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the underlying principles of tlie phenomenon 

 of the electric corona at high potentials." 



Lord Rothschild has been elected an honor- 

 ary member of the recently founded Entomo- 

 logical Society of Spain. 



Samuel E. William, professor of physics at 

 Oberlin College, has been appointed Ernest 

 Kempton Adams fellow by Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 



Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, consulting 

 surgeon to Guy's Hospital, Sir James Mac- 

 kenzie, physician to the London Hospital, and 

 Colonel Herbert A. Bruce, consulting surgeon 

 of the British Armies in France, are now in 

 this country to attend American medical con- 

 ferences. 



Major George W. Norris, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, who went to France nearly 

 a year ago with Base Hospital No. 10, now No. 

 16, with the British Expeditionary forces, has 

 been assigned, in addition to his other work, 

 consultant in general medicine for Advance 

 Section S. 0. S., Zone of the Advance. He is 

 attached to the American Expeditionary 

 forces. 



W. A. Cochel, for six years head of the de- 

 partment of animal husbandry, Kansas State 

 Agricultural College, has resigned his position 

 to become secretary of the American Short- 

 horn Breeders' Association. He will probably 

 continue to make his home in Manhattan. 



President W. A. Jessup, of the University 

 of Iowa, has received a letter from Professor 

 C. C. Nutting, head of the expedition to the 

 British West Indies, stating that the party 

 had reached the island of Barbados safely after 

 a thirteen-day voyage from New York City. 

 Each of the nineteen members in the company 

 is in good health, and prospects are favorable 

 for a successful outcome. The explorers are 

 now in government quarters and have equipped 

 excellent laboratories and aquariums for the 

 study of sea life. 



Professor Vaughan MacCaughey, professor 

 of botany at the College of Hawaii, Honolulu, 

 will have charge of the courses in biology and 

 field natural history at the Chatauqua Institu- 

 tion Summer Schools, Chatauqua, New York. 

 En route he will lecture at educational centers 



on " The Islands of the Pacific and the World 

 War." 



Sir Alexander Pedler, F.R.S., known for 

 his research work in chemistry, for many years 

 professor of that science in the Presidency 

 College at Calcutta, later vice-chancellor of the 

 Calcutta University and minister of public in- 

 struction in Bengal, died on May 13, aged 

 sixty-eight years. 



The death is announced in Nature of Dr. 

 E. G. Hebb, consulting physician and physi- 

 cian pathologist to Westminster Hospital, lec- 

 turer on pathology at Westminster Hospital 

 Medical School, reader in morbid anatomy at 

 the University of London, and editor of the 

 Journal of the Eoyal Microscopical Society. 



The Civil Service Commission announces a 

 registration examination for geodetic, hydro- 

 graphic and magnetic computers in the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey. This is a 

 continuing examination and the entrance sal- 

 ary is $1,200 per annum. Detailed informa- 

 tion regarding the requirements and the work 

 done by the computers will be furnished upon 

 application to the U. S. Civil Service Com- 

 mission or to the U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, Washington, D. C. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A $50,000 BEQUEST to the University of 

 Pennsylvania is included in the will of the 

 late Dr. William C. Goodell, to be used to 

 endow a chair of gynecology. 



A LETTER from the department of registra- 

 tion and education of the state of Illinois, 

 states that after October 15, 1918, no medical 

 college will be recognized as in good standing 

 in Illinois unless it requires for admission two 

 years of work in an approved college of liberal 

 arts or a fully equivalent education. 



The University of Wisconsin reports the 

 receipt of gifts amounting to $100,000 which, 

 with an appropriation of $50,000 from the leg- 

 islature of 1917, will be used in the construc- 

 tion of a new infirmary for the medical school. 



Dr. H. L, Eietz, of the University of Hli- 

 nois, has been made head of the mathematics 

 at the State University of Iowa. He will sue- 



