September 18, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



369 



UNIVESSITY OF MISSOTIEI 



Charles Brooks: "The Fruit Spot of Apples; 

 a Morphological and Physiological Study." 



Caroline McGill: "The Structure of Smooth 

 Muscle in the Resting and in the Contracted Con- 

 dition." 



LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY 



William Draper Harkins : " Papers on Smelter 

 Smoke." 



Mary Isabel McCracken : " Studies in Heredity." 



UNIVEESITY OB VIRGINIA 



William Allison Kepner : " The Nutrition of the 

 Ovum of Scolia dubia." 



John Jennings Luck : " The Structures of the 

 Non-integrable Groups of Seven Parameters." 



BBTN MAWK COLLEGE 



Helen Elizabeth SehaeflFer: "A Study of the 

 Electric Spark in a Magnetic Field." 



DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 



Leland Griggs : " The Early Development of the 

 Nervous System of Amblystoma." 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAW 



John Serenus Bordner : " The Longitudinal 

 Traction on the Formation of Mechanical Tissue 

 in Plant Stems." 



UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 



Henry Anton Erikson : " The Ionization of 

 Gases at High Pressures." 



UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 



Leroy Dey Swingle : " The Development of a 

 Herpetonionadine Parasite of the Sheep-tick." 

 " The Embryology of Myosurus minimus." 



NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 



Martin A. Eosanoff : " Determination of Chlo- 

 rides and Bromides in the presence of Cyanides." 



VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 



James Harrison Scarborough: "The Computa- 

 tion of the Orbit of Planet." 



■WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 



Henri Theodore Antoine Hus: "An Ideal Eco- 

 logical Cross-section of the Mississippi River in 

 the Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo." 



WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY 



Mosby Garland Perrow : " Determination and 

 Comparison of the Atomic Volume Contraction 

 in the Isomorphous Series, R'M'" ( SO^ ) j • I2H2O 

 and E^'M"(S0J,-6H,0." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, has 

 consented to accept the chairmanship of the 

 commission appointed hy President Roosevelt 

 to report upon the social and economic condi- 

 tions of agricultural life. 



Oxford University will confer the degree of 

 doctor of science on Professor Svante Ar- 

 rhenius and on Dr. Vernon Harcourt on Oc- 

 tober 8, on the occasion of the celebration of 

 the jubilee of the University Museum. 



On the occasion of the recent unveiling of 

 the Bunsen monument at Heidelberg, hon- 

 orary doctorates were conferred on Professor 

 Adolf von Baeyer, and on Professor J. H. 

 van't HofF. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed in England 

 to present a national testimonial to Mr. 

 Francis George Heath in recognition of his 

 labors in arousing public interest in the preser- 

 vation of open spaces, woods and forests. 



The stafE of the Division of Pharmacology 

 of the Hygienic Laboratory, Washington, 

 D. C, has been enlarged by the following ap- 

 pointments : Dr. W. H. Schultz, formerly in- 

 structor in physiology and pharmacology. 

 University of Missouri; Dr. Worth Hale, 

 formerly instructor of pharmacology. Uni- 

 versity of Michigan; Dr. M. G. Motter, form- 

 erly professor of physiology at Georgetown 

 University and secretary of the Board of 

 Trustees of the United States Pharmacopoeia, 

 and Mr. W. I. Wilbert, formerly of the Ger- 

 man Hospital, Philadelphia. The addition to 

 the Hygienic Laboratory, provided for by 

 congress a year ago, is nearing completion; it 

 will enable the laboratory to extend its work 

 considerably. 



Mr. George L. Fawcett, for three years 

 laboratory assistant in the United States Sub- 

 tropical Laboratory at Miami, Florida, has 

 been transferred to the Porto Rico Experi- 

 ment Station at Mayaguez, where he is to be 



