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paleontology, whicli have been largely carried 

 on at tlie museum during tlie 22 years that 

 he has been connected witli it. Dr. Gregory 

 will have associated with him in the new de- 

 partment Dr. J. Howard McGregor, who has 

 been apixiinted associate in human anatomy. 



The stafi in ornithology, under the leader- 

 ship of Dr. Frank M. Chapman, has been 

 strengthened by the appointment of Dr. 

 Eobert Cusliman Murphy as associate curator 

 of marine birds. Dr. Murpliy will devote 

 himself particularly to the studies on the 

 birds of the Brewster-Stanford Collection and 

 to the collection which will be obtained by the 

 Whitney Soutli Sea Expedition 



The former department of invertebrate 

 zoology has been reorganized as two depart- 

 ments, namely, lower invertebrates and ento- 

 mology. Dr. Henry E. Crampton has been 

 appointed honorary curator of the new depart- 

 ment of lower invertebrates and will confine 

 his attention to his Polynesian researches. 

 Mr. Roy W. Miner is appointed associate 

 curator in charge. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz has been promoted to 

 the curatorship of the new department of 

 entomology. 



Further staff changes or promotions are as 

 follows : 



PROMOTIONS 



Lower Invertebrates : Willard G. Van Name, assist- 

 ant to assistant curator. 



Ornithology: Ludlow Griscom, assistant to assist- 

 ant curator. 



Anthropology: N. C. Nelson, assistant curator to 

 associate curator of North American archeol- 

 ogy; H. J. Spinden, assistant curator to asso- 

 ciate curator of Mexican and Central Ameri- 

 can archeology. 



NEW APPOINTMENTS 



Comparative Anatomy: S. H. Chubb, assistant in 



osteology. 

 Public Education: Grace E. Fisher, assistant. 

 Ichthyology: E. W. Gudger, associate in ichthyol- 

 ogy- 

 Mammalogy : Carl E. Akeley, associate in mammal- 

 ogy. 

 Entomology: Herbert F. Schwarz, research asso- 

 ciate, Hymenoptera. 



The title of the department of physiology 

 has been changed to read department of com- 

 parative physiology. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At a meeting of the trustees of the Eliza- 

 beth Thompson Science Fund, held on Feb- 

 ruary 26, the following grants were voted: Dr. 

 T. Brailsford Robertson, Adelaide, South Aus- 

 tralia, $250 for the purchase of a comptometer 

 for use in a statistical study of growth. Dr. 

 Donald Macomber, Boston, $300 for an in- 

 vestigation of the effects of diet on fertility. 

 Dr. W. J. Fisher, "Woods Hole, $75 for a study 

 of low sun phenomena (sunrise and sujiset and 

 horizon mirage). Dr. H. G. Barbour, New 

 Haven, $300 for an investigation into the heat 

 regulatory mechanism of the 'body. 



Lawrence J. Henderson, professor of bio- 

 logical chemistry, has been appointed Harvard 

 exchange professor to France and will lecture 

 at the Sorboune during the second half of the 

 present academic year. 



Professor 'Willi.\m Alanson Bryan, form- 

 erly curator in the Bishop Museimi and pro- 

 fessor of zoology and geology in the University 

 of Hawaii, has been appointed director of the 

 Los Angeles Science Museum of History, and 

 Art, where he succeeds the late Frank Dagget. 



Dr. F. C. Harrison, principal of Macdonald 

 College, was elected as president of the Society 

 of American Bacteriologists, at their annual 

 meeting held at Chicago. 



At the annual meeting of the Royal Meteoro- 

 logical Society the following were elected offi- 

 cers: President, R. H. Hooker. Vice-presi- 

 dents, J. Baxendell, W. W. Bryant, Sir Napier 

 Shaw and Dr. E. M. Wedderburn. Treasurer, 

 W. V. Graham. Secretanes, J. S. Dines, L. F. 

 Richardson and G. Thomson. 



During the current year the University of 

 Texas established two lectureships to be filled 

 by distinguished scholars from other univer- 

 sities. Professor E. G. Conklin, of Princeton 

 University, was invited to Texas to fill the 

 fii'st engagement. During the week beginning 

 February 28 Dr. Conklin gave a series of five 



