March 18, 1921] 



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Mr. J. W. GmLEY, assistant curator of 

 vertebrate paleontology at the National Mu- 

 seum, left Washington in January for a two 

 months' exploratory trip in Arizona, Cali- 

 fornia and l^ebraska for the U. S. Geological 

 Survey and to secure fossil mammals for the 

 museum collection. Important finds of Pleis- 

 tocene mammal remains in the vicinity of 

 Benson, Arizona, are reported. 



SiE G. Sims Woodhead has retired from 

 the editorship of the Journal of Pathology 

 and Bacteriology, which he founded in 1893, 

 and is succeeded by Drs. A. E. Boycott and 

 H. E. Dean. 



The Brown Chapter of Sigma Xi held its 

 initiation and banquet on March 4. Two 

 members of the faculty, four graduate stu- 

 dents and seventeen members of the senior 

 class were elected members. The speaker at 

 the banquet was Dr. Oscar Eiddle, of the Cold 

 Spring Biological Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution. 



Dr. Arthur F. Coca, of the medical school 

 of Cornell University, editor of the Journal 

 of Immunology, gave an address on Hyper- 

 sensitiveness before a recent meeting of the 

 University of Kansas chapter of Sigma Xi. 

 Dr. Coca had been studying, for a few weeks 

 previous, the hypersensitiveness of Indian 

 students of Haskell Institute of Lawrence. 



Sir ISToRMAN Moore, president of the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians, has appointed Dr. 

 Herbert Spencer to deliver the Harveian 

 oration in October and Dr. Michael Grabham, 

 of Madeira, to deliver the Bradshaw lecture 

 in November. Dr. Major Greenwood will 

 deliver the Miboy lectures in 1922. 



Sherburne Wesley Burnham, professor of 

 practical astronomy at the University of 

 Chicago from 1902 to his retirement in 1914 

 and asti-onomer at the Terkes Observatory, 

 died on March 11, in his eighty-third year. 



Professor Charles H. Fernald, from 1886 

 to 1910 professor of zoology and entomology 

 at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 and for several years director of the graduate 



school, died on February 22, aged eighty-three 

 years. 



Dr. William Fiske Whitney, John Barnard 

 Swett Jackson curator of the Warren Anat- 

 omical Museum of Harvard University, died 

 at his home in Boston on March 4, in the 

 seventy-first year of his age. 



Dr. Joseph Eansohoff, professor of sur- 

 gery at the University of Cincinnati, died on 

 March 10. 



Wilhelm von Waldeyer, professor of anat- 

 omy at the University of Berlin, has died at 

 the age of eighty-five years. 



The deaths are announced of William 

 Odling, lately professor of chemistry at 

 Oxford University, and of Eobert Bellamy 

 Clifton, lately professor of experimental phi- 

 losophy. Dr. Odling was ninety-one years of 

 age, and Dr. Clifton eighty-five years of age. 



At a meeting of the council of the Amer- 

 ican Mathematical Society held on February 

 26, 1921, it was voted to accept the invitation 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science to become one of the scien- 

 tific societies affiliated with the association. 

 According to the arrangements for the affilia- 

 tion of scientific societies with the American 

 Association all members of the newly affiliated 

 society, who are not already members of the 

 association, have the privilege of becoming 

 members of the association without the pay- 

 ment of the usual entrance fee. 



The United States Civil Service Commission 

 announces an examination for the position of 

 superintendent and director of biological sta- 

 tions in the service of the United States Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries. Applicants will be rated 

 chiefly upon education and experience. Two 

 vacancies for the above named position now 

 exist in the Bureau of Fisheries, one at Beau- 

 fort, N. C, carrying a salary of $1,500 per an- 

 num, and one at Key West, Florida, with a sal- 

 ary ,of $1,800. In each case the additional 

 increase granted by Congress of $20 per month 

 is allowed, and living quarters, unfurnished, 

 are available, free of cost to the appointee. 

 There are opportunities for promotions to 



