January 14, 1921] 



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Dr. IiTathan Smith Davis, of Chicago, 

 formerly dean of the college of medicine, 

 Northwestern University, died on December 

 22, at Pasadena, at the age of sixty^;wo years. 



At the annual meeting of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washin^on the Station for Ex- 

 perimental Evolution and the Eugenics Record 

 Office at Cold Spring Harbor, without loss of 

 their identity were, for administrative pur- 

 poses, combined into the Department of Ge- 

 netics, with C. B. Davenport, director of the 

 department. Dr. C. C. Little assistant director 

 for the Station, and Dr. H. H. Laughlin as- 

 sistant director for the office. Professor Harold 

 D. Fish, now of the University of Pittsburgh, 

 was reappointed research associate of the de- 

 partment of genetics. 



I W. L. Harding, governor of Iowa, in co- 

 operation with Honorable J. B. Payne, Secre- 

 tary of Interior, called a National Confer- 

 ence on Parks in Des Moines, Iowa, to be held 

 January 10, 11 and 12. An unusually strong 

 program was presented relative to national 

 .parks, state parks and municipal parks. 



The annual meeting of the Eastern Divis- 

 ion of the American Philosophical Association 

 was held at Columbia University, New York 

 City, on December 28, 29 and 30. The ad- 

 dress of the president. Professor R. B. Perry, 

 of Harvard University, on " The appeal to 

 reason," was given at the annual dinner on 

 the evening of December 29. 



The fifth annual meeting of the American 

 Association of Petroleum Geologists will be 

 held at Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 17-19, 1921. 

 Since the organization of the association, at 

 Tulsa, in 1917, the membership has grown 

 from less than a hundred members to almost 

 six hundred. The meeting last year was held 

 at Dallas, Texas. The present officers are: 

 President, Wallace E. Pratt, Houston, Texas; 

 Vice-president, Alex W. McCoy, Bartlesville, 

 Oklahoma; Secretary-Treasurer, Charles E. 

 Docker, Norman, Oklahoma; Editor, Raymond 

 G. Moore, Lawrence, Kansas. Prominent geol- 

 ogists from all parts of the United States have 

 signified their intention of attending the meet- 



ing, and business of vital importance will be 

 tra,nsacted. 



The National Research Council has avail- 

 able for free distribution a few copies of its 

 Bulletin No. 5, " The Quantum Theory," by 

 Dr. E. P. Adams, Princeton. This bulletin is 

 a digest of the large number of highly tech- 

 nical mathematical-physical papers which ap- 

 peared shortly before and during the war 

 period, many of which have not been readily 

 accessible to American physicists and mathe- 

 maticians. Copies of the bulletin have already 

 been sent to all regular members of the Ameri- 

 can Physical Society and to a selected number 

 of mathematicians and astronomers. 



The Rockefeller Foundation has given to 

 France complete control over the elaborate 

 antituberculosis organization established in 

 the department of Eure-et-Loir at a cost of 

 4,000,000 francs. The organization consists 

 of twenty-four dispensaries, four complete 

 isolation services, a departmental sanatorium 

 and laboratory. The system will serve as a 

 model for similar organizations to be estab- 

 lished by the government throughout the 

 country. The Rockefeller Foundation is now 

 assisting in the antituberculosis campaign in 

 thirty-eight of the eighty-seven departments 

 and it is expected that this work will be con- 

 tinued for two years more. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dartmouth College will receive a bequest 

 of $250,000 under the will of Sanford H. 

 Steele, to erect a memorial to his brother, 

 Benjamin Hinman Steele, of the class of 

 1857, for instruction and research in chem- 

 istry. 



The Yale Corporation meeting on January 

 8 again postponed the election of a president 

 to succeed Dr. Arthur T. Hadley. 



Trustees of the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College have voted to ask the incoming State 

 Legislature to appropriate $625,000, of which 

 $400,000 is wanted to erect a new science 

 building for the chemistry, botany, physics 

 and bacteriological departments. Plans for 



