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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLVII. No. 1216 



Medical School from 5 to 6 p.m. on April 25 

 and 26, by Frederic S. Lee, A.M., Ph.D., pro- 

 fessor of physiology of the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, Columbia University, on 

 "Industrial Efficiency and the War." 



Dr. W. Eagle Clarke, keeper of the Natural 

 History Department of the Eoyal Scottish 

 Museum, Edinburgh, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the British Ornithologists' IJnion, in 

 succession to Col. Wardlaw Eamsey. 



In view of a biography of the late Percival 

 Lowell, it is requested that any one possessing 

 letters of his will be kind enough to lend them 

 to G. E. Agassiz, 14 Ashburton Place, Boston, 

 Mass. All letters lent will be promptly copied 

 and returned. 



Professor Ewald Hering, the eminent phys- 

 iologist, professor at Leipzig, has died at the 

 age of eighty-four years. 



There is announced in Nature the death of 

 Miss B. Lindsay, on December 16 last, at 

 Onchan, Isle of Man. She was known for 

 her experimental work in the morpholog-y of 

 birds and molluscs and for her test-books. 



Professor G. Meslin, director of the phys- 

 ical institute laboratory of the University of 

 Montpellier, known for his work on optics, died 

 on January 11, aged fifty-six years. 



There is need for about 100 women bac- 

 teriologists to take the place of men in the 

 cantonment laboratories, the Surgeon Gen- 

 eral's Office of the United States Army an- 

 nounces. The service of the men is demanded 

 for the hospital units which are going abroad 

 and their places at the home cantonments are 

 to be filled by women. Applications are ar- 

 riving from all camips, some asking for as 

 many as nine women. A good practical knowl- 

 edge of clinical pathology and diagnostic bac- 

 teriology is required for the work. The pres- 

 ent salary is $720 with maintenance and $1,200 

 without, with transportation furnished by the 

 government. Applications may be made to 

 Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an examination for apprentice 

 draftsman, for males only, to fill vacancies in 



the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The entrance 

 salary will be at the rate of $60 a month dur- 

 ing the time of probationary service of six 

 months, with subsistence at the rate of $1 a 

 day when serving on shipboard or in camp, 

 and $2 a day when living on shore and board- 

 ing. Those serving a satisfactory probation- 

 ary period of six months will be appointed 

 draftsmen at $900 a year and will be eligible 

 for appointment to one of the statutory posi- 

 tions in the drafting section of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey at Washington, D. C, after 

 passing the examination for topographic 

 draftsman. On entering the service, apprentice 

 draftsman will be given special instruction in 

 the office at Washing'ton, D. C, for two or 

 more months, and then will be ordered for duty 

 with a field party. In the field they will be 

 given elementary instruction in the several 

 branches of surveying and afforded an oppor- 

 tunity of becoming familiar with survey 

 methods by taking part in the different classes 

 of field work. At the close of the field season 

 they will be ordered to the office at Washing- 

 ton, D. C, where they will be engaged in com.- 

 pleting the records of the past season's work 

 and at the same time they will be given special 

 instructions to fit them for more advanced 

 cartographic work. 



The next annual session of the Biological 

 Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Is- 

 land, N^ew York, will be held during June to 

 September. Class work will begin Wednesday, 

 July third and continue for six weeks. 

 Courses of instruction are offered in field zool- 

 ogy by Drs. Walter and Kornhauser, bird study 

 by Mrs. Walter, comparative anatomy by Pro- 

 fessor Pratt, sanitary entomology by Mrs. 

 Elizabeth H. Wright and others, animal bio- 

 nomics and evolution by Dr. Davenport, syste- 

 matic and field botany by Dr. John W. Harsh- 

 berger, a training course for fidd workers in 

 eugenics by Drs. Davenport and Laughlin. 

 Advanced work in zoology and botany is offered 

 by the staff. Professor and Mrs. H. H. Wilder 

 also offer a course of lectures and laboratory 

 work on physical anthropology. This last 

 course and the course on sanitary entomology 

 and the elementary course in botany are this 



