August 25, 1922] 



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whose work, especially that on the preparation 

 of synthetic reagents from the toluic acids, 

 shows special promise ; Danish Ramsay Fel- 

 lowship to Mr. Kristian Hoejendahl, of the 

 University of Copenhagen, who will pursue his 

 research in the University of Liverpool; two 

 Swedish Ramsay Fellowships, to Dr. J. 0. G. 

 Lublin and Mr. A. W. Bernton; and two Nor- 

 wegian Ramsay Fellowships to Mr. Dag Nick- 

 elson, who will work at the Imperial College 

 of Science and Technology, and Miss Milda 

 Prytz, who will work at University College, 

 Ijondon. A special Ramsay Fellowship of the 

 value of £350, which was placed at the disposal 

 of the National Research Council of the 

 United States of America, has been awarded 

 to Dr. C. S. Piggot, of Baltimore, who will 

 begin work at University College, London, in 

 October. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



At the University of Missouri plans have 

 been practically completed for the new agri- 

 cultural building for which $200,000 was ap- 

 propriated by the last legislature. The build- 

 ing will constitute the center of the agricul- 

 tural group, including the present agricul- 

 tural and horticultural buildings, and will serve 

 as the administration headquarters of the col- 

 lege of agriculture. , 



Professoe M. Jules Tissot, of the Paris 

 Museum of Natural History, and Mme. Tissot 

 have given 844,483 francs to the museum to 

 endow the chair of physiology. 



Dr. Charles C. Bass has been elected dean 

 of the school of medicine of Tulane University. 



Dr. H. H. Lane, for fourteen years pro- 

 fessor of zoology at Oklahoma University, has 

 been appointed head of the department of 

 zoology at the University of Kansas. He suc- 

 ceeded Dr. B. M. Allen, who has gone to the 

 Southern Branch of the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Dr. Waldo Shumvtay, assistant professor 

 of biology at Dartmouth College, has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor of zoology at the 

 University of Illinois. 



Dr. M. Khara^ch, who has held a National 

 Research fellowship at the University of Chi- 

 cago for the past three years, has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor of organic chem- 

 istry at the University of Maryland. 



W. T. Chambers, graduate student in the 

 department of geography of the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed to a newly estab- 

 lished instructorship in geography at the Uni- 

 versity of Tennessee. 



Miss Marion Bell has been appointed bio- 

 chemist in pediatrics and child welfare re- 

 search at the University of Iowa. 



Professor D. Thoday, of the University of 

 Cape Town, has been appointed to the chair of 

 botany, in succession to Professor R. W. Phil- 

 lips, who retires after thirty-eight years' 

 . service. 



J. A. S. Watson has been promoted to the 

 chair of agriculture and rural economy at 

 Edinborough, in succession to Professor Ro^b- 

 ert Wallace, retired. Professor Watson was 

 demonstrator in botany under Sir Isaac Bay- 

 ley Balfour, afterwards continuing his studies 

 in Gemiany, America, and Canada. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 THE FOOD HABITS OF SWORDFISH 



The recent note of Mr. C. H. Townsend 

 ("Swordfish Taken on Trawl Lines," Science, 

 Vol. 56, p. 18) brings up the question of 

 whether these fishes descend to considerable 

 depths for food. On this point I have some 

 evidence which may be worthy of record. 



The late Captain John Toothaker of South 

 Harpswell, Maine, was always very helpful to 

 the Harpswell Laboratory, and would bring in 

 from his trips any of the peculiar animals he 

 found while sword fishing. Some years ago he 

 turned over to me a couple of deep sea fishes 

 which he had taken in a swordfish stomach. I 

 have forgotten the genus and species, but both 

 belonged to the ScopelidsB, and as I recall look- 

 ing the matter up, the species had never been 

 taken in less than 800 fathoms. The specimens 

 were quite fresh and the digestive juices had 

 hardly affected the integument, and the phos- 



