April 22, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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Lippineott, professor of animal husbandry at 

 the college, has been elected secretary. 



Dr. George H. Shull, of Princeton Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed delegate of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical S.ociety to the second In- 

 ternational Congress of Eugenics, which will 

 be held in New York City in September. 



At its last meeting the Rumford Committee 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences voted an appropriation of $200 to Pro- 

 fessor Alpheus W. Smith, of the Ohio State 

 University, in aid of has research on the Hall, 

 Nernst and allied effects. 



The prize of 25,000 marks, established two 

 years ago by the late Berlin bacteriologist, Pro- 

 fessor Hans Aronson, has been awarded to Pro- 

 fessor von Wassermann, for his investigations 

 on the Wassermann reaction. 



Dr. F. H. Hatch has been appointed tech- 

 nical adviser to the British Mines Department 

 on questions relating to the metalliferous min- 

 ing industry. 



We learn from Nature that at the anniver- 

 sary meeting of the Eoyal Irish Academy on 

 March 16 Professor Sydney Young was elected 

 president in succession to the Reverend Dr. 

 Bernard, provost ,of Trinity College, Dublin. 

 Professor C. S. Sherrington, president of the 

 Eoyal Society, was declared an honorary mem- 

 ber in the section of science under the statute 

 by which presidents of the Royal Society are 

 honorary members of the academy. 



At the annual general meeting of the Ray 

 Society on March 10 the following officers 

 were reelected: President: Professor W. C. 

 Mcintosh. Treasurer: Sir Sidney P. Harmer. 

 Secretary: Dr. W. T. Caiman. The Right 

 Hon. Lord Rothschild was elected a vice-presi- 

 dent, and Mr. E. E. Green, Mr. Chas. Oldham, 

 and Sir David Prain were elected new members 

 of the council. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton, of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, accompanied by Dr. 

 F. J. Seaver, have gone to Trinidad, in order 

 to continue the botanical exploration of that 

 island. They expect to return about the first 

 of May. 



Professor P. L. Stevens, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, will go to Honolulu about the 

 first of -May to spend several months studying 

 and collecting Hawaiian fungi, and arrang- 

 ing the mycological collection of the Bishop 

 Museum. 



J. W. GiDLEY, assistant curator of verte- 

 brate paleontology at the jSTational Museum, 

 has gone for a two-month exploration trip in 

 Arizona, California and Nebraska, for the 

 United States Geological Survey and to 

 secure fossil mammals for the museum 

 collection. 



" A lake as a going concern " was the sub- 

 ject of an address by President E. A. Birge, 

 of the University of Wisconsin at the an- 

 nual dinner of the Wisconsin Academy of 

 Science, Arts and Letters, held at the Uni- 

 versity Club, Madison, on April 16. Dr. Birge 

 is the retiring president of the academy. 



Dr. Ludwik Silberstein, Research Labora- 

 tory, Eastman Kodak Company, will give a 

 major course in physics at the University of 

 Chicago during the summer quarter, 1921. It 

 will deal with the theory of relativity, gravi- 

 tation and electro-magnetism. 



Dr. Albert H. Ebeeling, of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, lectured 

 at Mount Holyoke College on April 8, on 

 " Cultivation of tissues in vitro, with lantern 

 slide demonstration." 



A LECTURE was delivered April 11, 1921, be- 

 fore the Rochester Historical Society on the 

 subject " Explorations in China " by Fred- 

 erick G. Clapp. The same speaker addressed 

 the Rochester Engineering Society at lunch 

 on that day, the subject being " Engineering 

 in China." Both talks were illustrated by 

 lantern slides. 



The following special lectures are being 

 given at 5 p.m. in the main lecture hall of 

 Cornell University Medical College, New 

 York City. 



April 11. ' ' The influence of the rate of growth 

 on sitmicltuxail efficiency," Professor Charles R. 

 Stoekard. 



