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SCIENCE 



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on December 20, the following officers were 

 elected for 1921: 



President, E. C. Bryant, 360 Prospect St., New 

 Haven, Conn. 



Vice-president, Paul G. Eedington, Ferry Bldg., 

 San Francisco, Oalif. 



Secretary, Paul D. Kelleter, Atlantic Bldg., 

 " Washington, D. C. 



Treasurer, B. H. Prothingham, Atlantic Bldg., 

 Washington, D. C. 



At the recent meeting of the Indiana Acad- 

 emy of Sciences the officers were elected for 

 1921 were as follows: 



President, Howard E. Enders, West Lafayette. 



Vice-president, Frank M. Andrews, Blooming- 

 ton. 



Secretary, Walter N. Hess, Greencastle. 



Assistant Secretary, H. G. Dietz, Indianapolis. 



Treasurer, Wm. M. Blanchard, Greencastle. 



Editor of Proceedings, F. J. Breeze, Muncie. 



Secretary, F. B. Wade, Indianapolis. 



The American Pharmaceutical Association 

 has elected the following officers : 



President, Samuel L. Hilton, Washington, D. C. 



First Vice-president, Charles E. Caspari, St. 

 Ijouis, Mo. 



Second Vice-president, David P. Jones, Water- 

 town, S. D. 



Third Vice-president, Hugo H. Schaefer, New 

 York. 



Memiers of the Council, Henry M. Whelpley, St. 

 Louis, Mo.; George M. Beringer, Camden, N. J.; 

 John G. Godding, Boston, Mass. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission has 

 annotmced examinations for the positions of 

 junior engineer and deck officer in the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey to be held Feb- 

 ruary 9-10 and April 13-14, 1931. These 

 positions are the entering ones in the field 

 force of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and 

 the initial salary will be $2,000 per annum, 

 with a promise of increase to $2,400 after one 

 month of satisfactory service. From these 

 entering positions engineers will be promoted 

 after sis months of satisfactory service to the 

 commissioned grades of the Survey which 

 have relative rank with the grades from en- 

 sign to captain in the navy. The salaries of 

 the commissioned personnel, including com- 

 pensation for quarters, etc., and longevity 

 pay, vary from a minimum of $2,500 to ap- 



proximately $7,000 per annum. There are 

 now about fifty vacancies in the commissioned 

 grades which will be filled by promotion from 

 the eligibles secured from the examinations 

 to be held in February and April. Applicants 

 for this examination should communicate with 

 the Civil Service Commission or with the 

 Director of the Coast and Geodetic Sui-vey, 

 Washington, D. C. A civil engineer degree 

 or B.S. in civil engineering is required of an 

 applicant before appointment, but the exami- 

 nation may be taken in February or April 

 and the appointment made effective on gradu- 

 ation. 



The Laws Observatory of the University of 

 Missouri, erected in 1853, has been torn down, 

 and a new building is being erected to replace 

 it about half a mile south of the former site. 



Included among the bequests of the late 

 Dr. Lloyd Roberts of Manchester, England, 

 are the following gifts to medical organiza- 

 tion: to the Eoyal Society of Medicine, 

 £5,000; to St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester, 

 £5,000; to Manchester Royal Infirmary and 

 to the Royal College of Physicians, London, 

 £3,000 each; and £2,000 to the Medical Society 

 of London. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The University of Montpellier, which was 

 founded in the thirteenth century, is prepar- 

 ing for the celebration of its approaching seven 

 hundredth anniversary. 



Through the death of Mrs. Lucy H. Bow- 

 doin, of Salem, a bequest of $50,000 becomes 

 available for Harvard Medical School, and 

 $5,000 each will be given to the Essex Insti- 

 tute and Peabody Academy of Salem. 



It is planned to establish a technical school 

 at Oberlin College with accommodations for 

 about 700 students. 



Fire, supposed to have originated from the 

 furnace in a basement room, completely de- 

 stroyed the office and private laboratory of Dr. 

 Waddell, professor of pharmacology, and a 

 large amount of physiological apparatus in the 

 physiological laboratory of the University of 



