Deoembee 5, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



523 



for the Oregon Bureau of Mines and Geology. 



Dr. a. E. Davis, assistant professor of plant 

 pathology and physiology, University of Ne- 

 braska, has accepted a position in the division 

 of soil chemistry and bacteriology, University 

 of California. Captain Davis has recently re- 

 turned from France where he saw service with 

 the heavy artillery. 



It has been stated in Science that G. B. 

 Richardson has been placed in direct charge 

 of the oil and gas section of the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey. Mr. Richardson has been placed 

 in charge of the oil and gas section of the 

 Division of Mineral Resources of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. Mr. David White remains 

 at the head of the oil and gas section of the 

 Division of Geology. 



The Observatory of Leiden is being en- 

 larged and reorganized according to plans sub- 

 mitted by the new director. Professor W. de 

 Sitter. It will henceforth consist of three de- 

 partments — Fundamental Astronomy, Astro- 

 physics and Theoretical Astronomy — with sub- 

 directors in charge of the first two. Professor 

 E. Hertzsprung has been appointed sub-di- 

 rector of the Astrophysical Department. 

 . Peofessor Robert K. Labours, of the zool- 

 ogy department, Kansas State Agricultural 

 College, has been given a year's leave of ab- 

 sence to make a third trip to Turkestan in the 

 interest of the Karakul fur industry. During 

 his absence Dr. James E. Ackert will be act- 

 ,ing head of the department. 

 , Dr. Edward C. Schneider, formerly major 

 in the Sanitary Corps, and now head professor 

 pi biology at Wesleyan University, Middle- 

 jtown. Conn., has been asked to continue as 

 physiologist in charge of the physiological de- 

 partment of the medical research laboratory in 

 the Air Service of the Army, at Hazelhurst 

 Field, Mineola, L. I. He is giving two days of 

 each week to this work. 



Dr. Louis A. Bauer gave an illustrated lec- 

 ture on the " Solar Eclipse of May 29, 1919, 

 and the Einstein Effect," before the Royal 

 Astronomical Society of Canada at the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, on December 2, and at the 

 College of the City of 'New York on Decem- 



ber 4, at noon. The lantern slides showed 

 views of the solar eclipse and of various ex- 

 peditions of the Department of Terrestrial 

 Magnetism and of the astronomical expedi- 

 tions sent out by the Smithsonian Expedition, 

 Great Britain and Brazil, covering the belt 

 of totality from Bolivia to the French Congo. 



A Harvey Society lecture will be given by 

 Dr. E. C. Kendall, of the Mayo clinic, on 

 " The chemistry of the thyroid secretion " at 

 the ISTew York Academy of Medicine on the 

 evening of December 13. 



Dr. G. M. Stratton, professor of psychology 

 in the University of California, has accepted 

 an invitation to deliver the Nathaniel W. 

 Taylor Lectures at the Yale School of 

 Religion, beginning April 12, 1920. 



The Lane medical lectures to be given by 

 Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, professor of physio- 

 logical chemistry in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, will have at their subject " The 

 Feeding of the Nations at "War." The titles 

 of the lectures are: 



December 8, "The problem of feeding a na- 

 tion. ' ' 



December 9, "The feeding of the United King- 

 dom. ' ' 



December 10, "The feeding of France and 

 Italy." 



December 11, "The feeding of the enemy 

 states. ' ' 



December 12, "The food problem of Europe 

 after the war." 



The executive committee of the Federation 

 of Biological Societies, which includes the 

 American Physiological Society, has called the 

 annual meeting at Toronto, Canada, Decem- 

 ber 29, 30 and 31, 1919. The meeting is at the 

 invitation of the University of Toronto. This 

 is the thirty-second annual meeting of the 

 American Physiological Society and it is hoped 

 that this first post-war gathering may be made 

 an epoch meeting. The meeting places of all 

 the societies and the general ofiices of the 

 federation will be in the medical building of 

 the University of Toronto. Accommodations 

 for approximately 200 members can be ob- 

 tained by the local committee in the resi- 

 dences of the university and its colleges. 



