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ciation for the Advancement of Science, Wayn- 

 flete professor of physiology at Oxford Uni- 

 versity, has accepted an invitation to attend the 

 formal opening of the new biological building 

 of MeGill University in October. 



Professor F. G. Coker has been presented 

 with the Howard N. Potts gold medal of the 

 Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, awarded to 

 him in recognition of his recent work on photo 

 polarimetry. The presentation was made at a 

 dinner at the Savoy Hotel by Dr. R. B. Owens, 

 secretary of the institute. 



J. W. GrREGG, head of the division of land- 

 scape gardening in the CoUege of Agriculture, 

 University of California, has been elected as 

 fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society of 

 England. 



F. B. Tough, United States supervisor of oil 

 and gas operations on leased public lands, has 

 been appointed chief petroleum technologist of 

 the Bureau of Mines, to succeed A. W. Am- 

 brose, who has been appointed assistant direc- 

 tor of the bureau. 



Mr. Ernest A. Smith has resigned his posi- 

 tion as secretary of .the British Non-Feri\)us 

 Metals Research Association and accepted an 

 appointment as research metallurgist to the 

 Sheffield Smelting Company. 



Gr. E. Sanders is returning to Canada this 

 month, to take charge of the manufacture of 

 insecticides and fungicides for the Deoro 

 Chemical Company. For the past year he has 

 been with the Dosch Chemical Company at 

 Louisville, Ky. 



De. a. p. Saunders, professor of chemistry 

 since 1901 and dean of Hamilton College since 

 1909, has been given a year's leave of absence 

 and will travel in Europe with his family 

 during the <3oming winter. His address is care 

 of Morgan, Harjes & Co., Place Vendome, 

 Paris. 



We learn from Nature that Professor J. W. 

 Gregory, of Glasgow University, reports his 

 safe arrival at Talifu, Yunnan, after a success- 

 ful journey in Tibet. Professor Gregory and 

 his son, Mr. C. J. Gregory, left England for 

 Rangoon at the end of March last with the 

 object of investigating some features in the 



mountain structure of northwestern Yunnan 

 and western Szeehuan. 



Robert T. Aitken has returned from about 

 two years spent in Tahiti and various islands 

 of the Society and Austral groups. His work 

 is to supplement the investigations of the 

 Bayard Dominick Expedition, which is making 

 an intensive study of Polynesian origin and 

 migration. Mr. Aitken collected material ob- 

 jects illustrative of the life of the present-day 

 people, and a few that date back to the early 

 inhabitants of these islands. He also brought 

 back a few folk tales in fragmentary form, 

 physical measurements of the inhabitants and 

 photographs of the majority of the people of 

 the island of Tubuai in the Austral group. 



The American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers has appointed a committee to report on 

 a standard smoke ordinance to apply to all 

 cities of the country. It eonsisits of 0. P. 

 Hood, chief mechanical engineer of the United 

 States Bureau of Mines as chairman, Henry 

 Kreisinger, P. J. Dougherty, Lloyd R. Stowe, 

 Everett L. Aillard and Osborn Monnett. 



Dr. William S. Halsted, since 1889 pro- 

 fessor of surgery in the Johns Hopkins Med- 

 ical School, died in Baltimore on September 7, 

 aged seventy years. 



Dr. Harold C. Ernst, professor of bacteri- 

 ology in the Harvard Medical School from 

 1891 to 1921, and editor of the Journal of 

 Medical Research, died on September 7, aged 

 sixty-six years. 



De. Edward Anthony Spitzka, specialist 

 in the anatomy of the brain, died at Mount 

 Vernon, N. Y., on September 4, at the age of 

 forty-six years. 



Alexander Righter Craig, secretary of the 

 American Medical Association since 1911, died 

 on September 2, aged fifty-four years. 



W. H. Hudson, the distinguished English 

 ornithologist and writer on natural history, 

 died in London on August 18 in his eighty- 

 first year. 



The Brigham Young University, of Provo, 

 Utah, has just dosed its first annual Alpine 

 summer school. The school was housed in tents 



