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espedition in 1913. He has published numer- 

 ous papers dealing with the geology of the 

 Antarctic. 



Peofessoe Aetiiue Smithblls, who has held 

 the chair of chemistry at Yorkshire College and 

 Leeds University since 1885, is to retire at the 

 end of the current session and will take up 

 special research work in chemistry in London. 



De. Leon W. Parsons has resigned as as- 

 sistant director of the Research Laboratory of 

 Applied Chemistry of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology to accept a position as 

 chief chemist of the Tiidewater Oil Company, 

 Bayonne, N. J. 



Educational programs of the various insti- 

 tutions offering courses in chemical engineer- 

 ing are to be investigated by a committee of 

 eleven appointed by the council of the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Chemical Engineers, with a 

 view to standardizing the training required for 

 the degree of ;Ch.E. The program of the com- 

 mittee contemplates three years' work in ob- 

 taining the adoption of recommendations of a 

 previous committee and the publication of a 

 list of approved schools at the end of this 

 period. The committee consists of H. C. 

 Parmalee, chairman; five representative edu- 

 cators : Joseph H. James, W. K. Lewis, A. H. 

 White, R. H. McKee and S. W. Pan-; and five 

 representative industrialists : C. E. K. Mees, 

 A. D. Little, C. L. Reese, W. C. Geer and 

 W. R. Whitney. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation reports that the close of twenty-five 

 years of teaching and research in physiology 

 by Professor H. Zwaardemaker has been cele- 

 brated by friends and students at the physi- 

 ological institute of the University of Utrecht. 

 His contributions to science include additions 

 to our knowledge of the organs of sense, of the 

 transformations of energy, and of the im- 

 portance of potassium for the automatism of 

 the organs. He is now studying physiologic 

 radioactivity, and how to help the deaf. He 

 was presented with a feestbundel of ninety-five 

 scientific articles from international sources, 

 which, with an introductory article describing 

 his life work, form a volume of 591 pages of 



the Netherlands Archives of Exact and Natural 

 Sciences. His portrait was also presented, tb 

 be installed in the institute. 



The Pasteur Lecture for 1922 of the Insti- 

 tute of Medicine of Chicago will be delivered 

 by Dr. Jacques Loeib, of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute, on Friday, November 24, 1922. Pro- 

 fessor August Krogh, of Copenhagen, lec- 

 tured before the institute on Octolser 27 on 

 "The exchange of substances through the capil- 

 lary wall, with some applications to patholog- 

 ical pi-oblems." Dr. Robert Barany, professor 

 of otology at the University of Upsala, also 

 addressed the meeting. 



In continuation of the series of illustrated 

 evening lectures given in the Administration 

 Building of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, Dr. T. H. Morgan, research associate 

 in biology and professor of experimental 

 aoology at Columbia University, will speak on 

 November 28 on "The constitution of the 

 hereditary material and its relation to devel- 

 opment." 



Dr. Matnard M. Metcalf has been speaking 

 at Purdue University, DePauw University, 

 University of Indiana and Butler College 

 during the first ten days of November, dis- 

 cussing research, the origin and future of man, 

 animal distribution and industrial problems 

 from the biological (humanistic) standpoint. 

 He has held also conferences with small groups 

 of persons specially interested in research, 

 either from the standpoint of pupils looking 

 forward to graduate study, or from- the stand- 

 point of institutions in their relations to re- 

 search. 



De. Joseph C. Bloodgood, of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, addressed the dentists 

 of Boston at a special meeting on November 

 10, preliminary to the opening of the "Na- 

 tional Cancer Week," on "Lesions of the oral 

 cavity." 



De. Irving Langmuie, research physicist 

 with the General Electric Company at Schenec- 

 tady, will give a series of three lectures at the 

 Carnegie Institute of Technology on November 

 27, 28 and 29. The lectures will be given to 

 students and executives in industrial and seien- 



