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Chamberlin and Mr. E. T. Burton have re- 

 turned to Pekin, after investigations on be- 

 half of the University of Chicago, of China's 

 material and intellectual resources and the 

 possibility of American cooperation in de- 

 veloping education in China. 



During the present season the Oklahoma 

 Geological Survey will carry on two lines of 

 investigation. Professor D. W. Ohern will 

 have charge of a party in the oil fields in the 

 northeastern part of the state, investigating 

 the occurrence of clay, cement rock, building 

 stone and other structural material in that 

 region. Mr. L. L. Hutchinson, assistant di- 

 rector of the survey, will have charge of in- 

 vestigations on asphalt in southern Oklahoma. 



President Whitney has appointed the fol- 

 lowing committee to represent the American 

 Chemical Society in connection with the Hud- 

 son-Fulton celebration: M. T. Bogert, Chair- 

 man, New York; L. H. Baekeland, Tonkers; 

 W. G. Tucker, Albany; M. A. Hunter, Troy; 

 Edward EUery, Schenectady. 



Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood, of the U. S. Bio- 

 logical Survey, has accepted a position as as- 

 sistant curator of mammalogy and ornithol- 

 ogy in the Pield Museum of Natural History 

 of Chicago and will take up his new duties on 

 July 1. 



Dr. S. a. Barrett has been appointed to the 

 curatorship of anthropology of the historical 

 department of the Public Museum of the city 

 of Milwaukee. An addition to the building, 

 covering about 19,000 square feet and four 

 stories in height, exclusive of basement which 

 will contain a large lecture hall and assembly 

 rooms, is now being erected. 



Mr. Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather 

 Bureau, is at present in England. 



Dr. H. D. Eeed, assistant professor of neu- 

 rology and vertebrate zoology in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, will leave this country on July 22 for 

 study in Europe. He will be absent about a 

 year and a half. Six months of this time will 

 be spent at the Naples Marine Laboratory 

 and a year at Freiburg. 



Mr. L. C. Snider, A.M., University of Indi- 

 ana, who was recently elected to a position of 



chemist of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, 

 will spend the summer at the United States 

 Geological Survey testing laboratories at 

 Pittsburg, Pa., conducting a series of tests 

 on Oklahoma clays. 



Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, who is to pre- 

 side at Denver at the sessions of American 

 Home Economic Association, is to deliver an 

 address before the Western Association of 

 Technical Chemists and Metallurgists on 

 " The two modern dragons — bad air and dust." 

 From there she will go to the University 

 of California to deliver two courses of lec- 

 tures on euthenics and sanitation. 



A portrait of the late George Chapman 

 Caldwell, professor of chemistry at Cornell 

 University, has been painted, for presentation 

 to the university by his colleagues and former 

 students. Dr. Andrew D. White made the 

 presentation address and Dean Crane received 

 the portrait on behalf of the university. 



A monument in honor of the eminent sur- 

 geon Mikulicz, who died in 1905, has been un- 

 veiled in Breslau with an address by his suc- 

 cessor Professor Kiittner. 



At a meeting of subscribers to the statue of 

 Lord Kelvin for Belfast, held on June 2, it was 

 resolved unanimously that the statue be 

 erected in the grounds of the city hall instead 

 of in the grounds of Queen's University. 



The twenty-sixth annual convention of the 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers 

 will be held at Frontenac, Thousand Islands, 

 N. T., from June 28 to July 1, under the 

 presidency of Mr. Louis Ferguson, of Chicago. 



The people of Honolulu already have 

 pledged half of the money asked for by the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 

 maintenance of an observatory which the in- 

 stitute proposes to establish at the Brink of 

 Kilauea for the study of volcanic action. 

 Professor T. A. Jaggar will spend the summer 

 there. 



The department of geology at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan has received from Professor 

 Dean C. Worcester, Secretary of the Interior 



