June 24, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



573 



Quina near Villebois-Lavalette (Charente) on 

 July 1. 



Dr. Hugh H. Young, director of the James 

 Buchanan Brady Institute, Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital, will sail, June 25, for Europe. He 

 will go first to Paris to attend a medical -meet- 

 ing and later to London, returning to the 

 United States in August. 



The Oxford University expedition to Spitz- 

 bergen is not only biological, as was stated in 

 a note of our issue of May 13, nor mainly orni- 

 thological. It will include three zoologists, 

 three ornithologists, a botanist, a geologist, a 

 glaciologist, a geographer, a mineralogist, and 

 a meteorologist, who, together with Dr. T. Gr. 

 Longstaff will constitute an inland sledging 

 party to explore and map an untouched area of 

 'New Friesland. Mr. Seton Gordon is accom- 

 panying the expedition as photographer. Mr. 

 Julian S. Huxley is organizing the scientific 

 work apart from the ornithology, which is 

 under the direction of the Eev. Francis C. E. 

 Jourdain. 



A CONFERENCE on conseryation of resources 

 of interior waters, called by the Secretary of 

 Commerce, met at Fairport, Iowa, June 8 to 

 10. The chairman was Professor Stephen A. 

 Forbes, of the Illinois State University and 

 State Natural History Survey. Vice chair- 

 men were Professor Herbert Osborn, Ohio 

 State University; Carlos Avery, Minnesota 

 State Fish and Game Commission; Professor 

 H. C. Cowles, University of Chicago; J. E. 

 Krouse, Davenport, Iowa; and Dr. A. T. 

 Easmussen, La Crosse, Wis. 



A GRANT of $450 has been made by the Com- 

 mittee on Scientific Research of the American 

 Medical Association to Dr. Herbert M. Evans 

 of the University of California for the con- 

 tinuance of his researches on the relations be- 

 tween ovulation and the endocrine glands. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The Carnegie Corporation and the General 

 Education Board have each given half of 

 $3,000,000 to the medical department of Van- 



derbilt University as an endowment. Funds 

 for the erection of new buildings are available 

 from appropriations of $4,000,000 made by the 

 General Education Board in 1919. 



ISTew York University has received a gift 

 of $150,000 in memory of Dr. A. Alexander 

 Smith, from Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins to 

 complete the endowment of the department of 

 medicine, for which Mrs. Jenkins had pre- 

 viously given the sum of $100,000. 



Dr. C. H. Clapp, president of the Montana 

 State School of Mines at Butte, has been 

 elected president of the State University of 

 Montana, to succeed Dr. E. 0- Sisson, who re- 

 cently resigned. 



At the annual meeting of the university 

 senate and board of trustees of Syracuse Uni- 

 versity there was established a research pro- 

 fessorship in zoology, and Professor Charles 

 W. Hargitt, since 1891 head of the department 

 of zoology, was made its first incumbent. At 

 his ovm request Professor Hargitt is relieved 

 from active direction of departmental routine 

 and Professor W. M. Smallwood becomes di- 

 rector. 



Dr. John W. M. Bunker, formerly instruc- 

 tor in the department of sanitary engineering 

 at Harvard University and for the last six 

 years director of the biological laboratories of 

 the Digestive Ferments Company, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of biochemistry 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Dr. Christian A. Ruckmick, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, has accepted an appoint- 

 ment as associate professor of psychology in 

 Wellesley College. 



Dr. E. V. CowDRY, since July 1, 1917, pro- 

 fessor of anatomy at the Peking Union Med- 

 ical College, Peking, China, has resigned that 

 position to accept an appointment as associate 

 member of the Rockefeller Institute for Med- 

 ical Research. Dr. Davidson Black, formerly 

 associate professor of embryology and neu- 

 rology of the Peking College, has been ap- 

 pointed professor and head of the department 

 of anatomy at the Peking College, succeeding 

 Dr. Cowdry. 



