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ical explorations, returned to Washington on 

 July 30. 



Professor Joseph F. Eock, formerly pro- 

 fessor in the College of Hawaii, Honolulu, has 

 left Washington upon an extended trip of 

 agricultural exploration in eastern Asia for 

 the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduc- 

 tion, TJ. S. Department of Agriculture, with 

 which he has recently become connected. 



At the congress of physiologists held in 

 Paris last July under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor Charles Richet, the Americans in at- 

 tendance were Professor G. 'S. Stewart, West- 

 ern Eeserve University; Professor Frederic 

 S. Lee, Columbia UniTersity; Professor Gra- 

 ham Lusk, Cornell University; Dr. L. J. 

 Henderson, Harvard University; Professor J. 

 J. E. Maoleod, Toronto University, and Pro- 

 fessor Fraser Harris, Dalhousie University. 



Sm William Macewan has been elected . 

 president of the International Society of 

 Surgery, whose next meeting will probably be 

 held in London during the summer of 1923. 



The following officers of the Pacific Division 

 of the Phytopathological Society of America 

 have been elected and will hold office for two 

 years: President, Dr. H. S. Eeed, Eiverside, 

 California; Vice-president, Dr. J. W. Hotson, 

 University of Washington, Seattle; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, Dr. S. M. Zeller, Oregon Agricul- 

 tural College, Corvallds, Oregon. 



J. J. Davis has resigned as agent in charge 

 of the Japanese beetle control project at Eiver- 

 ton, New Jersey, to accept a position as head 

 of the departments of entomology of Purdue 

 University and the Indiana Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, effective on October 1. 



Mr. E. M. Overbeck, geologist, has resigned 

 from the U. S. Geological Survey to accept 

 a position with an oil company. 



The Proceedings of the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences states that while in charge 

 of a Coast and Geodetic Survey subparty 

 working in New Mexico, Mr. E. L. Sehoppe 

 was struck by lightning and seriously burned, 

 but is recovering. 



According to the Berlin correspondent of 

 the London Times Professor Einstein is so 

 much disgusted by attacks made upon him by 

 certain of his anti-semitic scientific colleagues 

 that he may leave Berlin altogether. The 

 Tagehlatt makes a strong protest against the 

 amioyanee to which Professor Einstein has 

 been subjected, which it describes as disgrace- 

 ful. It says: "It is the duty of the Berlin 

 University to do all in its power to keep Pro- 

 fessor Einstein. Every one who desires to 

 maintain the honor of German science in the 

 future must now stand by this man." Pro- 

 fessor Einstein himself makes a reply in the 

 Tagehlatt to his assailants. He ends by say- 

 ing that it will raake a singularly bad im- 

 pression on his confreres to see how the 

 theory of relativity and its originator are 

 being traduced in Germany. 



The botanists of America have sympathized 

 deeply with the eminent French bryologist, 

 M. Jules Cardot, whose house at Charleville 

 was wrecked and the most valuable part of 

 his library and collections destroyed by the 

 German invaders. Not only was this done, 

 but M. Cardot's fortune was so impaired by 

 the loss of property due to the war that, for 

 the present at least, he has given up his 

 studies and entered the service of the French 

 Government of Indo-China. A portion of M. 

 Cardot's library and collections valued at 

 10,000 francs has been acquired by the French 

 National Musemn at Paris. The museum 

 contributed 5,000 francs, English bryologists 

 and botanists 2,500 francs and members of 

 the Sullivant Moss Society in excess of the 

 other 2,500 francs. The success of the Amer- 

 ican subscription was due largely to the efforts 

 of the secretary of the society, Mr. Edward 

 B. Chamberlain. 



Armand Gautiee, long professor of bio- 

 logical and medical chemistry in the Paris 

 School of Medicine and distinguished for his 

 contributions to these subjects, has died at 

 the age of eighty-two years. 



Dr. D. p. von Hansemann, professor of 

 pathologic anatomy at Berlin, has died at the 

 age of sixty-two years. 



