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a committee to take the necessary steps to urge 

 its need upon the government and the nation. 

 This committee has now been appointed, and 

 the scientific world will follow its activities 

 and their result with close attention. An 

 oceanographical expedition along the lines 

 contemplated, and equipped with the instru- 

 ments which modern science can provide, would 

 lead to a great increase of knowledge both for 

 scientific study and for profitable development, 

 and no nation could carry it out more appro- 

 priately than Great Britain in cooperation with 

 our overseas Dominions. There will be an 

 eclipse of the sun in September, 1922, with the 

 line of totality crossing the Maldive Islands, 

 and the expedition could very well include an 

 astronomical party to observe it. It is believed 

 that the Admirality is favorably disposed 

 towards the scheme, and every scientific man 

 hopes that the necessary support will be forth- 

 coming to carry out the enterprise on a scale 

 worthy of the British empire." 



The annual meeting of the British Medical 

 Association will be held on July 19, and the 

 scientific sections will meet on July 20, 21 

 and 22. The annual meeting in 1922 will be 

 held in Glasgow, and the council has now 

 decided to recommend to the Eepresentative 

 Body that the annual meeting in 1923 shall 

 be held at Portsmouth, in response to an in- 

 vitation of the Portsmouth Division. 



The Rockefeller Foundation announces the 

 gift to the State of Louisiana of the Grand 

 Ghenier Wild Life Eefuge, comprising about 

 35,000 acres, in Cameron and Vermillion 

 laboratories, equipment, methods, publications, 

 parishes. The tract was purchased from in- 

 dividual holders by the foundation in 1914, in 

 order to preserve the wild life of the country 

 and has since been under the supervision of 

 the Department of Conservation of the State. 

 A condition of the gift is that the tract shall 

 remain as a perpetual wild-life preserve. 



Dr. John Gabbert Bowman, president of the 

 University of Iowa from 1911 to 1914 has been 

 elected chancellor of the University of Pitts- 

 burgh to succeed Dr. Samuel Black Mc- 

 Cormick. 



The Cornell University board of trustees at 

 its meeting on November 13, assigned pro- 

 fessors to eight professorships which were es- 

 tablished last June commemorating the service 

 of Cornellians in the war. The assignments in 

 science are Professor Ernest Merritt (phys- 

 ics), in arts and sciences; Professors S. S. 

 Garrett and E. W. Schroder, in engineering; 

 Professor W. D. Bancroft (physical chemis- 

 try), in the graduate school; Professor Suther- 

 land Simpson (physiology) in the Ithaca di- 

 vision of the medical college. 



AnoNG recent appointments to the faculty 

 of the college of arts and sciences of Tulane 

 University are the following : Dr. D. S. Elliott, 

 recently head of the department of physics in 

 the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been 

 elected to the professorship of physics. Dr. S. 

 A. Mahood, chemist of the Forest Products 

 Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin, 

 has been elected to an associate professorship 

 in chemistry. Dr. Herbert E. Buchanan, pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in the University of 

 Tennessee, has been elected to the chair of 

 mathematics. 



Mr. J. W. Barton, recently fellow in psy- 

 chology in the University of Minnesota and 

 formerly a member of the faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of Utah, has been elected associate 

 professor of psychology in the school of edu- 

 cation of the University of Wyoming. 



R. J. Garber, assistant professor of plant 

 breeding at the University of Minnesota, has 

 been appointed associate professor of agronomy 

 and associate agronomist in the West Virginia 

 University and Station. 



EDUCATIONAL NOTES AND NEWS 



The two weeks' campaign for a $5,000,000 

 endowment fund for McGill University ended 

 with the collection of $6,321,511. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



RECEDENT LAKE SHORES OF THE 

 CRETACEOUS 



Last year while cycad hunting in the south- 

 ern Black Hills, Mr. E. E. Arnold called my 



