SCIENCE 



Friday, October 31, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 Geophysics at the Brussels Meeting : Db. Louis 

 A. Bauee 399 



A Medical School in the War and After: Pro- 

 fessor Graham Lusk 403 



Scientific Events: — 



Cooperative Conservation of the Indiana- 



. Lake Michigan Sands; The loiva Policy 

 Concerning State Paries; Matters of Scien- 

 tific Interest in Congress; American Ornith- 

 ologists' Union 405 



Scientific Notes and News 408 



University and Educational News 411 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 ; Uniformity in Symbols: Dbs. Alexander 

 ' McAdie, George P. Payne. Orogenies of 

 , the Great Basin: Dr. Charles Ketes. Dis- 

 tribution of the Fresh-water Medusa in the 

 United States: PRorESSOR C. W. Habgitt. 411 



Scientific BooJcs: — 



Morse on the Living Lamellibranchs of 

 New England: De. F. N. Balch 415 



Special Articles: — 

 Eesemhlances between the Properties of 

 Surface Films in Passive Metals and in Liv- 

 ing Protoplasm : Professor Ealph S. Lillie. 416 



The American Chemical Society: Dr. Charles 

 L. Parsons 421 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Ga 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



GEOPHYSICS AT THE BRUSSELS 

 MEETINGS, JULY 18-28, 19191 



Under the auspices of the International Re- 

 search Council, which met at Brussels in the 

 Palais des Academies, July 18-28, 1919, there 

 was established, besides other international 

 .unions of astronomy, mathematics, physics, 

 chemistry, biology, scientific radiotelegraphy, 

 etc., the International Geodetic and Geophys- 

 ical Union, consisting of the following sections 

 •and officers: 



Since there were represenied at Brussels this 

 time only the countries of the Allies, it was 

 concluded to defer complete organization of 

 the sections until the entrance into the Union 

 of other countries to be invited by the Interna- 

 tional Research Council. In the case of Sec- 

 tion (6) (Seismology), since the agreement 

 among nations belonging to the International 

 Seismological Association, formed before the 

 war, does not expire until April 1, 1920, it was 

 necessary to postpone any organization, what- 

 soever, of the section. However, as the central 

 office of the association is at Strasburg, it .is 

 fitting that it continue there when the Section 

 of Seismology is organized. Professor E. 

 Rothe has been appointed to the chair of geo- 

 physics, at the University of Strasbuig, 

 Prance. The rector of the university invited 

 the delegates at Brussels to attend the opening, 

 on November 11, 1919, of the university, now 

 under Prench auspices. 



, The Executive Committees of the Sections 

 were for the present limited to the president, 

 vice-president and secretary, excepting in the 

 case of (e) (Physical Oceanography) where 

 Sir Charles Close (British Ordnance Survey) 



1 Basis of an account which the writer was re- 

 quested to give before the combined meeting at 

 Ann Arbor, September 4, 1919, of the American 

 Astronomical Society, American Mathematical So- 

 ciety, and the Mathematical Association of Amer- 

 ica. 



