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with the Federal Department of Agriculture 

 in breeding improved cereals. 



Dr. MouRiER, who represents the Gard in the 

 French Chamber of Deputies, has succeeded 

 M. Godard as under secretary for health in the 

 Ministry of War. 



The British Minister of Pensions has ap- 

 pointed Sir John Collie to be director of med- 

 ical services for the Ministry of Pensions. 



Sm N.JVPiER Shaw, director of the British 

 Meteorological Office, has been elected a for- 

 eign honorary member of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. 



The British polar medal has been given to 

 Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton, Lieutenant 

 Frank Wild and forty-two other members of 

 the Imperial Transantarctic Expedition of 

 1914^16. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society held on February 8 the 

 officers and council elected, as recorded in Na- 

 ture, are as follows: President, Major P. A. 

 MacMahon ; Vice-presidents, Professor A. S. 

 Eddington, Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, Professor 

 R. A. Sampson and Professor H. H. Turner; 

 Treasurer, Mr. E. B. Knobel; Secretaries, Dr. 

 A. C. D. Crommelin and Professor A. Fowler; 

 Foreign Secretary, Dr. A. Schuster; Council, 

 Mr. A. E. Conrady, the Rev. A. L. Cortie, S.J., 

 Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer, Sir F. W. Dyson, Colonel 

 E. H. Hills, Mr. J. H. Jeans, Mr. H. S. 

 Jones, Mr. E. W. Maunder, Dr. W. H. Maw, 

 Professor H. F. Newall, Professor J. W. Nich- 

 olson and the Rev. T. E. R. Phillips. 



Sir J. C. BosE delivered an address at the 

 recent opening ceremony of the Bose Research 

 Institute at Calcutta, of which he is the 

 founder. 



Professor William M. Davis, Sturgis- 

 Hooper professor emeritus of geology, has pre- 

 pared a " Handbook of Northern France," 

 which has the approval of the geography com- 

 mittee of the National Research Council, and a 

 considerable number of copies will be distrib- 

 uted free at cantonments, which thirty con- 

 tributors to a fund of nearly $3,000 may desig- 

 nate. The Harvard University Press \n\\ 



print the book, which will also be placed on 



sale. 



Elmer V. McCollu.m, Ph.D., professor of 

 chemistry in the school of hygiene and public 

 health, the Johns Hojikins University, will 

 give the Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medi- 

 cine and Hygiene, at the Harvard Medical 

 School on March 19, 20 and 21. The subjects 

 are : " The essentials of an adequate diet," 

 " The special dietary properties of our natural 

 foodstuils " and " The dietary habits of man 

 and their relation to disease." 



The course of lectures on " Wild Life " at 

 Cornell University for the month include 

 " The economic value of birds " and " The 

 cat and rat problem," by E. H. Forbush, state 

 ornithologist of Massachusetts; four lectures 

 on pheasants, breeding, care and rationing of 

 the young, combating of vermin and disease, 

 and miscellaneous problems, by E. A. Quarles, 

 of the American Game Protective Association, 

 and H. T. Rogers, superintendent of the State 

 Game Farm; " The breeding of wild turkeys" 

 and " The breeding of diving ducks," by H. K. 

 Job, of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies. 



A COURSE of public lectures on " Animal 

 life and himaan progress " is being given at 

 King's College, London. The program includes 

 Professor A. Dendy on " Man's accoimt with 

 the lower animals " ; Professor G. C. Bourne 

 on " Some educational and moral aspects of 

 zoology " ; C. Tate Regan on " Museimis and 

 research " ; Professor J. Arthur Thomson on 

 " Man and the web of life " ; Professor F. 

 Wood Jones on " The origin of man " ; Dr. R. 

 T. Leiper on " Some inhabitants of man and 

 their migrations " ; Professor R. T. Punnett 

 on " The future of the science of breeding " ; 

 Professor W. A. Herdman on " Our food from 

 the sea " ; and Professor Robert Newstead on 

 " Tsetse-flics and colonization." It is intended 

 to publish the lectures in book form. 



The Brooklyn Teachers' Association has ap- 

 propriated $1,000 toward the fund to erect 

 a memorial to the late Franklin W. Hooper, 

 the founder of the Brooklyn Museum. 



