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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1457 



0. Jordan, University of Chicago; George C. 

 Wliipple, Harvard University; Gary N. Cal- 

 kins, Columbia University, and Charles-E. A. 

 WinslO'W, Yale University. The first William 

 Thompson Sedgwick Mem'orial Lecture will be 

 given in Huntinglton Hall, 491 Boylston Street, 

 Boston, on Friday, December 29, at five o'clock, 

 iby Dr. Edmund Beecher Wilson, Da Costa 

 professor of zoology at Columbia University, 

 on "The physical basis of iife." The lecture 

 will form part of the program of the meeting 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, .the American Society of 

 Naturalists and other societies during convo- 

 cation week. 



It is announced from Stockholm that since it 

 has been decided not to award the Nobel Prize 

 for Medicnie for 1921, the prize will be added 

 to the Special Medical Fund. The 1922 prize 

 is reserved for nest year. 



Tee Methane Association, organized in 1916 

 with the object of advancing industrial chem- 

 istry in Poland, has been reorganized as an 

 Institute of Research, and Professor Moscieki 

 has been appointed director. The government 

 of Poland has made a grant of land in the 

 neighborhood of Warsaw, where buildings for 

 the institute will be erected. 



William Eastman Standow, a graduate of 

 the University of Denver and a graduate stu- 

 dent at Columibia University, was killed by an 

 explosion in the chemical laboratory on No- 

 vember 17, through the explosion of a chamber 

 containing aniline hydrochloride. 



Professor Jeeemiah George Mosier, for 

 twenty years in charge of the work in soil 

 physics at the University of Illinois, died on 

 November 10, 1922, at the age of sixty years. A 

 correspondent writes : Professor Mosier gradu- 

 ated from the University of Illinois in 1893. 

 He then became an assistant in geology in the 

 same institution, in which position he served 

 for three years. After a period spent in high- 

 school teaching he reentered the service of his 

 university in 1902 to take up the work in soil 

 physics, a subject which at that ;time was 

 largely undeveloped. Professor Mosier was an 

 unusually inspiring teacher and he has won 

 the love and respect of the hundreds of stu- 

 dents who have come under his instruction. In 



his field of investigation his interest was broad; 

 but some of the problems which engaged his 

 especial attention were the prevention of soil 

 washing on hilly land, the effect of cultivation, 

 climatological observations, and the soil sur- 

 vey of Illinois, upon all of which topics he 

 made notable published contributions. Pro- 

 fessor Hosier's chief interest lay, perhaps, in 

 the soil survey of Illinois, he having been in 

 dii'eet charge of the mapping since the begin- 

 ning of the survey. Under his direction about 

 four fifths of ithe state have been mapped. 

 Thi-ough his long esperienee in this connection, 

 he acquired an expert knowledge of soil types 

 that made of him a widely recognized authority 

 in soil classification. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The $1,600,000 financial development pro- 

 ject for Dickinson College and Pennington 

 Seminai-y has been brought to a successful con- 

 clusion. Of this amount, Dickinson, it is re- 

 ported, will receive $1,250,000 and Pennington 

 $350,000. The money will be used for build- 

 ings, betterment, liquidation and endowment. 



GEomsTD has been broken for the new labora- 

 tory of the department of hygiene and bac- 

 teriology of the University of Chicago, which 

 when completed will be devoted to bacteriologic 

 and chemical research. It will be erected at a 

 cost of $50,000. 



Under the wiU of the late Sir William Dunn 

 a further sum of £45,000 now accrues to the 

 School of Biochemistry of the University of 

 Cambridge, making a total gift for the pur- 

 pose of the school of £210,000. 



Paul Maettn Lincoln^, of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 has been elected professor of electrical en- 

 gineering and director of the School of Elec- 

 'trical Engineering in Coi-neU University. Pro- 

 fessor Lincoln, who is a practicing engineer, 

 was professor of electrical engineering at the 

 University of Pittsburgh from 1911 to 1915. 

 He was president of the American Institute 

 of Electrical Engineers in 1914. 



Chaeles Haelan Abbott, Ph. D. has re- 

 signed his position at the Massachusetts Agi-i- 

 cultural College to accept the professorship of 



