Mabch 28, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



47T 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



It is announced that Dr. H. B. Fine, pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in Princeton Univer- 

 sity, has been offered by President Wilson the 

 ambassadorship to Germany. 



Dr. David F. Houston, secretary of agri- 

 culture, will retain the chancellorship of 

 Washington University on leave of absence. 

 Professor F. A. Hall, dean of the college, has 

 been appointed acting chancellor. 



Professor Willis Luther Moore, vpho has 

 been chief of the United States Weather 

 Bureau since 1895, will retire from this office 

 on July 31. 



Dr. Elie Metchnikofp, assistant director 

 of the Institute Pasteur, Paris, has declined 

 the directorship of the Institute of Experi- 

 mental Medicine at St. Petersburg, vacant by 

 the death of Dr. B. Podvyssotzky. 



The ministry of public instruction of the 

 French government has selected Dr. Maxime 

 Bocher, professor of mathematics in Harvard 

 University, as exchange professor for 1913-14. 

 His term of service will fall in the winter 

 semester and will be spent at the University 

 of Paris. 



President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford 

 University, has leave of absence to go to Eu- 

 rope in the interest of the peace movement. 



Professor Arthur Schuster, F.E.S., has 

 been elected president of the Physical Society, 

 London. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been elected honorary member of 

 the Hungarian Geographical Society at Buda- 

 Pest, and foreign member of the Swedish An- 

 thropological and Geographical Society at 

 Stockholm. 



On March 1 there was given in New York 

 City, at Delmonico's, a dinner to Professor 

 Russell H. Chittenden, director of the Shef- 

 field Scientific School of Tale University, by 

 his former pupils and a few other friends. 

 Nearly one hundred were present, there being 

 representatives of almost every Tale class 

 from 1874 to 1908. Dr. Frank S. Meara, '90, 

 acted as toastmaster and addresses were given 



by Dr. John A. Hartwell, '89 S., chairman of 

 the committee having the dinner in charge; 

 Professor Graham Lusk, '96 Hon.; Professor 

 Henry H. Donaldson, '79; Professor W. T. 

 Sedgwick, '77 S. ; Professor Harvey Gushing, 

 '91; Dr. Elliott P. Joslin, '90 and '91 S.; Dr. 

 P. A. Levene, and Professor Chittenden. At 

 the close of the speaking. Dr. Meara an- 

 nounced that the National Institute of Social- 

 Sciences had voted a medal to Professor Chit- 

 tenden in recognition of the distinction he has 

 attained in original investigation in the field' 

 of physiological chemistry. Dr. H. Hollbrook 

 Curtis, '77 S., secretary of the institute, made 

 the presentation. Professor Mendel then pre- 

 sented to Professor Chittenden a set of en- 

 grossed resolutions which had been adopted 

 by his fellow members of the board of trustees- 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School. It was an- 

 nounced by the committee, through its chair- 

 man, that Professor Chittenden's pupils were 

 desirous of expressing their appreciation of 

 his work in some such way that it might hare 

 a permanent value, and that to this end there 

 was being raised the Russell H. Chittenden 

 Fund, the income from which should be ex- 

 pended for the benefit of the department of 

 physiological chemistry in the Sheffield Sci- 

 entific School. 



On March 25, 1914. Geh. Ober-Regierungs- 

 rat Professor Dr. A. Engler, professor of bot- 

 any in the University of Berlin, director of 

 the Royal Botanic Garden and Museum at 

 Berlin-Dahlem, member of the Academy of 

 Science of Berlin, will celebrate his seventieth 

 birthday. In order to commemorate this oc- 

 casion, his friends in Germany and through- 

 out the world have issued a circular letter re- 

 questing that subscriptions toward a marble- 

 bust be sent to Professor Dr. Wittmack, Ber- 

 lin, N. W. 40, Platz von dem neuen Tor 1. 

 The bust will be made by Herrn Bildhauer 

 Manthe, of Schmargendorf. 



Professor Ralph Hoagland, head of the 

 division of chemistry of the College of Agri- 

 culture, LTniversity of Minnesota, has resigned 

 and gone to Washington, D. C, where he will 

 enter on his work in the Bureau of Animal 

 Husbandry. 



