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dealing with technology; and the Interna- 
tional Congress of Applied Chemistry which 
meets in Washington and New York in Sep- 
tember might well institute a movement 
toward this end. 
These plans international scientific 
bureaus at the Hague have the cordial sup- 
port of the government of the Netherlands 
which is financing the bureaus so far created 
and the cooperation of the leading European 
men of science. The Preliminary World 
Committee includes in a list of several hun- 
dred the names of Arrhenius, v. Babes, Bang, 
for 
Bertillon, Ehrlich, E. Fischer, Fligge, R. 
Hertwig, van’t Hoff, Landouzy, Leduc, 
Lockyer, Madsen, Metchnikoff, Oppenheim, 
Ostwald, Ramsay, Richet, Roux, Rubner, 
Salomansen, Sanarelli, Schuster, Scott-Sher- 
rington and Waldeyer. In the United States 
he has already secured the adhesion of J. Mc- 
Keen Cattell, Harvey Cushing, George Dock, 
E. Dana Durrand, John S. Fulton, George E. 
Hale, W. G. MacCallum, S. N. D. North, 
Henry Fairfield Osborn, E. C. Pickering, Ira 
Remsen, Charles D. Walcott, W. H. Welch 
and many others. 
These efforts deserve the cordial support of 
American men of science, both for the prac- 
tical service which the proposed permanent 
international bureaus would render to their 
respective sciences and arts and for their 
beneficent effect upon the movement for peace 
and for the progressive organization of the 
world. 
C.-E. A. Winstow 
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
New York 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. Smion Fiexner, director of the Rocke- 
feller Institute for Medical Research, has 
sailed for Europe to give the Harben lectures 
before the London Institute of Public Health 
and the Cameron lecture at Edinburgh Uni- 
versity. 
On account of illness Professor Josiah 
Royce, of Harvard University, has been com- 
pelled to give up the course of Bross lectures 
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on “The Sources of Religious Insight” and 
has been given leave of absence for the pres- 
ent academic year. 
Proressor W. A. Noyes, director of the 
chemical laboratories of the University of 
Illinois, has been granted leave of absence to 
go to Berlin as the representative of the 
American Chemical Society at the Interna- 
tional Conference of Chemical Societies. 
Tue directors of the Bache Fund of the Na- 
tional Academy of Sciences have voted a 
grant of $500 to Professor M. A. Rosanoff, of 
Clark University, in aid of his research on 
the dynamics of sugar inversion. 
Tue Sarah Berliner research fellowship for 
women has been awarded to Miss Marie Ger- 
trude Rand, of Brooklyn, a doctor of philos- 
ophy of Bryn Mawr College, for her work on 
the psychology of vision. 
Dr. Gustav Hertimann, director of the 
Meteorological Bureau in Berlin, has been 
elected a member of the Berlin Academy of 
Sciences. 
Sir Epwin Ray LanKkester has been elected 
an honorary student of Christ Church, Ox- 
ford. 
Dr. CHARLES CHILTON, professor of biology 
at Canterbury College, New Zealand, has been 
granted leave of absence for 1912, and will 
spend the year in Europe visiting biological 
laboratories and stations. 
Proressor Freperic B. Loomis, of Amherst 
College, Waldom Shumway, 711, and Philip L. 
Turner, 712, members of the Amherst biolog- 
ical expedition to South America, arrived at 
Amherst last week from Buenos Aires. The 
party left this country last July and has been 
occupied in the exploration of practically un- 
known territory in southern Patagonia. A 
large collection of fossil remains has been ob- 
tained. 
Proressor T. A. JAGGAR, JR., of the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, has been 
granted leave of absence for the remainder of 
the year that he may perfect the plans for the 
Vuleanic Laboratory at Halemaumau in tho 
Hawaiian Islands. This observatory has been 
