December 1, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



781 



Dk. R. A. Millikan, professor of physics in 

 the University of Chicago, has been appointed 

 Hitchcock lecturer at the University of Cali- 

 fornia for 1917, and will give a series of lec- 

 tures at Berkeley, beginning about February 1. 

 Among the Hitchcock lecturers of recent years 

 at the University of California have been 

 Thomas Hunt Morgan, professor of zoology in 

 Columbia University; Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 research professor of zoology in Columbia 

 University; Dr. A. D. Waller, director of the 

 physical laboratory of the University of Lon- 

 don; Julius Steigiitz, professor of chemistry 

 in the University of Chicago; Harry Fielding 

 Reid, professor of dynamical geology and geog- 

 raphy in the Johns Hopkins University, and 

 Dr. Richard M. Pearce, professor of research 

 medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Frank D. Adams, Logan professor of 

 geology and dean of the faculty of applied 

 science, McGill University, has just completed 

 a course of sis lectures on pre-Cambrian 

 stratigraphy for the department of geology, 

 Columbia University. 



Dr. Carlos Chagas, of the Institute for Ex- 

 perimental Pathology at Rio de Janeiro, has 

 been invited to conduct a course on tropical 

 medicine at Harvard University. 



The vice-chancellor of Cambridge Univer- 

 sity has appointed Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, C.B., 

 fellow of Trinity College, director of the Na- 

 tional Physical Laboratory, to the office of 

 reader on Sir Robert Rede's foundation for 

 the ensuing year. 



At a recent general meeting of the members 

 of the Royal Institution, Dr. H. E. Armstrong, 

 F.R.S., was elected a manager, in place of the 

 late Professor Sylvanus P. Thompson. A res- 

 olution of condolence with the relatives of the 

 late Sir Victor Horsley, a member of the 

 Royal Institution, was passed. 



A correspondent informs us that Dr. H. B. 

 Fantham, of the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine, who was appointed to the post of 

 chief protozoologist to the forces of the Allies 

 at Salonika, has been seriously ill with amoebic 

 dysentery and is at present convalescing — but 

 on duty — at Malta. 



We learn from Nature that Major T. Edge- 

 worth David, professor of geology in the Uni- 

 versity of Sydney, has recovered from the ef- 

 fects of serious injuries received while eon- 

 ducting mining operations in northern 

 France, and hopes shortly to rejoin his regi- 

 ment. 



Professor G. Carey Foster, a past president 

 of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, has 

 been elected by the council an honorary mem- 

 ber of the institution. 



After forty-five years' service Dr. C. 

 Ritsema, keeper of the entomological collec- 

 tions of the State Museum of Natural History 

 at Leyden, has retired. He is succeeded by R. 

 van Eecke. 



Dr. Wm. H. Weston has resigned his posi- 

 tion as instructor in biology in charge of the 

 botanical work at Western Reserve Univer- 

 sity to accept a position as a pathological in- 

 spector of the Federal Horticultural Board. 

 He will be stationed at Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Eric Mjoberg, a Swedish explorer, who 

 arrived in New York on November 22, said, as 

 reported in daily papers, he had come to the 

 United States to study the latest inventions in 

 aviation preparatory to making arrangements 

 for an exploration trip into the interior of 

 New Guinea. 



At the meeting of the Section of Medical 

 History of the College of Physicians of Phila- 

 delphia, on November 21, Dr. Arnold C. Klebs, 

 Washington, D. C, read a paper on " Some 

 Recent Results of Paleopathology Research." 



Dr. J. Paul Goode, professor of geography 

 at the University of Chicago, recently gave a 

 lecture before the Civic and Commerce Asso- 

 ciation of Minneapolis on the " Geographic 

 and Economic Foundation of the Great War." 



At the two hundred and twenty-sixth meet- 

 ing of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 

 held at the University of North Carolina on 

 November 14, the papers were: Dr. W. C. 

 Coker, " Some Problems in Classification " ; 

 Mr. T. F. Hickerson, "The Quebec Bridge." 



The municipal and university authorities of 

 Barcelona recently placed a marble memorial 



