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country. The spring of 1923 has been selected 

 as the most suitable time for this visit, which 

 ■vrill last about three months. 



According to the agreement between the 

 Rockefeller Foundation and the government of 

 Honduras, a hookworm disease section and a 

 public health department were organized in that 

 country. The Foundation will bear 66 per 

 cent, of the expenses during the first year ana 

 34 per cent, during the second, and the Hon- 

 duras government will assume all expense from 

 the third year on. 



In a report from Geneva, August 17, it was 

 stated that the hygiene committee of the League 

 of Nations had decided to accept the offer of 

 the Rockefeller Foundation, amounting to the 

 sum of $60,000 a year for three years, to allow 

 an interchange of staff in the public health 

 services of various countries, and a sum of 

 $30,000 j'early for five years for the develop- 

 ment of an international office for distributing 

 information as to epidemics. After the neces- 

 sary documents are signed, the plan will be 

 put into action at once, and the interchange 

 of staff will begin in October. For a period 

 of two weeks, functionaries of various nation- 

 alities — a Bulgarian, two Belgians, two Czechs, 

 five Italians, five Poles, five Russians and two 

 Serbians — will pursue an intensive short course 

 at Brussels, following which they will spend 

 two months in the public health services of 

 different countries. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir Ernest Rutherford, Cavendish profes- 

 sor of physics at the University of Cambridge, 

 has been elected president of the British As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science in 

 succession to Sir Charles S. Sherrington. The 

 meeting next year will be at Liverpool, and it 

 is expected that the meeting the following j'ear 

 will be in Canada. 



Professor W. L. Bragg, of Manchester Uni- 

 versity, who, together with his father. Sir "Wil- 

 liam Bragg, was awarded the Nobel Prize for 

 physics in 1915, delivered on September 6 the 

 lecture in Stockholm as prescribed by the 

 statutes of the Nobel Institution. 



Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir George Good- 

 win, K. C. B., late engineer-in-ehief of the 

 fleet, and Dr. James Colquhoun Irvine, . 

 C. B. E., F. R. S., vice-chancellor and prin- 

 cipal of St. Andrews University, have been 

 appointed to be members of the advisory coun- 

 cil to the committee of the privy coimcil for 

 scientific and industrial research. 



Dr. Willard Rouse Jillson, director and 

 state geologist of the Kentucky Geological Sur- 

 vey, was elected an honorary member of the 

 Natural Gas Association of America at its re- 

 cent meeting in Kansas City. 



De. Henet Fairfield Osborn, president of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, has 

 sailed from Seattle on the President Grant of 

 the Admiral Line for Yokohoma. From Toko- 

 homa Dr. Osborn will go to Korea and thence 

 by rail to Peking to the headquarters of the 

 museum, where he will meet the members of the 

 Third Asiatic Expedition. During his stay in 

 Peking, Dr. Osborn plans to make a trip to 

 the edge of the Gobi Desert, where the expedi- 

 tion has found beds of Cretaceous and Tertiary 

 deposits. From Peking, he wUl go to the 

 Philippine Islands and from there to India to 

 visit the fossil-bearing formations in the 

 Siwilik Hills, where Mr. Barnmn Brown is col- 

 lecting for the museum. 



At the Pittsburgh meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society, the Division of Industrial 

 and Engineering Chemistry elected D. R. Sper- 

 rj', chairman, W. A. Peters, Jr., vice-ehainnan, 

 E. M. Billings, secretary, and the following 

 were elect€d members of the executive commit- 

 tee: W. F. Hniebrand, Edward Mallinckrodt, 

 Jr., F. M. deBeers, A. Silverman, H, C. Moody, 

 and C. E. Coates. 



Norman Sntder, a member of the scientific 

 staff of the Radio Laboratory of the Bureau of 

 Standards, left the bureau June 1 for a leave 

 of absence of several months to work in the 

 research laboratory of the General Electric 

 Company at Schenectady on electron tube 

 problems. 



F. W. Stavelt, Ph.D. (Chicago, '22), has 

 accepted a position vnth the Firestone Tire 

 and Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio. 



