July 11, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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Professor J. F. Kemp has recently found 

 among other stored articles in the department 

 of geology of Columbia University a notebook 

 of the late Professor John Strong Newberry, 

 containing notes in French taken by him 

 while a student, and covering the lectures on 

 botany delivered by Professor Brongniart in 

 Paris in 1849 and 1850. Through Professor 

 Harper, Professor Kemp has transmitted this 

 very interesting document to the New York 

 Botanical Garden for preservation, and it has 

 been added to the library. 



Dr. C. L. Marlatt, assistant chief of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, and chairman of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board, gave an address 

 to the Entomological and Zoological Seminar 

 of the Kansas State Agricultural College on 

 May 19, on some work of the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board. 



Dr. Albert E. Mann, dean of Cornell Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, delivered the address at 

 the forty-ninth commencement of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, on 

 June 24. He spoke on " The place of the 

 trained man in agriculture." 



The Croonian Lecture on the biological sig- 

 nificance of anaphylaxis was delivered on May 

 29, before the Eoyal Society, by Dr. H. H. 

 Dale, E.R.S., director of the biochemical and 

 pharmacological department of the Medical 

 Kesearch Committee. 



Sir Arthur Newsholme gave a public ad- 

 dress on the evening of June 20, at the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, on " Some problems of 

 preventive medicine of the immediate future." 

 Sir Arthur was the guest of honor at a dinner 

 given by Dr. Edmund E. King, Toronto, presi- 

 dent of the Academy of Medicine. 



Father Walter Sidgrbaves, S.J., director 

 of the Stonyhurst College Observatory, known 

 for his contribution to stellar spectroscopy and 

 other work, died on June 12, in his eighty-sec- 

 ond year. 



The four hundredth anniversary of the 

 death of Leonardo da Vinci was celebrated at 

 Naples on May 2. The British Medical Jour- 

 nal states that an address was delivered by 

 Professor Filippo Bottazzi. The great artist 



was an enthusiastic anatomist. He began his 

 studies in the Hospital of Santa Maria Nova 

 at Florence in 1489, when he was in his thirty- 

 seventh year, and continued them at Milan in 

 the Ospedale Maggiore and the Collegio die 

 Fisici, and afterwards at Rome in 1513 till 

 they were forbidden by Leo X., on a denuncia- 

 tion of body-snatching made by some German 

 enemies. He dissected more than thirty bod- 

 ies of men and women of various ages, and 

 his observations were collected in one hundred 

 and twenty books; much of the manuscript 

 has been lost, and the drawings designed to 

 illustrate the text of a great work on anatomy 

 to have been wi'itten in conjunction with 

 Marc' Antonio della Torre, the famous pro- 

 fessor of Pavia, lay forgotten in the Am- 

 brosian Library at Milan, and afterwards in 

 the Royal Library at Windsor, until they were 

 discovered in 1902. They are now in course 

 of publication. 



The faculty of the North Dakota Agricul- 

 tural College, organized under the name Col- 

 lege Teachers Organization, voted on June 9 

 to apply for a charter in the American Feder- 

 ation of Teachers. Eighty per cent, of the 

 teaching staff are members of the new organi- 

 zation. 



The annual general meeting of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry will be held in London 

 on July 15-18, under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor Henry Louis. Nature states that on 

 July 15 there will be a conference at the 

 Mansion House, when addresses will be given 

 by representatives of the Inter-Allied Confer- 

 ence. Sir William J. Pope, chairman of the 

 Federal Council for Pure and Applied Chem- 

 istry, will open the conference. The subjects 

 of other conferences will be : Power Plant in 

 Chemical Works; Empire Sugar Production; 

 Dyestuffs, Synthetic Drugs and Associated 

 Products; The Chrome Tanning Industry; 

 and Recent Developments in the Fermenta- 

 tion Industries. A reception will be held at 

 the British Scientific Products Exhibition, 

 Central Hall, Westminster, on July 17. 



Washington University School of Medi- 

 cine has received a grant of $5,000 to be used 



