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the university. Dr. Schamberg was director of 

 the Research Institute. 



The magnetic-survey ya«ht Carnegie, under 

 the command of J. P. Ault, arrived at San 

 Francisco on February 19. After re-outfitting 

 there, she wil continue her present circum- 

 navigation cruise, which was begun at Wash- 

 ington in October, 1919, and has an aggr^ate 

 leng'th of about 62,000 nautical miles. She will 

 cruise in the Pacific Ocean until about Sep- 

 teiriber and thence return via the Panama 

 Canal to Washington in October. 



Public lectures under the aiispices of the 

 K"ew York City College Chemical Society, in 

 the Doremus Lecture Theatre at four-thirty 

 P.M. are announced as follows: 



March 7. "Beyond the laboratory," EUwood 

 Hendxick. 



March 15. "The service of the synthetic dye 

 industry to the state," Marston Taylor Bogert, 

 professor of chemistry at Columbia University. 



March 23. "The trail of the chemist in the 

 packing industry," Charles H. MacDowell, presi- 

 dent. Armour Chemical Company. 



April 8. "Explosives in war and peace," Er- 

 nest M. Symmes, Hercules Powder Co. 



April 14. "Chemical evolution," Daniel D. 

 Jackson, professor of chemical engineering at Co- 

 lumbia University. 



The Southwestern Division of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 announces the following lectures at El Paso: 



February 15. " How to live, ' ' Dr. Jenness. 



March 1. ' ' Alien insect enemies, ' ' Benjamin 

 Druckermaur. 



March 14. "The mechanism of heredity, de- 

 velopment and evolution," Edwin Grant Conklin, 

 of Princeton University. 



March 15. "Historical progress in chemical 

 theory," ¥. H. Seamon. 



April 5. "Reclamation work," L. M. Lawson. 



April 19, "Great American scientists: Major 

 J. W. Powell and Professor Langley," E. C. Pren- 

 tiss. 



May 3. "Southwestern agricultural problems," 

 Robert S. TrmnbuU. 



May — . " ArchEBology, " Edgar L. Hewett, of 

 the School of American Research, Santa Fe, N. M. 



May 17. "Crystallography," James C. Cri- 

 chett. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of Miss Helen F. Massey a 

 legacy of $500,000 has been left to the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. It is reported that 

 one of the conditions of the bequest is that 

 the income shall be used for increasing the 

 salaries of members of the college faculty. 



Harold Hibbert, Ph.D., Sc.D., assistant 

 professor in Yale University, has been pro- 

 moted to an associate professorship of applied 

 chemistry, and assigned to the graduate 

 school and the Sheffield Scientific School. 



Dr. Hugh C. Muldoon, professor of chem- 

 istry at the Albany College of Pharmacy, has 

 become dean and professor of chemistry in 

 the School of Pharmacy, Valparaiso Univer- 

 sity. 



The biology department, Macdonald Col- 

 lege, has been divided into two departments, 

 the department of entomology and zoology, 

 under Professor William LocKhead, and the 

 department of botany, under Professor B. T. 

 Dickson. Dr. G. P. McEostie, Ph.D. (Cor- 

 nell, '17), has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor in the cereal husbandry department in 

 charge of grass and clover investigations, and 

 Walter BifFen, B.Sc. (Wales '06), has been 

 appointed lecturer in the department of 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



MUSICAL NOTATION 



To THE Editor of Science: While musical 

 notation is not a matter of great scientific 

 interest, reform presumably is. 



The desirability of the changes advocated 

 by Professors Huntington and Hall may be 

 admitted. This leaves the space available for 

 briefly discussing the cost. 



The reform of printing implies (1) reprint- 

 ing all existing music, and (2) scrapping 

 some machinery, type, etc. 



There is also an ideal cost. Whatever the 

 exact methods of physical science may ulti- 

 mately reveal as to the pitch in orchestral 



