December 10, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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Kansas Agricultural College, has resumed his 

 work, after a year's leave of absence, during 

 which time he made a journey around the 

 world pursuing investigations of the fur in- 

 dustry in various countries for Funsten Bros, 

 and Company. 



W. Armstrong Price has resigned his posi- 

 tion of paleontologist with the West Virginia 

 Geological Survey and is now in Tampico as 

 geologist with the Transcontinental Petroleum 

 Company. He is accompanied by Lloyd. C. 

 Gibson, formerly geologist with the Seneca 

 Hill Oil Company of West Virginia. 



Dr. Hebee D. Curtis, director of the Alle- 

 gheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh, 

 delivered the annual Sigma Xi lectures at the 

 Universities of Kansas and Missouri, Novem- 

 ber 16 to 19. His general subject was, " Mod- 

 ern views of our sidereal universe." The first 

 lecture was " The data of stellar evolution," 

 and the second " The size of our universe." 

 , Dr. Cael J. WiGGERS, of the Western Ee- 

 serve University, will deliver the fourth Har- 

 vey Society lecture at the New York Academy 

 of Medicine, Saturday evening, December 11. 

 His subject will be " The present status of 

 eardio-dynamic studies on normal and patho- 

 logical hearts." 



Dr. Ivey p. Lewis, Miller professor of biol- 

 ogy at the University of Virginia, made the 

 address at the first pubHc meeting of the 

 newly formed Naturalists' Club of the Uni- 

 versity of Richmond, Va. 



The Huxley lecture was delivered in the 

 Mason College, Birmingham, on November 26, 

 by Professor C. S. Sherrington, whose subject 

 was " The gateways of sense." 



Owing to the continued iU-health of Mr. 

 Spencer U. Pickering, which renders him un- 

 able to continue his experimental work at the 

 Wobum Fruit Farm, which was carried on 

 from 1894 to 1918 by the Duke of Bedford, 

 and since then by means of a grant from the 

 Development Fimd administered by the com- 

 mittee of the Eothamsted Experimental Sta- 

 tion, it is to be closed. 



A NEW station for experimental biology has 

 been founded at Schederlohe in the Isar val- 



ley, Bavaria, by Dr. Curt B. Haniel, with the 

 collaboration of Dr. Jacob Seller, formerly as- 

 sistant of Dr. Goldschmidt, at the Kaiser- Wil- 

 helm Institute fiir Biologie, Berlin-Dahlem. 



The American Mathematical Society will, 

 as usual, hold two meetings in the Christmas 

 holidays. At the annual meeting in New 

 York on December 28-29 the election of offi- 

 cers will take place and President Frank Mor- 

 ley will deliver his retiring address, the subject 

 of which is " Pleasant questions and wonder- 

 ful effects." The regular western meeting, 

 which is also the meeting of the Chicago Sec- 

 tion, will be held at Chicago, on December 

 29-30, in affiliation with that of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Professor Arnold Dresden, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, is secretary of the western 

 meeting. 



Professor James F. Norris has been elected 

 to the chairmanship of the committee in 

 charge of the C. M. Warren Fimd of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 

 place of Professor H. P. Talbot, resigned. 

 The income from the fund is available for the 

 " encouragement and advancement of research 

 in the science or field of chemistry," and may 

 be used to provide the materials required for 

 such investigations or assistance in their 

 execution. The committee vsdU be glad to 

 receive and consider requests for grants from 

 this fund. They should be addressed to Pro- 

 fessor James F. Norris, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



We learn from Nature that a meeting of 

 the International Commission for Weather 

 Telegraphy, which was appointed by the In- 

 ternational Meteorological Conference at Paris 

 in October, 1919, was held at the Air Min- 

 istry, London, dmdng the week November 

 22-27. The following delegates were expected 

 to attend the meeting: Lieutenant-Colonel E. 

 Gold (president). Meteorological Office, Air 

 Ministry; M. A. Angot, Bureau Central 

 Meteorologique, Paris; Colonel L. F. Blandy, 

 controller of communications. Air Ministry; 

 Dr. van Bemmelen, Meteorological Observa- 

 tory, Batavia; Colonel Delcambre, Service 



