Mat 7, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



461 



Epsilon, the national undergraduate fraternity 

 devoted to mining and geology, was held at 

 Columbia, Missouri, on April 2 and 3. The 

 fraternity passed resolutions urging the taking 

 of steps to eliminate the fake mining engineer 

 and geologist and offering its assistance to that 

 end. A chapter of the fraternity is to be 

 shortly installed in Dhe University of Texas. 



The University of Arizona through the Ari- 

 zona Bureau of Mines will this year conduct 

 its annual field course in geology and mining 

 for advanced students in the Dos Cabezas 

 Mountains in southeastern Arizona. The re- 

 gion selected is one of complex and highly di- 

 versified geology, and several different types of 

 ore deposits are under active development 

 there. The party will enter the field on July 

 1, and will remain in camp for eight weeks. 



Professor Dayton C. Miller, of the Case 

 School of Applied Science, lectured under the 

 auspices of the Research Committee of Ober- 

 lin College on April 14, on " Scientific Re- 

 search at an army post." 



Professor Douglas Johnson, of Columbia 

 University, addressed the Women's Canadian 

 Club of Montreal, on March 19, on " The in- 

 fluenice of topography on the war " ; and a joint 

 meeting of the Men's Canadian Club and the 

 Women's Canadian Club of Quebec, on March 

 20, on " Geographic problems of the Peace 

 Conference." 



Professor Max Mason, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, lectured on April 7 and 8 before 

 the department of mathematics and physics of 

 the University of Iowa on the " Einstein 

 theory of gravitation." He gave also a gen- 

 eral lecture on " Methods used for the detec- 

 tion of submarines." Professor Mason is the 

 inventor of apparatus for the detection of sub- 

 marines. 



Dr. H. J. Wheeler, of Boston, recently ad- 

 dressed the agricultural faculty and graduate 

 students in agriculture of the University of 

 Minnesota on " The effect of crops upon those 

 iwhich follow," giving a summary of his earliest 

 work on this subject in Rhode Island and of 

 the continuation of it by Haitwell and 

 Pember. 



At the Royal Geographical Society on 

 March 17, Sir Ernest Shackleton gave an ac- 

 count of the geographical and scientific results 

 of the 1914^1917 Antarctic Expedition. 



Dr. Geo. F. Freeman, botanist of the So- 

 iciete Sultanieime Agriculture, gave a lec- 

 ,ture before the Cairo Scientific Society, April 

 |1, on " The origin of agricultural plants." 

 , The New York Academy of Medicine held a 

 pemorial meeting in honOr of the late Dr. 

 Abraham Jacobi's ninetieth birthday anniver- 

 |Sary on May 6. A bas-relief of Dr. Jacobi was 

 presented by George McAneny and was ac- 

 cepted by the president of the academy. Dr. 

 George David Stewart. The principal ad- 

 dress was delivered by Dr. George E. Vincent, 

 of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



At an International Conference of Red 

 Cross Societies, held at Washington in 1912, 

 it was decided to establish a medal both as a 

 memorial to Florence Nightingale and to give 

 international recognition to outstanding work 

 by trained nurses in all parts of the world. 

 Owing to the outbreak of the war in 1914, the 

 first awards of this medal were postiwned; 

 but it is annoimced that it is intended to 

 award fifty of these medals in January, 1920. 

 The medal is in silver and enamel, consisting 

 of a portrait of Florence Nightingale, " The 

 Lady with the Lamp," with the words "Ad 

 memoriam Florence Nightingale 1820-1910." 

 On the reverse, surroimding a space reserved 

 for the name of the recipient, is the inscrip- 

 tion : " Pro vera misericordia et cara human- 

 itate perennis decor universalis." The medal 

 is attached to a white and red ribbon, on 

 which is displayed a laurel wreath in green 

 enamel surrounding a red cross on a white 

 ground. 



Mr. Charles Edward Groves, E.R.S., editor 

 of the Journal of the London Chemical Society 

 from 1884-1899, and vice-president of the so- 

 ciety from 1899-1902, who died on February 

 1, aged 79, has left £10,000 to the Royal Insti- 

 tution for the " Groves Endowment Fund " 

 for the promotion of scientific research, to take 

 effect on the death of the last surviving mem- 

 ber of his family. 



