Mat 21, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



809 



Dr. E. E. Southard has been appointed 

 pathologist to the Massachusetts Board of 

 Insanity, from May 1, 1909. The position is 

 a new one in Massachusetts. The appointee 

 will be required "to visit the different insti- 

 tutions from time to time as the representa- 

 tive of the board, with particular reference 

 to the supervision of clinical, pathological and 

 research work, and, so far as possible, in an 

 advisory capacity, to stimulate interest, co- 

 ordinate efforts and promote the best results 

 in this direction." 



Professor E. T. Eobbins, assistant animal 

 husbandman, Iowa Experiment Station, has 

 accepted a position on the editorial staff of 

 the Breeders' Oazette, Chicago, 111. 



A GEODETIC survey department for Canada 

 has been established under Dr. W. F. King, 

 chief astronomer of the dominion. 



Dr. Heinrich Eies, professor of economic 

 geology at Cornell University, has been com- 

 missioned by the Canadian government to 

 make a survey of the clay deposits of Canada. 

 The University of Pennsylvania has grant- 

 ed leave of absence until October 1, 1910, to 

 Philip P. Calvert, Ph.D., assistant professor 

 of zoology, to enable him to go to Central 

 America to pursue further researches on the 

 ecology of tropical Odonata. This is in con- 

 tinuation of the studies which have grown out 

 of his preparation of the account of these in- 

 sects for the Biologia Centrali- Americana. 

 Dr. and Mrs. Calvert sailed from New York 

 on April 17 for Costa Rico. 



Dr. Carl Lumholtz has gone to the arid 

 regions of Sonora and the upper part of Lower 

 California to make ethnological research 

 among the Pina, Papago and Cocopa Indians. 

 He will also study the physical geography of 

 the little-laiown region between Eio de Altar 

 and the mouth of the Colorado River. Dr. 

 Lumholtz will be gone until nest winter, re- 

 turning in February or March. 



Dr. Raymond F. Bacon, of the chemical 

 division of the Bureau of Science, Manila, is 

 spending five months in this country. 



Professor von Runker, director of the 

 Agricultural Institute of Breslau, Germany, 

 and Professor Erich Tsehermakedeer von Sey- 



senegg, of the College of Agriculture, Vienna, 

 Austria, have been sent by their governments 

 to study agricultural experiment stations in 

 the United States. 



Professor Charles Baskerville, director of 

 the chemical laboratory. College of the City 

 of New York, sailed for London on May 15 

 on the steamer Eroonland, to attend the 

 Seventh International Congress of Applied 

 Chemistry. He will be abroad all summer. 

 Dr. Max Meyer, professor of experimental 

 psychology in the University of Missouri, will 

 leave toward the end of May for a year's stay 

 in Europe on leave of absence. 



Dr. a. Lawrence Lowell, president-elect 

 of Harvard University, will give the Phi Beta 

 Kappa address at Columbia University on 

 June 1, at 4 :30 in the afternoon. The subject 

 will be " Competition in College." 



Professor Raymond Dodge gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on " The Nature and Practical 

 Importance of Fatigue," before the Middle- 

 town Scientific Association on May 11. 



Professor Robert Fletcher, of the Thayer 

 School of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth 

 College, will give the memorial address at the 

 Rose Polytechnic Institute of Terre Haute, 

 Ind., on June 8. The occasion is the gradua- 

 tion of the twenty-fifth class, and the com- 

 memoration of founders day. 



Professor John C. Ostrup, of Stevens In- 

 stitute of Technology, delivered an address 

 before the Canadian Society of Civil Engi- 

 neers at Montreal, Canada, on the evening of 

 May 6. The subject was " Some Features of 

 the Design and the Construction of the Man- 

 hattan Suspension Bridge." The address was 

 illustrated with lantern slides and brought out 

 a spirited and interesting discussion. 



An anonymous benefactor has expressed his 

 willingness to contribute a sum of £500, or so 

 much of this sum as may be required, to sup- 

 plement the £500 which the senate has voted 

 towards defraying the cost of the Darwin com- 

 memoration at Cambridge. 



Dr. F. G. Yeo, F.R.S., emeritus professor 

 of physiology in King's College, London, has 

 died at sixty-four years of age. 



