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and particularly in connection with the treaty 

 between Canada and the United States for the 

 protection of migratory birds. 



Professor George Grant MacCurdy, of 

 Tale University, has been made a member of 

 the Committee on Anthropology of the Na- 

 tional Research Council. 



Professor Roswell H. Johxsox, of the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh, and Professor Frederick 

 Ehrenfeld, of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 have been appointed by Governor Brumbaugh 

 as commissioners of the Topographic and Geo- 

 logic Survey Commission of Pennsylvania. 

 Senator G. W. ilcNees holds over as the third 

 member. 



Mr. Paul M. Eea has resigned the secretary- 

 ship of the American Association of Mu- 

 seums after eleven and a half years of service. 

 Mr. Eea has been appointed vice-director of 

 War Savings for South Carolina. The coun- 

 cil has filled the vacancy for the remainder 

 of the year by the appointment of Harold L. 

 iladison, curator of the Park Museum, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 



Mr. Schachne Isaacs, instructor in psy- 

 chology. University of Cincinnati, has been 

 commissioned first lieutenant, Sanitary Corps, 

 National Army. Lieutenant Isaacs is asso- 

 ciated with Captain Knight Dunlap on the 

 psychological research in high altitude avia- 

 tion. He has been assigned to the Mineola, 

 L. I., aviation camp where a laboratory is in 

 process of construction. 



George K. K. Link, professor of plant physi- 

 ology in the University of Nebraska, has been 

 granted a leave of absence to undertake war 

 emergency work in the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try. He is engaged as pathologist in the mar- 

 ket distribution and food survey work of the 

 Department of Agriculture and is instructing 

 the inspectors of the newly created inspection 

 service in the detection of diseases of vegetable 

 crops. This inspection service has been opened 

 by the Bureau of Markets and covers the prin- 

 cipal markets of the country. The Na\-y and 

 Army, in purchasing vegetables for the fleet, 

 for overseas supply ships and transports and 

 the Quartermaster's depots, are making use of 



this service. Dr. Link is also investigating the 

 occurrence of diseases of perishable vegetables 

 in the terminal markets of the United States. 



Dr. Herbert E. I\'ES, physicist of the 

 United Gas Improvement Company, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., lectured before the Franklin Insti- 

 tute of Philadelphia on January 10 on " The 

 physics of the "Welsbach mantle," and Pro- 

 fessor W. P. Mason, of the Rensselaer Poly- 

 technic Institute, lectured on January 16 on 

 " Camp sanitation." 



Professor Ch.vrles E. Pellew is giving a 

 course of four lectures, on Saturday evenings 

 at 8 p. II., at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

 upon " The dyestuffs of the ancients." 



Dr. Lawrence J. Henderson, professor of 

 biological chemistry in Harvard University, 

 will give a series of lectures on food conser- 

 vation at Smith College. The lectures wiU be 

 open to the public. 



A series of five lectures in the Herter Foun- 

 dation were delivered from January 7 to 11, 

 at the Carnegie Laboratory of the University 

 and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, by 

 Major Edward K. Dunham, M. R. C, U. S. 

 Army, emeritus professor of pathology, on 

 " Principles underlying the treatment of in- 

 fected wounds." 



A IIEETING of the Faraday Society was held 

 on January 14 in the rooms of the Royal So- 

 ciety of Arts, when a general discussion on the 

 setting of cements and plasters was opened by 

 Dr. C. H. Desch. 



The Ramsay Memorial Fund, which was in- 

 stituted a year ago with the object of raising 

 a sum of £100,000 as a suitable memorial to the 

 late Professor Sir William Ramsay, has now 

 reached a sum of just above £30,000. The 

 latest and most important donation to the 

 fund has been been a sum of £5,000, contrib- 

 uted by Mrs. Wharrie. 



Dr. a. H. Purdue, state geologist of Ten- 

 nessee, died as a result of an operation, on 

 December 12, aged fifty-six years. 



Joseph Price Remington, since 1893 dean 

 of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and 

 a member of the revision committee of the 

 United States Pharmacopoeia since 1880 and 



