November 24, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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civilization has been running along itoo long on 

 merely the two golden wheels of ant and litera- 

 tm-e. It needs two more wheels to keep abreast 

 with !the resit of the world, a wheel of science 

 and a wheel of industry. 



Edwin F. Hopkins has resigned 'ais plant 

 pathologist of the University of Missouri to 

 accept a position as plant physiologist with the 

 Manble Laboratory, Inc., of Oanton, Pa. He 

 will he engaged in a situdy of problems related 

 to cold storage. 



Leave of absence has been granted by the 

 Corporation of Yale University to Dr. Lafay- 

 ette B. Mendel, Sterling professor of physio- 

 logical ohemisry, to enable him to deliver a 

 course of lectures on the Hitchcock Foundation 

 at the University of California in the late 

 spring of the .present university year. It is 

 the intention of Professor Mendel to leave New 

 Haven after the dedicaition of the Sterling 

 Chemisitry Laboratory in April, to join the 

 faculty of the University of California for the 

 intersession, which continues from May 14 to 

 June 23, 1923. Professor Mendel has chosen 

 for his subject "New aspects of the physiology 

 of nutrition." 



Dr. Charles H. Gilbert, of Stanford Uni- 

 versit5'', California, who during the past sum- 

 mer has made an esitensive investigation of the 

 salmon fisheries in the Alaska Peninsula Fish- 

 eries Reservation, created in February, 1922, 

 was in Washington from October 18 to 26 

 conferring with officei-s of the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries regarding conditions that he had found 

 in the reservation, ouitlining future work to be 

 taken up there and discussing the regulations 

 necessary for the calendar year 1923. Dr. Gil- 

 bert visited Seattle on November 16 and 17 

 for the purpose of conferring with people 

 operaiting in the Alaska Peninsula Resei'vation 

 and discussing permits that will ibe issued for 

 the operations that will be allowed in the reser- 

 vation the coming year. 



A Danish scientiflic mission, under the lead- 

 ership of Professor Olufson, accompanied by 

 the French savant, Professor Bourcart, of the 

 Sorbonne, left Paris early in the present month 

 on a six months' expedition in the northern 



Sahara, where it will cover a distance of some 

 3,000 miles. The membera of the mission in- 

 clude the botanist, Dr. Gram, and the geolo- 

 gists, Drs. Storgaard and Kayser. The party, 

 ■which will start from Tunis, intends to make a 

 ■detailed study of the Shat-el-Jeiid. From 

 Nefta it will proceed to Tuggurt, and thence to 

 Wargla, in the Algerian Sahara. Next it will 

 go to Insalah, and endeavor to explore the 

 Hoggar Mountains. 



Chas. R. Fettke, associate professor of 

 geology and mineralogy at ithe Carnegie Insti- 

 tute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., has com- 

 pleted an investigaition of the oil resources of 

 the coals and carbonaceous shales of Pennsyl- 

 vania for the State Bureau of Topographic 

 and Geological Survey. 



Dr. Charles P. Berket, professor of geol- 

 ogy ajt Columbia University, has returned from 

 China where he was with the Third Asiatic 

 Expedition of the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. 



Dr. Edgar F. Smith, former provost of the 

 University of Pennsylvania and president of 

 :the American Chemical Society, gave a leetui'e 

 at the University of Pennsylvania on Novem- 

 ber 3 on Joseph Priestley, under the auspices 

 of the Priestley Club. 



A COURSE of eight lectures on "Secretion and 

 Internal Secretion" was given by Pixjfessor 

 Swale Vincent, M.D., D.Sc, professor of physi- 

 ology in the University of London, at Middle- 

 sex Hospital Medical 'School, during November. 



Dr. Joseph S. Ames, professor of physics at 

 the Johns Hopkins University, director. Office 

 of Aeronautical Intelligence of the National 

 Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, spoke on 

 Novemlber 23 before the Franklin Institute of 

 Philadelphia, on "Recent aeronautic investiga- 

 tions and the au-plane industry." 



Dr. August Krogh, professor of zoophysiol- 

 ogy in the University of Copenhagen, lectured 

 at the University of Pennsylvania on Novem- 

 ber 14 and 15 on "Nervous and hormonel con- 

 trol of capillary contractility" and on "The ex- 

 change of substances thixjugh the capillary 

 wall." Dr. Krogh addressed a special meeting 

 of the Entomological Society of Washington 



