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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LII. No. 1333 



T. Nelson Dale, geologist of the United 

 States Geological Survey and author of bul- 

 letins on the Economic Geology of Slate, 

 Granite and Marble, owing to the " Retirement 

 Act," will, on August 21, 1920, take up the 

 work of a consulting geologist in problems per- 

 taining to slate, granite, marble, lime-rocks 

 and the drilling for water. 



Dr. Walter A. Ver Wiebe, formerly con- 

 nected with the geological faculties of Cor- 

 nell University and the Ohio State University, 

 and more recently field geologist for the Eox- 

 ana Petroleum Company of Tulsa, has been 

 chief geologist for the Mexican Sinclair Pe- 

 troleum Corporation since April of this year, 

 with headquarters in Tampico. 



Dr. T. S. Taylor, who has, during the first 

 part of the present calendar year, been in 

 charge of the research work for the Magnesia 

 Association of America at the Mellon Insti- 

 tute of Industrial Research, University of 

 Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., returned on July 

 1 to the Research Laboratory of the West- 

 inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, East Pittsburgh, Pa., to take charge of 

 their thermal research. 



Mr. Eael Stafford has become a member 

 of the engineering staff of Arthur D. Little, 

 Incorporated, chemists and engineers, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. Mr. Stafford is a graduate of 

 the engineering school of Tufts College, 1908, 

 and for the past twelve years has devoted his 

 attention largely to hydro-electric develop- 

 ments with particular reference to ore treat- 

 ing plants, pulp and paper mills and light 

 and power companies. 



Dr. George H. Parker, professor of zoology, 

 has been appointed Harvard exchange pro- 

 fessor for next year to the western colleges. 



The commencement address at the Univer- 

 sity of South Dakota, on June 21, was given 

 by Dr. George F. Swain, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, the subject being " The Dangers of 

 Idealism." 



The Halley lecture at Oxford is to be de- 

 livered this year by Professor R. A. Sampson, 

 astronomer royal for Scotland. 



In memory of the late Major-General 

 William C. Gorgas, funeral services under the 

 auspices of the British government were held 

 in St. Paul's Cathedral on July 9. Troops 

 escorted the body to the cathedral and a mili- 

 tary salute was fired at Hyde Park as the 

 procession filed along the street from Queen 

 Alexandra's Military Hospital to St. Paul's. 

 Pall bearers included presidents of the Royal 

 College of Physicians and the Royal Coll(^e 

 of Sm-geons, and the director of the British 

 Army Medical Service. 



Dr. E. Mead Wilcox, director of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station and College of 

 Agriculture in Santo Domingo, is in the 

 United States for the purjwse of securing ad- 

 ditional men for his staff and the selection of 

 laboratory equipment. He desires to secure a 

 horticulturist, plant pathologist, chemist, vet- 

 erinarian, and animal husbandryman and will 

 be glad to enter into correspondence with per- 

 sons interested. In addition to special knowl- 

 edge of the particular subject some knowl- 

 edge of Latin, French or Spanish is essential. 

 Correspondence should be directed to him in 

 care of Arthur H. Thomas Company, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



Mr. John D. Rockfellee, Jr., has given 

 the new management of the New York State 

 Reformatory for Women in Bedford the 

 use of the social hygiene bureau and labora- 

 tory situated alongside the institution, for the 

 study and scientific treatment of prisoners. 

 The laboratory was built and equipped at a 

 cost of $200,000. Mr. John S. Kennedy, presi- 

 dent of the State Prison Commission, recently 

 urged that the laboratory be taken over. It 

 was closed four years ago when Miss Helen A. 

 Cobb, recently resigned, became superintendent 

 of Bedford Reformatory. Miss Florence Jones, 

 the new superintendent, and Dr. Phyllis 

 Blanchard, who has been appointed psychi- 

 atrist, were in conference in relation to the 

 psychiatric work. Mr. Rockefeller has con- 

 sented to let the new administration use the 

 laboratory at a rental reported to be $1 a year. 



The program of the eighth annual meeting 

 of the Eugenics Research Association, held at 



