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" Awarded to J. E. Holbert in recognition of 

 unselfish devotion to study of com diseases." 

 Dr. J. D. Morgan, Ph.D. (Columbia '16) 

 has been appointed clinical psychologist in 

 charge of the psychology clinic in the depart- 

 ment of philosophy and psychology, and psy- 

 chologist at the psychopathic hospital of the 

 University of Iowa. Dr. Morgan is at present 

 stationed in the Hawaiian Islands engaged in 

 army hospital reconstruction work. 



Charles F. Farmer, assistant professor in 

 the school of forestry at the Montana State 

 University at Missoula, has resigned to take 

 a position with a Tacoma wood pipe company. 

 Dr. Margaret C. Ferguson, professor of 

 botany at Wellesley College, and chairman of 

 the department, has leave of absence during 

 the present year and sailed for Australia and 

 New Zealand on January 25 after spending 

 the last six months in California, devoting 

 most of her time to research work. 



Dr. Wilder G. Penfield, of Princeton, has 

 received a Beit fellowship. He will make re- 

 searches in the pathological development of 

 medical science in England during the 

 coming year. 



Dr. Raymond F. Bacon, director of the 

 Mellon Institute of Industrial Eesearch of 

 the University of Pittsburgh, has returned 

 from Europe where he spent the holidays in 

 France and Italy in the investigation of 

 nitrogen-fixation processes. 



Sm Francis Tounghusband, president of the 

 Eoyal Geographical Society, announced at the 

 meeting of the society on January 24 that the 

 chief of this year's exx>edition to Mount Ever- 

 lest will be Colonel Howard Bury, while the 

 actual reconnaissance of the mountain will be 

 in the charge of Mr. Harold Raeburn, who wiU 

 leave England for India in March. 

 i We learn from Nature that in cooperation 

 with the Anglo-Batavian Society, the Univer- 

 sity of London has made arrangements for an 

 interchange of lectures on medical subjects 

 between London and the Netherlands. The 

 first lecture of the series to be given by 

 Dutch professors was delivered by Professor 

 Wertheim^Salamonson, of Amsterdam, on 



January 17 at the Eoyal Society of Medicine, 

 on " Tonus and reflexes." The second lecture 

 was given by Professor Boeke, of Leyden, on 

 February 16. 



At the meeting of the Eoyal Society on 

 March 3 a discussion on isotopes will be 

 opened by Sir J. J. Thomson. 



Professor W. F. G. Swann, of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, gave to the undergraduate 

 students of Northwestern University on Feb- 

 ruary 16, " A 'Popular account of Einstein's 

 theory of relativity." In the evening of the 

 same day he lectured before the Graduate Club 

 of Northwestern University upon " Some un- 

 solved problems in cosmieal physics." 



The Galton anniversary meeting was held 

 in London on Feibruary 16. The Galton lec- 

 ture, preceded by a dinner, was given by Dr. 

 W. Bateson, on " Common sense in racial prob- 

 lems." 



Mrs. Feedonu Johnston Pratt, of St 

 Louis, Mo., widow of the late Dr. David S. 

 Pratt, assistant director of the Mellon Insti- 

 tute of Industrial Eesearch of the University 

 of Pittsburgh, has established in that institu- 

 tion an industrial fellowship as a memorial to 

 Dr. Pratt. The incumbent of this industrial 

 fellowship will conduct research in that field 

 of organic chemistry in which Dr. Pratt was 

 especially interested. 



Professor Irving Angell Field, head of the 

 department of biology at Clark University 

 since 1918, died on February 14 at his home 

 in Worcester. 



We learn from Nature that Dr. John 

 Beattie Crozier, author of works on intellec- 

 tual and social development, died in London 

 on January 8. He was born in Canada in 

 1849. 



Frederic Houssay, professor of zoology at 

 the Sorbonne and dean of the faculty of 

 science, has died at the age of about sixty 

 years. 



Carl Toldt, professor of anatomy at 

 Vienna, has died at the age of eighty years. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Association that as a memorial to the late 



