April 30, 1909] 



SCIENCE' 



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will celebrate his seventieth birthday on Au- 

 gust 3. 



Dr. F. Zirkel, professor of mineralogy at 

 Leipzig, has retired from active service. 



Dr. William W. Cadbury has resigned as 

 pathologist in the Henry Phipps Institute, 

 Philadelphia, and sailed for China, where he 

 will aid in the establishment of a University 

 Medical School in Canton. 



Mr. D. L. Van Dine, who has been the ento- 

 mologist of the Hawaii Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station for the past seven years, has 

 accepted a position in the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology at Washington. His work will be on 

 the insects affecting sugar cane and rice in the 

 southern states. 



At the meeting of the Board of Directors 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Ee- 

 search, held on April 10, the following pro- 

 motions and appointments were made : 



Associate Menibers — John Auer (Physiology), 

 Hideyo Noguehi (Pathology), Alexia Carrel (Sur- 

 gery). 



Associate — -George W. Heimrod (Chemistry). 



Assistants — Martha Wollstein (Pathology), 

 Richard V. Lamar (Pathology), A. 0. Shaklee 

 (Physiology), Gustave M. Meyer (Chemistry). 



Fellows — M. T. Burrows (Pathology), Paul F. 

 Clark ( Bacteriology ) . 



Professor H. G. van de Sande Bakhuyzen 

 has retired from the directorship of the Ley- 

 den Observatory and is succeeded by Mr. E. 

 F. van de Sande Bakhuyzen. 



Dr. Max Wolf has been appointed director 

 of the University at Heidelberg in succession 

 to Dr. Wilhelm Valentiner, who has retired 

 owing to ill health. 



Dr. Ernst KiJster, of Halle, has been ap- 

 pointed keeper in the Botanical Institute and 

 Garden at Kiel. 



Dr. S. Squire Sprigge has accepted the 

 editorship of the Lancet. 



The State Department has approved the at- 

 tendance of the following as American dele- 

 gates at the International Congress of Applied 

 Chemistry to be held in London next month: 

 Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture; 

 Dr. Allerton S. Cushman, of the same depart- 



ment; Dr. Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey; Dr. Charles Basker- 

 ville, professor of chemistry at the City of 

 New York College; Drs. William H. Nichols, 

 Maximilian Toch, Herbert Plant and Morris 

 Loeb, of New York; Dr. William L. Dudley, 

 of Vanderbilt University, and Dr. L. H. 

 Baekeland, of Yonkers, N. Y. 



Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of rep- 

 tiles in the New York Zoological Park, sailed 

 for Europe on May 8 to visit the Zoological 

 Gardens and arrange for the exchange of 

 animals. 



Professor F. L. Stevens, of the North 

 Carolina Station and College, will during this 

 vacation visit the leading agricultural experi- 

 ment stations and agricultural colleges of 

 Europe, particularly those experiment stations 

 engaged in work in plant disease or soil bac- 

 teriology. 



Professor William Osler, of Oxford, is 

 paying a visit to the United States and Can- 

 ada. He expects to return to England on 

 July 1. 



Dr. Stelberg, accompanied by Dr. de Quer- 

 vain and Dr. Balber, has been sent by the 

 Danish government on a scientific expedition 

 to Greenland. 



Dr. Skottsberg, the Swedish explorer, has 

 returned from an expedition to southern Pata- 

 gonia. 



Mr. Douglas Carruthers has returned 

 from a natural history exploration in the un- 

 known parts of central Arabia. 



It is announced in the English journals 

 that Dr. W. Bruce, of the Scottish Oceano- 

 graphical Laboratory, has made more detailed 

 plans of another Antarctic expedition to leave 

 in 1911, the cost of which is estimated at 

 £50,000. It is proposed to carry on extensive 

 oceanographical work in the South Atlantic 

 Ocean between and south of Buenos Ayres 

 and Cape Town, as well as in the Weddell and 

 Biscoe Seas; to map the coast-line of Ant- 

 arctica to the east and west of Coats Land, 

 and to investigate the interior of Antarctica 

 in that longitude. Part of the project in- 

 cludes a journey across the Antarctic conti- 

 nent, starting at some suitable base in the 



