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Walter Dill Scott as director of the mental 

 alertness tests Avliich will be made by North- 

 western University on the 1,000 freshmen that 

 are expected to register during the week be- 

 ginning on September 18. 



The auxiliary schooner Bowdoin, bringing 

 back to their starting point Donald B. Mac- 

 Millan and the members of his Arctic expedi- 

 tion, was anchored on September 11 at Mohe- 

 gan Island. Mr. MacMillan has announced 

 that the expedition, which spent fourteen 

 months exploring Baffin Land, proved that all 

 maps of Baffin Land, were largely guesswork. 

 G. Dawson Howell, of Boston, has remained 

 behind to cruise around Hudson Bay to con- 

 tinue his observations in terrestrial magnetism 

 for the Carnigie Institution. He expects to 

 reach St. John's, N. F., about October 1. 



Peopessor F. L. Washbuen, of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, accompanied by Mr. Cad- 

 wallader Washburn, sailed on the SS. Tahiti 

 on September 8 for Tahiti and other South Sea 

 islands. Professor Washburn is on sabbatical 

 leave and will make a collection of insects for 

 the university. Mr. Cadwallader Washburn, 

 of New York and Mexico, expects, in addition 

 to adding to his collection of canvases, to se- 

 cure a representative collection of the eggs of 

 birds found in the Marquesas Islands for the 

 Museum of Comparative Oology of Santa 

 Barbara, California. 



A SPECIAL PRESS telegram to the London 

 Times from Professor J. W. Gregory, of Glas- 

 gow University, reports his safe arrival at 

 Talisu [?Talifu, Yunnan] after a successful 

 journey in Tibet. Professor Gregory left at 

 the end of March last on an expedition whicli 

 had for its object the exploration of the moun- 

 tain ranges of southwest China, and to make 

 geological, zoological and botanical collections, 

 specimens of which Professor Gregory intended 

 to distribute between London and Glasgow mu- 

 seums. Professor Gregory and his son, Mr. 

 Christopher Gregory (who was to act as sur- 

 veyor), were to be the only Europeans in the 

 party, the intention being to rely upon the 

 services of a Chinese escort. 



Miss Alice H. Armstrong, assistant chief 

 of the radium section of the Bureau of Stand- 



ards, will be absent from the bureau during 

 the current academic year, pursuing special 

 studies at Harvard University. 



Iowa State College has granted Associate 

 Professor J. T. Colpitis of the department of 

 mathematics leave of absence for the coming 

 year to study at Cornell University, and As- 

 sistant Professor E. C. Kiefer leave of absence 

 to study at the University of Michigan. 



De. Hermance Mullemeistee, of the Uni- 

 versity of Washington, has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence to study mathematics in 

 Holland. 



The French delegation sent to Rio de Janeiro 

 for the celebration of the centenary of Bra- 

 zilian independence comprises, among others, 

 Dr. Pierre Janet, professor of the College de 

 France, and Dr. Georges Dumas, professor of 

 experimental psychology at the SoAonne. 



De. Charles K. Claeke, medical director 

 of the Canadian National Committee for Men- 

 tal Hygiene, and professor of psychiatry at 

 the University of Toronto, has been asked to 

 deliver the Maudsley lecture on psychiatry at 

 the congress of the British Medico-Psycliolog- 

 ical Association in London in 1923. 



Dr. Anton David Udden, instructor in 

 physics in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 during the last year McFadden fellow of the 

 American-Scandinavian Foundation, studying 

 with Professor Bohr in the University of 

 Copenhagen, died in San Antonio, Texas, on 

 September 5, at the age of thirty-five years. 



De. Juan Santos Feenandbz, the ophthal- 

 mologist and hygienist of Cuba, has died at 

 the age of seventy-five years. His seventieth 

 birthday wa,s celebrated at Havana in 1917 with 

 great ceremony, and a gold medal was present- 

 ed to him with many tributes. 



The death is announced of Dr. Juan Gugliel- 

 nietti, a leader in experimental medicine and 

 instructor in physiology at the University of 

 Buenos Aires, and professor at La Plata, aged 

 thirty-three years. 



The American Petroleum Institute has called 

 a general conference of the transportation and 

 mechanical sections of the oil industry, to be 

 held at the Statler Hotel, St. Louis, September 



