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He discussed twenty-five different species and 

 described observations made in eastern On- 

 tario. The lecture was illustrated with living 

 specimens and lantern views. 



Through the courtesy of the regents and sec- 

 retary of the Smithsonian Institution, a re- 

 ception was tendered there on the evening of 

 February 28 by the Chemical Society of Wash- 

 ington to the five hundred chemists tempor- 

 arily residing in Washington for war duty. 

 Addresses of welcome were made by Dr. 

 Frederick B. Power, president of the society, 

 and by Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of 

 geology of the Smithsonian Institution, after 

 which brief addresses were made by Professor 

 Frank W. Clarke, Dr. Charles L. Parsons, 

 Major Samuel J. M. Auld, the British chemist 

 cooperating with this government in the Gas 

 Defense Service, Chancellor Samuel Avery, 

 of the University of Nebraska and Professor 

 Wilder D. Bancroft. A large proportion of 

 the guests were in uniform and included many 

 of academic distinction. 



G. A. Lebour, for many years professor of 

 geology at the University of Durham, died on 

 February 7, at the age of seventy-one years. 



The death is announced of C. I. Istrati, pro- 

 fessor of organic chemistry and dean at the 

 University of Bucharest and president of the 

 Eoumanian Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. a. W. E. Erlandsen, professor of hy- 

 giene at the University of Copenhagen, has 

 died at the age of thirty-nine years. 



Owing to greatly increased activities in the 

 Public Health Service, there is urgent need of 

 the services of medical officers for field duty 

 in connection with the sanitation of numerous 

 civil sanitary districts. The salaries of the 

 positions in question vary from $1,800 to 

 $2,500 per annum, depending on the qualifica- 

 tions and experience of the appointees. Men 

 who have been disqualified physically for the 

 Medical Reserve Corps are eligible for appoint- 

 ment, provided they are not suffering from com- 

 plaints which will seriously interfere with the 

 performance of their duties. It is especially 

 desired to secure the services of competent 

 sanitarians and those who have had previous 



experience in health work. There are also nu- 

 merous vacancies for sanitary engineers, scien- 

 tific assistants, sanitary inspectors and others. 

 Applications for appointment to these vacan- 

 cies should be made to the Surgeon-General, 

 U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C, 

 and in order to avoid unnecessary correspond- 

 ence should include complete data concerning 

 age, nativity, experience and training, and 

 other necessary information. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 A GIFT of a large tract of land has been 

 made to Harvard University by Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie, President A. Lawrence Lowell, 

 Mr. Henry L. Higginson and ten others. The 

 tract, which comprises 2,344,000 square feet, is 

 adjacent to the Soldiers' Field. There are no 

 buildings on the land, and, according to uni- 

 versity authorities, no plans have been made 

 for the immediate use of the property. 



Gifts reported at the recent Corporation 

 jneeting of Yale University, included one of 

 $5,000 from Mrs. James Wesley Cooper, of 

 Hartford, for the establishment of a publica- 

 tion fund in memory of her husband, who grad- 

 uated from the college in 1865 and who was for 

 over thirty years a member of the corpora- 

 tion, and $5,000 in memory of the late William 

 A. Eead of IvTew York by his widow, to assist 

 the work of the Yale University Press. Two 

 bequests were also announced: $10,000 from 

 the late Samuel J. Elder, for the college, and 

 $5,000 from the widow of Amory E. Rowland, 

 for the benefit of the Sheffield Scientific School. 



By the will of Mrs. Eliza C. Farnham $1,200 

 is left to the Howard College for two Horace 

 Farnham Scholarships. 



Assistant Professor Herbert L. Seward, 

 '06 S., of the Sheffield Scientific School of 

 Yale University has been granted leave of ab- 

 sence to become head of a new school being 

 organized by the l^avy Department to train 

 engineers for the naval service. The leave of 

 absence granted by the corporation begins on 

 May 1, but Professor Seward will continue in 

 charge of the engineering instruction of the 



