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These will be held from October 9 to 14. The 

 next visit will be to Paris in the interests of the 

 Third International Congress of Eugenics. In 

 London, on October 24, he will lecture before 

 the Eugenics Education Society on "Recent 

 Work of the Eugenics Record Office." He will 

 sail from England about October 25. 



Dr. Hugh S. Cummixg, surgeon general of 

 the U. S. Public Health Service, sailed on Octo- 

 ber 5 for Europe to spend two weeks inspect- 

 ing the government's sanitary stations abroad. 

 While in Prance, General Gumming will also 

 attend the convention at Paris which is to re- 

 vise the international sanitary treaty of Rome, 

 where he will present several amendments con- 

 cerning international measures against typhus, 

 the plague and cholera. He will attend, in 

 addition, the meeting in Paris of the hygiene 

 unit of the League of Nations. 



Db. David Staer Jordan has sailed for 

 Japan. He expects to return to Stanford Uni- 

 versity in December. 



Dr. H. Cilento, of the Australian Health 

 Department, recently arrived in America to 

 study the methods used by the late General 

 Gorgas in eifecting sanitation in the Canal 

 Zone. 



Drs. Leon Bleum, P. Bouin, Georges Weiss 

 and L. M. Pautrier, of the University of Stras- 

 bourg, arrived in New York on October 2. 

 They plan to make a study of American hos- 

 pitals. 



Neil M. Judd, curator of American arche- 

 ology of the U. S. National Museum and direc- 

 tor of the National Geographic Society's 

 Pueblo Bonito Expedition, returned to Wash- 

 ington at the end of September after having 

 completed the second season's exploration of 

 the great ruin of Chaco 'Canyon, New Mexico. 



Edward S. Handy, ethnologist of the Bishop 

 Museum of Hawaii, will leave Honolulu in 

 December or January to take charge of an ex- 

 pedition to Tahiti and Moore, for which the 

 museum has completed arrangements. The 

 work is planned to supplement the investiga- 

 tions by members of the Bayard Dominiek Ex- 

 pedition, who have been at work in the Mar- 

 quesas and the Austral Islands during the past 

 two years. 



Professor Albert W. Smith, formerly 

 dean of Sibley College, Cornell University, and 

 acting president of the university, has returned 

 to Ithaca, where he is engaged in writing the 

 biography of John Edson Sweet, first head of 

 the mechanical engineering instruction at Cor- 

 nell, and later president of the Straight Line 

 Engine Company of Syracuse. Professor 

 Smith retains his connection with the Kent 

 Construction Company of Rutherford, New 

 Jersey, as consulting engineer. 



Dr. Warren D. Smith, who has been for 

 the past two years on leave of absence from 

 the University of Oregon, in charge of the 

 Division of Mines, Bureau of Science, Manila, 

 P. I., has returned to the university to resume 

 his work in geology and geography. 



The Norman Lockyer Observatory, Sid- 

 mouth, England, has elected Dr. Otto Klotz, 

 chief astronomer and director of the Dominion 

 Astronomical Observatory, Ottawa, an hon- 

 orary overseas member. 



Henry E. Summers has retired from active 

 work as state entomologist of Iowa and pro- 

 fessor of zoology in Iowa State College, posi- 

 tions to which he was appointed in 1898. He 

 will live in Los Angeles, California. 



Mato Dyer Hersey, associate professor of 

 the properties of matter in the department of 

 physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, has resigned to take a position as 

 physicist in charge of the Physical Laboratory 

 of the United States Bureau of Mines, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Mr. Barry J. Anson has recently resigned 

 his assistantship in the U. S. Bureau of Eish- 

 eries Biological Station, at Fairport, Iowa, to 

 accept a Rockefeller Foundation medical fel- 

 lowship paying $2,000. He is working at Har- 

 vard University. 



Mr. E. Leonard Gill, of the Hancock Mu- 

 seum at Newcastle-on-Tyne, has been appoint- 

 ed assistant in the natural history department 

 of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. 



When the 3Iaud was at Deering, Kotzebue 

 Sound, Alaska, in order to land Captain 

 Amundsen for his proposed airplane flight 

 across the polar area. Dr. H. U. Sverdrup, in 



