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SCIENCE 



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ant psychologist in the Laboratory of Social 

 Hygiene, Bedford Hills, N. Y., and has ac- 

 cepted an appointment as research assistant 

 in the Bureau of Educational Experiments, 

 New York City. 



Dr. Olh-er W. H. Mitchell has resigned as 

 head of the city laboratories at Syracuse, 

 N. Y., and is succeeded by Dr. Augustus J. 

 Gigger, formerly bacteriologist for the Rhode 

 Island State Department of Health. 



The firm of Waddell and Son, which has 

 offices in Kansas City and New York City, 

 has recently become incorporated. The new 

 firm of Waddell and Son, Inc., includes, be- 

 sides Dr. J. A. L. Waddell and N. Everett 

 Waddell, their former assistant engineers, E. 

 H. Erankland, Shortridge Hardesty, and L. C. 

 Lashmet. 



At a recent meeting of the scientific staff 

 of the Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 

 founder and former chief of the bureau, now 

 consulting biologist, II. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, and research associate on the 

 Harriman Foundation, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, delivered an address on the " Origin and 

 Early History of the Biological Survey." 



Professor E. V. McCollum, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, on April 12 addressed the 

 Chicago section of the American Chemical 

 Society on " The Biological Analysis of Food." 



A MEETING of the Botanical Society of 

 Washington was held at the Cosmos Club, 

 Washington, D. C. on April 2. The program 

 was " The Grain Sorghums : The Botanical 

 Grouping of Cultivated Varieties " (with lan- 

 tern), by C. R. Ball; "The Shaw Aquatic 

 Gardens" (with lantern), by F. V. Rand. 



The first " Silvanus Thompson Memorial 

 Lecture," founded by the Rontgen Society, 

 London, in memory of its first president, was 

 delivered by Sir Ernest Rutherford on April 9. 



The annual meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Museums will be held at Springfield, 

 Mass., on May 20, 21 and 22. 



The Council of the Southern Society for 

 Philosophy and Psychology has decided, on ac- 



count of the general situation and of the num- 

 ber of members of the society who are engaged 

 in various forms of national service, to aban- 

 don the annual meeting scheduled to be held 

 at Peabody College, Nashville, this spring. 



The committee on botany of the National 

 Research Coimcil urges throughout the coun- 

 try to aid in securing data in reference to- 

 important crop diseases. In connection with 

 what may be called the " barberry campaign," 

 the following information is desired from as 

 many regions as possible: (1) prevalence of 

 barberry, (2) amount of infected barberry, (3) 

 the neighboring grass flora, (4) amount of 

 back rust on these grasses, (5) proximity of 

 infected barberry and grasses to grain fields, 

 (6) relative susceptibility of the different va- 

 rieties of barberry (including Mahonia). Such 

 information should be reported to Prof&ssor 

 E. C. Stakman, University Farm, St. Paul, 

 Minn., who will organize and distribute tlie 

 data. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Several gifts and bequests were announced 

 at the recent meeting of the corporation of 

 Yale University. Mrs. James Wesley Cooper, 

 of Hartford, has given $5,000 for the establish- 

 ment of a publication fund in memory of her 

 husband, who graduated from the college in 

 1865, and who was a member of the corpora- 

 tion for over thirty years. The widow of the 

 late William A. Read, of New York, has made 

 a memorial gift of $5,000 to assist the work of 

 the Yale University Press. Two bequests have 

 been received, one of $10,000 from the late 

 Samuel J. Elder, '73, for the college, and one 

 of $5,000 from the widow of Amory E. Row- 

 land, '73 S., for the benefit of the Sheffield 

 Scientific School. 



It is stated in Nature that an anonymous 

 donor has given Oxford University £500 to- 

 wards the fund for the endowment of the 

 professorship of forestry, and that the Uni- 

 versity of Liverpool has recently received a 

 gift of £2,000 from Mrs. and Miss Holt as a 



