July 30, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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De. W. van Bemmelen, director of the mag- 

 netic and meteorological observatory at Ba- 

 tavia, Java, is visiting the laboratories and in- 

 stitutions of the United States. 



Db. Charles D. "Walcott, of the Smithson- 

 ian Institution, is spending the summer as in 

 other years in geological and paleontological 

 work in the Canadian Eockies. 



Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark, of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has been given leave of absence to be act- 

 ing-professor of zoology at Williams College 

 during the next academic year. He takes the 

 place of Professor J. L. Kellogg, vrho will 

 spend the year at Claremont, California. 



Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, director of 

 the museum of the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, sailed for Honolulu on July 28 to attend 

 the meetings of the Pan-Pacific Scientific Con- 

 gress. The authorities of the Bishop Museum 

 have asked Dr. Evermann, while there, to 

 identify certain fishes in that institution. He 

 will return to San Francisco about the end of 

 August. 



According to the Proceedings of the Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sciences among those in 

 attendance from Washington at the scientific 

 congress to be held in Honolulu during August 

 will be: Paul Bartsch, of the National Mu- 

 seum; William Bowie, of the Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey; T. Wayland Vaughan, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey; H. S. Washington, 

 of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington, and H. O. Wood, of the 

 National Research Council. 



Dr. G. Dallas Hanna and W. P. Zschorna, 

 of the Bureau of Fisheries, have gone to the 

 Pribilof Islands. Dr. Hanna has charge of 

 the taking of the census of fur seals this sum- 

 mer; Mr. Zschorna is to continue experiments 

 inaugurated in 1919 for improving methods of 

 taking and curing sealskins. 



David B. Reger, of Morgantown, W. Va., is 

 on leave of absence from the West Virginia 

 Geological Survey for the next four months 

 and will devote that time to consulting work 

 in petroleum and coal. He has just com- 



pleted a months trip to the prospective oil 

 fields of Montana. 



Mr. H. p. v. W. Kjerskog-Agersborg, assist- 

 ant in zoology, Columbia University Extension 

 Teaching, sails on the Swedish steamer Drot- 

 tningholm for a six week's study of the Lit- 

 torine Gasteropod fauna in fjords of arctic 

 Norway. The Melfjord, which is the most 

 southern of the arctic fjords oilers an excep- 

 tional point of ecological interest owing to its 

 greatly diversified type of shore-lines. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Climatological and Clinical Association held 

 in Philadelphia in June, the following officers 

 were elected : president. Dr. Carroll E. Edson, 

 Denver; vice presidents. Drs. Nelson Estes 

 Nichols, Portland, Me., and Gordon Wilson, 

 Baltimore, and recorder, Dr. Cleveland Floyd, 

 Boston. 



The Eugenics Education Society has ar- 

 ranged for the holding of a summer school 

 of eugenics and civics at Heme Bay College 

 on July 31- August 14. The inaugural ad- 

 dress will be delivered by Professor A. Dendy 

 on " Evolution in Human Progress." 



It is proposed by the Swedish Linnean 

 Society to restore the old botanic garden at 

 Upsala, together with the house in it, the 

 former residence of Carl von Linne. 



Tribute to Wilbur Wright was paid by 

 France on July 17, when a stone column sup- 

 porting the undraped figure of a man was 

 unveiled in the Place Jocobins at Le Mans. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation announces the deaths of the follow- 

 ing men known for their contributions to 

 medical science: Dr. Demons, formerly pro- 

 fessor of surgery at the University of Bor- 

 deaux; Dr. T. Barrels, professor of parasitol- 

 ogy at the University of Lille; Dr. R. Kretz, 

 privat-docent of pathologic anatomy at the 

 University of Vienna; Dr. T. Debaisieux, 

 former professor of surgery at the University 

 of Louvain, at one time president of the Bel- 

 gian Academy of Medicine and of the Belgian 

 Surgical Association, and Dr. F. Schatz, 

 former professor of gynecology and obstetrics 

 at the University of Rostock. 



