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best boats in tlie Norwegian Whaling Fleet. 

 It has a large and spacious deck, so that there 

 will be plenty of room for dogs and sledges. 

 Sir E. Shackleton has told an acquaintance in 

 Christiania that he has given up the idea of 

 exploring the South Polar regions, and in 

 future will devote himself to the Artie. 



The Journal of Industrial Chemistry reports 

 that the International Chemical Conference 

 last June decided to hold the next conference 

 in Poland, at the invitation of Mr. Kowalski. 

 At that time the situation in that country- 

 seemed fairly settled, but since then afEairs 

 have become disturbed, and the council of the 

 union has decided that the next meeting can 

 not be held in Warsaw. Dr. Parsons has 

 extended an invitation from the American 

 Chemical Society to hold the 1921 meeting in 

 the United States, but European chemists are 

 not in a position to make this move. There- 

 fore the council has decided to hold the next 

 meeting at Brussels, at the end of Jtme. 

 However, Mr. Paul Kestner, president of the 

 Societe de Chimie Industrielle, will attend the 

 Canadian meeting of the British Chemical 

 Society as the French delegate, and will re- 

 turn by way of the United States, where he 

 will attend the meetings of the American 

 chemical societies. 



At the annual general meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Biologists, as we learn 

 from Nature, the following were elected 

 officers and councillors for the year 1921: 

 President : Sir David Prain. Hon. Treasurer : 

 Dr. A. D. Imms, Hon. Secretary {Gen. and 

 Bot.) Wm. B. Brierley. Hon. Secretary: 

 iZool.) : Dr. S. A. Neave. Hon. Editor 

 (Bot.): Wm. B. Brierley. Hon. Editor 

 (Zool): D. Ward Cutler. Council: Dr. W. 

 Lawrence Balls, Professor V. H. Blackman, 

 F. T. Brooks, A. B. Bruce, Dr. E. J. Butler, 

 F. J. Chittenden, A. D. Cotton, J. C. F. 

 Fryer, Professor J. B. Farmer, E. E. Green, 

 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall and Dr. E. J. Eussell. 

 In view of the very great increase in the pub- 

 lishing costs of the Annals of Applied Biology, 

 it was decided to establish a " Publication 

 Fund," to which all interested ia the progress 



of biology and in its application to the wel- 

 fare of man are invited to subscribe. Sir 

 David Prain then delivered his presidential 

 address on " Some Relationships of Economic 

 Biology." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



At the Founders' Day Celebration of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, announcement was 

 made that the trustees of the university would 

 supplement the fund of $215,000 raised by the 

 Alumni Association for a memorial dormitory 

 building at Homewood, so that the total cost 

 of the building might be provided for. 



In response to the recent appeal of the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh for £500,000, the sum of 

 £200,000 has now been subscribed. 



General Leonard Wood has conferred with 

 the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania 

 in regard to accepting the provostship of the 

 imiversity, vacant by the retirement of Dr. 

 Edgar F. Smith. 



Professor Frank Aydelotte, professor of 

 English in the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, has been elected president of 

 Swarthmore College, to succeed Dr. Joseph 

 Swain. 



Dr. Guy Potter Benton, formerly presi- 

 dent of the University of Vermont, has been 

 appointed president of the University of the 

 Philippines, with a salary and perquisites of 

 33,000 pesos (normally $16,500). The place 

 has been vacant two years. 



Dr. Tandell Henderson, hitherto professor 

 of physiology in the Yale Medical School, has 

 been transferred to the Graduate School of 

 Tale University under the title of professor 

 of applied physiology. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



SECTION L OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 

 FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



Having been secretary of Section A during 

 a number of years when this section covered 

 both of the subjects mathematics and astron- 



