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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 956 



The Maryland University ScBool of Medi- 

 cine is offering a course of twenty lectures on 

 tropical medicine under the supervision of 

 Surgeon J. A. ISTydegger, of the U. S. Public 

 Health Service, with the assistance of Dr. 

 C. W. Stiles, Dr. H. E. Carter, and other 

 members of the Public Health Service. 



" The Business of Agriculture in the Col- 

 lege Curriculum " was the subject of an ad- 

 dress to the students of the college of agricul- 

 ture of the University of Illinois, given by 

 Dean Price, of the Ohio State University, on 

 April 11. 



Dr. Lester F. Ward, professor of sociology 

 at Brown University, and formerly paleontol- 

 ogist of the U. S. Geological Survey, died in 

 Washington on April 18, in his seventy-second 

 year. 



The death is announced, on April 7, at 

 sixty-nine years of age, of Mr. F. G. Smart, 

 fellow of the Linnean and the Royal Geo- 

 graphical societies. 



Dr. Georg Boehm, honorary professor of 

 geology at Freiburg, has died at the age of 

 fifty-nine years. 



Dr. John Seemann, director of the physio- 

 logical laboratory of the Academy of Medicine 

 at Cologne, has died at the age of forty-nine 

 years. 



Professor H. Alesan Bezjian, Ph.D. 

 (Tale, '74), teacher of physical science in 

 Central Turkey College, Aintab, Turkey-in- 

 Asia, died suddenly of arterial sclerosis, on 

 February 10, 1913, in his seventy-sixth year. 

 He was one of the most distinguished scien- 

 tific men that Turkey has yet produced. His 

 early training was received at Bebek Semi- 

 nary, Constantinople, under Dr. Cyrus Ham- 

 lin, though he was born and brought up in 

 Aintab. Except for two years spent in Amer- 

 ica in preparation, and a later year spent in 

 France and England, he taught almost con- 

 tinuously in Aintab, and the neighboring city 

 Marash, for fifty-six years. For thirty-seven 

 years he was the senior member of the faculty 

 of Central Turkey College, and he was in ac- 

 tive service at the time of his death, always 

 abreast of the times, eager for the latest news 



or to learn of the freshest discovery. He was 

 the author of many newspaper articles, and of 

 books on " Natural Eeligion" " Guide to 

 the Study of the English Language " (in 

 Armeno-Turkish and English and the first 

 book of its kind in Turkey), and "Elements 

 of Physics." This latter book was published 

 simultaneously in Armenian and in Armeno- 

 Turkish. The Armenian form is now in its 

 second and revised edition. 



A VACANCY at present exists in the position 

 of chemist, qualified in physical chemistry, in 

 the Bureau of Standards, Department of 

 Commerce, at Washington, D. C. This posi- 

 tion requires a high order of scientific train- 

 ing, equivalent to that required by the leading 

 American universities for a professorship in 

 physical chemistry. The government seeks a 

 man with a thorough and broad scientific edu- 

 cation and several years' experience, and he 

 must possess qualifications of a very high 

 order in the theories of physical chemistry 

 and their applications. He must be qualified 

 to act as adviser in all fields where a knowl- 

 edge of physical chemistry is required, and 

 be capable of initiating and carrying out re- 

 searches in the field of the bureau's varied ac- 

 tivities. Ability to take a broad view on 

 chemical subjects is essential. The entrance 

 salary for this position is $3,500 a year. The 

 government is endeavoring to find the best 

 man available for this work. The method 

 of selection will be similar to that of an 

 educational institution or business organi- 

 zation whose trustees or governing officers de- 

 sire to fill a professional or technical position. 

 The qualifications and fitness of applicants 

 will be passed upon by a board containing men 

 of recognized eminence in chemistry. Candi- 

 dates will not be assembled for examination, 

 but will be rated with respect to their educa- 

 tion and training, their technical and profes- 

 sional experience, and their achievements as 

 shown by publications and results accom- 

 plished. Persons interested should write to 

 the United States Civil Service Commission, 

 Washington, D. C. Letters of inquiry must 

 be received by the Commission prior to May 



