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of the country will be sent to the officers of 

 the Council, Edward B. Mathews, chairman, 

 National Research Council, or A. G. Seller, 

 secretary, Touring Bureau, A. A. A., Eiggs 

 Building, Washington, D. C. 



The annual meeting of the Society for Ex- 

 tending Rothamsted Experiments was held on 

 June 18 at Rothamsted, Harpenden. Mr. J. 

 F. Mason presided. It was reported by Dr. 

 E. J. Russell, director, that the work of the 

 station had again become normal. The staff 

 was now complete, and operations active in all 

 departments. The staff of the station at pres- 

 ent numbers 70, and there are large labora- 

 tories and a 300-acre farm. The Ministry of 

 Agriculture has now asked that the station 

 shall undertake the study of the diseases of 

 plants, and although the work has been begun 

 the present facilities are quite inadequate. It 

 is proposed to buy an adjoining site to build 

 there a special laboratory for this work. For 

 this £4,000 is needed, and half will be pro- 

 vided by the government. The remainder has 

 to be found privately, and a fourth of the 

 amoimt has already been subscribed. 



According to an Associated Press despatch 

 an expedition fitted out by the Swedish So- 

 ciety of Anthropology and Geography of Stock- 

 holm has left Yokahama to make a scientific 

 sittvey of the peninsula of Kamchatka. The 

 work will last for at least two years. The mem- 

 bers of the expedition are from the University 

 of Stockholm and are under the direction of 

 Even Bergman. They are prepared for a zo- 

 ological, botanical ethnographical, geological 

 and geographical survey of the whole penin- 

 sula. The collections will be donated to the 

 Swedish Geographical Society and to the Uni- 

 versity of Stockholm. Kamchatka is known 

 to have a rich and varied flora and fauna, but 

 it is comparatively unknown to scientists. The 

 plant life is particularly interesting, as it is 

 unusually extensive for the high latitude, and 

 many of the forms belong to regions much 

 farther south. Birds and animals are numer- 

 ous, and as far as known are similar to those 

 of Alaska. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Harvard University School of Medi- 

 cine has received $350,000 from the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation for the development of 

 psychiatry, and $300,000 for the development 

 of obstetric teaching. 



Mr. M. Douglas Flattery, an American, has 

 presented the Institute of Bacteriology at 

 Lyons with 100,000 francs for an annual schol- 

 arship for a student who will specialize in lab- 

 oratory work on the bacteriology of infectious 

 diseases. 



At the University of Minnesota Dr. W. H. 

 Hunter has been appointed professor of chem- 

 istry and acting head of the division of or- 

 ganic chemistry; Dr. C. A. Mann, professor 

 of industrial chemistry and acting head of 

 the division of industrial chemistry; Dr. G. H. 

 Montillon, associate professor of industrial 

 chemistry, and Dr. R. E. Kirk, of Iowa State 

 College, assistant professor in general chem- 

 istry. 



Dr. Daniel Starch, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has become associate professor of 

 psychology in the school of business adminis- 

 tration at Harvard University. 



Professor James Newton Michie, assistant 

 professor of mathematics in the Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College of Texas, has been ap- 

 pointed adjunct professor in the department of 

 applied mathematics at the University of 

 Texas. 



P. W. Boutwell, assistant professor of 

 agricultural chemistry at the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been appointed associate pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Beloit College. 



Y\f. J. Fuller, assistant professor of civil 

 and structural engineering of the University 

 of Wisconsin Extension Division, has recently 

 resigned to accept a position on the engineer- 

 ing staff of the Government Institute of Tech- 

 nology at Shanghai, China. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society states that at the University of Ber- 

 lin, Professor L. E. Brouwer, of the Univer- 



