new varieties of corn. 



Under the direction of Professor Clifford H. 

 Farr, of the botany department of the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, the city officials and residents 

 have cooperated in a campaign to rid the city 

 of ragweed for the eradication of hay-fever. 



Dr. Donald D. Van Sltke, of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute, is on his way to China, where 

 he will participate in teaching, for six months, 

 at the Medical School at Pekin. 



Dr. Louis A. Bauer gave a lecture on the 

 "Earth's magnetism and electricity" before the 

 Royal Society of Western Australia, at Perth 

 on June 21, as also 'before the Philosophical 

 Society at Wellington, New Zealand, on July 

 5. During an inspection trip to the Carnegie 

 Institution Magnetic Observatory at Watheroo, 

 Western Australia, he completed arrangements 

 for continuous earth-current observations. 

 This observatory will be the only one com- 

 pletely equipped in the southern hemisphere 

 for investigations relating to the earth's mag- 

 netism, atmospheric electricity, and the earth's 

 electric currents. While in Australia he fur- 

 thermore made arrangements for special mag- 

 netic and electi-ic observations at various sta- 



tions during the solar eclipse of September 21, 

 1922. At Wellington Dr. Bauer attended a 

 specially-called meeting on July 4 and 5 of 

 the Samoa Observatory Honorary Board of 

 Advice. Arrangements were perfected for 

 further cooperation in the maintenance of the 

 Samoa Observatory at Apia by New Zealand, 

 the British Admiralty and the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington. Dr. Bauer returned to 

 Washington the middle of August. 



As has been noted here. Professor Santiago 

 Ramon y Cajal, having reached the age limit, 

 has retired as incumbent of the chair of normal 

 histology and pathology of the Madrid Med- 

 ical School. The Journal of the American 

 Medical Association says : "The whole country 

 has rendered tribute to the great scientist, 

 bestowing on him every distinction and honor, 

 the greatest, perhaps, being the award of the 

 Echegaray medal. This was presented to him 

 in the Royal Academy of Sciences by the king, 

 who delivered a speech overflowing with 

 respect and love for the illustrious Spaniard, 

 who has brought so much prestige to his coun- 

 try. A number of cities have designated 

 Ramon y Cajal as their adopted son; many 

 others have named streets after him, and prizes 

 have been established in his name. The gov- 

 ernment performed an act of greater impor- 

 tance in introducing a bill for the construction 

 of a building for the Cajal Institute, which 

 was organized February 20, 1920. The bill 

 carries an appropriation of a million pesetas 

 ($155,400), divided into four sums which will 

 be spent annually from 1922 to 1925 on the 

 building designated as Cajal's Biologic Insti- 

 tute. An appropriation of 50,000 pesetas 

 ($7,770) a year is made for maintenance, 

 including the 10,000 pesetas ($1,540) now pro- 

 vided for Cajal's laboratory. The work of the 

 institute will be directed by a board of trustees 

 presided over by Cajal." 



Peopessor H. J. Hamburger, the distin- 

 guished physiologist of the University of Gro- 

 ningen, Holland, will give the first series of 

 Charles E. Dohme Memorial lectures at the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School on October 10, 

 11 and 12. This lectureship has recently been 

 established by Mrs. Charles E. Dohme as a 

 memorial to her husband, the late Charles E. 



