March 14, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



407 



Mr. Frank Armitage Potts, M.A., fellow 

 of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, has been elected 

 to the Balfour studentship. 



Mr. T. Ll. Humberstone, B.Sc, has been 

 appointed to the Mitchell studentship of the 

 University of London. The studentship, 

 which is of the value of £100, is for the study 

 of some definite feature of business or indus- 

 trial organization at home or abroad. Mr. 

 Humberstone proposes to investigate the 

 scheme of industrial fellowship in the Univer- 

 sities of Pittsburgh and Kansas under which 

 research work in applied science is promoted 

 with funds provided by, and to some extent 

 under the supervision of, industrial and com- 

 mercial organizations. 



Professor William McPherson, dean of 

 the graduate school and professor of chemistry 

 at the Ohio State University, has been granted 

 leave of absence for the second semester of 

 the current year. He sailed on March 1 for 

 Germany, where he will spend the next six 

 months in research work in chemistry. 



Mr. Luther E. Widen, of the University 

 of Iowa, will accompany Mr. Villjalmar Ste- 

 fansson on his expedition and will make psy- 

 chological measurements on the Esquimaux. 



Preparations are being made for the de- 

 spatch of an official French expedition to 

 Franz Josef Land under M. Jules de Payer, 

 son of the Austrian Captain de Payer, who 

 commanded the Austrian expedition that dis- 

 covered Franz Josef Land in 1873. 



Mr. Anders K. Angstrom, son of the dis- 

 tinguished Swedish physicist, and now a stu- 

 dent at Cornell University, will have charge 

 of a scientific expedition to Mt. Whitney to 

 continue work on the radiation of the sun 

 under the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Ang- 

 strom was assistant to Dr. C. G. Abbot, di- 

 rector of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob- 

 servatory, in his work in Algeria last summer. 



Professor Frank Smith, of the zoological 

 department of the University of Illinois, has 

 been requested by the authorities of the 

 United States National Museum at Washing- 

 ton to take charge of its collection of annelid 

 worms belonging to the group of Oligochaeta. 



Professor Smith and his assistants are now at 

 work on the anatomical study and classifica- 

 tion of the first installment of material, which 

 includes not only North American forms, but 

 also part of the collection made a few years 

 ago by the Roosevelt expedition to East 

 Africa. The remainder of the material in 

 the possession of the national museum will be 

 sent to Urbana as it is needed. 



Dr. Felix Krueger, professor of philosophy 

 at the University of Halle and Kaiser Wil- 

 helm professor at Columbia University, lec- 

 tured on psychological subjects last week at 

 the University of Wisconsin and the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. 



Professor W. M. Davis, during his recent 

 trip to the middle west, lectured at Oberlin 

 College and the University of Chicago on 

 " Dana's Confirmation of Darwin's Theory of 

 Coral Reefs," and before the Sigma Xi So- 

 ciety of Northwestern University on " Human 

 Response to Geographical Environment " ; he 

 also spoke at the Francis W. Parker School, 

 Chicago, on " The Highlands of the Rocky 

 Mountains in Colorado." 



The winter course in highway engineering 

 (February 24 to March 8), given this year for 

 the first time at the Ohio State University, 

 has proved to be popular with the engineers 

 of Ohio who are engaged in highway con- 

 struction. Contractors, inspectors and county 

 commissioners to the number of sixty enrolled 

 for the course. The Ohio Good Roads Fed- 

 eration cooperated with the university in 

 meeting the expense. The lectures covered 

 many phases of highway construction, main- 

 tenance and materials. Among the special 

 lectures were Professor A. H. Blanchard, of 

 Columbia University; A. N. Johnson, state 

 highway engineer of Illinois, and J. J. 

 Voshell, U. S. highway engineer, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The fifth annual meeting of the Ulinois 

 Water Supply Association was held at the 

 University of Illinois on March 11 and 12. 

 Members of the association are interested in 

 obtaining and conserving an abundant supply 

 of pure water in the state of Illinois. Special 



