OCTOBEK 20, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



447 



Arms Company's plant is located, and it was to 

 con'tinue that work that funds were bequeathed 

 to the General Hospital Society. 



The annual' meeting of the American Society 

 of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists will be 

 held in the Field Museum, Chicago, on Friday, 

 October 27, immediately following the meeting 

 of the American Ornithologists' Union. All 

 IDersons interested in any line of investigation 

 relating to fishes, amphibians or reptiles are 

 cordially invited to be present and take part 

 in the meeting. Those desiring to present 

 papers should communicate with the oommit'tee 

 on an-angements, Karl P. Schmidt or Alfred C. 

 Weed, Field Museum of Natural History, 

 Chicago. 



According to the Septembea- issue of the 

 Decimal Educator, the official organ of the 

 Decimal Association, as abstracted in Nature, 

 the metric system has been or is soon to be 

 adopted in Greece, Poland, Haiti and Japan, 

 while the Russian government is rapidly intro- 

 ducing it into its administrative departments. 

 The British Chamber of Commerce in the 

 Argentine and the consul for Bolivia again 

 warn British exporters of the futility of 

 quoting in pounds, shillings and pence for 

 amounts specified in imperial weights and 

 measures. Mr. W. A. Appletou, secretary of 

 the General Federation of Trade Unions, states 

 that "these weights and measures of ours cheat 

 the home buyer and arouse the suspicion of the 

 foreigner," and asks how many buyers know 

 the difference in weight of a peck of potatoes 

 and a peck of peas. The Lancashire cotton 

 market has ceased to quote cotton in sixty- 

 fourths of a penny and now gives the price in 

 hundredths, but we still appear likely to fulfil 

 the prediction o& Augustus de Morgan and 

 "adopt the metric system when every other 

 country has done so." Sir Richard Gregory, 

 president of the association, recommends 'in an 

 introductory article that the metric system 

 should be made the sole legal system in all de- 

 partments of state, and the nation thus pre- 

 pared for its general introduction, which is 

 bound to come in its time, as it is foolish to 

 expect the world to adopt the imperial as an 

 international system. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



A TRUST agreement made by Mrs. Lydia C. 

 Chamberlain, formerly of Des Moines, Iowa, 

 who lived for many years in New York City, 

 giving $419,000 to Columljia University for 

 fellowships, has been upheld in the Supreme 

 Court, but an attempt by Mrs. Chamberlain in 

 her will to distribute the rest of her estate to 

 Columbia also under the trust agreement, has 

 been set aside. Mrs. Chamberlain directs that 

 the income from the gift be used to establish 

 "graduate" and "traveling" fellowships, to be 

 restricted to men or women Avho were born in 

 Iowa, graduated from Iowa institutions, and 

 who return to live in Iowa. The amount pay- 

 able yearly is limited to $850. 



A CAMPAIGN is being conducted to raise 

 $10,000,000 for the University of Southern 

 California, Los Angeles. Plans provide for a 

 medical school and teaching hospital which will 

 cost, on completion, approximately $3,500,000. 



The Prudential Insurance Company of 

 America has made a presentation of its entire 

 sections on geological and geographical science 

 to the library of Wellesley College. The col- 

 lection includes over 3,000 volumes, publica- 

 tions and maps. 



Dr. Elmer Pike has been appointed medical 

 director of the University of Vermont, to suc- 

 ceed Dr. David Marvin. 



Dr. Arthur Holmes, recently president of 

 Drake University, has been elected professor of 

 psychology in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 where he will have charge of the welfare of 

 men students. 



Mr. Albert J. Walcott, a graduate of the 

 University of Michigan, and for the last three 

 years carrying on research work in optical 

 glass with the Bausch & Lomb Optical Com- 

 pany, has been appointed lecturer in mineral- 

 ogy at Northwestern University. 



Raymond M. Deming, formerly instructor in 

 mathematics at the Case School of Applied 

 Science, has been appointed professor and 

 head of the mathematics department at Upper 

 Iowa University, Fayette. 



