September 10, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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Adam Politzer, professor of otology at 

 Vienna, has died at the age of eighty-six years. 



Nature states that one of the first official 

 acts of the new high commissioner of Pales- 

 tine has been the establishment of a Depart- 

 ment of Antiquities. An international board 

 will advise the director on technical matters. 

 Provision is made for an inspector, for a mu- 

 seum, and for the custody of the historical 

 monuments. The museum starts with more 

 than 100 cases of antiquities collected by the 

 Palestine Exploration Fund and other bodies 

 before the war. On August 9 the new British 

 School of Archeology was formally opened at 

 Jerusalem by Sir Herbert Samuel. 



The Pennsylvania State College has re- 

 ceived from the Rockefeller Institute for Med- 

 ical Research a grant of $5,000 for the current 

 fiscal year in aid of the researches in animal 

 nutrition which have been carried on for the 

 past twenty years by the Institute of Animal 

 Nutrition under the direction of Dr. H. P. 

 Armsby. 



The autumn meeting of the British Insti- 

 tute of Metals will be held at Barrow-Furness 

 on September 15 and 16, under the presidency 

 of Sir George Goodwin. 



In the second week of September there is to 

 be a gathering at the School of Anthropology 

 at Paris of a number of persons interested in 

 forming an International Anthropological In- 

 stitute and in making it the center for the 

 anthropologic sciences, including ethnology, 

 eugenics, medical geography, comparative 

 anatomy, etc. 



There has been organized the Mexican So- 

 ciety of Biology which for the time being will 

 hold its meetings at the headquarters of the 

 National Academy of Medicine. The officers 

 of the association are: President, Dr. D. Fer- 

 nando Oearanza; Treasurer, Dr. Eliseo Ra- 

 mirez, and Secretary, Dr. Isaac Ocheterena. 

 The society has ten charter members, prac- 

 tically all physicians. The address is Av. del 

 Brasil, No. 33, Mexico. 



The chief executive officers and large stock- 

 holders of the General Chemical Company, the 

 Solvay Process Company, the Sement-Solvay 



Company, the Barrett Company and the Na- 

 tional Aniline & Chemical Company, have ap- 

 proved a general plan for submission to the 

 respective boards, for the consolidation of the 

 five companies. 



We learn from Nature that at the council 

 meeting of the National Association of In- 

 dustrial Chemists, held at Sheffield on August 

 7, the secretary reported that a number of 

 firms had given a definite undertaking to con- 

 sult the officials of the association in all 

 matters relating to chemists, their appoint- 

 ment, salaries, and conditions of employment. 

 The salaries paid to members of the associa- 

 tion were fairly satisfactory; in this con- 

 nection a report has been issued giving a 

 schedule of minimum salaries, and this would 

 be circulated shortly. The secretary stated 

 that the number of unemployed chemists was 

 increasing rapidly, and there was every in- 

 dication of a coming great slump in the engi- 

 neering and allied industries in which their 

 members were employed. It was more than 

 ever imperative for industrial chemists to 

 unite to preserve their interests. Mr. A. B. 

 Searle (Sheffield) was unanimously elected 

 president for the coming year, and Mr. J. W. 

 Merchant appointed secretary. The appoint- 

 ment of an organizing secretary for propa- 

 ganda work was authorized. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 By the will of the late William K. Vander- 

 bilt, Vanderbilt University receives $250,000. 

 By the will of the late Miss Annette P. 

 Rogers, daughter of the first president of 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rad- 

 cliffe College receives $175,000. 



Two research fellowships of $1,200 each 

 have been established at Rutgers College by 

 Dr. J. G. Lipman, dean of agriculture and 

 director of the experiment station at that in- 

 stitution. The appointees to the fellowships 

 will study problems relating to the place and 

 functions of sulfur in the plant world. 



Dr. Calvin 0. Applewhite, U. S. Public 

 Health Service, has been detailed to establish 



