October 20, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



563 



At its meeting held on October 11, the 

 Eumford Committee of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences appropriated the 

 sum of $300 to Professor J. A. Parkhurst, of 

 the Yerkes Observatory, in aid of his inves- 

 tigation on the determination of the photo- 

 visual scale of stellar magnitudes. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the governor of Min- 

 nesota has appointed a commission composed 

 of the following members to investigate and 

 report on the need of additional health safe- 

 guards for the citizens of the state : Dr. E. P. 

 Lyon, dean of the University of Minnesota 

 Medical School, Minneapolis; C. G. Schultz, 

 superintendent of the state department of 

 education; William F. Houk, state labor 

 commissioner; C. J. Swendsen, chairman, state 

 board of control; Senator L. E. Potter, 

 Springfield; Drs. Arthur T. Laird, superin- 

 tendent of the Nopeining Sanatorium; Louis 

 B. Wilson, Rochester; Warren L. Beebe, 

 president, and Ignatius J. Murphy, St. Paul, 

 executive secretary of the Minnesota Public 

 Health Association. At the meeting for 

 organization, held September 20, in St. Paul, 

 Dr. E. P. Lyon was elected chairman, and 

 Dr. Ignatius J. Murphy, secretary of the com- 

 mission. 



The motion picture film, " How Life 

 Begins," was presented on October 6, before 

 the New York Association of Biology Teach- 

 ers. This picture has been perfected by 

 George E. Stone, A.B., of Berkeley, Cal., in 

 collaboration with Dr. J. A. Long, assistant 

 professor of embryology of the University of 

 California. It embodies many interesting 

 features in the life-history of the different 

 classes of animals. 



At its regular fall meeting on September 

 27, the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 

 elected the following officers for the coming 

 year : President, T. F. Hickerson ; vice-presi- 

 dent, J. G. Beard; recording-secretary, J. W. 

 Lasley, Jr. The following were elected to as- 

 sociate membership in the society : R. P. 

 Brooks, J. W. Hale, J. W. Scott, C. W. 



Higgins, A. C. Forney, W. T. Harper, Geo. 

 Slover, M. M. Williams, and S. H. Hobbs, Jr. 

 At the first meeting for discussion, on Oc- 

 tober 10, two papers were presented to the 

 society by Dr. A. S. Wheeler on " The Second 

 International Chemical Exposition," and by 

 J. W. Lasley, Jr., on " Some Elementary 

 Vector Equations." 



The Cartwright lectures of the Association 

 of the Alumni of the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Columbia University, will be 

 given on October 24 and 25, at 5 o'clock, by 

 Dr. Richard M. Pearce, Jr., professor of re- 

 search medicine of the John Herr Musser De- 

 partment of Research Medicine, University of 

 Pennsylvania. His subject will be " The 

 Spleen in Its Relation to Blood Destruction 

 and Regeneration." 



The twelfth course of Harvey Society 

 lectures will begin on October 14 and close 

 on April 7. The lectures will be given on 

 Saturday evenings in the New York Academy 

 of Medicine. The following lectures are an- 

 nounced: October 14 — Professor J. S. Hal- 

 dane, " The New Physiology " ; November 4 — ■ 

 Dr. F. M. Allen, " The Role of Fat in Dia- 

 betes " ; November 25 — Dr. Paul A. Lewis, 

 " Chemo-Therapy in Tuberculosis " ; Decem- 

 ber 16 — Professor Henry H. Donaldson, 

 " Growth Changes in the Mammalian Nerv- 

 ous System " ; January 13 — Professor E. V. 

 McCollum, " The Supplementary Dietary Re- 

 lationships Among Our Natural Foodstuffs"; 

 February 3 — Professor J. W. Jobling, " The 

 Influence of Non- Specific Substances on In- 

 fections " ; February 24 — Professor John R. 

 Murlin, " The Metabolism of Mother and Off- 

 spring before and after Parturition " ; March 

 17 — Professor Francis W. Peabody, " Cardiac 

 Dyspnea " ; April 7 — Professor W. H. Howell, 

 " The Coagulation of the Blood." 



Professor J. Norman Collie, director of 

 the chemical laboratories of University Col- 

 lege, London, gave a lecture on October 31, on 

 "The Scientific Work of Sir William 



October 11 was observed by the Chicago 

 Medical Society as Dr. John B. Murphy me- 



