June 6, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



861 



Mr. Nathan C. Grover, of New Jersey, has 

 been appointed chief hydraulic engineer of 

 the water-resources branch of the TJ. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, to succeed Mr. Marshall 0. 

 Leighton, who resigned early in May to plan 

 and supervise land drainage in Florida. 



Mr. C. G. Elliott, chief of drainage in- 

 vestigations in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has left the government service to go 

 into private business. 



Mr. E. N. Wentworth, associate professor 

 of animal husbandry at the Ohio State Col- 

 lege, has become associate editor of The 

 Breeders' Gazette. 



Dr. T. N. Carver, David A. Wells professor 

 of political economy at Harvard University, 

 has been appointed director of the Rural 

 Organization Service, a new branch of work 

 just organized by the federal Department of 

 Agriculture, and has been granted leave of 

 absence from the university so that he may 

 be able to carry on the new work he has 

 undertaken. 



Mr. L. F. Eichardson, assistant lecturer in 

 physics at the Municipal School of Technol- 

 ogy, Manchester, has been appointed superin- 

 tendent of the Geophysical Observatory, Esk- 

 dalemuir, in succession to Mr. G. W. Walker, 

 resigned. 



Me. T. L. Eckersley, B.A., of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, has been appointed assistant 

 at the Helwan Observatory, Egypt, to assist 

 in the magnetic work. 



Professor von Dungern, of Heidelberg, has 

 been appointed director of the newly estab- 

 lished institute for experimental cancer re- 

 search at Hamburg-Eppendorf. 



Dr. W. a. Murrill, assistant director of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, has sailed 

 for Europe to study especially the conditions 

 of the growth of trees in cities. 



The Academy of Science of Oregon has 

 elected officers as follows: 



President — N. H. Laurie. 



First Vice-president — A. E. Sweetzer. 



Second Vice-president — T. D. Beekwith. 



Tliird Vice-president — W. L. Finley. 



Secretary — Miss Jane Stearns. 



Treasurer — A. L. Knisley. 



Librarian — A. W. Miller. 



Trustees — A. L. Knisley, E. A. Beals, J. D. Lee. 



The results of the election for the Ohio 

 State University Chapter of the Sigma Xi 

 Society was as follows: 



President — C. S. Prosser, professor of geology. 



Vice-president — John F. Lyman, professor of 

 agricultural chemistry. 



Secretary — W. M. Barrows, instructor in biology. 



Treasurer — John A. Wilkinson, assistant pro- 

 fessor of chemistry. 



The Minnesota Chapter of the Sigma Xi 

 met on May 29 for its annual banquet and 

 initiation of new members. At the same time 

 researches of three of the initiates was pre- 

 sented as follows: 



"A Successful Case of Applied Entomology," 

 C. W. Howard. 



"Parasitism in Rusts," E. C. Stakman. 



' ' Sunlight as a Factor in Plant Metabolism, ' ' 

 E. W. Thatcher. 



At Minnesota, research is essential for the 

 election to Sigma Xi. 



Dr. James W. Jobling, of Michael Reese 

 Hospital, Chicago, Ills., gave the annual ad- 

 dress before the Minnesota Pathological So- 

 ciety on May 20. His subject was " The 

 Toxicity and Antigenetic Properties of the 

 Cleavage Products of Bacterial Proteins." 



Professor G. H. Parker, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, addressed the Brown Chapter of 

 Sigma Xi, at the University Club, Provi- 

 dence, on May 28, on a " Biological Forecast." 



Professor G. W. Pierce, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has delivered three lectures on " Wire- 

 less Telegraphy and Wireless Telephony " be- 

 fore the student officers of the post-graduate 

 department of the United States Naval Acad- 

 emy at Annapolis, Md. 



A LARGE bronze mural tablet to the memory 

 of the late Dr. John Herr Musser, professor 

 of clinical surgery in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been presented to the Univer- 

 sity Hospital. The tablet was designed by 

 Dr. R. Tait McKenzie. 



Lord Avebury, formerly Sir John Lubbock, 

 distinguished for public services in many di- 



