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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIII. No. 1376 



The meeting of the Academy of Sciences of 

 Cuba on March 26 -was a special session in 

 honor of the return of Dr. Juan Guiteras 

 from his mission to Afrdica to study yellow 

 fever and other tropical diseases on behalf of 

 the Rockefeller Foundation. It will be re- 

 membered that General Gorgas started with 

 him, died in London. 



TJnder the auspices of the Rockefeller Foun- 

 dation Major-Gen. Sir Wilmot Herringham, 

 consuking physician to St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, vice-chancellor of the University of 

 London, and Sir Walter Fletcher, senior dem- 

 onstrator in physiology, Cambridge Univer- 

 sity, are traveling over the United States to 

 study medical and scientific institutions for 

 the British government. 



The biological expedition to Spitzbergen, or- 

 ganized in Oxford University, is to set out in 

 June, under the leadership of the Rev. F. C. 

 R. Jourdain, and will devote its attention 

 principally to ornithological "work. 



Professor Arthur H. Graves, collaborator, 

 Office of Investigations in Forest Pathology, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, and formerly assistant profes- 

 sor of botany in the Sheffield Scientific School 

 and Yale School of Forestry, has accepted the 

 appointment as curator of public instruotion 

 ait the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to begin Sep- 

 tember 1, 1921. 



Dr. R. a. Millikam, of the University of 

 Chicago, delivered the first annual address be- 

 fore the Crowell Scientific Society of Trinity 

 College, Durham, N. C, April 28. This so- 

 ciety is a reorganization of the general scien- 

 tific society which had been in existence for 

 the past thirty years. Physicists and students 

 from various parts of the state were in at- 

 tendance. 



Dr. David White, chief geologist of the 

 United States Geological Survey, delivered a 

 lecture on the " Deposition of oil shales and 

 cannels," at the School of Mines of Pennsyl- 

 vania State College on April 29. 



Professor Albert Einstein, lectured at the 

 University of Chicago on May 3, 4, and 5. 



The general subject of his lectures was " The 

 Theory of Relativity." 



William Robert Brooks, dixector of the 

 Smith Observatory since 1888, and profes- 

 sor of astronomy ^t Hobart College since 1900, 

 died at his home in Geneva, N. Y., on May 3, 

 at the age of eighty-five years. 



Dr. Albert C. Hale, formerly for twenty- 

 nine years head teacher in the department of 

 physical science at the Boys' High School, 

 Brooklyn, secretary of the American Chemical 

 Society for thirteen years, died on April 22 

 at the age of seventy-five years. 



Captain E. W. Creak, C.B., F.R.S., for- 

 merly superintendent of compasses in the Brit- 

 ish Admiralty, died on April 3 at the age of 

 eighty-four years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The State Legislature of Texas passed an 

 act which has now been approved by the gov- 

 ernor appropriating one million, three hun- 

 dred and fifty thousand dollars to be used in 

 buying property adjacent to the present cam- 

 pus of the University of Texas. It is ex- 

 ^pected that about 120 acres, a considerable 

 part of which is residence property, will be 

 purchased. 



Mrs. Ransohoff, the widow of Dr. Joseph 

 Ransohoff, former professor of surgery at the 

 medical college, has given $25,000 to the med- 

 ical college of Cornell University toward an 

 endowment fund for the esltablishment of a 

 chair of surgery and 'anatomy. The money 

 will be used as a nucleus for such an endow- 

 ment, the minimum of which is estimated at 

 $150,000. 



Dr. Paul H. M.-P. Brinton, of the chem- 

 ical department of the University of Arizona, 

 has been appointed professor of analytical 

 chemistry in the University of Minnesota. 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt has been elected pro- 

 fessor in nature study in the summer school 

 of the George Washington University. 



Dr. John Edward Anderson, instructor in 

 psychology at Yale University, has been pro- 

 moted to an assistamt professorship. 



