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the college of agriculture, Cornell University, 

 lias been appointed officer in charge of the 

 Field Laboratory of Plant Pathology of the 

 Canadian Department of Agriculture, with 

 headquarters at St. Catherine's, Ontario, and 

 has entered upon his work. 



E. J. Lambert and A. J. Carlson, professors 

 of the University of Minnesota, have completed 

 an examination of the Mesabi and Vermilion 

 range in the interest of the Minnesota Tax 

 Commission. 



Wilson Popenoe, agricultural explorer in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, sailed from California on No- 

 vember 12 for Central and South America, 

 where he will search for economic plants 

 worthy of introduction into the warmer por- 

 tions of the United States. It is particularly 

 planned to investigate the wild and cultivated 

 avocados, and to obtain the most promising 

 ones for trial in this country. 



, Mr. Egbert Cushman Murphy, of the 

 Brooklyn Museum, is in Peru, where he is en- 

 gaged in making investigations of the birds of 

 the coastal islands. Moving pictures will be 

 made of some of the colonies of pelicans, cor- 

 morants, and other sea birds of that region. 



Dr. Henry Krepelka, of Prague, in Czecho- 

 slovakia, has been appointed to a research 

 fellowship in chemistry at Harvard and is 

 engaged in the study and investigation of 

 atomic weights under the guidance of Pro- 

 fessor Theodore Richards. Dr. Krepelka has 

 been serving as assistant to Professor Brauner, 

 who is director of the chemical laboratory of 

 the University of Prague. 



At the 823d meeting of the Philosophical 

 Society of "Washington on November 8, E. W. 

 G. Wyckoff presented a paper on " The nature 

 of the forces between atoms in solids " (illus- 

 trated), and H. L. Curtis, R. C. Duncan and 

 H. H. Morse on " Methods of measuring bal- 

 listic phenomena on a battleship." 



Dr. E. V. McCoLLUM, professor of chemical 

 hygiene in the school of hygiene and public 

 health of the Johns Hopkins University, de- 

 livered an address before the Franklin Insti- 

 tute of Philadelphia on November 13, on 



" Nutrition and physical efficiency." On No- 

 vember 25 he spoke before the Institute of 

 Medicine of Chicago on " The fundamental 

 principles underlying modern nutrition in- 

 vestigations." 



The Bradshaw Lectm-e before the Royal 

 College of Physicians was given on November 

 6, by Dr. A. P. Beddard, who spoke on chronic 

 arthritis. The Pitzpatrick Lectures were 

 given by Dr. Edgar G. Browne on November 

 11 and 13, the subject being " the origin and 

 development of Arabian medicine." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Owing to the death of Mr. Edward M. 

 Reed, which occurred on October 26, 1919, 

 there is released for the general purposes of 

 Tale Observatory one third of the estate of 

 Edward M. Reed, the amount which should 

 thus be added to Observatory funds during 

 the year being estimated at $60,000 or more. 



By the will of Lawrence E. Sexton, a New 

 York lawyer, Harvard University receives 

 property valued at over $100,000. 



Dr. Louis C. Karpinski has been promoted 

 from associate professor to professor of mathe- 

 matics at the University of Michigan. 



Dr. Eugene Taylor, formerly instructor 

 who has been taking graduate studies at Har- 

 vard University, and Dr. E. P. Lane, of the 

 Rice Institute, have been appointed assistant 

 professors of mathematics at the University 

 of Wisconsin. 



Dr a. K. Lobeck, instructor at Coliunbia 

 University from 1916-18 and during the past 

 year assistant to the chief cartographer, 

 American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 

 Paris, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of geology at the University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. John T. Buchhqlz, of the West Texas 

 State Normal College, has been appointed 

 professor of botany in the University of 

 Arkansas. 



Dr. J. Graham has been appointed professor 

 of anatomy in the Anderson College of Medi- 

 cine, Glasgow, in succession to the late Dr. 

 A. M. Buchanan. 



