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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLVII. No. 1211 



Dr. Alfred Lacroix, secretaire perpetual of 

 the Academie des Sciences, Paris, and pro- 

 fessor and curator of the department of min- 

 eralogy of the Museum d'Histoire I^aturelle, 

 of Paris, has in preparation a life of the great 

 mineralogist Dolomieu (1Y50-1801), and is in- 

 terested in any information leading to the 

 location of manuscripts, letters or signatures 

 of that great scientist. Any letters or signa- 

 tures of Abbe Eene Just Haiiy are especially 

 desired, and these, or any information relating 

 to them, can be addressed to George P. Kunz, 

 Abbe Haiiy Celebration Committee, 405 Fifth 

 Avenue, New York City. 



Steps have been taken to raise a memorial to 

 the late Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson from 

 the women of England. It will be devoted to 

 the endowment of beds in the New Hospital 

 for Women, Euston Road, which she founded 

 in 1866. A sum of over £9,000 has already 

 been received, and a number of women's col- 

 leges and schools have undertaken to raise 

 £7,000. 



Dr. Charles Parker Lyman, who was fifteen 

 years dean of the Harvard School of Veter- 

 inary Medicine, died in Los Angeles, on Feb- 

 ruary 1, aged seventy years. 



Lieutenant Colonel John McCrea, of the 

 Canadian Army Medical Corps and the depart- 

 ment of pathology of McGill University, has 

 died in France. 



The late Dr. Ludwig Mond undertook to pay 

 £62,000 as an endowment fund for the David 

 Faraday Eesearch Laboratory of the Eoyal 

 Institution before 1926. His trustees have 

 now anticipated the obligation, and have 

 transferred £66,500 in 5 per cent, war stock to 

 the trustees of the Laboratory. 



Undergraduates between the ages of eight- 

 een and twenty-one in technical colleges may 

 enroll as second class seaman in the Naval Re- 

 serve force for future service, according to the 

 announcement of the Bureau of Navigation of 

 the Navy Department. The students will not 

 be called upon for active duty until they have 

 been graduated, except in case of great emerg- 

 ency, which is not now anticipated by naval 

 authorities. No promise is held out that the 



recruits will later be coromissioned, but upon 

 graduation they will take examinations, and 

 the ratings they make will determine whether 

 their qualifications merit promotion. Navy 

 recruiting officers have been instructed to com- 

 municate with technical colleges and univer- 

 sities with a view to enrolling students who 

 are eligible. 



The United States Public Health Service of 

 the Treasury Department has practically com- 

 pleted plans for preventing malaria among 

 soldiers at camps and cantonments during the 

 coming spring and summer. In a zone from 

 one to two miles wide around twenty or more 

 camps in the south every known effective 

 method of eradicating the disease will be em- 

 ployed under the supervision of experts. In 

 the camps themselves the Army authorities 

 will control the disease. At each camp where 

 there is danger of malaria an expert, probably 

 a sanitary engineer, will be in charge of the 

 malaria operations. 



Sir a. Mond said, in the House of Commons 

 on February 18, as quoted in Nature, that the 

 Imperial Institute was partly occupied for the 

 sugar rationing purposes of the Ministry. As 

 to the new Science Museum, it was in course 

 of construction, and incomplete. It had been 

 represented that the work of construction 

 ought to be continued during the war, but he 

 was not in a position to complete the construc- 

 tion of museums in existing circumstances. 

 Considerable expense had been incurred in 

 making the finished part of the building suit- 

 able for the work now to be done there. Mu- 

 seums now wholly or partly occupied by gov- 

 ernment departments were the National Gal- 

 lery, the Tate Gallery, the Wallace Gallery, the 

 Victoria and Albert Museum and the British 

 Museum, of which a small part had been taken 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Richmond College has received a gift of 



$60,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Millhizer, 



of Richmond, Va. This sum is to be used in 



the erection of a gymnasiimi which will be a 



