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Adams, director of the station, on Oneida 

 Lalce, and in the Palisades Interstate Park. 

 The surveys, which in the past have been con- 

 ducted by the department of forest zoology, 

 have been taken over by the Roosevelt Wild 

 Life Station and will be conducted in the main 

 under its auspices. 



Dr. Mabel L. Eoe, who resigned in July as 

 assistant plant pathologist in the Kentucky 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, has recently 

 accepted an appointment as seed analyst in the 

 Dickinson Seed Company, Chicago. 



. Me. F. W. Glading, of the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, has resigned to become industrial engi- 

 neer for the Baldwin Locomotive "Works, at 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



The annual dinner of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and its affiliated societies will 

 be held at seven in the evening, Monday, De- 

 cember 15, 1919, at the Delta Kappa Epsilon 

 Club, 30 West 44th Street. The dinner will be 

 followed by the annual meeting of the academy, 

 to receive reports and elect officers and fel- 

 lows for 1920. The presidential address will 

 be delivered by Dr. Ernest Ellsworth Smith, on 

 " Applied science and the war." After the 

 president's address there will be given two il- 

 lustrated talks, as follows: Professor Douglas 

 W. Johnson, on " A geographer at the front 

 and at the Peace Conference," and Professor 

 Henry E. Cramjrton, on " Tahiti and the South 

 Seas." 



At a meeting held on November 25 in the 

 main auditorium of the New National Mu- 

 seum, Washington, D. C, Professor Irving 

 Fisher, of Tale University, addressed mem- 

 bers of the Scientific-Technical Section of the 

 Federal Employees Union and their friends on 

 " The purchasing power of salaries." Pro- 

 fessor Fisher elaborated his theory of a stabil- 

 ized dollar, claiming that an invariable unit of 

 value is of even greater importance than in- 

 variable units of other quantities, such as 

 length, weight, etc. The section voted to ap- 

 point a committee for a study of the proposal 

 with instructions to report back a resolution 

 granting or withholding endorsement accord- 

 ing to the findings of the committee. 



It is announced that unavoidable circum- 

 stances necessitate a change in the meeting 

 place of The Federation of American 

 Societies for Experimental Biology. The 

 meeting will be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 December 29, 30 and 31, instead of at 

 Toronto. 



Mrs. Mary Clark Thompson has presented 

 to the National Academy of Sciences a fund 

 amounting to $10,000, the income of which 

 is to be applied to a gold medal of appropriate 

 design, to be awarded annually by the academy 

 for the most important services to geology and 

 paleontology. The medal is to be known as 

 the Mary Clark Thompson Gold Medal. Mrs. 

 Thompson previously gave an additional 

 $1,000 for the preliminary expenses of dies. 



A United States Civil Service examination 

 for superintendent in the Bureau of Fisheries 

 will be held on December 30, 1919. A vacancy 

 at the Key West, Florida, Biological Station 

 of the Bureau of Fisheries, at $1,800 a year 

 and vacancies in positions requiring similar 

 qualifications, will be filled from this exami- 

 nation. . 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dr. David P. Barrows, professor of educa- 

 tion and later of political science in the Uni- 

 versity of California, at one time director of 

 education for the Philippine Islands and 

 author of works on the islands, has been 

 elected president of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, to succeed Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler. 



Dr. Horace G. Byers, formerly of the Uni- 

 versity of Washington, who was recently ap- 

 pointed chemist in charge of soil investiga- 

 tions in the Bureau of Soils, has accepted the 

 position of head of the department of chem- 

 istry at Cooper Union Institute, New York 

 City. 



Dr. Walter H. Eddy, who during the war 

 was a major in the Sanitary Corps and served 

 first as assistant director and later as director 

 of the food and nutrition department of the 

 A. E. F., has been appointed a member of the 

 faculty of practical arts of Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, in charge of physiolog- 

 ical chemistry. 



