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laboratory building. A Tnotion-picture appa- 

 ratus is being installed in the lecture hall to 

 be used especially in connection with lectures 

 to children. The following lectures were an- 

 nounced : 



April 7. "Farming for women." Miss Sophia 

 de M. Carey, official lecturer of the British govern- 

 ment; Miss Elizabeth Cleveland and Mrs. Florence 

 Young, Bedford farmerettes and members of the 

 Woman 's Land Army of America. 



April 14. "The back yard vegetable garden." 

 Miss Jean A. Cross, assistant curator of elemen- 

 tary instruction. 



April 21. "Forest products and -the war" 

 (Arbor Day Lecture). Professor Samuel J. Bec- 

 ord, school of forestry, Yale University. 



April 28. ' ' Diseases of garden crops and how 

 to control them." Dr. Edgar W. Olive, curator of 

 Public Instruction. 



May 5. ' ' Plant breeding and increased food pro- 

 duction. " Dr. Orland E. White, curator of Plant 

 Breeding. 



May 12. "Bacteriology and the war." Dr. Ira 

 S. Wile, former member of the Board of Educa- 

 tion, New York City. 



May 19. "Garden insects — good and bad." 

 Dr. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist of New York. 



May 26. ' ' Cultivation of drug plants. ' ' Dr. W. 

 W. Stockberger, in charge of drug and poisonous 

 plant investigations, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



The Sigma Xi Society of Syracuse Univer- 

 sity has arranged a number of public lectures 

 to inform the students and general public of 

 interesting and timely scientific problems. In 

 addition to those already reported the follow- 

 ing have been held: 



January 11. "The service of botany to the na- 

 tion during and after the war." Dean Wm. L. 

 Bray, of the Graduate School of Syracuse Uni- 

 versity. 



April 5. "Mt. Katmai and the valley of ten 

 thousand smokes. ' ' Professor Robert F. Griggs, 

 of Ohio State University, director of the National 

 Geographic Society's expeditions to Mt. Katmai. 



April 19. "The habits of spiders." Professor 

 J. H. Comstock, emeritus professor of entomology 

 of Cornell University. 



The summer meeting of the American Insti- 

 tute of Chemical Engineers will be held in 

 Berlin, N. H., June 19-22. Headquarters will 

 be at Mt. Madison House, Gorham, N. H. 



The National Medical Institute of Mexico, 

 founded in 1S90 for research on and exploita- 

 tion of the flora, fauna and climatology and 

 geography of Mexico has been transformed 

 into the Institute of General and Medical Biol- 

 •Jgy by a recent decree. The institute has 

 been engaged in the study and classification as 

 well as the action of native plants. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, 

 Italy, has announced a prize of 2C,000 lire, to 

 be awarded for the most remarkable and most 

 celebrated work on any of the physical sciences 

 published in the four years ending December 

 31. The prize fund is a bequest from a senator 

 of the realm, T. Yallauri. Competition is 

 open to Italian and foreign scientific men, and 

 the term " physical sciences " is to be taken in 

 the broadest sense. 



The Provost Marshal General made public 

 the following : " Under such regulations as the 

 Chief Signal Officer may prescribe, a propor- 

 tion of the students in institutions in which 

 the Signal Corps has established a course in 

 electrical communication, who have completed 

 at least two and a half years of the course in 

 electrical engineering, or its equivalent, in one 

 of the approved technical engineering schools 

 listed in the War Department, may enlist in 

 the Signal Enlisted Reserve Cori^s, and there- 

 after, upon presentation by the registrant to 

 his local board of a certificate of such enlist- 

 ment, such certificate shall be filed with the 

 questionnaire and the registrant shall be 

 placed in Class 5 on the ground that he is in 

 the military service of the United States." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Under bequests of the late William Brechin 

 Faulds, of Glasgow, a research fellowship in 

 medicine, of the annual value of about £200, 

 tenable for three years, has been founded in 

 the university. The Ferguson trustees have 

 announced their intention of founding a re- 

 search fellowship in applied chemistry, also of 

 the annual value of £200. 



The new agricultural building of the Mary- 

 land State College of Agriculture, costing 



