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pecially those who have studied special areas, 

 are requested to communicate with V. E. 

 Shelford at once as tlie list is soon to be 

 completed. 



SCIENTIFIC LECTURES AT OTTAWA 



Members of the Department of Mines, 

 Canada, are giving in the auditorium of the 

 Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, lectures 



as follows: 



March 4: "The building of the continent," by D 

 B. Bowling, geologist. 



March 11 : " The anthropological field in. Canada, ' 

 by Dr. Edward Sapir, anthropologist. 



March 25: "Zoological work in Canada," by E, 

 M. Anderson, zoologist. 



April 8: "A recent chapter in the geological his 

 tory of Canada" (illustrated with slides of the 

 Greenland Ice Cap), by Edward M. Kindle, 

 paleontologist. 



February 12 : " The f ur-'bearing animals of Can 

 ada, ' ' by Clyde L. Patch. 



February 19 : " The birds of Bonaventure Island ' 

 (with motion pictures), by Clyde L. Patch. 



February 26: "The Canadian Arctic coast," by K 

 G. Chipman. 



March 5: "Wanderings with the Eskimo," by D, 

 Jenness. 



March 12: "Eoads to wealth in our northern for- 

 est, or mineral development in northern On 

 tario" (with motion pictures), by T. L. Tanton, 



March 19: "Hunting giant dinosaurs in the Bad- 

 lands of Alberta," by Charles M. Sternberg. 



March 26: "Ottawa three times submerged and 

 how we know it" (with motion pictures), by M. 

 E. Wilson. 



April 2: "Conquering the desert with irrigation" 

 (with motion pictures), by Harlan I. Smith. 



April 9: "Asbestos or fireproof cotton" (with 

 motion pictures), by R. Harvie. 



April 16: "My summer among the Ojibwa In- 

 dians," by P. W. Waugh. 



April 23: "The frogs, salamanders and snakes of 

 Ottawa," by Clyde L. Patch. 



THE RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR FLINT 



Tale University announces the resignation 

 on account of poor health of Dr. Joseph 

 Marshall Flint, professor of surgery since 1907, 

 to take effect at the close of the present uni- 

 versity year. Dr. Flint is planning to go to 



his home in California after commencement. 

 The following resolutions have been passed by 

 the faculty of the medical school : 



The faculty of medicine have learned with deep 

 regret of the resignation of Dr. Joseph Marshall 

 Flint from the chair of surgery, which he has so 

 ably and faithfully filled since 1907. 



Coming to this university with a broad and thor- 

 ough scientific training, and with high ideals. Dr. 

 Flint became the original full-time professor, and 

 has done great service both by precept and by ex- 

 ample, in upholding high standards of teaching, 

 research and practise. 



He has always shown great tenacity of purpose 

 and devotion to principle. Whatever success the 

 Yale 'School of Medicine may have in the future 

 will have been made possible by the loyalty and 

 steadfastness of Dr. Flint and Dr. Blumer, whose 

 joint service at a time of great stress succeeded in 

 tiding over the crisis that economic conditions and 

 new developments in medical education had brought 

 on. 



The faculty desire to place on record their high 

 appreciation of Dr. Flint's services to the univer- 

 sity, to the nation and to science, and to express 

 their keen sense of loss at his leaving. They wish 

 him full and speedy recovery of health and a large 

 measure of success in his future work. 



THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF RADIO 

 TELEGRAPHY 



An American Section of the International 

 Union of Scientific Eadio Telegraphy has 

 been formed and has adopted a constitution 

 which provides: 



1. The American Section of the International 

 Union of Scientific Eadio Telegraphy shall consist 

 of an executive committee and of the members of 

 the technical committees provided for in paragraphs 

 2 and 3 below. 



2. The executive committee of the American 

 Section shall consist of the chairmen of the di- 

 visions of physical sciences and of engineering of 

 the National Research Council (ex ofl&oio) ; one 

 member each of the following: The Army, the 

 Navy, the Department of Commerce, the Institute of 

 Radio Engineers; four members at large to be ap- 

 pointed by the president of the National Academy 

 of Sciences; and (ex of&cio) officers of the Inter- 

 national Union of Scientific Eadio Telegraphy resi- 

 dent in the United States. 



