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Professor Arthur D. Butterfield, of the 

 department of mathematics at the Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute, has resigned to become 

 educational director for the ISTorton Company. 



Seth S. Walker has resigned as soil chem- 

 ist to the Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Baton Eouge, La., to become chemist to 

 the Florida Citrus Exchange and Exchange 

 Supply Co., with laboratory and headquarters 

 at Tampa, Florida. 



Mr. J. Howard Eoop, former chief chemist 

 of feedingstuffs in the state chemists' depart- 

 ment of Purdue University, has accepted a 

 place as chief chemist of the USTobelsville Mill- 

 ing Co., Nobelsville, Indiana. 



Mr. Hoyt S. Gale, geologist in charge of the 

 section of non-metalliferous deposits of the 

 TJ. S. Geological Survey, who recently returned 

 from Europe where he examined and reported 

 on the potash deposits for the Geological Sur- 

 vey and Bureau of Mines, is on furlough for 

 five months to make an examination of the oil 

 fields of eastern Bolivia. Mr. K. 0. Heald, 

 geologist of the survey, is returning from Bo- 

 livia by way of the Amazon to the east coast of 

 Brazil. 



Professor E. H. Starling, F.R.S., has sailed 

 for India to advise as to the locality and equip- 

 ment of an All India Eesearch Institute. 

 Delhi, the new capital of India, has been sug- 

 gested as a site for a new institute to serve as 

 the headquarters of the research organization, 

 but other places have been mentioned. 



Professor G. E". Lewis delivered the faculty 

 research lecture on " Color and molecular 

 structure" during the charter week ceremon- 

 ies of the University of California. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief of the Bu- 

 reau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian 

 Institution, delivered an address on " Amer- 

 ican Archeology : Its History and Technique " 

 before the Washington Academy of Science 

 on March 8. 



Dr. Colin G. Fink, head of the laboratories 

 of the Chile Exploration Company, recently 

 lectured to the graduate students, school of 

 chemistry. Tale University, on " Industrial re- 



search " and on " The value of physical chem- 

 istry to the organic chemist." 



Captain Carl W. Lewis, head of the chem- 

 istry department of Northwestern University 

 lectured on Maroh 12 at Oberlin College on 

 " Problems of Gas Warfare." 



Professor Pierre Boutroux, of Princeton 

 University, lectured on " French Science " 

 on March 18 at Columbia University. 



At a joint meeting of the Washington Aca- 

 demy of Sciences and the Medical and An- 

 thropological Societies on March 31, Sir 

 Arthur ISTewsholme, K.C.B., former chief 

 medical officer of health of the Local Govern- 

 ment Force, England, delivered an address on 

 " The National Importance of Child Welfare 

 Work." 



The third annual Silvanus Thompson me- 

 morial lecture of the Rontgen Society was de- 

 livered by Professor W. H. Bragg on March 

 2, the subject being " Analysis by X-rays." 



Dr. Harvey CushinGj Peter Bent Brigham 

 Hospital, Boston, has been requested by Lady 

 Osier to prepare a biography of Sir William 

 Osier. He will be grateful to any one who 

 will send him either letters or copies of letters, 

 or personal reminiscences, or information con- 

 cerning others who might supply such infor- 

 mation. 



We learn from Nature that a meeting con- 

 vened by the chancellor of the University of 

 Cambridge and the president of the Royal So- 

 ciety was held on March 4, at the rooms of the 

 Royal Society, to consider the question of a 

 memorial to the memory of Lord Rayleigh. 

 After a preliminary statement by the presi- 

 dent of the Royal Society annoimcing the pur- 

 pose of the meeting, speeches in favor of the 

 proposal to erect a memorial were made by 

 Mr. A. J. Balfour, Sir Charles Parsons, Dr. P. 

 Giles (vice-chancellor of the University of 

 Cambridge), Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Richard 

 Glazebrook, and Sir Joseph Larmor. It was 

 agreed that a fimd should be raised for the 

 purpose of placing a memorial, preferably a 

 window, in Westminster Abbey. A general 

 committee was appointed, as well as an execu- 

 tive committee, to consider details, and also 



