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lishment at the State House, on September 

 13. Among the chief speakers were Dr. 

 Henry P. Walcott, Boston; Dr. William H. 

 Welch, Baltimore; Assistant Surgeon Allan 

 J. McLaughlin, U. S. P. H. S., and Sir 

 Arthur Newsholme, of England. The health 

 commissioner, Eugene E. Kelly, Boston, pre- 

 sided, and the visitors were welcomed on he- 

 half of the state by the governor. 



Dr. Frederick Ebeeson, of the Eockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Eesearch, has accepted 

 a position at the Washington University to 

 study, experimentally, the "Latent syphilitic 

 as a carrier." The research is to be done in 

 the department of Professor M. F. Engman. 



Professor J. E. Petavel, F.E.S., has been 

 appointed director of the British National 

 Physical Laboratory in succession to Sir 

 Eichard Glazebrook, C.B., F.E.S., who retired 

 on reaching the age-limit on September 18. 

 Professor Petavel is professor of engineering 

 and director of the Whitworth Laboratory in 

 the University of Manchester. 



A CORRESPONDENT Writes: M. Emmanuel de 

 Margerie, the eminent French geologist and 

 geographer and translator of Suess' " Antlitz 

 der Erde " into " La Face de la Terre," has 

 lately been appointed director of, the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Alsace and Lorraine, in 

 connection with the reorganization of the 

 University of Strasbourg under French con- 

 trol, where Gofreaux is professor of geology, 

 Baulig and Denis of geography, and J. de 

 Lapparent of mineralogy. To the best of our 

 knowledge this is the first olficial position 

 that de Margerie has ever held; all his work 

 heretofore has been done as a private indi- 

 vidual. There is no other geologist in the 

 world who has attained so high a rank in his 

 science by individual effort, without support 

 from government bureaus or university ap- 

 pointments. De Margerie's new address is 

 Service de la Carte Geologique d' Alsace et 

 de la Lorraine, 1 rue Blessig, Strasbourg, 

 France. 



Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, director of 

 the museum of the California Academy of 

 Sciences has gone into the Olympic Moun- 

 tains west of Puget Sound for the purpose of 



studying the Eoosevelt elk in its native 

 habitat. An expert Pathe moving picture 

 photographer has been taken along to get a 

 film showing this species of big game in 

 action in its wild state and under natural 

 surroundings. The film will be used by the 

 academy in its educational work to supple- 

 ment the habitat group of these animals 

 which, through the generosity of Mr. Wm. 

 C. Van Antwerp, the academy is now in- 

 stalling in its museum in Golden Gate Park. 



The committee on cooperation of the Eco- 

 logical Society of America has just completed 

 a field study of the plants and animals at 

 timber line on Mt. Morey in the Adirondack 

 Mountains of New York. Coincidently with 

 'the field study some of the research problems 

 in ecology were discussed and listed. The 

 committee included representatives of the 

 three main lines of activity of the society, 

 plant ecology, animal ecology and forestry. 

 The persons and institutions cooperating are 

 Barrington Moore, president of the Ecolog- 

 ical Society, Norman Taylor for the Brook- 

 lyn Botanic Garden, George P. Bums for the 

 Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Charles C. Adams and T. L. Hankinson for the 

 New York State College of Forestry at Syra- 

 cuse. 



It is annoimced in Nature that the widow 

 of Professor Milne has decided to return to 

 her native coimtry, Japan, and that in con- 

 sequence the house at Shide, Newport, Isle of 

 Wight, in which Professor Milne did such im- 

 portant work in seismology is to be sold 

 shortly by public auction. 



Edward Payson Bates, a well-known steam 

 engineer of Syracuse, N. Y., died on August 4 

 at the age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. a. G. Vernon Harcourt, F.E.S., lately 

 Lee's reader in chemistry at Christ Church, 

 Oxford, died on August 23, aged eighty-four 

 years. 



Professor Alexander Macalister, F.E.S., 

 professor of anatomy in the University of 

 Cambridge, died on September 2, aged seventy- 

 five years. 



