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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1328 



Board of the League of Red Cross Socdeties 

 that -will open at Geneva on July 5. The rep- 

 resentatives of other nations at the conference 

 ■wiU he Professor Brodet, Belg-ium; Professor 

 Madsen, Denmark; Professors Rous, Albert 

 and Caknette, France ; General Lyle Cummins, 

 Sir Walter Fletcher and Sir George ISTe-wman, 

 Great Britain; Professor Bastianello and Dr. 

 OasteUani, Italy; Dr. Kinnostke Miura, Ja- 

 pan, and Dr. Chagas, South America. 



Dr. George B. Frankfoetee, who has been 

 during the war examiner of explosives, chem- 

 icals and loading in the Ordnance Claims 

 Board and later technical adviser to the board, 

 has returned to the Univeraity of Minnesota 

 as professor of organic and industrial organic 

 chemistry. 



Dr. Austin H. Clark, assistant curator in 

 the division of marine invertebrates of the Na- 

 tion Museum, has been appointed curator of 

 the division of echinoderms. 



De. Frank E. Lutz, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, is in Wyoming 

 continuing the museum's work on the eco- 

 logical distribution of western insects. 



The California Academy of Sciences has 

 granted temporai-y leave of absence to Dr. 

 G. Dallas Hanna, curator of invertebrate 

 paleontology to enable him to comply with a 

 request from the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries to take the annual census of fui* 

 seals on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska in 1920. 

 Departure will be taken from Seattle about 

 June first on the TJ. S. S. Saturn. Dr. Hanna 

 was formerly attached to the stafi of the 

 Bureau and besides being associated with the 

 census work since 1913 has made large col- 

 lections of natural history material. It is 

 expected these will be considerably augmented 

 during the coming summer. 



Dr. L. E. Griffin, professor of zoology at 

 the University of Pittsburgh, formerly pro- 

 fessor of zoology and dean of the arts coUege 

 in the University of the Philippines, lectured 

 before the West Virginia Scientific Society 

 on May 27 upon " The Development of Sci- 

 ence in the Philippines." 



Dr. Carl O. Johns, of the Color Investi- 

 gation Laboratory, Washington, D. C, re- 

 cently lectured before the graduat-e students 

 in chemistry of Tale University on " The ap- 

 plication of organic chemistry in government 

 work." 



M. Pierre Janet, professor of psychology 

 in the College de France gave recently three 

 lectures at the University of London on "La 

 tension psychologique, ses degres et ses oscil- 

 lations." 



Clarence Ehnie Broeker, who, in collab- 

 oration with Dr. W. D. Harkins at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, according to their pre- 

 liminary results, had successfully fractionated 

 hydrogen chloride into what appear to be 

 acids of isotopic forms of chlorine (Science, 

 LL, 289, 1920), died on May 9, after a brief 

 illness. In recognition of his skiUful work 

 and ability Mr. Broeker had been appointed 

 to the Swift fellowship in chemistry, the 

 highest honor in the gift of the chemistry 

 department of the University of Chicago. 



The Civil Service Commission announces 

 examinations on Jioly 6, for the positions of 

 radio engineer (aeronautics) at $3,600 to 

 $5,000 a year and of assistant radio engineer 

 (aeronautics) at $2,500 to $3,600 a year. On 

 July 15 an examination is announced for a 

 position in metallurgical engineering at the 

 Naval Ordnance Plant, South Charleston, W. 

 Va., at $5,000 a year. 



Dr. Benjamin White has been appointed di- 

 rector of the division of biologic labora;tories 

 of the Massachusetts State Department of 

 Public Health to succeed Dr. Milton J. 

 Rosenau, resigned. Dr. White has also been 

 appointed lecturer on immunology in the 

 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and as- 

 sistant in the department of preventive medi- 

 cine and hygiene of the Harvard Medical 

 School. 



Mr. a. M. Muckenfuss, professor of organic 

 and industrial chemistry and director of that 

 subdepartment, Emory University, Atlanta, 

 Ga., has resigned to accept the position of re- 

 search chemist with the Roessler & Hasslacher 

 Chemical Co., Perth Amboy, N. J. 



