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public. It is the intention of the two chap- 

 ters to continue each year this exchange of 

 lecturers. 



Mr. C. Haxxevig has donated 150,000 

 crowns as a memorial to N. H. Abel. The in- 

 come of the fund is to be used to further 

 mathematical research in Norway. 



The death is announced of Dr. Emile Tung, 

 professor of zoology in the University of 

 Geneva. 



The American Association of Museums 

 meets at Springfield, Massachusetts, on May 

 21 and 22. 



The Society for the Promotion of Engi- 

 neering Education will meet at Northwestern 

 University, Evanston, 111., from June 26 to 29. 

 The dormitories and fraternity houses at 

 which members are to live and Swift Hall of 

 Engineering at which the formal meetings of 

 the society will be held are all on the shore of 

 Lake Michigan in well-shaded grounds. The 

 local committee hopes that its guests will, as a 

 rule, use the late afternoon hours to get ac- 

 quainted with each other in the open air on 

 the shore of the lake and the committee will 

 endeavor to make it pleasant for them to do 

 so. There will be an informal meeting at the 

 gjmnasium on Wednesday evening and both 

 the afternoon and evening of Friday will be 

 devoted to an excursion on the north shore 

 and a dinner at Ravinia Park. 



According to Director Edwin Brant Frost, 

 of the Yerkes Observatory, the University of 

 Chicago observers of the coming total eclipse 

 of the sun have selected as their principal 

 station Green River, Wyoming, a point on the 

 Union Pacific Railway, lying between Chey- 

 enne and Ogden. This station is situated in 

 the so-called Red Desert, with a rainfall of 

 about ten inches per year and at an elevation 

 of over 6,000 feet. The remarkable transpar- 

 ency of the air in this region makes the sta- 

 tion one of the most promising of any along 

 the line of totality. The observing party from 

 the University of Chicago will have about 

 twenty members, including Professor Edward 

 Emerson Barnard and Assistant Professors 

 John A. Parkhurst and Storrs B. Barrett, be- 



sides volunteers from the Yerkes Observatory 

 and other institutions. Some of the volun- 

 teers will use apparatus at Denver. It is 

 hoped also that the weather will permit simul- 

 taneous observations with the spectrohelio- 

 graph at the Yerkes Observatory by Dr. Oliver 

 J. Lee. 



The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in 

 accordance with a request from Captain Roald 

 Amundsen, has supplied for use in his forth- 

 coming Arctic expedition a complete set of 

 magnetic instruments, as also the necessary 

 directions for magnetic measurements and the 

 program of work. Captain Amundsen plans 

 to leave Norway next simimer, and has made 

 arrangements on the expectation that his ex- 

 pedition will require about five years for com- 

 pletion. He will make scientific observations 

 of various kinds in the Arctic regions. During 

 a visit by Dr. Nansen and Captain Amundsen 

 to the laboratory of the department on April 

 5, the final details with regard to the contem- 

 plated Arctic magnetic observations were ar- 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that seven prizes were dis- 

 tributed at the recent annual meeting of the 

 National Academy of Medicine at Madrid, the 

 prizes amounting to over 41,000 pesetas, about 

 $8,200. The themes included vaccine therapy, 

 medical geography and epidemics. One prize 

 goes annually to the professor in the university 

 who has contributed most to the progress of 

 science, and one to a city physician, married 

 and with children, who has sent in the best re- 

 port on some epidemic. 



" The Organization of Thought," by A. N. 

 Whitehead, reviewed in Science for February 

 15, 1918, by Professor C. J. Keyser, has now 

 been published in the United States by the J. 

 B. Lippincott Company of Philadelphia. 



At the request of the mayor of Middletown, 

 Conn., Professor Charles E. A. Winslow, of 

 the department of public health, Yale School 

 of Medicine, assisted by David Greenberg and 

 Ira D. Joel, of the same department, made a 

 survey of health and sanitary conditions and 

 the administration of the health service of 



