June 18, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



967 



years has been due to his 'untiring energies. 

 He was the founder and editor of the " Inter- 

 national Archives of Ethnography." 



Mr. Thomas Mellard Eeade, known for his 



contributions to geology, has died at his home 



in Liverpool, at the age of seventy-seven years. 



The death is also announced of M. Eugene 



Grenet, the Erench electrical engineer. 



During the present school year, the council 

 of Phi Lambda Upsilon, a national honorary 

 chemical society, has granted three charters: 

 the first, in Chicago, as the Chicago Alumni 

 Chapter; the second, in New York City, as 

 the Columbia University Chapter, and the 

 third, in Ann Arbor as the University of 

 Michigan Chapter. The society was founded 

 at the University of Illinois in 1899. It has 

 for its fundamental object the promotion and 

 protection of high scholarship and original 

 investigation in all branches of pure and ap- 

 plied chemistry. Active membership is lim- 

 ited to graduate and advanced undergraduate 

 students, except in the case of the student 

 having the highest average grade at the end 

 of the sophomore year. The election of men 

 is based primarily upon their scholastic stand- 

 ing and promise of research ability. Among 

 the honorary members of the society there are : 

 Professors W. A. Noyes, C. F. Chandler, S. L. 

 Bigelow, Louis Kahlenberg, H. C. Sherman, 

 E. D. Campbell,' S. W. Parr, M. T. Bogert, 

 H. S. Grindley, S. M. Babcock, E. H. Chit- 

 tenden, C. G. Hopkins, A. P. Matthews, Drs. 

 L. W. Andrews, A. G. Manns and T. J. Bryan. 

 At the annual meeting of the Society of 

 Detroit Chemists, held May 28, the following 

 ofiicers were elected: President, Frank T. E. 

 Stephenson, chemistry department, Detroit 

 College of Medicine; Vice-president, L. D. 

 Voree, Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing 

 Company; Secretary, H. C. Hamilton, Parke, 

 Davis & Company; Treasurer, W. D. Main- 

 waring, Railway Steel Spring Company. The 

 membership reported is 84. Regular monthly 

 meetings were held through the year, with at- 

 tendance about 50 per meeting. Preparations 

 have been practically completed for the enter- 

 tainment of the American Chemical Society 

 in June. 



The Biological Club of Oberlin College was. 

 organized during the last year, its member- 

 ship embracing the instructors in the depart- 

 ments of botany, geology, physiology and zo- 

 ology. Its officers are: President, Professor 

 E. B. Branson; Secretary, Professor R. A. 

 Budington. During the year the following- 

 meetings have been held: 



November 25 — " Diniehthid Fishes of Ohio, with 

 special reference to a species of Dinichthys in the 

 Oberlin Museum," by Professor E. B. Branson. 



December 9 — " Internal Secretions," by Pro- 

 fessor R. A. Budington. 



January 13 — Reports by members who attended 

 the Association meetings in Baltimore during the 

 Christmas holidays. 



January 27 — " Present-day Conceptions as to. 

 the Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System in- 

 Man," by Professor P. E. Leonard. 



February 10 — " Some Nuclear Phenomena in. 

 the Fungi," by Dr. Susan P. Nichols. 



February 24 — " Some Recent Work on the Pro- 

 tozoa," by Professor M. M. Metcalf. 



March 10 — " Feeding Experiments with Birds," 

 by Professor Lynds Jones. 



March 25 — "Maturation Phenomena in Plants, 

 and Animals," by Professor F. 0. Grover. 



April 14 — " The Ecological Succession of Birds," 

 by Mr. B. R. Showalter. 



April 28 — "The Planetesimal Hypothesis," by 

 Professor E. B. Branson. 



May 12 — "The Phylogeny of the Angiosperms,"' 

 by Mr. C. B. Wilson . 



May 28 — " The Static vs. the Dynamic and 

 Vitalistic Theories of Evolution," by Professor F. 

 0. Grover. 



In connection with the annual grant voted 

 by Parliament in aid of scientific investiga- 

 tions concerning the causes and processes of 

 disease, Mr. Burns, the president of the Local 

 Government Board, has, as we learn from 

 Nature, authorized the following special re- 

 searches: (1) a continuation of the investiga- 

 tion into protracted and recurrent infection 

 in enteric fever, by Dr. T. Thomson, in con- 

 junction with Dr. Hedingham; (2) a contin- 

 uation of the investigation into protracted and 

 recurrent infection in diphtheria, by Dr. T. 

 Thomson and Dr. C. J. Thomas; (3) a con- 

 tinuation of the investigation into files as 

 carriers of infection, by Dr. Monckton Cope- 



