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F.R.S., have been appointed to represent 

 Oxford University at the International Con- 

 gress of Zoology, to be held this year at 

 Monaco. 



Professor A. Keith has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Royal Anthropological Institute of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. 



Dr. E. B. Ros.4, of the Bureau of Standards, 

 gave the address of the retiring president be- 

 fore the Philosophical Society of Washington 

 on February 15. His subject veas " The Func- 

 tion of Research and the Regulation of Na- 

 tional Monopolies." 



Professor Charles Lapworth has expressed 

 the desire to vacate the chair of geology in 

 Birmingham University at the end of the cur- 

 rent session. 



The Chemist and D-niggist, London, reports 

 the appointment, by the Pharmaceutical 

 Chemistry Section of the Eighth International 

 Congress of Applied Chemistry, of an interna- 

 tional commission to continue the inquiry on 

 " Variation in the activity of certain toxic 

 drugs " and to report at St. Petersburg in 1915. 

 The commission named is as follows: Austria, 

 Professor Wilhelm Mitlacher; France, Pro- 

 fessor E. Bourquelot; Germany, Professor H. 

 Thoms; Great Britain, Francis Ransom, 

 F.C.S. ; Netherlands, Professor L. van Itallie; 

 Switzerland, Professor A. Tscheich; United 

 States, Dr. Rodney H. True. Three secre- 

 taries for the commission were also appointed: 

 European Continent, George P. Forrester, 

 F.C.S. ; Great Britain, Peter MacEnau, 

 F.C.S. ; United States, Otto Raubenheimer. 



Professor H. Louis Jackson, B.S. (Mass. 

 Inst., '05), who has held the position as assist- 

 ant professor of chemistry in charge of foods 

 at the University of Kansas since 1907, has 

 accepted the position of state chemist of Idaho. 

 He will go at once to Boise, where the labora- 

 tory is located. 



Franz Schneider, Jr., '09, instructor at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 accepted the position of sanitary expert to the 

 department of surveys and exhibits, Russel 

 Sage Foundation. For the lecture work that 

 has been carried on by Mr. Schneider, W. C. 



Purdy, professor of biology at Geneva College, 

 has been called and will be named assistant in 

 biology. 



The Peruvian government has officially 

 designated Mr. Charles H. T. Townsend 

 director of entomological stations in addition 

 to his title of government entomologist, ex- 

 tending his contract to December 31, 1913. 

 A central station of agricultural entomology is 

 already established in temporary quarters at 

 Lima, for the general investigation of insect 

 plagues of agriculture in the central coast 

 region. It is intended to maintain the branch 

 station of agricultural entomology in the de- 

 partment of Piura, for continuing the inves- 

 tigation of cotton insects and their enemies. 

 A station of medical entomology has been 

 established at Chosica, where an investigation 

 of the blood-sucking arthropods of the verruga 

 zones has already been started to determine 

 what species may be the carrier of verruga 

 fever. Mr. E. W. Rust has been transferred 

 from Piura to Lima, and Mr. J. G. Cateriano 

 has been added to the force. Several gradu- 

 ates from the School of Agriculture will be 

 trained in agricultural entomology, and a 

 graduate or two from the School of Medicine 

 will be trained in medical entomology at 

 Chosica. 



The Museum of Zoology, University of 

 Michigan, will send a second expedition to 

 Whitefish Point, Chippewa County, Michigan, 

 in the summer of 1913, to continue the work 

 started in that region in 1912. The 1913 work, 

 like that of 1912, will be supported by Hon. 

 George Shiras, and the results will be pub- 

 lished under the same general title " Results 

 of the Shiras Expeditions to the Whitefish 

 Point Region, Michigan." 



Professor C. E. McCldng, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, lectured before the Society of 

 the Sigma Xi of that university on February 7, 

 his subject being " Sex Determination." 



The first lecture of the year before the Ohio 

 State University Chapter of Sigma Xi Society 

 was given by Dr. A. W. Gilbert, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, on the topic " The Method and Scope 

 of Genetics." The officers of the Ohio State 



