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tlie scientific work of the Fisheries Department 

 of the British ministry. 



Mr. H. F. Fish, formerly in the research de- 

 partment of the Great Western Sugar Co., 

 Denver, Colorado, has been appointed by the 

 board of trustees of the University of Illinois 

 as special research assistant in the joint in- 

 vestigation of the fatigue of metals. 



Mr. Harvey Bassler, who has held a tempo- 

 rary appointment on the TJ. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey since 1911 while a student at Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has joined the permanent staff 

 of the survey as assistant geologist, and has 

 been engaged in field work in the Virgin 

 Eiver Oil Field, Utah. 



Mr. Albert D. Brokaw, formerly associate 

 professor of economic geology and mineralogy 

 at the University of Chicago, has opened a 

 New Tork ofSce for the practise of his profes- 

 sion as consulting geologist. 



Me. Philip A. Macy, assistant chemist at 

 the Florida Experiment Station, has accepted 

 a position with the Florida Agricultural 

 Supply Co. 



The following officers and council of the 

 Geological Society, London, have been elected 

 for the ensuing year: President, E. D. Old- 

 ham; Vice-presidents, Professor E. J. Garwood, 

 G. W. Lamplugh, Colonel H. G. Lyons and 

 Professor J. E. Marr; Secretaries, Dr. H. H. 

 Thomas and Dr. H. Lapworth; Foreign Secre- 

 tary, Sir Archibald Geikie; Treasurer, Dr. J. 

 V. Elsden; other Members of Council, Dr. F. 

 A. Bather, Professor W. S. Boulton, E. G. 

 Carruthers, Dr. A. M. Davies, J. F. N. Green, 

 E. S. Herries, J. Allen Howe, Professor O. T. 

 Jones, Professor P. F. Kendall, W. B. E. King, 

 Dr. G. T. Prior, W. C. Smith, Professor H. H. 

 Swinnerton and Professor W. W. Watts. 



Friends of Professor Chandler presented in 

 1910 to Columbia University a sum of money 

 which constitutes the Charles Frederick 

 Chandler Foundation. The income from this 

 fund is used for a lecture by an eminent 

 chemist and to provide a medal to be pre- 

 sented to the lecturer in further recognition 

 of his achievements in science. Previous lec- 

 turers on this foundation were L. H. Baeke- 



land, Sc.D., and W. F. Hillebrand, Ph.D., 

 The lecturer this year will be Willis Eodney 

 Whitney, director of the Eesearch Laboratory 

 of the General Electric Company, a former 

 president of the American Chemical Society 

 and of the American Electrochemical Society. 

 Dr. Whitney's subject will be " The littlest 

 things of chemistry." His lecture will be in 

 Havemeyer Hall, Columbia University, at 

 8 :15 P.M., on April 27. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, of the Carnegie 

 Desert Laboratory, at Tucson, Arizona, gave 

 a lecture in El Paso on March 10 on " Travels 

 in the Lybian Desert," and on March 12 Dr. 

 A. E. Douglass, of the University of Arizona, 

 Tucson, gave a lecture in Albuquerque, N. M., 

 on " The Big Tree and its Story." These 

 lectures were given in connection with the 

 proposed formation of a Southwestern Divi- 

 sion of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 delivered an address before a joint meeting 

 of the Washington Academy of Sciences and 

 the Chemical Society of Washington on " Soil 

 Eeaction and Plant Distribution," on March 

 25. 



At a meeting of the Aeronautical Society 

 of America in conjunction with the American 

 Museum of Natural History on March 25 

 brief addresses on aerial photography applied 

 to exploration, map making and physical 

 geography were made by Colonel Edgar Eus- 

 sell, U. S. Signal Corps, Sherman M. Fair- 

 child, Carl E. Akeley and representatives of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. 



A memorial meeting to the late Sir William 

 Osier, regius professor of medicine at Oxford 

 University and for many years professor of 

 medicine at Johns Hopkins University, was 

 held on March 15 in Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity. President Frank J. Goodnow presided 

 and addresses were made by Henry Van Dyke, 

 D.D., and Professor William H. Welch. A 

 correspondent writes : In the Wiener Elinische 

 Wochensschrift of February 26, 1920, Dr. K. 

 F. Wenckebach has an admirable obituary of 



