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manently to tlie staff of tlie Bureau of 

 Standards. 



H. H. Hansen, chemist in charge of feed- 

 ing stuff analysis in the West Virginia Ex- 

 periment Station, has been appointed state 

 chemist of Delaware in charge of a new lab- 

 oratory which has been equipped in Dover, 

 by the State Department of Agriculture to 

 conduct the chemical and seed testing work 

 of the state. 



Dr. Arthur W. Dox has resigned as chief 

 in chemistry of the Iowa Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station to accept the position of re- 

 search chemist for Parke, Davis & Co., 

 Detroit, Mich. 



Dr. E. H. Starling, professor of physiology 

 in the University of London, who has gone to 

 India to advise the British government with 

 regard to the foundation of a central medical 

 research institute for India, will visit Bom- 

 bay, Poona, Bangalore, Calcutta, Delhi and 

 Kasauli. 



Professor Eichard P. Strong, of Harvard 

 University, will attend the annual congress 

 of the British Royal Institute of Public 

 Health, which is to be held this year, uiKin 

 special invitation from Belgium, from May 

 20 to 24, in the city of Brussels. 



Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., associate pro- 

 fessor of economic geology at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, who has been on leave of 

 absence since December to carry on geologic 

 investigations in Peru, has returned to Balti- 

 more. 



Dr. Willard J. Fisher, assistant professor of 

 physics in the University of the Philippines, 

 and since July, 1919, acting head of the de- 

 partment, is leaving the university to return 

 to the United States this sumaner. 



Mr. Calvert Townley, president of the 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 

 visited the sections of that body at Chicago, 

 Milwaukee, Ann Arbor, Detroitt and Toronto 

 during April. He delivered addresses at each 

 place. 



The meeting of the New York Section of the 

 American Chemical Society on the evening of 



May 7 was devoted to papers on the general 

 subject of Colloids and Colloidal Chemistry 

 in accordance with the following program: 

 " The general chemistry of gelatine," by 

 Jacques Loeb; " Silica gel and its uses," by W. 

 A. Patrick, and " Electroendosmosis," by T. E. 

 Briggs. 



A LiEBiG museum was opened at Giessen on 

 March 26, when- an address was given by Pro- 

 fessor Burger on the relation of Liebig to 

 medicine. 



Applications for three Eamsay memorial 

 fellowships for chemical research will be con- 

 sidered by the trustees. They must be received 

 by June 15, by Dr. W. W. Seton, organizing 

 secretary, Eamsay Memorial Fund, University 

 College, London. The fellowships will each be 

 of the annual value of £250, with, posisibly, a 

 grant of not more than £50 per annum for ex- 

 penses, and tenable for two years, with the 

 possible extension of a year. 



Dr. E. Schwalbe, director of the patholog- 

 ical institute at the University of Eostock, was 

 killed during the recent rioting. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



The Mississippi legislature has appropriated 

 $250,000 for a new chemical building at the 

 University of Mississippi which will provide 

 laboratory and other facilities for students in 

 the medical school. An additional appropria- 

 tion of $10,000 was made to secure permanent 

 equipment for the medical school, exclusive 

 of chemistry. Additional funds were appro- 

 priated for the imiversity with which salaries 

 of all teachers could be reasonably increased. 

 The total appropriation for the university ex- 

 ceeds $1,000,000. 



Mr. F. a. Heron has given to Queen's Uni- 

 versity, Belfast, the stun of £5,000 to provide 

 the necessary equipment for teaching physical 

 chemistry, and £1,000 towards the provision 

 of accommodation for the department. 



James T. Jardine, investigator for the 

 United States Forest Service, has been elected 

 director of the Oregon Agricultural College 

 Experiment Station. 



