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partment of farm mechanics of the College of 
Agriculture of Cornell University, was elected 
president of the American Association of 
Agricultural Engineers at the annual conven- 
tion recently held at St. Paul, Minn. 
Art the meeting of the American Society of 
Bio-chemists, held in Baltimore, the following 
officers were elected: president, Dr. Archibald 
B. Macallum, University of Toronto; sec- 
retary, Dr. A. N. Richards, University of 
Pennsylvania; treasurer, Dr. Walter Jones, 
Johns Hopkins University; councilors, Drs. 
L. B. Mendel, Yale, and H. Gideon Wells, 
University of Chicago. 
Dr. Epwarp G. Dexter, of Illinois, has been 
renominated by President Taft to be commis- 
sioner of education for Porto Rico. 
Mr. J. C. Tu. Urnor, of Amsterdam, author 
of “Die Pflanzengattungen,” has been ap- 
pointed gardener for the Botanical Garden at 
the Michigan Agricultural College. He will 
also do work in connection with the herba- 
rium. He is expected to enter upon his duties 
in the latter part of February. 
PRoFESSOR THEODORE PFEIFFER, of Breslau, 
has declined a call to the directorship of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Mockern, 
near Leipzig. 
Mr. N. C. NELson, instructor in anthropol- 
ogy in the University of California, has been 
appointed assistant curator in the department 
of anthropology, American Museum of Nat- 
ural History. He will assume his duties next 
June and will give especial attention to North 
American archeology. Mr. George Borup, who 
was in charge of the third supporting party 
of Admiral Peary in his last polar expedition, 
has been appointed assistant curator in the 
department of geology and invertebrate pale- 
ontology. 
Dr. Weser has been appointed director of 
the imperial health office, Berlin, to succeed 
Professor Uhlenhuth, who is at present di- 
rector of the hygienic institute at Strasburg. 
Dr. Erwin Eruarpt, of the University of 
Munich, is visiting the United States to study 
methods of treating cancer. 
Dr. L. A. Bauer has returned to Washing- 
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ton after a nine months’ trip of inspection of 
the magnetic work being conducted, under the 
auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
ington, on board the Carnegie in the Indian 
and Pacifie oceans and by land expeditions in 
Australia and Asia. En route he also visited 
the various magnetic institutions in the Pa- 
cifie Islands, New Zealand, Australia, India, 
Burma, Java, China and Japan, and observed 
the total solar eclipse of April 28 at Tau 
Island of the Manua group. 
The Auk states that Mr. Roy OC. Andrews, 
assistant curator of mammalogy in the Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History, sailed for 
Korea on December 13. He expects to spend 
about two months at the whaling stations 
there, for the purpose of studying and securing 
specimens of the California gray whale and 
humpbacked whale. He then plans a trip into 
the mountains of northern Korea, known as 
Chokaku San, where about four months will 
be spent in collecting mammals and birds, if 
possible in regions not hitherto visited by 
zoologists. 
Mr. WALTER GRANGER, associate curator of 
fossil mammals in the American Museum of 
Natural History, is abroad engaged in part 
upon researches among the fossil mammals of 
the English and French museums, especially 
the old world relatives of the four-toed horse. 
At the third lecture in a series on biological 
topics being given before Trinity College 
Frederic S. Lee, Dalton professor of physiol- 
ogy, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
York, exhibited, for the first time in this 
country, cinematograph films representing 
phases of muscular action, such as the reac- 
tion of the perfused heart to various agents, 
ciliary and flagellate motions in TZ rypano- 
soma, ete. 
CaptTain H. G. Lyons, F.R.S., late director 
of the Egyptian Survey, will give a course of 
lectures before the Royal Geographical So- 
ciety on February 9, 13 and 16 on the North 
African Desert. 
A PORTRAIT of the late Dr. John Ashhurst, 
Jr., has been presented to the College of 
Physicians, Philadelphia. 
