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SCIENCE 



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department of tlie University of Virginia, lias 

 been elected president of tlie Association of 

 American Medical Colleges. 



Dr. Harry P. Brown, of the New York 

 State College of Forestry, has declined the po- 

 sition of wood technologist at the Imperial 

 Forest Eesearoh Institute, Dehra Dun, United 

 Provinces, India, offered to him by the Secre- 

 tary of State for India. 



Sir Wiljiot Herringham, chairman of the 

 Committee on Medical Education of the Uni- 

 versity Grants Committee, and Sir Walter 

 Morley Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Re- 

 search Council of London, guests of the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation, visited the Mayo Founda- 

 tion and the Mayo Clinic on April 26 and 27. 



Arnold William Eeinold, F.R.S., for thirty- 

 five years professor of physics at the Royal 

 Naval College, Greenwich, died on June 19, 

 aged seventy-eight years. 



Dr. James Law, director emeritus of the 

 New York State Veterinary College, Cornell 

 University, died in Springfield, Mass., on 

 May 11, aged eighty-three years. 



Dr. Michael Idvorskt Pupin, professor of 

 electro-mechanics at Columbia University, 

 addressed the meeting of the Columbia Chap- 

 ter of Sigma Xi on May 4. He spoke on 

 " Progress in physics in the last decade." This 

 was the first of a series of annual lectures on 

 " The Progress of Science." 



Dr. T. Wingate Todd, Payne professor of 

 anatomy in the Medical School of Western 

 Reserve University, will deliver in June five 

 special lectures at the University of Ghent, 

 Belgium, on " The growth and metamorphosis 

 of the skeleton." The lectures are supported 

 by the Hoover Foundation provided by the 

 funds remaining after the Commission for 

 the Relief of Belgium had finished its activi- 

 ties. 



Professor Albert Einstein, who delivered 

 a series of five lectures on the theory of rela- 

 tivity at Princeton University during the week 

 beginning on May 9, has arranged with the 

 Princeton University Press for their publico 



tion in book form. This will be the only au- 

 thorized publication of the lectures he will give 

 during his present visit to the United States. 



The last issue of the Journal of the Elisha 

 Mitchell Scientific Society carries an appre- 

 ciation of the work of Dr. J. J. Wolfe (Har- 

 vard), late professor of biology of Trinity 

 College, Durham, N. C. The Biological Club 

 of this institution is raising funds and col- 

 lecting books for a memorial library. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



The West Virginia legislature has appro- 

 priated for the University of West Virginia 

 $400,000 for a chemistry building; $300,000 

 for a gymnasium and $100,000 to complete the 

 law building'. 



The will of Mrs. William L. McLean, wife 

 of the publisher of the Philadelphia Evening 

 Bulletin, leaves $100,000 to Princeton Univer- 

 sity in memory of her son Warden McLean, 

 of the class of 1912, who was killed in the 

 war. 



The inauguration of Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols 

 as president of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology will take place on June 8. Ad- 

 dresses will be made by Governor Cox, Dr. 

 Elihu Thomson, President A. Lawrence Low- 

 ell and Professor H. P. Talbot, followed by the 

 inaugural address of Dr. Nichols. 



Dr. John Howland, professor of pediatrics 

 at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, director 

 of the Harriet Lane Home and pediatrician 

 in chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, has 

 been offered the professorship of children's 

 diseases in the Medical School of Harvard 

 University. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



EFFECT OF DORMANT LIME SULFUR UPON 

 THE CONTROL OF APPLE BLOTCH 



During the progress of investigations on 

 apple blotch {Phyllosiicta solitaria E. & E.) 

 new and noteworthy facts concerning this im- 

 portant disease are gradually coming to light. 



