July 4, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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Leave of absence has been given by the 

 University of California to W. C. Bray, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry, who will become one of 

 the three directors of research in the new ni- 

 trate division laboratory of the government. 



Captain W. E. Carroll, who has been in the 

 Sanitary Corps of the Army in France, has 

 been honorably discharged and wiU resume his 

 duties as head of the department of animal 

 husbandry at the Utah Agricultural College 

 and Experiment Station. 



Professor L. M. Winsor, who has been in 

 South America as consulting engineer on an 

 irrigation project, has returned to Utah where 

 he will resume his irrigation investigations 

 with the Utah Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion and the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 cooperating. 



B. R. Mackay will be in charge of a party 

 sent out by the U. S. Geological Siwvey to 

 make explorations in British Columbia. 



Dr. E. W. Gudger, of the ISTorth Carolina 

 College for "Women, Greensboro, 'N. C, is 

 spending a year's leave of absence at the 

 American Museum' of Natural History of 

 New York City, where he is associated with 

 Professor Bashford Dean in editing the third 

 and index volume of the Bibliography of 

 Pishes. Letters and separates may be ad- 

 dressed to him at the museum. 



Dr. Maurice L. Dolt, professor of organic 

 chemistry at the North Dakota Agricultural 

 College, has resigned to accept a position as 

 research chemist with the American Cotton 

 Oil Company. 



The Committee on Scientific Eesearch of the 

 Journal of the American Medical Association 

 has made an appropriation for the prepara- 

 tion of a critical summary of the epidemiology 

 and bacteriology of the influenza pandemic. 

 The work has been placed in charge of Pro- 

 fessor Edwin 0. Jordan, of the University of 

 Chicago. It is requested that reprints of ar- 

 ticles and statistical records on influenza be 

 forwarded to Professor Jordan as soon as pub- 

 lished. 



Dr. M. Curtis Farabee, who was ethnog- 

 rapher to the American Commission to Nego- 



tiate Peace and went to Paris with President 

 Wilson's party, has returned to the University 

 of Pennsylvania. While in Paris he was made 

 a corresponding member of the Paris Anthro- 

 pological Society and of the Association for 

 the Teaching of Anthropological Sciences. 



Dr. Eeginald A. Daly, professor of geology 

 at Harvard University, will go to Samoa this 

 summer umder the auspices of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington to study the vol- 

 canic formations and coral reefs of the 

 Samoan Islands. 



Major Victor Clarence Vaughan, Jr., on 

 duty with the American Expeditionary Forces 

 was accidentally drowned in France, on June 

 10. Major Vaughan, who was bom in Ann 

 Arbor, in 1879, was associate professor of pre- 

 ventive medicine and assistant professor of 

 medicine in the Detroit College of Medicine 

 and Surgery, and the author of valuable con- 

 tributions to pathology and bacteriology. 



Additional information regarding the obser- 

 vations made by Dr. Bauer's party at Cape 

 Pahnas, Liberia, during the total solar eclipse 

 of May 28-29, states that the magnetic effect 

 observed in previous eclipses has been con- 

 firmed. The inner corona was very bright, and 

 marked outer corona extensions south south- 

 east and north northwest were observed. No 

 shadow bands were seen. 



The Selous collection of big-game trophies 

 has been presented to the Natural History Mu- 

 seum, London, by Mrs. Selous, is said by Na- 

 ture to be the finest ever brought together as 

 the product of one man's gun. It consists of 

 some five hundred specimens shot by the late 

 Captain F. C. Selous, D.S.O., during a period 

 of nearly forty years, some of the trophies 

 dating from his earliest days as a hunter. 

 The greater part of the collection is African, 

 but there are many specimens from Canada, 

 Newfoundland, the southern Carpathians and 

 Asia Minor. Mrs. Selous has also presented 

 to the Natural History Museum the superb col- 

 lection of European birds' eggs, every clutch 

 in which was collected by Captain Selous, and 

 is labelled most carefully, with exact date and 

 locality. The specimens will in due course be 



