Januabt 2, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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Tliis last gift makes the total received by 

 the foundation from Mr. Eockefeller $182,- 

 000,000, of which both income and principal 

 were made available for appropriations. In 

 191Y-18 $5,000,000 from the principal was 

 appropriated for war work. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research, Dr. Robert An- 

 drews MiUikan, of the University of Chicago, 

 Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, of Clark Uni- 

 versity, and Dr. W. W. Campbell, of Lick Ob- 

 servatory, have been elected honorary mem- 

 bers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 and Ireland. 



Dr. Otto Klotz, director of the Dominion 

 Observatory, Ottawa, has been appointed the 

 representative of Canada on the " Committee 

 on Magnetic Surveys, Charts and Secular 

 Variation " of the International Geodetic 

 and Geophysical Union, recently formed at 

 Brussels. 



Dr. C. 0. Mailloux, who was elected presi- 

 dent of the International Electrotechnical 

 Commission for the next period of two years 

 at the plenary meeting in London on October 

 24, was the president of the American com- 

 mittee. He is the second American to hold 

 that honor. Previous presidents have been 

 Lord Kelvin, Dr. Elihu Thomson, Professor 

 E. Budde and Maurice Leblanc. He is a 

 past-president of the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers, and was the first editor 

 of The Electrical World serving in that capa- 

 city in 1883. 



Dr. Herrick E. "Wilson, having resigned his 

 position as assistant to Mr. Frank Springer, 

 of the U. S. ^Rational Museum, will continue 

 research work upon fossil crinoids at his home 

 in Oberlin, Ohio. 



The American Institute of Baking, founded 

 by the American Association of the Baking 

 Industry, has begun work in Minneapolis 

 under the direction of Dr. H. F. Barnard as- 

 sisted by an advisory committee of the Na- 

 tional Research Council and in cooperation 

 with the Dunwoody Institute. Dr. Barnard 



has been connected with the State Board of 

 Health of Indiana for nearly nineteen years 

 and was federal food administrator of that 

 state during the war. 



Dr. Paul G. Woolley, who recently re- 

 signed from the chair of pathology at the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati, is reported to have 

 accepted the direction of a laboratory for 

 medical diagnosis at Detroit. 



Professor A. E. Grantham, for twelve 

 years head of the department of agronomy in 

 Delaware College and agronomist to the Dela- 

 ware Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 resigned, his resignation to become effective 

 on February 1, to become manager of the 

 Agricultural Service Bureau of the Virginia- 

 Carolina Chemical Company, with headquar- 

 ters at Richmond, Va. 



Dr. L. W. Stephenson, of the Geological 

 Survey, has been granted a six months' leave 

 of absence in the early part of 1920, in order 

 to do stratigraphic work for one of the oil com- 

 panies in the Tampico oil field. 



Professor J. C. McLennan, F.R.S., has re- 

 signed as scientific adviser to the British 

 Board of Admiralty, to return to his duties as 

 professor of physics in the University of To- 

 ronto. 



Dr. Wickliffe Rose, general director of the 

 International Health Board of the Eockefeller 

 Foundation, and Dr. Richard M. Pearce, re- 

 cently appointed director of a new division of 

 medical education, sailed on December 11 for 

 Europe to secure information about public 

 health administration and methods of medical 

 education in England and on the Continent. 



Dr. Theodore C. Lyster, former colonel of 

 the U. S. Army, is now in Mexico representing 

 the yellow fever commission of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation of which General Gorgas is the 

 head. 



Dr. O. Holtedahl is organizing a ITorw^- 

 ian exploring expedition to Novaya Zemlya, 

 and expects to sail in June. A botanist, a zool- 

 ogist and a meteorologist will accompany the 

 expedition. Dr. Holtedahl will devote his time 

 to geological and geophysical problems. 



