DWJEMBER 31, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



635 



, Dr. Peank H. Eeitee, instructor in psydhol- 

 ,Ogy at the University of Pennsylvania for the 

 past six years, has resigned his position to be- 

 come psychologist in the puhlic school system 

 of JSTewark, l^ew Jersey, where he will succeed 

 JJr. Francis IST. Maxfield, recently appointed 

 .director of psychology in the Pennsylvania 

 .State Department of Education. 



, De. Wellington D. Jones, assistant pro- 

 fessor of geography and dean in the college of 

 .science at the University of Chicago, recently 

 .sailed for England on his way to India, where 

 he expects to make geographical studies. 



Dr. Ales Hedlicka has been named doctor 

 honoris causce of the University of Prague. 



Peofessor J. Peeein (Paris) and Professor 

 .C. Pabry (Marseilles) have been elected hon- 

 orary members of the Royal Institution, Lon- 

 don. 



Dr. John G. Coulter, who was in charge of 

 ,the agTicultural operations of the American 

 Expeditionary Forces, and, after the armistice. 

 Commandant of the Detachment for Agricul- 

 ,tural Education, is now at Chateau Sandri- 

 court, Meru, Oise, as manager of certain 

 American-owned agricultural properties. He 

 is collecting material concerning science teach- 

 ing in France and would be glad to be of serv- 

 ice to American enquirers for French educa- 

 tional data. 



, Dr. Ealph E. Hall, formerly of the Geo- 

 physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, has resigned from the 

 Firestone Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio, 

 to accept a position with the Koppers Com- 

 pany, manufacturers of by-product coke ovens, 

 ^t Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

 I F. L. Ransome, of the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, has left Washington for field work in 

 Arizona. 



Tale University has received a letter from 

 Charles Edward Adams, the head of the Hector 

 Observatory at Wellington, New Zealand, ac- 

 cepting the appointment of associate in as- 

 .tronomy. Dr. Adams, who is the government 

 .astronomer and seismologist of New Zealand, 

 ,has agreed to cooperate with the Tale Observ- 



.atory in connection with photographing the 

 .stars of the southern hemisphere for compiling 

 zone catalogues. 



A Japanese translation of " The Subcon- 

 .scious," a textbook by Professor Joseph Jas- 

 trow, of the department of psychology of the 

 .University of Wisconsin, is to be published in 

 .the near future. The translation is being made 

 .under the direction of Dr. Nakamura, Japanese 

 .psychologist and editor of the Japanese Jour- 

 nal of Ahnormal Psychology. The book was 

 translated into French shortly after its ap- 

 pearance. A German translation was arranged 

 for before the war but this undertaking has 

 not been completed. 



The staff of the Lowell Observatory at 

 Flagstaff, Arizona, at the request of Mrs. 

 Lowell, widow of the late Dr. Percival Lowell, 

 is giving a series of six lectures called " The 

 Lowell Popular Lectures in Astronomy " in 

 the large auditorium of the Northern Arizona 

 Normal School. These lectures are free to 

 the students of the school and to the towns- 

 people in general. Dr. Hamilton gave the 

 first lecture, " The Solar System," on Decem- 

 ber 14. The next lecture of the series will be 

 given on January 5 by Mr. Truman on the 

 subject " Curiosities among the Stars." 



The lectures for 1920-21 on the Silliman 

 Foundation at Tale University were delivered 

 by Professor Leo F. Rettger, on December 13 

 and 15. The subject was " Some problems of 

 intestinal bacteriology." 



Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research, New Tork 

 City, gave a lecture at the National Museum 

 on November 17, on " Recent studies of yel- 

 low fever." The lecture was given under the 

 auspices of the Army Medical School. 



Dr. L. Emmett Holt, of Colimibia Uni- 

 versity, New Tork City, has been appointed 

 Lane Medical Lecturer for the year 1921 at 

 the Medical School of Stanford University, 

 San Francisco, California. The lectures will 

 be delivered in the week beginning on Novem- 

 ber 28, 1921, and the general subject will be 

 "Growth and Nutrition." 



