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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1329 



ogist in the Bureau of Mines, has been engaged 

 as geologist by the Solvay Process Company 

 with headquarters at Syracuse, I^. T. 



A MEETING of the iNew York Section of the 

 Societe de Cbimie Industrielle was held at 

 Eumf ord Hall, on the evening of May 14. The 

 following officers were elected: President, 

 Marston T. Bogert; Vice-president, J. Enrique 

 Zanetti; Treasurer, J. Y. IST. Dorr; Secretary, 

 Charles A. Doremus; Council, Jerome Alex- 

 ander, L. H. Baekeland, Charles Baskerville, 

 Henri Blum, Charles F. Chandler, Eene 

 . Eng-el, Georges de Geofroy, Ellwood Hendrick, 

 Charles H. Herty, George F. Kunz, W. H. 

 Nichols, G. E. Valabregue. The meeting was 

 addressed by M. Maurice Casenave, [minister 

 plenipotentiary, director-general of French 

 Services in the United States on " Commer- 

 cial relations between France and the United 

 States," and by Mr. Joseph H. Choate, general 

 counsel of the Chemical Foundation, Inc., on 

 " Conditions of the chemical industry in the 

 United States before the wiar." 



Dr. L. Hektoen, of the John McCormick 

 Institute for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, 

 delivered the Noble Wiley Jones lectures of 

 the University of Oregon, on May 31 and 

 June 2, the subject of the first lecture being 

 " Old and new knowledge of humidity " and 

 of the second " Phases of streptococcus in- 

 fection." 



Dr. W. Yan Bemsielen, director of the 

 Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory of 

 Batavia, delivered an address on " The vol- 

 canoes of Java," before the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences on June 15. 



On May 24, 1920, a statue of Edward Van 

 Beneden was unveiled at Liege, Belgium, with 

 appropriate exercises. Dr. Robert W. Hegner, 

 of the school of hygiene and public health of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, acted as the 

 American representative on this occasion. 



In the issue of Science of April 23 it was 

 stated that the family of Mr. Henry Phipps 

 had given $500,000 to the Henry Phipps In- 

 stitute of the University of Pennsylvania for 

 the study of tuberculosis. We are requested 

 to state that this sum is given contingent on 



the raising of a total of $3,000,000 for the 

 endowment of the institute. 



Dr. J. Lunell, physician and botanist at 

 Leeds, N. D., since 1894, has died. Dr. 

 Lunell was an enthusiastic botanist and pub- 

 lished a number of articles on North Dakota 

 plants, the most extensive of these is the Cata- 

 logue of the Vascular Plants which was noted 

 in this journal for November 1, 1918. 



The tenth season of the Marine Laboratory 

 of Pomona College will begin Jtme 24, at 

 Laguna Beach, Orange county, California. 

 There will be several courses in general biol- 

 ogy and general zoology. There are oppor- 

 tunities for special work, and eight private 

 laboratories are reserved for investigators. 



The publication committee of the Zoological 

 Society, London, has issued a notice calling 

 the attention of those who propose to offer 

 papers to the great increase in the cost of 

 paper and printing. This, it is stated, will 

 render it necessary for the present that papers 

 should be condensed, and be limited so far as 

 possible to the description of new results. 



Dr. Cornelius Betten, for the past five 

 years secretary of the New York State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, has just been made vice- 

 dean of resident instruction, the appointment 

 to take effect July 1, 1920. Dr. Betten is a 

 graduate of Cornell, of the class of 1906, 

 where he was fellow in entomology. After 

 graduation he went to Lake Forest College at 

 Lake Forest, Illinois, where he was professor of 

 biology and head of the department. In 1915, 

 he returned to his alma mater as secretary of 

 the college of agriculture. Under authoriza- 

 tion of recent legislation for the college of 

 agriculture, provision is made for three vice- 

 deans or directors; a vice-dean of the college, 

 a vice-director of extension, and a vice- 

 director of the experiment station. The fac- 

 idty of the college was asked to make nomina- 

 tions, and Dr. Betten was practically selected 

 by his associates, the actual appointment by 

 the trustees of the university being a ratifica- 

 tion of the faculty's choice. Professor M. C. 

 Burritt has been for some time vice-director 

 of extension. The vice-director of experiment 

 stations still remains to be chosen. Under 



