October 8, 1920] 



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W. p. EuYSCH, inspector-general of the 

 public health service of the ISTetherlands and 

 since 1912 president of the public health ad- 

 visory council, has died at the age of seventy- 

 two years. 



Professor Celoria, director of the Milan 

 Observatory died on August 17, at the age of 

 seventy-eight years. 



The Ohservatory announces the death of 

 Professor A. Berberich, of the Astronomische 

 Eeehen-Institut of Berlin, sometime editor of 

 the Astronomischen Jahreshericht and of 

 Eobert Philippovitsch Simon Vogel, professor 

 of astronomy and geodesy in the Vladimir 

 University in Kieff, and since 1901 director 

 of the Kieff Observatory. 



The TJ. S. Oivil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for computer, Bureau 

 of Mines, on N'ovember 3, 1920, to fill a vacancy 

 in the Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa., at 

 $1,500 a year. 



The eighth annual Indian Science Congress 

 will be held in Calcutta from January 31 to 

 February 5, 1921, under the presidency of Sir 

 E. K Mukerjee. 



The Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 published on September 9, 1920, the second 

 volume of the Cactaceae by N. L. Britton and 

 J. IT. Eose. The first volume of this work was 

 issued June 21, 1919. 



Many American nations, as well as Great 

 Britain, Spain and Portugal, are to be for- 

 mally invited to participate in the national 

 festivities in November and December in com- 

 memoration of the four hundredth anniver- 

 sary of the discovery of the Straits of Ma- 

 gellan. The festivities will center principally 

 in Santiago and Punta Arenas, the latter the 

 world's southernmost city, where the occasion 

 will be marked by inauguration of impor- 

 tant public works, including port improve- 

 ments, lighthouses in Smith Channel, a high- 

 way between Punta Arenas and iNatales on the 

 South Atlantic coast and laying of a comer- 

 stone of the Punta Arenas University. It is 

 expected the foreign delegations will visit the 

 straits in December, when warships of the 

 Chilean navy will be assembled there. It was 



through these waters that Ferdinand Magellan, 

 tihe Portuguese explorer, first passed in No- 

 vember, 1520. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Under the will of the late Mrs. "William J. 

 Wright Harvard University has been left over 

 $23,000, to be known as the " William J. and 

 Georgiana B. Wright Fund," the income to 

 be used for medical research and the advance- 

 ment of the medical and surgical sciences. A 

 bequest of $14,000 has been made by the late 

 Dr. James Ewing Mears, of Philadelphia, for 

 the maintenance of a scholarship in medicine 

 and for the work of the Cancer Commission. 

 Edwin F. Atkins, of Boston, has given $12,000 

 for tropical research in economic botany. 



Dr. Egbert Waitman Clothier, professor 

 of farm economics in the Mississippi College 

 of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, has be- 

 come president of the New Mexico College. 



At Yale University Adolph Knopf, Ph.D. 

 (California), from the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, becomes associate professor of physical 

 geology and petrology, and Eobert A. Patter- 

 son, Ph.D. (Tale), assistant professor of 

 physics. 



Professor Oscae H. Plant goes to the 

 University of Iowa this year as professor and 

 head of the department of materia medica 

 and pharmacology. Dr. C. S. Chase, who has 

 been head of the department for many years 

 and a member of the faculty since 1892, re- 

 mains with the imiversity as full professor in 

 the department and will teach pharmacology 

 and engage in research and writing. 



Dr. Otto Stuhlman, Jr., formerly at West 

 Virginia University, has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor in physics at the University of 

 North Carolina, which has enlarged its physics 

 staff since the completion of Phillips Hall, 

 the new laboratory. 



It is reported in Nature that Dr. E. M. 

 Caven has been appointed to the chair of 

 inorganic and analytical chemistry in the 

 Eoyal Technical College, Glasgow, This 

 vacancy was caused by the transfer of Dr. 



