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At the thirty-sixth Annual Convention of 

 the Association of Official Agricultural Chem- 

 ists held at Washington beginning on ISTovem- 

 ber 17 the following officers were appointed 

 for the ensuing year : President H. 0. Lyth- 

 goe, State Department of Health, Boston, 

 Mass.; Vice-president, W. F. Hand, Agricul- 

 tural College, Agricidtuial College, Miss.; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, C. L. Alsberg, Bureau of 

 Chemistry Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. 0. Additional members of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee are C. H. Jones, Univer- 

 sity of Vermont, Burlington, Yt., and W. W. 

 Skinner, Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, 

 D. C. 



At the annual meeting of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, held on January 13, 

 Dr. F. L. Eansome, delivered the address of 

 the retiring president on " The Functions 

 and Ideals of a ^Rational Geological Survey." 



The sixth lecture of the series of The 

 Harvey Society will be by Dr. Carl Voegtlin, 

 professor of pharmacology, United States 

 Public Health Service, on " Recent Work on 

 Pellagra " at the New York Academy of Med- 

 icine on January 24 at 830. 



Dr. Geobge Macloskie, professor emeritus 

 of biology of Princeton University, died at 

 Princeton, on December 4 in his eighty-fifth 

 year. 



The death is announced of Professor A. 

 Eicco, director of the Observatory of Catania 

 and vice-president of the International As- 

 tronomical Union. 



The death is announced of Professor E. H. 

 Bruns the director of the University Observa- 

 tory at Leipzig. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



An anonymous gift of $1,000,000 has been 

 offered to Throop College of Technology, at 

 Pasadena, California, conditional upon an 

 equal amount being raised fi'om other sources. 



Mr. Gustavus F. Swift, of Chicago, has 

 added $8,000 to the previous endowment of the 

 Gustavus F. Swift Fellowship of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, making the income from that 



fellowship amount to $925. This fellowship 

 is awarded for the encouragement of research, 

 and is given only to a student who has already 

 proved his capacity for investigation. 



Dr. William H. Walker, head of the Re- 

 search Library of Applied Chemistry at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been appointed head of the new division of 

 industrial cooperation and research. 



Dr. M. G. Seelig, has accepted the position 

 of professor of clinical surgery, at the School 

 of Medicine of Washington University at St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



Dr. Walter H. Eddy, of Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, associate in physiolog- 

 ical chemistry, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of physiological chemistry. Dr. 

 Eddy has recently returned from France, 

 where he served fifteen months with the 

 A. E. F., as major in the Sanitary Corps. 



Harold S. Palmer, instructor in geology in 

 Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., leaves on 

 February 1 for Honolulu to take charge of 

 the department of geology in the University 

 of Hawaii. 



Sir Richard Glazebrook, who recently re- 

 turned from the directorship of the British 

 Ifational Physical Laboratory, has been ap- 

 pointed to the Zaharoff chair of aviation 

 tenable at the Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology, founded by Sir Basil Zaharoff, 

 who gave to the university the stun of £25,000 

 for this piirpose. 



Dr. G. M. Robertson has been appointed to 

 a professorship of psychiatry and Dr. J. H. 

 Ashworth to a professorship of zoology in 

 the University of Edinburgh. 



Dr. Fritz Paneth, director of the chemical 

 department of the German technical high 

 schools at Prague, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the University of 

 Hamburg. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



MUSICAL SANDS 



The article on " Singing sands of Lake 

 Michigan " by W. D. Richardson, in Science, 



