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ences and expositions, and found or support 

 useful scientific institutions. Among the 

 principal aims of the federation may be men- 

 tioned: (1) an increase of the resources of 

 affiliated societies sufficient to continue their 

 publications, and (2) the collection of works 

 published by the federated societies and ex- 

 change of publications with analogous fed- 

 erations in allied and neutral countries. A 

 general council of fifteen members admin- 

 isters the affairs of the federation. The 

 officers for 1920 are Professor de la Vallee- 

 Poussin (Louvain), president; Paul Pelseneer 

 (secretary of the Academie royale de Belgi- 

 que), vice president; J. Wauters (secretary 

 general of the Societe chimique de Belgique) 

 treasurer, and Messrs, Zimc and Lucien, 

 secretaries. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 The Hudson's Bay Company, as one means 

 of celebrating the 250th anniversary of its 

 foundation and its long connection with 

 Western Canada and with Winnipeg, has 

 given the University of Manitoba a fellow- 

 ship of the annual value of $1,500 for the 

 years 1920-29 inclusive, open to graduates of 

 any Canadian university. Each fellow will 

 devote his entire time to original research in 

 some branch of pure or applied science. 



A LA60RAT0KY for research on dyestuffs and 

 explosives has been established at George 

 Washington University, under the general 

 supervision of Professor H. C. McN'eil, and 

 in charge of Mr. G. W. Phillips, formerly of 

 the Chemical Warfare Service. Dr. Charles 

 E. Munroe will be consulting chemist of the 

 laboratory. 



Dr. S. a. Mahood, of the Forest Products 

 Laboratory, Madison, will have charge of 

 chemistry at Tidane University. 



Dr. James W. Papez, professor of anatomy 

 and neiorology at Emory University School of 

 Medicine, Atlanta, Ga., has resigned to accept 

 the assistant professorship of neurology at 

 Cornell University Medical College, Ithaca, 

 New York. 



Dk. Kenneth D. Blackfan, associate pro- 

 fessor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, has been appointed professor 

 of pediatrics at the Medical College of the 

 University of Cincinnati. 



Olaf p. Jenkins has returned to Pullman, 

 Washington, as assistant professor of eco- 

 nomic geology in the State College of Wash- 

 ington, having spent the last year with the 

 Sinclair Exploration Company as chief geol- 

 ogist in Alabama. 



Dr. C. Nusbaum, formerly of the Magnetic 

 Section of the Bureau of Standards, has been 

 appointed research associate in the division 

 of industrial research and cooperation of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Dr. Henry W. Stager, for many years 

 head of the department of mathematics in 

 Fresno Junior College, Fresno, California, 

 and more recently with the United States 

 Railroad Administration, has been appointed 

 instructor of mathematics in the University 

 of Washington, Seattle, Washington. 



Mr. W. Vernon Godshall, formerly assist- 

 ant professor of chemistry at Mi ami Univer- 

 sity, has accepted a similar position in physio- 

 logical chemistry in the department of phys- 

 iology of the University of Wisconsin. He is 

 also chemist on the Interdepartmental Board 

 for the estimation of the elimination of 

 arsenic from patients treated with arsenical 

 drugs. 



At the Montana School of Mines Assistant 

 Professor Gerald S. Lambert, of Leland Stan- 

 ford University, has been appointed associate 

 professor of geology, and Dr. A. E. Koenig, 

 assistant professor of chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, associate professor of 

 chemistry. 



Dr. Rodney B. Harvey has resigned as 

 plant physiologist. Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 Washington, D. C, to accept the position of 

 assistant professor in plant physiology at the 

 University of Minnesota, and assistant plant 

 physiologist in the Minnesota Experiment 

 Station. 



Mr. F. B. Smith, who recently retired from 

 the position of secretary of agriculture to the 



