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of water is expected to add to our knowledge 

 concerning the life of shallow lakes. 



Governor Smith of New York, has an- 

 nounced the appointment of five commission- 

 ers of the Enfield Falls Reservation, the proi)- 

 erty recently conveyed to the state hy Mr. and 

 Mrs. Robert H. Treman, of Ithaca. They are 

 Robert H. Treman, giver of the reservation; 

 Liberty Hyde Bailey, of Ithaca, former dean 

 of the Nerw York State College of Agriculture; 

 Mayor Edwin C. Stewart, of Ithaca; George A. 

 Blauvelt, former state senator, and William 

 E. Leffingsweld, of Watkins, former assembly- 

 man. 



The council of the British Institution of 

 Oivil Engineers has made the following awards 

 for papers read and discussed during the ses- 

 sion 1919-20: Telford gold medals and Tel- 

 ford premiums to Mr. David Lyell, Mr. J. K. 

 Robertson, and Major-General Sir Girard M. 

 Heath; a George Stephenson gold medal and 

 a Telford premiiun to Mr. Maurice E. Wilson; 

 a Watt gold medal and a Telford premium to 

 Mr. P. M. Crosthwaite ; and Telford premiums 

 to Major E. 0. Henrici, Sir Francis J. E. 

 Spring, Mr. F. 0. Stanford, Mr. J. Mitchell, 

 Mr. J. W. Sandeman, and Dr. A. R. Fulton. 



Dr. Colin G. Fink, of New York, recently 

 lectured before the graduate students in 

 chemistry of Yale University on " The Or- 

 ganic Chemistry of Metal Carbides" and on 

 " Contact Catalysis." 



Under the auspices of the Southwestern 

 Division of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Mrs. M. D. Sulli- 

 van gave a lecture, entitled " Scientific Re- 

 search and the Library," at the Carnegie 

 Public Library of El Paso, Texas, on May 20 

 and on May 27, Professor Daniel Hull, assist- 

 ant superintendent of the El Paso High 

 School, gave a lecture on " The Einstein 

 Theory of Relativity," at the Chamber of 

 Commerce. 



Dr. E. B. Rosa, chief physicist of the Bu- 

 reau of Standards delivered an address on 

 May 20 before the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences on " The Economic Value of Sci- 

 entific Research by the Government." 



The Linacre lecture of the University of 

 Cambridge was delivered on May 6, by Dr. 

 Henry Head on "Aphasia and Kindred Dis- 

 orders of the Speech." 



Dr. John Nelson Stockwell, of Cleve- 

 land, known for his contributions to mathe- 

 matical astronomy, at one time professor in 

 the Case School of Applied Science, died on 

 May 18, aged eighty-eight years. 



George Gilbert Pond, dean of the School 

 of Natural Science of Pennsylvania State 

 College, died at Hartford. He was born in 

 Holliston, in March 1861. For five years he 

 was instructor in chemistry at Amherst and 

 then became a professor in ;the same depart- 

 ment. He left Amherst to accept the ap- 

 XX)intment with the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



Dr. H. p. Barrows, who resigned recently 

 as professor of agricultural education at the 

 Oregon Agricultural College and as state 

 supervisor of agricultural education under the 

 Smith-Hughes act to accept the position of 

 federal regional agent for agricultural educa- 

 tion with headquarters at San Francisco, died 

 at San Francisco, on May 3. 



Deaths of scientific men are recorded in 

 Nature as follows; John Alexander McClel- 

 land, professor of experimental physics in Uni- 

 versity College, Dublin, and known for his re- 

 searches on secondary radio-activity; T. G. 

 Bartholomew, the head of the cartographical 

 firm which has been known since 1899 as the 

 Edinburgh Greographieal Institute; Rudolph 

 Messel, president of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry and past vice-president of the Chem- 

 ical Society, London; L. T. O'Shea, professor 

 of applied chemistry in the University of 

 Sheffield and honorary secretary of the British 

 Institution of Mining Engineers, and A. K. 

 Huntington, emeritus professor of metallurgy 

 at King's College, London. 



The Civil Service Commission announces 

 an examination for supervising metallurgist. 

 A vacancy in the Bureau of Mines, Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, for service in the field, 

 at $4,000 to $5,000 a year, will be filled from 

 this examination. 



