Jantjabt 28, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



89 



Samuel Wagner, president of tlie Board of 

 trustees of the Warner Free Institute of Sci- 

 ence since the death of the founder in 1885 

 resigned on January 18 and was elected presi- 

 dent emeritus. Samuel Tobias Wagner, chief 

 engineer of the Philadelphia and Reading 

 Railway, was elected president of the board. 



Charles E. Thorne, who has been director 

 of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 

 since June, 1887, has been released from the 

 directorship at his own request, but remains 

 in charge of the station's investigations in soil 

 fertility. Mr. C. G. Williams, agronomist of 

 the station since 1902 and associate director 

 since 1917, has been appointed acting director. 



Mr. Lloyd R. Watson, assistant in api- 

 culture, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, has 

 accepted the position of apiculturist with the 

 Division of Entomology of the Texas State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, made vacant 

 recently by the resignation of Mr. H. B. 

 Parks. . Mr. Parks has accepted a position 

 with the Texas State Honey Producers Asso- 

 ciation, and is secretary of the National Honey 

 Producers League. 



The government of Czecho- Slovakia has 

 secured the services of Dr. Selskar M. Gunn, 

 formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, as technical adviser to the min- 

 istry of public health and physical education. 

 This appointment is in accordance with an 

 official request from the ministry to the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation, with which Dr. Gimn has 

 for the last three years served as associate 

 director of the International Health Board, to 

 supply them with such an adviser. Dr. Gunn 

 has sailed for Europe en route to Prague and 

 will remain indefinitely, although he has not 

 severed his connection with the foundation. 



De. Oscar Klotz, professor of pathology in 

 the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, 

 has been appointed a representative of the In- 

 ternational Health Board of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation for work in medical research and 

 education in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is expected 

 that Dr. Klotz will spend a number of years 

 in Brazil, during which time he will serve as 

 director of a pathologic institute. He will be 

 assisted by several Brazilian physicians who 



have received training in the United States. 



Dr. Donald B. MacMillan plans to leave 

 the United States next spring for a two- year 

 scientific expedition to the Arctic region. 



Sir Arthur I^ewsholiie, M.D., resident 

 lecturer in charge of Public Health Admin- 

 istration, School of Hygiene and Public 

 Health, Johns Hopkins University, will de- 

 liver the sixth Harvey Society Lecture at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine on January 

 29. His subject will be " National changes in 

 health longevity." 



Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, permanent 

 secretary of the National Research Council, 

 recently gave, under the Charles K. Colver 

 Fund at Brown University, three lectures on 

 "Human life as a biologist sees it." These 

 lectures were delivered on January tenth, sev- 

 enteenth and twenty-fourth. 



Dr. Kenneth E. Mees, director of the re- 

 search laboratory of the Eastman Kodak Com- 

 pany, gave, last week, an illustrated lecture on 

 " Color photography," at Cornell University. 



Professor Douglas W. Johnson, of Colum- 

 bia University, who was chief of the Division 

 of Boimdary Geography on the American Com- 

 mission to Negotiate Peace, addressed the 

 Public Ledger forum on the Peace Conference 

 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Jan- 

 uary 7, on the subject of " Fiume and the 

 Adriatic problem." Professor Johnson is also 

 delivering a series of four illustrated lectures 

 on " The role of geography in world affairs," 

 before the Columbia Institute of Arts and Sci- 

 ences in New York City. 



Professor Edgar James Swift, head of the 

 department of psychology and education in 

 Washington University, has been invited by 

 the administrative officers of the post graduate 

 school of the United States Naval Academy at 

 Annapolis to repeat the lectures which he gave 

 before the officers and students last spring. 

 Professor Swift will lecture on " Thinking and 

 acting," on February 19, and on " The psychol- 

 ogy of managing men," on April 9. 



. A ceremony was held at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology on the first anniver- 

 sary of the death of Richard Cockburn Mac- 



