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Me. E. M. Davis resigned from the Power 

 Section of the Water Resources Branch, U. S. 

 Geological Survey, in October, to take up work 

 as statistician for the Electrical World. He 

 takes the position of Mr. W. B. Heroy, for- 

 merly of the survey, who has entered the em- 

 ploy of the Sinclair Oil Corporation. 



Professor W. S. Brown, who has been act- 

 ing as chief of the division of horticulture of 

 the Oregon Agricultural College since Pro- 

 fessor C. I. Lewis resigned to become manager 

 of the Oregon Fruit Growers' Association, has 

 been appointed permanent chief. 



Since the return of Mr. Eugene Stebinger 

 from private work in the Tampico oil field of 

 Mexico he has been appointed chief of the for- 

 eign section of the Mineral Resource Branch, 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. Frank Schlesinger, director of the 

 Allegheny Observatory, lectured on " The Ein- 

 stein Theory of Relativity from the Point of 

 View of an Astronomer " at the Carnegie In- 

 stitute of Pittsburgh on January 27. The 

 lecture was followed by a general discussion 

 of the subject. 



The death is announced of Dr. Christian 

 R. Holmes, dean of the college of medicine. 

 University of Cincirmati. It was largely 

 through his energy and enthusiasm that the 

 General Hospital with its fine equipment was 

 built and the College of Medicine organized. 

 By the terms of his will Dr. Holmes gave 

 $25,000 to establish a medical joui-nal. A 

 memorial fund will be collected by popular 

 subscription in order to establish a depart- 

 ment of research in medicine. 



Dr. David S. Pratt, who since the begin- 

 ning of the year has been a practising chem- 

 ist at St. Louis, has died at the age of thirty- 

 four years. He had taught in the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh and later had become an 

 assistant director of the Mellon Institute of 

 Industrial Research. He had received his 

 doctor's degree from Cornell University. 



Dr. E. E. Hoskins, assistant professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Minnesota, died 

 on January 30 after a brief illness with in- 

 fluenza and pneumonia. 



The death is announced of Professor 

 Severin Jolin, incumbent of the chair of 

 chemistry and pharmacology at Stockholm 

 and at Upsala. To him is ascribed in large 

 part the high standard of the Swedish Phar- 

 macopeia as he has taken an active share 

 in the revision of the different editions. He 

 had recently been elected president of the 

 Swedish Medical Association. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathe- 

 matical Society records the deaths of the 

 following German mathematicians: Professor 

 E. Bottcher, of the University of Leipzig, 

 at the age of seventy-two years; Professor O. 

 Dziobek, of the Charlottenburg Technical 

 School, at the age of sixty- three years; Pro- 

 fessor F. Graefe, of the Charlottenburg Tech- 

 nical School, at the age of sixty-three years; 

 Professor E. Netto, of the University of 

 Giessen, at the age of seventy- two years; Dr. 

 K. T. Eeye, formerly professor at the Uni- 

 versity of Strassburg, at the age of eighty-one 

 years; Professor R. Sturm, of the University 

 of Breslau, at the age of seventy-seven years, 

 and Dr. J. Wellstein, formerly professor at 

 the University of Strassburg, in his fiftieth 

 year. 



The annual meeting of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Foresters was held in New York City 

 on January 14, 1920. The meeting was 

 given up to the consideration of papers on 

 technical forestry presented by members, and 

 reports of special committees and the officers 

 for the past year. 



On Ootober 3, 4, 5 and 6 there was held at 

 Batavia, Java, the first Dutch East Indies Sci- 

 entific Congress with two hundred and seventy 

 members in attendance. Papers were read be- 

 fore mathematical, biological, medical and geo- 

 logical sections and at the General Session it 

 was decided to continue the association and to 

 hold the next meeting in 1921. The congress 

 concluded with a two-days' excursion to the is- 

 land-volcano Krakatau to study the renewing 

 vegetation and geological formations. 



The eighth annual meeting of the American 

 Association of Variable Star Observers, which 



