April 30, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



435 



Dr. William Curtis Farabee gave an ad- 

 dress on " Etlinograpliy at the Peace Confer- 

 ence" before the UniTersity of Pennsylvania 

 ,ehaipter of Phi Beta Kappa at its twentieth 

 anniversary meeting on April 15. At the same 

 meeting Dr. Farabee was elected to honorary 

 membership in the society. 



, Dr. Fred Hbyl, of the Upjohn Company, 

 Kalamazoo, Michigan, recently lectured before 

 the chemical department of Yale University on 

 " The application of organic chemistry in the 

 pharmaceutical industry." The next speaker 

 in this course of industrial lectures being given 

 this year in the Graduate School will be Mr. 

 Walter S. Landis, of the American Cyanamide 

 Company, who will give three lectures dealing 

 with the " Fixation of nitrogen." 



The Lady Priestley Memorial Lecture of 

 the National Health Society was given by 

 Sir George ITewman, K.C.B., M.D., F.E.C.P., 

 on Thursday, April 22, at the house of the 

 Eoyal Society of Medicine. The title of the 

 lecture is " Preventive medicine : the impor- 

 tance of an educated public opinion." 



Plans have been made for an expenditure 

 of about $10,000,000 for the establishment of 

 " a medical center " at Walter Reed General 

 Hospital, Washington, D. C. The hospital is 

 to be gradually developed into one of the main 

 hospitals of the Army, by the building- of two 

 additions to the main hospital building for 

 various uses such as medical and surgical 

 wards, dental department, laboratory, eye, ear 

 and throat department and dispensary. Most 

 of these activities now are housed in tem- 

 I)orary buildings. The Mayo Brothers, of 

 Rochester, Minn., will assist in the approved 

 project for increasing its usefulness on mod- 

 em lines. 



The Migratory Bird Act of 1918, designed 

 to carry out provisions of a treaty between the 

 United States and Great Britain for the pro- 

 tection of migratory birds, has been held con- 

 stitutional by the Supreme Court. The stat- 

 ute was attacked by Missouri authorities, who 

 alleged that it interfered with the sovereignty 

 of the state and with the property right of 

 the people of that state. 



EDUCATIONAL NOTES AND NEWS 



The General Education Board has con- 

 tributed $350,000 to the Endowment Fund of 

 Nevf York University, to endow the work in 

 engineering and collegiate work. It is con- 

 ditional on the raising of a total fund for 

 these purposes of $1,200,000 and the clearing 

 off of the floating indebtedness of the uni- 

 versity, now amounting- to approximately 

 $400,000. 



Aa'nouncement is made of the establish- 

 ment in the Yale Graduate School for the 

 year 1920-1921 of a research fellowship in 

 organic chemistry by the liTational Aniline 

 and Chemical Company of New York. This 

 fellowship is supported by a gift of $750, and 

 the recipient must be a candidate for the 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 



The total civil service estimates of the year 

 in Great Britain are put at £557,474,899. One 

 of the largest increases is for the Board of 

 Education. The following are typical in- 

 creases : 



Estimat d for Granted for 



1920-21 1919-20 



£ £ 



Board of Education . . 45,755,567 32,853.111 



British Museum 294,233 219,714 



Scientific investigation, 



etc 208,416 113,974 



Scientific and Indus- 

 trial Eeseai-eh 518,298 242,815 



PubUo Education in 



Scotland 6,877,220 4,677,220 



A royal Commission has been apixsinted to 

 inquire into the financial resources and work- 

 ing of the University of Dublin and Trinity 

 College, Dublin. The commission is to con- 

 sider the application for state financial help 

 which has been made by the university. It 

 will consist of five members with three as a 

 quorum. The names of those appointed are: 

 Sir Archibald Giekie, O.M., K.C.B., F.R.S.,; 

 Sir John Ross, Bt., Judge of the Chancery 

 Division of the High Court of Justice in Ire- 

 land; Dr. A. E. Shipley, D.Sc, F.R.S., Master 

 of Christ's College, Cambridge; Professor J. 

 S. E. Townsend, F.E.S., Wykeham profassor 

 of physics and fellow of New College, Oxford ; 

 and Profesor John Joly, F.R.S., professor of 



