March 19, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



295 



Mr. Paul A. Murphy, field laboratory of 

 plant pathology, Charlottetown, P. E. I., lias 

 resigned his position as officer in charge of 

 potato disease investigation under the Domin- 

 ion Department of Agriculture and will take 

 up work on April 1, as assistant with Dr. 

 Pethybridge in the division of seeds and plant 

 diseases in charge of plant pathological work 

 in Ireland. His new address will be Eoyal 

 College of Science, Dublin. 



Associate Curator W. E. Maxon, of the U. 

 S. National Museum, and his assistant, Mr. 

 Killip, are making the Cinchona Tropical Bo- 

 tanical Station their base during March and 

 April, while carrying on botanical explora- 

 tion of the northern slopes of the Blue Moun- 

 tains of Jamaica. Only small areas of this 

 region have been actually explored by botan- 

 ists, and it is to be expected that many inter- 

 esting types of ferns and angiosperms are 

 yet to be discovered in the primeval forest 

 which covers this region. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that Dr. Victor G. Heiser, 

 of the Rockefeller Foundation, has returned to 

 New York after a trip to Porto Rico with Dr. 

 Grant to make a study of sanitary conditions 

 of the island, especially as regards hookworm 

 disease. Dr. Louis Shapiro, of the Rockefeller 

 Institute, is now in Colombia at the request of 

 the Colombian government, making a study of 

 the prevalence of leprosy, malaria and hook- 

 worm disease. 



The Puget Sound Biological Station will 

 hold its annual session, beginning June 21 

 and continuing for six weeks with the class 

 work. The station, however, is open several 

 weeks longer. The staff, exclusive of assist- 

 ants, this year will consist of Dr. B. M. 

 Allen, embryology. University of Kansas; Dr. 

 Nathan Fasten, morphology. University of 

 Washington; Dr. T. C. Frye, director, algae. 

 University of Washington; Professor F. W. 

 Gail, algag. University of Idaho; Dr. E. J. 

 Lund, physiology. University of Minnesota; 

 Dr. V. E. Shelford, ecology. University of 

 Illinois, and Professor A. R. Sweetser, plant 

 taxonomy. University of Oregon. 



Professor Albert M. Reese, of West Vir- 

 ginia University, lectured upon " The Work 

 of the Tropical Biological Station of British 

 Guiana," with special reference to Crocodilia, 

 on March 5, at Oberlin College. 



Professor Arthur Keith delivered the 

 Galton lecture before the Engineers' Educa- 

 tion Society on February 16, the anniversary 

 of Sir Francis Galton's birth. 



At a public meeting held on March 7, at 

 Oxford University, it was decided to form the 

 " Osier Institute of General Pathology and 

 Preventive Medicine" as a permanent memo- 

 rial to the late Sir William Osier. 



Professor Otto Butschli, of Heidelberg, 

 distinguished for his contributions to cytology 

 and other departments of experimental zool- 

 ogy, died early in February, aged seventy-two 

 years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The General Education Board has appro- 

 priated $250,000 to an endowment fund of at 

 least $500,000 to be used by Howard Uni- 

 versity for medical education, " the income 

 from the appropriation to be made available 

 pending the completion of the full amount." 



Plans have been completed for a new 

 chemical laboratory at Cornell University, 

 and work will start immediately upon the 

 closing of the spring term. The increased 

 facilities which the new laboratory will afford 

 will enlarge the scope of the department and 

 will make possible the opening of new 

 branches, in particular a department of in- 

 dustrial research for chemists. 



According to plans now being considered 

 by the authorities of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, the libraries of the hospital, the 

 school of hygiene, and the medical school ulti- 

 mately will be collected under one roof in a 

 new library building to be erected in the hos- 

 pital group. 



GiRTON College, Cambridge, has received a 

 gift of £10,000, the capital and interest of 



