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kins University, for tlie continuation of his 

 optical investigations, additional to former 

 appropriations, $350. 



Dr. Theobald Smith, director of the de- 

 partment of animal pathology of the Eocke- 

 feUer Institute for Medical Research, for- 

 merly professor of comparative pathology at 

 Harvard University, has been appointed Cut- 

 ter lecturer on preventive medicine and hy- 

 giene at Harvard University for the next 

 academic year. 



, The Botanical Society of Washington has 

 elected the following officers for the ensuing 

 year: President, Haven Metcalf; Vice-presi- 

 dent, A. J. Pieters; Recording Secretary, 

 Chas. E. Chambliss; Corresponding Secretary, 

 E. Kent Beattie; Treasurer, L. L. Harter. 

 , Professor H. von Mangoldt has been 

 elected president of the German Mathematical 

 Society, and Professor Felix Klein, honorary 

 president. 



Dr. John E. Teeple, of JSTew York City, 

 has been elected treasurer of the American 

 Chemical Society to fill the miexpired term 

 of the late Dr. E. G. Love. 



After many years of service in the exami- 

 nation of applications for chemical patents, 

 Mr. Bert Eussell has resigned his position as 

 first assistant examiner, to devote his atten- 

 tion largely to chemico-legal problems arising 

 in the patent practise of Messrs. Prindle, 

 Wright and Small, of New York City. Mr. 

 Eussell has been secretary of the Patent 

 Office Society, which has been active in 

 improving the resources, the standards and 

 the efficiency of the Patent Office. 



Dr. Carl Hartley, pathologist in the office 

 of forest pathology. Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, has recently resigned to accept a 

 position as pathologist with the Instituut 

 voor plantenziekten en Cultures, Buitenzorg, 

 Java. 



Dr. L. 0. Glenn, who has recently been on 

 leave of absence from Vanderbilt University 

 while in charge of the collection of oil and 

 gas valuation data in Kentucky, Tennessee 

 and Alabama for the Internal Eevenue De- 

 partment, has made an examination for the 



United States Department of Justice of cer- 

 tain oil lands along the Bed Eiver near Burk- 

 Burnett, Texas, over which there has arisen a 

 question as to jurisdiction between Texas and 

 Oklahoma. 



Professor Merle Eandall, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, has returned to Berkeley after having 

 spent the summer as research chemist in the 

 laboratories of the Experimental Kelp-Potash 

 Plant of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, at Summerland, California. 



Professor Henry B. Ward, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, special assistant of the Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries, has returned to Urbana, 

 after completing an investigation of the 

 salmon spawning grounds of the Copper 

 Eiver and certain important tributaries. 

 Accompanied by Professor W. A. Oldfather, 

 also of the University of Illinois, and J. E. 

 Eussell, superintendent of the Bureau's fish- 

 cultural stations in Washington. 



Professors E. A. Daly, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and A. G. Mayor, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, have returned from an expedition to 

 American Samoa under the auspices of the 

 Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. Professor Daly 

 made a study of the lithology of Samoa, and 

 also confirms the opinion that the fringing 

 reef now surrounding Tutuila is of recent 

 origin, and was antedated by a time wherein 

 there were no living reefs around the island. 

 Ancient reefs are sunken to depths of about 

 30 fathoms, but these have nothing to do with 

 the modern reefs. Corals were planted out at 

 depths between 8^ fathoms and the surface in 

 order to determine the growth-rate of the reefs. 



At the eight hundred and twenty-first meet- 

 ing of the Philosophical Society of Washing- 

 ton which was held on Saturday, October 11, 

 Dr. C. G. Abbott read a paper on " Solar stud- 

 ies in South America"; Dr. L. A Bauer, on 

 " The total solar eclipse at Cape Palmas, Li- 

 beria, May 29, 1919," and D. M. Wise, on 

 " The total solar eclipse at Sobral, Brazil, May 

 29, 1919." 



The Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society states that the firm of Julius Springer, 



