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two leading engineers and experts of the 

 United States and Canada, who serve without 

 Tecompense and supervise the technical work 

 of the institution. 



Arthur H. Blanohaed, M. Am. Soc. C. E., 

 professor of highway engineering, Columbia 

 University, has been appointed by Governor 

 Sulzer a member of the advisory commission 

 on highways for the state of New York. 



Mr. Andrew H. Palmer, A.B. (Minnesota, 

 '08), A.M. (Harvard, '09), formerly research 

 assistant at Blue Hill Meteorological Observ- 

 atory, has been appointed magnetic observer 

 in the department of terrestrial magnetism, 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



The Nantucket Maria Mitchell astronom- 

 ical fellowship of $1,000 annually has been 

 :a)wardedl a second time to Miss Margaret 

 Harwood, A.B. (Kadcliffe, '07). Her resi- 

 lience at the Nantucket Observatory is for six 

 months, the remainder of the year is spent in 

 a larger observatory of her own choice. She 

 has elected to continue her researches at the 

 Harvard College Observatory during this 

 semester. 



Associate Professor Herbert E. Slaught, 

 of the department of mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has recently become the 

 managing editor of the Amei-ica7i Mathe- 

 matical Monthly — a journal for teachers of 

 mathematics in the collegiate and advanced 

 secondary fields. 



On the suggestion of the high commissioner 

 for Cyprus, Sir Ronald Ross is this month 

 "visiting the island to investigate the causes 

 of the prevalence of malarial fever. 



The Costa Rica-Panama Boundary Com- 

 mission, of which Professor John F. Hayford, 

 of Northwestern University College of Engi- 

 neering, is chairman, is now in session at 

 Northwestern University, compiling the re- 

 sults of the survey and investigations made a 

 little over a year ago to settle the boundary 

 dispute between the two countries. The com- 

 mission was appointed by Chief Justice 

 White, and the ease will be argued before him 

 as soon as the maps and information are com- 

 plete. Director Hayford is also engaged in a 



commission for the Carnegie Institution, the 

 result of which is to determine the amount of 

 evaporation of the five great lakes. 



The geological museum of Harvard Uni- 

 versity is sending G. C. Curtis to Hawaii to 

 collect data for a naturalistic model of 

 Kilauea. Kilauea crater lies within the pro- 

 posed, and recently surveyed, U. S. National 

 Volcano Park, where the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology has recently erected an ob- 

 servatory. Mr. Curtis is the first American 

 geologist to specialize in land relief and has 

 during the past fifteen years brought a new 

 motive and standard into American work. 

 The model of Kilauea will be 12 feet long on 

 the scale of 1 : 1500, and Museum Curator 

 Sayles expects it to be unique in the contri- 

 butions to the study of volcanoes. 



Peofessok Joseph S. Ames, director of the 

 physical laboratory, Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, delivered an address on " Modern Views 

 of the Structure of Matter " before the Sci- 

 ence Club of the University of Wisconsin on 

 March 4, 1913. 



Dr. George A. Dorsey, curator of anthro- 

 pology in the Field Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, lectured before the Geographical Society 

 of Chicago on March 14, his subject being 

 " An Ethnologist Abroad." 



Professor C. C. Thomas, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, lectured on March 6 at the 

 University of Illinois on the subject " Marine 

 Engines." The lecture was one of a series of 

 exchange lectures arranged between the two 

 universities. 



Dr. F. K. Cameron, of the bureau of soils, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, lectured be- 

 fore the Phi Lambda Upsilon Society at Co- 

 lumbia University on " The Solution of the 

 Potash Problem in America," on March 6. 



G. Willis Moore, chief of the Federal 

 Weather Bureau, lectured at Oberlin College 

 on March 12, on " The Story of the Air." 



Sir Rickman J. Godlee, president of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, gave, on March 13, 

 the foundation oration before the University 

 College Union Society on " Lister and his 

 Work." 



