Januaet 21, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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Mr. Philip Ainsworth Means, appointed to 

 the directorship of the Museo Nacional de 

 Arqueologia in Lima, Peru, assumed office in 

 November. 



Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, for ten years 

 a member of the staff of The Brooklyn Mu- 

 seum, and 'Curator of the department of nat- 

 ural science since April, 1917, has resigned in 

 order to accept the position of associate cura- 

 tor of ornithology in The American Museum 

 of ISTatural History. In his new work the 

 greater part of his time will be devoted to a 

 study of marine birds. The work will include 

 both the preparation of reports upon the mu- 

 seum's present collections and the carrying out 

 of field investigations in the south Pacific. 



Dr. E. J. Butler, lately imperial mycologist 

 of the Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa 

 (India), has been appointed director of the 

 Imperial Bureau of Mycology, and can be ad- 

 dressed at 17, Kew Green, Kew, Surrey, Eng- 

 land. 



Mr. Charles A. Port, research chemist of 

 the General Electric Co., of Pittsfield, Mass., 

 has become chief chemist for the Porest Prod- 

 ucts Chemical Co., of Memphis, Tenn. 



Dr. Henry H. Rusby, dean of the school of 

 pharmacy of Columbia University, will lead 

 an exploration party which will leave in the 

 early spring for the unexplored upper basin of 

 the Amazon River. Among those accompany- 

 ing him will be Professor Edward Kremers, of 

 the University of Wisconsin, and Professor A. 

 H. Gill, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, who will investigate seed and 

 volatile oils. 



Dr. Louise Pearce, of the scientific staff of 

 the Rockefeller Institute, has returned from 

 several months' stay in the Belgian Congo, 

 ■where she went in order to study the treatment 

 of African sleeping sickness with Tryparsa- 

 ■mide (sodium salt of N-Phenylglycinamide-p- 

 arsonic acid) prepared at the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute. While returning through Brussels she 

 was decorated with the order of the Crown, 

 and her companion. Miss Elizabeth D. Bowen, 

 with the order of Leopold II., by the king of 

 the Belgians. 



Dr. T. C. Lyster of the Rockefeller Poun- 

 dation has gone to Mexico to make some ob- 

 servation on the present epidemic of yellow 

 fever and offer the asistance of the foundation 

 in the campaign for the eradication of the dis- 

 ease. The president of Mexico has accepted 

 this offer and Dr. Lyster will return later in 

 January to begin the campaign, the plans for 

 which were submitted by him and are now 

 being considered by the department of public 

 health. 



Dr. Martin H. Fischer, professor of phys- 

 iology at the University of Cincinnati, has 

 been granted a three months leave of absence, 

 in order that he may accept an invitation to 

 lecture on his researches in colloid chemistry 

 at the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht. 

 He is now in Holland. 



Dr. L. Emmett Holt, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed Lane medical lecturer 

 for the year 1921. The lectures will be de- 

 livered at the medical school of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, San Francisco, during the week be- 

 ginning l!fovember 28. on the general subject 

 of growth and nutrition. 



Dr. Robert B. Sosman, of the Bureau of 

 Standards, delivered on January 15 the ad- 

 dress of the retiring president of the Philo- 

 sophical Society of Washington on " The 

 Distribution of Scientific Information." 



Dr. Vernon Kellogg, permanent secretary 

 of the Ifational Research Council, is giving 

 three lectiu-es this month at Brown Univer- 

 sity on the Charles K. Colver Foundation. 

 The subject of the lectures is " Human Life 

 as the Biologist sees it." The dates are Jan- 

 uary 10, 17, and 24. The lectures will be pub- 

 lished in book form by Houghton, Mifflin Com- 

 pany. 



Professor Hermann J. Jordan, 19 Frans 

 Halsstraat, Utrecht, Holland, who is writing 

 a book on comparative physiology, desires es- 

 pecially the papers of American physiologists 

 and experimental zoologists, and would be 

 gTatefid to authors who may favor him with 

 their publications. 



The Technical High School at Briinn, 

 Czecko- Slovakia, desires to raise a fund in 



