September 8, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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Research at Columbus, Olilo, has resigned to 

 accept the professorship of abnormal psychol- 

 ogy in Ohio State University. He will continue 

 his clinical work and his researches in the ab- 

 normal field. 



Dr. J. Bronpenbeenxee, formerly assistant 

 professor of preventive medicine and hygiene 

 at the Harvard Medical School, has accepted a 

 similar appointment in the department of bac- 

 teriologj'. 



Mb. John L. Buys, Ph.D. (Cornell, '22), has 

 been made assistant professor of zoology in the 

 Municipal University of Akron, Ohio., in the 

 place of Dr. W. R. Allen, who goes to the 

 University of Kentucky. 



L. E. Miles, plant pathologist for the State 

 Plant Board of Mississippi, has become asso- 

 ciate plant pathologist and associate professor 

 of plant pathology at the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute. 



Dr. Simon Klosky, of the research depart- 

 ment, Edgewood Arsenal, Chemical Warfare 

 Service, has been appointed instructor ait the 

 Mai-tin Maloney Chemical Laboratory of the 

 Catholic University of America. 



Dr. Walter Ritchie, assistant lecturer in 

 biology in the University College, Aberystwyth, 

 has been appointed assistant lecturer in biology 

 at the Technical College, Bradford, in succes- 

 sion to Mr. L. P. W. Renouf, who has been 

 elected to the professorship of zoology in the 

 Universitv of Cork. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 RELIEF FOR RUSSIAN ASTRONOMERS 



To the Editor op Science : Complying with 

 your request, I will make a brief statement as 

 to the efforts which have been made by the 

 American astronomers in recent months toward 

 the relief of the physical needs of our col- 

 leagues in Russia. 



Letters began to filter in from Russia about 

 a year ago. We thus learned, for instance, that 

 the grounds of the great Pulkowo Observatory 

 had again been chosen as a field for artillery 

 practice between rival factions. Fortunately, 

 there had been a little intimation of what might 



happen, and no damage was done to telescopes 

 or other apparatus, the most valuable lenses 

 having been stored below the possibility of 

 damage. The letters foreshadowed impending 

 distress for the necessities of life, and the 

 natural anxiety about the winter of 1921-2. 

 Later letters showed that the anticipations were 

 being realized with distressing completeness. 



At the meeting of the American Astrono- 

 mical Society held at Swarthmore, in convoca- 

 tion week, or about January 1, 1922, a Com- 

 mittee on Russian Relief was appointed, con- 

 sisting of Professors J. A. Miller of Swarth- 

 more, Benjamin Boss of Albany, and H. C. 

 Wilson of Northfleld. A generous subscription 

 of about $150 was made at the meeting, prin- 

 cipally for relief of astronomers at Pulkowo 

 and for M. and Mme. Ceraski, formerly of the 

 Moscow Observatory. The committee decided 

 not to make further appeal for funds. 



During the latter part of the winter the calls 

 for help from the Russian observatories were 

 numerous and beyond the means of the staff 

 of any one observatory; consequently, after 

 learning that the committee of the Astrono- 

 mical Society had decided not to take further 

 action, a small, informal committee assumed 

 the responsibility and issued an appeal to the 

 members of the staffs of the American obser- 

 vatories and departments of astronomy — hav- 

 ing in mind that a monthly contribution might 

 be given for five months, from the persons 

 connected with our larger institutions. 



Meanwhile, the American Relief Ad- 

 ministration was extending its operations, and 

 direct information was coming to us of the 

 receipt of the food packets. An actual demon- 

 stration of the workings of the A. R. A. was 

 hardly necessary, in view of the splendid ef- 

 ficiency of all relief work in which Mr. Hoover 

 has had a hand. 



In order to avoid any waste of time in cor- 

 respondence betAveen the members of a com- 

 mittee having proper geographical distribution, 

 the three members were chosen from the same 

 staff, and decisions could thus be reached im- 

 mediately and appeals answered on the same 

 day that they were received. One member of 

 the committee is Russian, and thus our foreign 

 friends were enabled to write their letters in 



