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receiTed recently by a number of American 

 meteorologists. Tbe following- one came to 

 the editor of the Monthly Weather Review on 

 October 6 : 



ZENTRALANSTALT 

 PiJR 



Meteorologie und Geodynamik. 

 Wien XIX Hohe "Warte 38. 



20 September, 1920. 

 In view of our calamities in Austria, I "beg you 

 to help my colleagues, the members of the staff of 

 the Zentralanstalt fiir Meteorologie in Vienna, in 

 their great need of food. The American Belief 

 Administration Warehouse has published the fol- 

 lowing circular. 



For several weeks the American Relief Ad- 

 ministration Warehouses in Austria have been 

 delivering food parcels to holders of food drafts. 

 You can buy at any bank in the United States 

 American Belief Warehouse Drafts and send 

 them to us in Vienna. On presentation of these 

 food drafts at the warehouse in Vienna, we can 

 also draw American food. We are in great 

 need of food in Austria. Individual food par- 

 cels sent from America usually do not reach us. 

 Money does us no good when there is no food to 

 buy. Help us in our distress by sending an 

 American Belief Warehouse Food Draft — 

 quickly! For further information apply to 

 American Relief Administration, 115 [present 

 address, 42] Broadway, New York City, or to 

 your own or the nearest bank. 

 Allow me to draw your attention to it. We are, 

 the families included, 67 persons. We all would 

 thank you very heartily for your kindness. 

 I am, dear Sir yours very respectfully, 



Dr. Mokiz Topolanskt, Secretary 



Contributions whether to a general fund 

 or for any specific class or individual may be 

 sent direct to the American Relief Adminis- 

 tration 42 Broadway, New York City. If any 

 further information as to the general situa- 

 tion among the intellectual classes in central 

 and eastern Europe is desired, it may be had 

 from Dr. Vernon Kellogg, National Research 

 Council, Washington, D. C. 



A fund for the purchase of food drafts for 

 Austrian meteorologists in the name of the 

 American Meteorological Society has been 

 started by some members of the society. Con- 

 tributions toward this fund may be sent to 



Charles F. Brooks, Secretary, "Weather Bu- 

 reau, Washington, D. C. 



THE OILMAN MEMORIAL LECTURES ON 

 GEOGRAPHY 



The Johns Hopkins University announces 

 the inauguration of a course of lectures to 

 be known as The Oilman Memorial Lectures 

 on Geography. These lectures are made pos- 

 sible through the generosity of the family of 

 Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of the 

 Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Gilman began 

 his teaching career at Tale (1863—72) as pro- 

 fessor of physical and political geography and 

 was a member of the U. S. Commission on 

 the boundary line between Venezuela and 

 British Guiana in 1896-97. 



The first series of lectures will begin 

 October 18, and will continue weekly, through- 

 out the academic year. They will be given 

 by Major Lawrence Martin, of the General 

 StafP Corps, who as the chief of the Geo- 

 graphic Section, Military Intelligence Divi- 

 sion, U. S. Army, attached to the American 

 Commission to Negotiate Peace, had unusual 

 opportunities for studying at first hand the 

 geographical factors affecting trade in the re- 

 organized states of Europe, Asia Minor and 

 the Caucasus. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the sixth International Congress of 

 Mathematicians, held at Strasbourg at the end 

 of September, addresses were given by Sir- 

 Joseph Larmor, Professor L. E. Dickson, M. 

 de la Vallee-Poussin, M. Volterra and M. Nor- 

 lund. 



The Botanical Society of Washington has 

 elected the following officers for the ensuing- 

 year: President, Charles E. Chambliss; Vice- 

 president, P. L. Ricker; Recording Secretary, 

 Roy G. Pierce; Corresponding Secretary, R. 

 Kent Beattie; Treasurer, L. L. Harter. 



The Italian government has conferred upon 

 Dr. Leonard Hill, F.R.S., the Italian silver 

 medal ''Ai Benemeriti della Salute Publica." 



The Council for Scientific and Industrial 

 Research of Canada has awarded $5,000 to as- 



