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as CTirator of collections Dr. Stanley C. Ball, 

 professor of biology in the International 

 T. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass. Leav- 

 ing Springfield in March Dr. Ball will visit 

 museums in Albany, New York City, Phila- 

 delphia, Washington, Chicago and San Fran- 

 cisco, reaching Honolulu about May 1. 



Dr. Ralph C. Eodgers, previously in charge 

 of the work in the physics of photography, 

 at Cornell University, has been appointed 

 assistant secretary of the illuminating engi- 

 neering society. 



The board of trustees of the American Med- 

 ical Association reelected the following mem- 

 bers of the Council on Pharmacy and Chem- 

 istry: L. G. Eowntree, Hochester, Minn.; 

 Torald Solknan, Cleveland, and Lafayette B. 

 Mendel, New Haven; and to fill a vacancy oc- 

 casioned by the resignation of Professor 

 Henry Kraemer, Dr. Charles W. Edmunds, 

 professor of therai)eutics and materia medica. 

 University of Michigan. 



, Professor Dexter S. Kimball, of Cornell 

 University, represented the American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers and the federated 

 American engineering societies at the annual 

 convention of the Engineering Institute of 

 Canada, at Toronto. 



At the next meeting of the Canadian Re- 

 search Council, to be held in Ottawa, Feb- 

 ruary 19, an interim appointment of chairman 

 will be made to succeed Dr. A. B. Macallum, 

 who resigned to accept the chair of biochem- 

 istry in McGill University, Montreal. The ap- 

 pointment of a permanent chairman will de- 

 pend on the action of the federal government. 

 , Dr. Lynds Jones, of the department of zool- 

 ogy of Oberlin College, announces a special 

 trip under the auspices of the summer school, 

 through the northwest, terminating in the 

 town of Mora, Washington, on the Pacific 

 ooast. A special study of insect, bird, plant 

 and animal life will be made and attention 

 will be given to topographical geology. The 

 trip will proba:bly be made by automobile and 

 will be in the field for eight weeks. 

 I Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, retiring president of the Ameri- 



can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, delivered an address on " How the gov- 

 ernment is fighting insects," before the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences on Feb- 

 ruary 17. 



Dr. a. ]Sr. Richards, professor of pharma- 

 cology. University of Penaylvania, will deliver 

 the seventh Harvey Society Lecture at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine on Saturday 

 evening, February 26. His subject will be 

 "Kidney function." 



Dr. Grorge Thomas Stevens, of New York 

 City, author of contributions to opthalmology 

 and neurology, died on January 30 at the age 

 of eighty-eight years. 



Dr. Henry Harrington Janeway, of New 

 York City, known for his work on cancer, 

 attending surgeon to the Memorial Hospital, 

 died on February 1, at the age of forty-seven 

 years. 



Professor Henry Matthew Stephens, 

 since 1899 professor of biology in Dickinson 

 College, died on February 5, aged fifty-four 

 years. 



Dr. Leopold Landau, professor of surgery 

 at Berlin, died on December 28, 1920, at the 

 age of seventy-two years. 



A REGULAR meeting of the American Phys- 

 ical Society will be held in Fayerweather Hall, 

 Columbia University, New York, on Satur- 

 day, February 26, 1921. If the length of the 

 program requires it, there will also be sessions 

 on Friday, Februai-y 25. Other meetings for 

 the current season are as follows : April 22-23, 

 1921, Washington; August 4, 5, 1921, Pacific 

 Coast Section at Berkeley. 



The Royal Agricultural College at Ciren- 

 cester, the oldest place of agricultural in- 

 struction in the British Empire, is threatened 

 with extinction at the end of the year unless 

 a minimum capital sum of £25,000 can be 

 raised by private munificence to save it. The 

 college, which was founded seventy-five years 

 ago under the patronage of the Prince Con- 

 sort, has since 1915 been occupied by a girls' 

 school from the east coast, whose tenancy 

 ends at Christmas. The Ministry of Agricul- 



