June 25, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



631 



Heney L. Ward, for the past eighteen years 

 director of the Public Museum of the city 

 of Milwaukee, has tendered his resignation 

 to become effective on or before January 1, 

 1921. 



Alexander L. Prince, M.D., assistant pro- 

 fessor of physiology in Tale University 

 Medical School, has resigned in order to 

 accept a position in the industrial research 

 department of the JEtna Life Insurance Com- 

 pany at Hartford. 



Dr. Alfred 'N. Cook, for sixteen years pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the State University of 

 South Dakota and for thirty-nine years a 

 teacher of chemistry, has resigned to take 

 effect at the close of the present academic 

 year. He will make his futui'e home in 

 southern California. 



Dr. a. ISTeiva, chief of the public health 

 service of the state of S. Paulo, Brazil, has 

 been commissioned by the authorities to study 

 the organization of the public health service 

 in Japan and in the United States, and the 

 prophylaxis of leprosy in Norway, the Philip- 

 pines and Hawaii. 



Professor Edmund Harvey, of Princeton 

 University, has received leave for the first 

 term of next year, during which he will join 

 a scientific mission to the East Indies for the 

 Carnegie Institution to study animal lu- 

 minescence. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz, of the American 

 Museum of ITatural History, of New York 

 City, has started on the third of a series of 

 expeditions planned to trace the distribu- 

 tion of insect life in the western part of the 

 United States. The first of these expeditions 

 collected in the Santa Catalina Mountains 

 and the deserts of Southern Arizona; the 

 second — made last year — worked in the Colo- 

 rado Eockies. This year special attention 

 will be paid to regions north and west of 

 Colorado. 



: Mr. E. p. Van Duzee, curator of entomol- 

 ogy in the California Academy of Sciences, 

 and Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, of the University of 

 California, who attended the annual meeting 

 of the Pacific Division of the American Asso- 



ciation for the Advancement of Science in 

 Seattle, will remain for a month in the state 

 pf Washington for field work. Mr. Van Duzee, 

 who specializes in the Hemiptera, has in his 

 collection and that of the California Academy 

 ,of Sciences probably the most representative 

 collection of Hemiptera in America. Dr. Van 

 Dyke will collect Coleoptera in which he is a 

 specialist. 



Director Homer R. Dill, of the Verteibrate 

 .Museiun, State University of Iowa, is to ac- 

 compary Mr. Ernest W. Brown on a fish col- 

 lecting expedition to the Hawaiian Islands 

 .during the months of July and August. The 

 iSpecimens collected will be divided between 

 ,Mr. Brown's private collection and the Iowa 

 Museum. The first of September an expedi- 

 tion headed by Professor Dill will be sent to 

 the Cascade Mountains in northeastern Wash- 

 ington and British Columbia for the purpose 

 of studying the mountain goats in their native 

 haunts and collecting specimens for museum 

 exhibits. The State Museum of Washington 

 will be represented by Curator C. J. Albrecht. 

 Other members of the party are Mr. Robert 

 Brown, Mr. Russell Hendee and Mr. B. E. 

 Manville. Mr. Ernest Brown, of Des Moines, 

 is assisting the undertaking by meeting a con- 

 .siderable part of the expense. 



Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, of Ithaca, now 

 president of the American Pomological So- 

 .ciety, is reorganizing the society throughout 

 the country, and is establishing junior branches 

 in a number of agricultural colleges in the 

 United States and Canada. The American 

 Pomological Society, organized in 1847, is the 

 oldest of our national agricultural societies. 

 The society proposes under its new plan to 

 consider national affairs which touch upon the 

 growing of fruits, such as legislation, quaran- 

 tine, export, transportation and standardizing 

 .of methods. 



^ The Imperial Entomological Conference 

 was opened in London on Tuesday, June 1, 

 by Lord Harcourt. We learn from Nature 

 that the official delegates to the conference are : 

 Canada and South Africa, Mr. C. P. Louns- 

 bury; Australia, Professor R. D. Watt; New 



