September 29, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



365 



Dr. C. S. Leonaed, who has for the past 

 year been working with Dr. A. S. Loevenkart 

 at the University of Wisconsin upon synthetic 

 arsenieals, has accepted a position as a pharma- 

 cologist in the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. 

 Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. 



The following have joined the staff of the 

 research laboratory of the Eastman Kodak 

 Company: Dr. Helge Sehibsted, formerly with 

 the Atmospheric Nitrogen Company; Clyde 

 Broekett, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, 1922; Alaseo Burgess, Bates College, 

 1922; D. Henry Harris, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, 1922; Roger P. Loveland, 

 G-rinnell College, 1919. 



Dr. Lewis M. Hull, who for several years 

 has been engaged in studies of electron tubes 

 in the radio laboratory of the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, has resigned to accept a position as 

 director of research of the Radio Frequency 

 Laboratories, Inc., of Boonton, N. J. 



Miss G-udeun Carlson, assistant in the de- 

 partment of foods and cookery at Teachers 

 College, has been appointed home economics 

 expert in the publicity department of the Insti- 

 tute of American Meat Packers. 



Mr. Eeio R. Jette, who recently completed 

 his work for the Ph.D. in chemistry at Colum- 

 bia University, has sailed for a year of study 

 in Stockholm. He has an American Scan- 

 dinavian fellowship for the year 1922-23. 



Dr. Roland E. Keemers has resigned as 

 assistant professor of chemistry in Vanderbilt 

 University, and has returned to the University 

 of Wisconsin, where he will be in residence 

 this year under a National Research Council 

 fellowship. He will work on the peppermint 

 oils and on azulene. 



De. F. L. Stevens, professor of plant path- 

 ology in the University of Illinois, has returned 

 from a smnmer spent in collecting fungi in 

 British Guiana. Collections were made on the 

 coast and in Demerrara, Essequibo and Potaro 

 Rivers. 



Professor C. A. Noble, of the department 

 of mathematics. University of California, has 

 been granted a term's leave of absence, which 

 he will spend in Europe. 



Dr. Knud Stephensen, of the Zoological 

 Museum at Copenhagen, known for his studies 

 on the Crustacea, is visiting the scientific insti- 

 tutions of the United States. 



Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, known for his 

 work in Labrador, has sailed for Europe and 

 will lecture twice in London. Lord Milner will 

 preside at one of these lectures. 



At the Pittsburgh meeting of the chairmen 

 and secretaries group of the American Chem- 

 ical Society, a plan was launched by which 

 Professor E. C. Franklin, of Leland Stanford 

 University, will give a series of lectures before 

 several of the local sections of the societj-. 

 These will be given near the time of the spring 

 meeting, that is, the latter part of March and 

 the early part of April. The following sec- 

 tions have asked Dr. Franklin to speak before 

 them on this trip : Chicago, Detroit, East Lan- 

 sing, University of Michigan, Purdue, Cleve- 

 land, New Orleans, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, 

 Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Philadelphia. 

 If there are other sections of the American 

 Chemical Society or other scientific bodies who 

 would like to have Dr. Franklin speak before 

 them, information can be obtained by writing 

 to E. M. Billings,' Kodak Park, Rochester, N. Y. 



Mr. a. Chaston Chapman, F.R.S., hon- 

 orary treasurer in England of the Pasteur 

 Commemoration Fund, writes to the British 

 Medical Journal that a smn of £848 14s. 6d. has 

 been subscribed to this fund, in addition to 

 sums which had previously been sent to France 

 in response to earlier and direct appeals. In 

 accordance with a resolution passed at a recent 

 meeting of the Pasteur Commemoration Com- 

 mittee, presided over toy Sir Charles Sherring- 

 ton, P.R.S., a draft for the above amount is 

 being forwarded to Monsieur Hering, the gen- 

 eral treasurer, at Strasbourg, with an intima- 

 tion that should the amount prove more than 

 the French committee desires to expend upon 

 the monument the excess should be devoted to 

 some other form of permanent memorial of 

 Pasteur in the University of Strasbourg. 



The Prince of Wales has consented to unveil 

 on November 3 the memorial tablet of the late 

 Professor Sir William Ramsay which is being 



