October 27, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. C. E. K. Mees, director of the research 

 laboratory, Eastman Kodak Company, gave an 

 illustrated lecture entitled "Cheraistry and the 

 motion picture" before the Society of Engi- 

 neers at Troy, N. Y., on November 14; the 

 Detroit Section of the American Chemical 

 Society on November 15; the Purdue Section, 

 American Cliemical Society, at Lafayette, 

 Indiana, on November 16; and the Cliicago 

 Section, American Chemical Society, on No- 

 vember 17. 



Dr. "W. E. Ham, head of the department of 

 physics, addressed the Pennsylvania State Col- 

 lege Branch of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science O'ctober 18 on 

 "Esperimental evidence for and against the 

 variation of mass with velocity and its bearing 

 on the special theory of relativity." 



L. E. Warren addressed the American Asso- 

 ciation of Food, Dairy and Drug Oiflcials at 

 its twenty-sixth annual convention, at Kansas 

 City from October 3 to 6, on the subject, "The 

 la'boratory of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion and its work." 



A STATE university for Massachusetts was 

 the subject discussed at a public dinner meeting 

 arranged by the Boston Ethical Society on Octo- 

 ber 16. Among the speakers were Dr. Paul H. 

 Hanus, professor of education at Harvard 

 University, and Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, 

 professor of physics at Clark University. 



The new building for the Institute of Pathol- 

 ogy for the University of Freiburg was inau- 

 gurated in September. The address was given 

 by Dr. Ludwig Asehoff, professor of pathology 

 and pathological anatomy in the universitj^, 

 on "The importance of pathological anatomy 

 for social medicine." 



A MEMORIAL tablet was placed on the house 

 at Tulle of the late Edmond Perrier, on Sep- 

 tember 24. The Paris Academy of Sciences 

 was represented at the ceremonies by M. Ch. 

 Gravier. 



It is proposed that the new 50-centime 

 stamp which France is about to issue in com- 

 pliance with the Madrid Postal Convention 

 shall bear the poi'trait of Louis Pasteur, in 

 honor of the hundredth anniversary of his 

 birth. 



Dr. Gut Henry Cox, for many years pro- 

 fessor of geology at the jMissouri School of 

 Mines, and more recently geologist for the 

 Josey Oil Company, was killed on August 20, 

 in an automobile accident near Bristow, Okla- 

 homa. 



John Forrest Kelly, the electrical engi- 

 neer, died on October 15, aged sixty-three 

 years. 



Lawrence Reynolds, an entomologist and 

 collector in Central and South America, has 

 died in Boston at the age of forty-four years. 



The death is announced of Professor E. 

 Bergrtiann, director of the Chemisch-Technische 

 Reiehsanstalt, Berlin. 



Professor Emilio Noblting, for many years 

 director of the Chemical School at Miilhausen, 

 died on August 7 aged seventy-one years. 



Through the will of Dr. William Frear, late 

 vice-director of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, the Pennsylvania State College- has 

 received a valuable collection of scientifie books 

 and reports which will be given a permanent 

 place in the library of the School of Agricul- 

 ture. 



The department of pathology of Columbia 

 University has received a gift of $4,000 from 

 the Commonwealth Fund, to be used for re- 

 search into the causes of rickets. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the Supreme Lodge, Knights 

 of Pythias, has donated $1,000,000 for the lepers 

 on Culion Island. This money is to be used 

 for the following purposes: (1) Permanent 

 living quarters to be known as "Stevens Memo- 

 rial Hall" for all white lepers at the colony. 

 (2) Erection of an experimental laboratory 

 with full equipment to carry on experiments 

 in search of an absolute cure. (3) Establish- 

 ment of an endowment fund amounting to ap- 

 proximately $900,000, to provide money for 

 carrying on the experimental work and to fur- 

 ther the benefit work at the colony among all 

 lepers. The amount represents an assessment 

 of $1 on every member of the lodge, which has 

 a membership of nearly 1,000,000 men. 



It is announced in the British Medical Jour- 

 nal that the National Council for the Promotion 



