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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII, No. 952 



H. B. HuMPHEEY, formerly head of the de- 

 partment of botany in the State College of 

 Washington, has been appointed to fill the 

 position of pathologist in charge of cereal dis- 

 ease investigations in the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry of the Department of Agriculture. 



Professor E. O. Jordan, of the department 

 of pathology and bacteriology in the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, has accepted an invitation to 

 become a member of the national commission 

 for the determination of a standard of purity 

 for drinking water. This commission has been 

 formed in connection with the enforcement of 

 regulations relative to pure drinking water, 

 and its object is to establish a federal stand- 

 ard which shall be generally applicable. 



Professor George D. Strayer, of Columbia 

 University, has been appointed chairman of a 

 committee of fifteen of the National Council 

 of Education to report on standards and tests 

 of educational efficiency. 



Donald F. MacDonald, geologist of the 

 Isthmian Canal Commission, left Panama on 

 March 11 for a month or more of geological 

 exploration in the interior of Panama. The 

 work will be carried on under the auspices of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Mr. Vilhjalmdr Stefansson lectured be- 

 fore the members of the Royal Geographical 

 Society on March 10 on " The Arctic Islands 

 and their Eskimo Inhabitants." Mr. Stefans- 

 son, as has been announced, is at the head of a 

 scientific expedition which will start from 

 Victoria, British Columbia, in June, to ex- 

 plore the Arctic shores of Canada and to make 

 further studies of the Eskimos of Victoria Is- 

 land on behalf of the Canadian government. 



Professor Charles Eichmond Henderson, 

 head of the department of practical sociology 

 in the University of Chicago, who has been 

 the Barrows lecturer for sis months in the 

 chief cities of India, China and Japan, will re- 

 sume his regular work at the university near 

 the opening of the spring quarter. The Bar- 

 rows lectureship, which was established by 

 Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, provides for a series 

 of lectures in the orient every three years on 



the general subject of the relations of Chris- 

 tianity to other religions. 



On March 8 Professor S. E. Acree, of Johns 

 Hopkins University, lectured before the chem- 

 istry department of Princeton University on 

 " The Reactions of Both the Ions and the Non- 

 ionized Forms of Electrolytes." 



On March 12 Professor Hugo Miinsterberg 

 delivered a lecture at Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity on "Psychology of Labor." 



Mr. Frank P. STOCKBRroGE, editor of Popu- 

 lar Mechanics, will give a series of weekly lec- 

 tures on journalism to the students of the 

 course in journalism at the University of Wis- 

 consin this spring. 



A COURSE of four public lectures on the 

 theory of the solid state, has been delivered at 

 University College, London, by Professor W. 

 Nernst, director of the Institute of Physical 

 Chemistry in the University of Berlin. 



A NUiiBER of friends, colleagues and pupils 

 of the late Paul Segond have planned a me- 

 morial fund in honor of the memory of the 

 surgeon. The income will be used to help 

 internes approved by the council of the Faculte 

 de medecine at Paris to pursue research work 

 and to prepare for their examinations. 



It has been decided to perpetuate the mem- 

 ory of the late Alderman C. G. Beale, vice- 

 chancellor of Birmingham University, by 

 (1) the endowment or partial endowment of a 

 chair in the university to be selected here- 

 after by the university council, and to be 

 called the Beale chair; and (2) a collection of 

 British birds and their nests, mounted in their 

 natural surroundings, to be placed in cases in 

 the first room of the future Birmingham Nat- 

 ural History Museum. Sir Charles Holeroft 

 has promised a donation of £5,000, to be de- 

 voted to the endowment of the university 

 chair and there are other gifts amounting to 

 £4,000. 



In November last a meeting of old students 

 and friends of the late Professor Tait was 

 held in the physical laboratory of the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh, Principal Sir William 

 Turner presiding, when a committee was ap- 

 pointed to establish a memorial. The com- 



