November 5, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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Switzerland, who has decided to work in the 

 laboratories of Professor W. H. Perkin, at 

 Oxford. 



The one hundred and fifth regular meeting 

 of the American Physical Society will be held 

 in Cleveland, at the physical laboratory of 

 Case School of Applied Science on Friday and 

 Saturday, November 26 and 27, 1920. Other 

 meetings for the current season are as follows : 

 December 28-31, Chicago; annual meeting, 

 February 25-26, New York; April 22-23, 

 Washington; time not determined, Pacific 

 Coast section. 



The Society of Biology of Buenos Aires 

 has become a branch of the Society of Biol- 

 ogy of Paris. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



The University of Virginia, founded by 

 Thomas Jeiferson, is preparing to celebrate its 

 centennial anniversary next June, when it is 

 expected that the alumni and friends will pre- 

 sent an endovTment fund of three million 

 dollars. 



Dr. Frank Billings, who is professor of 

 medicine in the University of Chicago, has 

 given his medical library valued at $25,000 to 

 the university. It will form the nucleus of 

 the clinical library of the Medical School and 

 will be eventually housed in the Albert Merritt 

 Billings Hosiptal. 



The mayor of Frankfurt has announced 

 that an endowment of 1,500,000 marks has 

 been made to the Frankfurt University by 

 James Speyer, the New York banker, in 

 memory of his deceased sister, Mrs. Eduard 

 Beit Von Speyer. 



Dr. Walter Dill Scott, professor of phy- 

 chology in Northwestern University and presi- 

 dent of the Scott Company, who during the 

 war was director of the committee on per- 

 sonnel and colonel, U. S A., has been elected 

 president of Northwestern University. 



Mr. E. T. Haslam, of the National Carbon 

 Company, Cleveland, Ohio, has become di- 



rector of the School of Chemical Engineering 

 Practice of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



Samuel L. Boothroyd has been appointed 

 professor of astronomy and geodesy at Cornell 

 University, to succeed Professor 0. M. Le- 

 land. Professor Boothroyd's appointment 

 takes effect in September, 1921, in order that 

 he may spend the coming year at the Lick 

 Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California. 



William Bertollet Plank, superintendent 

 of the United States Bureau of Mines Station, 

 Birmingham, Alabama, has been appointed to 

 the George B. Markle professorship of mining 

 engineering at Lafayette College. Other new 

 appointments in the Engineering School the 

 current year are Morland King, of Union Col- 

 lege, to be associate professor of electrical 

 engineering, William S. Lohr, of Lancaster, 

 to be associate professor of civil engineering, 

 and Luther F. Witmer, of the United States 

 Bureau of Standards, to be associate professor 

 of metallurgy. 



At the University of Iowa the following 

 promotions to full professorships have been 

 made: James Newton Pearce, chemistry; Lee 

 Paul Sieg, physics; Ewen Murchison Mc- 

 Ewen, anatomy, and John Hoffman Dunlap, 

 hydraulics and sanitary engineering. 



At the State University of Iowa, Dr. Day- 

 ton Stoner has been promoted from associate 

 in zoology to assistant professor of zoology. 



On returning to New York on September 

 29 from a collecting trip in northern Norway, 

 H. P. K. Agersborg, instructor in anatomy, 

 Long Island College Hospital, was appointed 

 assistant professor of zoology, at the Univer- 

 sity of Wyoming. 



Dr. Ardrey W. Downs has been appointed 

 to the chair of physiology in the University 

 of Alberta. Dr. Downs was formerly assis- 

 tant professor of physiology at McGill Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Griffith Taylor, physiographer in the 

 Weather Service, Melbourne, has been ap- 

 pointed to a specially created position of asso- 



