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[Vol. LVI, No. 1457 



Dr. Adolph Loewy, professor of physi- 

 ology at the University of Beriin, has been ap- 

 pointed -direotor of an institute at Davos, 

 Switzerland, for research on the physiologic 

 effects of residence in high altitudes as per- 

 taining to the treatment of tuberculosis. 



The November number of the Journal of 

 Geology at the University of Chicago ■will hear 

 the oames of father and son as editor and 

 managing editor, the former being Thomas C. 

 Chamberlin, professor emeritus of geology, 

 and the latter R-oUin T. Chamberlin, associate 

 professor of geology. From the founding of 

 the journal twenty-nine years ago T. C. Cham- 

 'berlin and the late R. D. Salisbury were the 

 editors. The other editors are Stuart Weller, 

 invertebrate paleontology; Edson S. Bastin, 

 economic geology; Albert Johannsen, petro- 

 logy; and J. Harien Bretz, stratigraphic geol- 

 ogy. Associate editoi-s include representatives 

 of Great Britain, France, Germany, Norway, 

 Sweden, Australia, and Canada. 



Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, curator of zoology 

 of the Field Museum of Natural Histoi-y, and 

 party, including Mr. H. B. Oonover and Mr. 

 C. C. Sanborn, of the Field Museum, sailed on 

 November 16 for Valparaiso, Chile. They 

 will proceed to the forested region of southern 

 Chile about Corcovado Gulf and, after making 

 general collections there, will work northward. 

 Dr. Osgood and Mr. Conover will retuim via 

 Argentine, Uruguay and southern Brazil about 

 the middle of 1923 and Mr. Sanborn will re- 

 main in the field until 1924. 



We leam from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the U. 'S. Public 

 Health Sei-viee has begun a study of the meth- 

 ods used in the United States in the manu- 

 facture of biologic products. Passed Assistant 

 Surgeon W. T. Harrison has started a tour 

 of the country to investigate this subject, go- 

 ing to Toronto, Caniada; Boston; New York, 

 Otisville and Pearl River, N. T. ; New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J.; Philadelphia, Swnftwater, Glen- 

 olden, Ambler and Mariette, Pa.; Asheville, 

 N. C. ; Buffalo, and Baltimore. 



Dr. Samuel J. Morris, professor of anatomy 



at the West Virginia University School of 

 Medicine, has obtained a year's leave of ab- 

 sence to study anatomy at the Harvard Medical 

 School. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has returned from an ex- 

 tended trip to Wesitern and Central. Europe 

 made for the purpose of visiting the more im- 

 portant recently discovered sites of early man, 

 and of examining the skeletal remains. As the 

 result of a special invitation by the minister 

 of education of the Czechoslovak Republic, he 

 delivered also a series of lectures on "Anthro- 

 pology and man's evolution" at the Univer- 

 sities of Prague, Brno (Briin) and Bratislava 

 (Pressburg), and at the People's University 

 of Plzen (Pilsen). 



Professor F. Krause, of the University of 

 Berlin, is now in Mexico City giving a course 

 of leetua-es on nerve surgery. 



Professor D. Pahle, of the Univereity of 

 Frankfort, Germany, arrived in Chicago on 

 November 18. Under the auspices of the 

 American. Society for the Control of Cancer, 

 he will give a series of demonstrations of the 

 deep-therapy roentgen-ray machine a;t the Nor- 

 wegian-American Hospital. 



Professor George C. Whipple, of the de- 

 partment of sanitary engineering of Harvard 

 University, wiU give a series of lectures on 

 "The philosophy of sanitation" at the Wagner 

 Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia on 

 Saturday evenings in January. 



The educational committee of the Bui'eau 

 of Standards has arranged with Professor A. 

 Sommerfeld for a course of lectures on "Quan- 

 tum Theory" and related subjects. These lec- 

 tures will be given at the Bureau of Standards, 

 Washington, D. C, early in March, 1923. 



Professor A. J. Carlson., as the guest of 

 the University of Nebraska Medical College 

 on November 17, delivered two addresses, one 

 before the student body and the other before 

 the faculty. 



The Hanben lectures before the Royal In- 

 stitute of Public Health will be delivered by 

 Professor Theodore Madsen, M. D., director of 



