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of potato production spent three days from 

 August 8 to 10 in Aroostook County, Maine, 

 inspecting potato iields and discussing prob- 

 lems of certification and production. A formal 

 program was rendered. 



Steps were taken recently by the Boston 

 Chamber of Commerce to organize a New 

 England Kesearch Council to study the food 

 supply and marketing problems of the region. 

 President K. L. Butterfleld, of the Massachu- 

 setts College, was elected chairman of the 

 groups of agricultural colleges and the federal 

 and state departments of agriculture and other 

 agencies interested in the formation of the 

 council. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that members of the Brit- 

 ish Medical Association have been asked to 

 contribute five shillings each in answer to the 

 appeal for help from Russian medical men and 

 their families. Up to July 3 $3,500 had been 

 received. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The will of the late William Sloane makes 

 bequests to public institutions amounting to 

 about $600,000, including Yale University, 

 $100,000; the Presbyterian Hospital, $100,000; 

 New York Public Libnary, $50,000; Metropol- 

 itan Museum of Art, $50,000; American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, $50,000 ; Robert Col- 

 lege of Constantinople, $10,000, and Yale For- 

 eign Missionary Society for the institution 

 known as "Yale in China" at Changshau, 

 $10,000. 



By the will of the late RoUiu D. Salisbury, 

 of the University of . Chicago, his estate, 

 amounting to $125,000, is left in trust to his 

 two sisters, on whose death one third goes to 

 the University of Chicago for the endowment 

 of scientific fellowships and $2,500 to Beloit 

 College. Two former associates of Dr. Salis- 

 bury in geological research, Dr. Wallace W. 

 Atwood, now president of Clark University, 

 and Dr. Harlan H. Ban'ows, head of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago department of geogi'aphy, 

 mil share in the division of Di\ Salisbury's 

 library. 



Dr. J. Schneider, of Milwaukee, has been 

 elected "honorary senator" by the University 

 of Wiirzburg in recognition of his donation of 

 3,000,000 marks to the university on the recent 

 anniversary of its foundation, 340 years ago. 



Dr. R. Fitz, professor of medicine in the 

 Mayo Foundation and chief of a medical sec- 

 tion, has become associate professor of medi- 

 cine at Harvard University and visiting physi- 

 cian at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 

 Boston. 



Dr. William C. Rose, professor of biological 

 chemistry at the medical school of the Univer- 

 sity of Texias, has been appointed associate 

 professor of physiological chemisti-y at the 

 University of Illinois. 



Dr. Wilbur C. Smith, since 1916 professor 

 of anatomy in Tulane University, has 'been ap- 

 pointed director of athletics. 



Dr. Charles B. McGlumphy has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of pathology at 

 Northwestern University Medical School. He 

 has been working in Vienna for the past two 

 yeai-s. 



Mr. R. M. Wilson, at present principal of 

 the East Anglian Institute of Agriculture, 

 Chelmsford, has been appointed principal of 

 the South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye. 



Dr. J. S. Dunn has been appointed to the 

 Procter chair of pathology and pathological 

 anatomy at Manchester in succession to Pro- 

 fessor H. R. Dean. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 METEORITE HUNTING 



To THE Editor of Science: The experience 

 of the writer in "meteor chasing" fully cor- 

 roborates those of Dr. Merrill as related in 

 Science for June 23. The general inability 

 of the observers to furnish reliable data of the 

 event can scarcely be exaggerated. Despite 

 this, however, the writer has in two instances 

 succeeded in "running to earth" the meteorite 

 and securing a large portion if not all of it. 



He also has to announce the recent obtaining 

 of two pieces of meteoric iron (siderites) 

 which were plowed up by a farmer in making 



