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Naples on his way to Mexico to study recent 

 earthquakes there for his government. 



Frederic H. Lahee, formerly professor of 

 geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, and since the latter part of 1918 asso- 

 ciate geologist for the Sun Oil Co., of Dallas, 

 Tex., will take charge of the geological depart- 

 ment of the Twin State Oil Co., at Tulsa, 

 Okla., while still maintaining his connection 

 with the Sun Co. 



Mr. Eollin C. Dean, who for the last eight 

 years has represented the Bausch and Lomb 

 Optical Co. among the universities and col- 

 leges of the east, will become connected with 

 The Eockefeller Foundation. 



De. Maky J. Erickson has arrived at the 

 University of Iowa to take charge of the re- 

 search work in the state board of health under 

 the recent appropriation from the federal gov- 

 ernment for investigation in the field of ven- 

 ereal diseases. 



Professor C. E. Seashore, of the psychology 

 department of the State University of Iowa, 

 lectured on the " Psychology of Musical Tal- 

 ent " at the University of Kansas on March 1. 



Dr. Christine Ladd-Franklin lectured re- 

 cently before the Eesearch Club of the Harvard 

 Medical School on the theory of color sensa- 

 tion. 



Professor Edward J. Moore, of the de- 

 partment of physics of the University of 

 Buffalo, spoke before the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences on February 3, on " The 

 Einstein Gravitation Theory." 



Professor Douglas W. Johnson, of Colum- 

 bia University, addressed the faculty and stu- 

 dents of Mount Holyoke College on February 

 18, on " The Work of the Geographer and the 

 Geologist in the War." 



Dr. W. H. E. Eivees, of the University of 

 Cambridge, will lecture on " Ethnology : its 

 Aims and Needs " at Columbia University 

 on the evening of March 15. It will be a 

 general meeting of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences arranged by the Section of An- 

 thropology and Psychology and the American 

 Ethnological Society. 



Herbert Ealph Werner, assistant pro- 

 fessor of zoology in the Iowa State College, 

 died on February 14, at the age of thirty-one 

 years, of pneumonia following influenza. 



Dr. Charles Gordon Hewitt, Dominion 

 entomologist and consulting zoologist, died 

 at Ottawa on March 1. He had resided in 

 Canada since 1909, having been born in Scot- 

 land in 1886. 



Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart, professor of 

 physiology and dean of the faculty of medi- 

 cine in the University of Sydney, died on 

 April 3. He was born in Scotland in 1856. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for assistant fuel 

 engineer. A vacancy in the Bureau of Mines, 

 Department of Interior, at Pittsburgh, Pa., at 

 $4,200 a year, will be filled from this examina- 

 tion. 



House tariff measures fixing duties on 

 optical glass, laboratory apparatus, surgical in- 

 struments and glass and porcelain articles for 

 laboratory use have been ordered favorably 

 reported by the Senate Finance Committee. 



Through the courtesy of the American 

 Geographical Society the spring meeting of 

 the Association of American Geographers 

 will be reinaugurated this year. The meet- 

 ing will be held in New York City at the 

 American Geographical Society's hall, April 

 16 and 17, 1920. All interested are most 

 cordially invited to attend. 



The Iowa Academy of Science will hold its 

 thirty-foTU'th annual meeting at the Univer- 

 sity of Iowa on April 30 and May 1, under 

 the presidency of Professor T. C. Stephens, 

 of Morningside College. It is expected that 

 fully one hundred papers on scientific subjects 

 will be presented. 



The next annual meeting of the British 

 Medical Association will be held in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge at the end of June 

 under the presidency of Sir Clifford Allbutt. 

 It was intended to hold the 1915 meeting at 

 Cambridge mider his presidency, but the war 

 intervened and he has remained president of 

 the association. 



