January 9, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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Streeter gave a talk on embryology. Luncli- 

 eon was served at 1 o'clock, after whicli Dr. 

 Adolf Meyer, Head of the Henry Phipps Psy- 

 ekiatric Clinic, lectured on tke work of kis 

 department. The remainder of the afternoon 

 was devoted to a study of the obstetric de- 

 partments. 



Professor George C. "Whipple, of Harvard 

 University, as kas been noted in Science, has 

 been appointed director of the division of 

 sanitation in the Bureau of Hygiene and 

 Public Health of the League of Eed Cross 

 Societies. He has been granted leave of 

 absence from Harvard University for the 

 second half year and will go to Geneva in 

 February, returning to Cambridge in Sep- 

 tember, 1920. The organization referred to 

 will be virtually the Health Department of 

 the League of Nations, and it will offer ex- 

 ceptional opportimities for sanitary engineers. 

 Heretofore the Red Cross has chiefly engaged 

 in relief work. It is now to add to this work 

 that of preventing disease by improving sani- 

 tary conditions. Professor Whipple is a 

 member of the engineering firm of Hazen, 

 Whipple & Fuller, ISTew York City. Another 

 member of this firm. Colonel Francis F. Long- 

 ley, has been appointed associate director of 

 the division and will go to Geneva about the 

 first of December in order to be ready to 

 undertake emergency work in the Balkans 

 should typhus fever break out there. 



The fall meeting of the Bureau of Personnel 

 Research, which was recently held at the Car- 

 negie Institute of Technology, was attended by 

 representatives of the following cooperative 

 concerns : the American Multigraph Sales Com- 

 pany, the American Rolling Mill Company, the 

 Burroughs Adding Machine Company, the 

 Carnegie Steel Company, the Commonwealth 

 Edison Company, Crutchfield and Woolfolk, 

 Equitable Life Insurance Company, B. F. 

 Goodrich Company, John Hancock Mutual 

 Life Insurance Company, H. J. Heinz Com- 

 pany, Kaufmann Department Stores, Miller 

 Saw-Tri mm er Company, Packard Motor Car 

 Company, Philadelphia Company, Phosnix Mu- 

 tual Life Insurance Company E. W. Woods 

 Company, and The Westinghouse Electric and 

 Manufacturing Company. Dr. Bingham, the 



head of the division of applied psychology of 

 the Carnegie Institute of Technology, was one 

 of the speakers at the meeting. 



A BILL recently has heen passed by the 

 Canadian House of Commons creating a fed- 

 eral department of health and providing for a 

 minister of health and advisory committee. 

 The authority of the department will extend 

 to all matters affecting health within the 

 jurisdiction of the Dominion of Canada. 



At the recent Bournemouth meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science a meeting was held with the object of 

 eliciting opinions as to whether the recently 

 formed Scientific Research Association should 

 be continued or wound up. Professor A. Gray 

 presided over a small attendance. It was ex- 

 plained by Mr. A. C. Tansley, the acting sec- 

 retary, that the functions of the new associa- 

 tion were the establishment of adequate means 

 of communication and coordination in science, 

 the organization of the endowment for re- 

 search, and publicity and propaganda. Cir- 

 culars sent out last spring to 2,000 scientific 

 people had elicited only 230 replies. There 

 appeared to be a certain amount of hostility to 

 the association on the part of leading scientific 

 men, and there was apathy on the part of the 

 general mass of scientific workers. No de- 

 cision was arrived at, but Professor Gray said 

 that they must press upon already existing 

 bodies the desirability of conserving to the 

 very utmost the interests of pure science. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A SCHOOL of public hygiene has been estab- 

 lished as a separate department of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. This department, which 

 has been under the supervision of the medical 

 school, and which was the first school of public 

 hygiene in America, will continue under the 

 direction of Dr. Alexander C. Abbott as di- 

 rector. 



A NEW $150,000 chemisti-y building has been 

 completed at the State College of the Univer- 

 sity of Montana, Bozeman. Appropriate dedi- 

 catory exercises will be held on January 14. 

 Professor W. F. Coover, head of the chemistry 

 department of the Iowa State College, will de- 



