September 15, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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State College; Dr. F. D. Fromme, of the Vir- 

 ginia Polytechnic Institute, and Mr. C. A. 

 Ludwig, research student of the University of 

 Michigan, all former members of the labora- 

 tory staff. They came to assist in the prepara- 

 tion of the remaining parts of the Uredinales 

 for the " North American Flora." 



Professor Lawrence Martin, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, assisted by Mr. P. T. 

 Thwaites, had a class of 22 men doing field 

 work in geology and geography in the Devil's 

 Lake region (Wis.), during the month of Au- 

 gust. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the International 

 Health Board has taken up the consideration 

 of the subject of malaria under the phases of 

 geographic distribution and district of in- 

 fection. Two sets of experiments to test the 

 practicability of malaria control are being 

 carried out; one, the detection of the carriers 

 and freeing them of the parasites, and the 

 other a combination of control measures. The 

 first experiment is being carried out in Boli- 

 var County, Miss., under the administration 

 of the Mississippi Department of Health, with 

 Dr. Walter S. Leathers, University, as admin- 

 istering director and Dr. Charles C. Bass, New 

 Orleans, as scientific director. The field force 

 and microscopists have received their technical 

 training in the laboratory of Tulane Univer- 

 sity. The second series of experiments is be- 

 ing carried out in Arkansas in cooperation 

 with the United States Public Health Service, 

 under the charge of Surgeon Rudolph H. von 

 Ezdorf. 



The annual New England forestry confer- 

 ence under the auspices of the Society for the 

 Protection of Forests and the New Hampshire 

 State Forestry Commission, was held at the 

 Crawford House, last week. At the formal 

 opening of the conference addresses were made 

 by William L. Hall, chief purchasing agent 

 of the government under the Weeks' Act, and 

 by William P. Wharton, of Groton. At the 

 general sessions Professor Filibert Roth, di- 

 rector of the forest school in the University of 

 Michigan, presented a paper showing how an 



owner of a wood-lot may estimate the value of 

 his woods. There were addresses by Arthur 

 A. Shurtleff, of Boston; Dr. B. E. Fernow, 

 president of the Society of American Forest- 

 ers, and dean of the forestry school of the 

 University of Toronto, and by Professor 

 James A. Tourney, director of the Yale Forest 

 School. 



Officers of the Society for the Promotion 

 of Engineering Education elected at the an- 

 nual meeting are: President, G. R. Chatburn, 

 University of Nebraska; First Vice-president, 

 Hollis Godfrey, Drexel Institute; Second Vice- 

 president, W. M. Thornton, University of Vir- 

 ginia; Secretary, F. L. Bishop, University of 

 Pittsburgh ; Treasurer, W. O. Wiley, New York, 

 N. Y. ; Members of the Council to serve for 

 three years, E. J. McCaustland, University of 

 Missouri; F. G. Higbee, State University of 

 Iowa; R. W. Gay, Mississippi College; T. E. 

 French, the Ohio State University; A. H. 

 Blanchard, Columbia University; A. A. Pot- 

 ter, Kansas State Agricultural College; Wm. 

 IT. Browne, Jr., North Carolina College. 



Dr. Charles R. Bardeen, professor of anat- 

 omy and dean of the medical school of the 

 University of Wisconsin, delivered an address 

 on August 31 before the graduate school of 

 medical sciences of the University of Illinois 

 on " Study of the Anatomy of the Heart in 

 the Living by the Use of the Roentgen Ray." 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an examination for scientific 

 assistant, for men only, on October 4, to fill 

 vacancies in the positions of scientific assist- 

 ant and field assistant at $900 to $1,400 per 

 annum in the Bureau of Fisheries, Depart- 

 ment of Commerce. 



The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 

 London, will be closed until September 30, 

 when it will reopen with a loan exhibition illus- 

 trating the folk-lore of London, including 

 medical charms, amulets and other objects 

 found to have been used by the superstitious 

 in connection with the cure and prevention of 



Through a gift from Sir Charles Parsons 

 the British National Physical Laboratory has 



