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versity building devoted to instruction in for- 

 estry. The formal unveiling of the tablet 

 bearing Dr. Fernow's name took place October 5, 

 when addresses commemorative of bis achieve- 

 ments were delivered by Dr. Livingston Far- 

 rand, president of the university, Dean Albert 

 R. Mann, of the New York State College of 

 Agriculture, and Professor Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 head of the department of forestry. Dr. 

 Fernow organized at Cornell Universitj' in 

 1898 the first school of forestry in America. 



At a recent meeting of the corporation of 

 Yale University a letter was presented from 

 Dr. Lawrason Brown, president of the Na- 

 tional Tuberculosis Association, in which ap- 

 preciation was expressed of the work of Pro- 

 fessor Treat B. Johnson and Mr. Elmer B. 

 Brown, who had been associated with Dr. 

 Esmond R. Long, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, in research in the fundamental nutrition 

 of the tubercle bacillus. The corporation 

 passed a vote of thanks to the National Tuber- 

 culosis Association for its further appropria- 

 tion for the work in which Professor Johnson 

 and Mr. Brown will continue to be associated. 



The Treasury Depaa-tment has announced 

 that Dr. J. W. Schereohewsky, assistant svir- 

 geon general, U. S. Public Health Service, has 

 been commissioned to condlict an investigation 

 into the cause of cancer; the headquarters of 

 this investigation will be established in Boston. 



Professor H. B. Merrill, of Carroll Col- 

 lege, has resigned to take up chemical work in 

 the research laboratory of the A. P. Gallun & 

 Sons Company, Milwaukee. 



De. a. R. Fortsch, of the Iowa State Uni- 

 versity, will become research chemist in the 

 laboratory of the Standard Oil Company at 

 Whiting, Indiana. 



An Associated Press 'despatch from Hono- 

 lulu, dated September 20, states that, as ithe 

 result of burns received while experimenting 

 with radium, Dr. Hideljich Kinoshita, pro- 

 fessor of science at the Imperial University of 

 Tokyo, may lose his eyesight. 



The governors of the Haa-per Adams Agri- 

 cultural College, Newport, England, have ac- 

 cepted with regret the resignation of Mr. P. 

 Hedworth Foulkes, who has held the post of 



principal since the opening of this college 

 twenty-two years ago. 



George A. Seagle, who had been for thirty- 

 eight years superintendent of the Wytheville 

 (Va.) station of the Bureau of Fisheries, has 

 retired from active service. 



Mr. W. H. Fry, petrographer in the Bureau 

 of Soils, U. S. Department of Agi-iculture, for 

 a number of years past, has resigned and will 

 remove to Fayetteville, N. C. 



Dr. 0. A. Reinking has resigned from the 

 University of the Philippines to take a posi- 

 tion as plant pathologist, -in Honduras, for the 

 United Fruit Company. Dr. Reinking recently 

 received his doctorate at the University of Wis- 

 consin, where he has continued researches, 

 begun in the Philippines on coconut bud-rot. 

 He obtained leave from the University of 

 the Philippines alx)ut a year ago and 

 returned to this country by way of British 

 North Borneo, Java, Italy, Germany, France 

 and England, visiting myeological and patho- 

 logical institutions. 



Dr. Barton Warren Everhann, director of 

 the Museum of the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences and of the Steinhart Aquarium, has been 

 appointed by the National Research Council 

 as its representative at the Commercial Con- 

 ference to be held at Honolulu from October 

 25 to November 8, under the auspices of the 

 Pan-Pacifie Union, where he will present a 

 paper on "The Conservation of the Marine 

 Life of the Pacific." Dr. Evermann will sail 

 for Honolulu on the Maui on October 18. 



Professor S. R. Williams, head of the de- 

 partment of physics of Oberlin College, has 

 been granted a year's leave of absence and 

 will spend the year in research work at the 

 California Institute of Technology as research 

 associate. 



Professor George Grant MacCurdy has 

 returned to Yale University after a year's stay 

 abroad as first director of the American School 

 in France for Prehistoric Studies. 



Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, sailed for Europe on September 23. 



According to English journals, an expedi- 

 tion headed by Captain F. Hurley has left 



