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reau of Foods, Sanitation and Health,” of 
which Dr. Wiley will be director. 
Instructors and students of the forestry 
department of the University of Michigan 
entertained Professor Filibert Roth recently 
at a farewell dinner. Professor Roth’s resig- 
nation from the University of Michigan will 
take effect in June, and he will become the 
head of the forestry department of the Col- 
lege of Agriculture at Cornell University 
next fall. 
Dr. J. C. Witus has retired from the direc- 
torship of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Pera- 
deniya, Ceylon, to become director of the Bo- 
tanie Gardens at Rio de Janeiro. 
Dr. Evcen KurHNEMANN, professor of phi- 
losophy at the University of Breslau, Ger- 
many, and recently German exchange pro- 
fessor at Harvard University, has been ap- 
pointed as the first German university pro- 
fessor to occupy the Carl Schurz memorial 
professorship established last year in the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin by German-American 
citizens of Wisconsin and friends of the uni- 
versity. 
Dr. SrveRANCE BurraGe has resigned as 
professor of sanitary science in Purdue Uni- 
versity, Lafayette, and will spend several 
months in Europe, after which he will take 
charge of the biologic and serum department 
for an Indianapolis drug house. 
Proressor I’. W. Carpenter, of the Univer- 
sity of Illinois, department of zoology, has 
been appointed American reviewer for Zen- 
tralblaté fiir Normale Anatomie und Mikro- 
technic. 
Proressor JoHN T. Stewart, of the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota, has been authorized by 
the regents to attend the National Drainage 
Congress in New Orleans this month at an 
expense not to exceeed $100. 
Mr. Donatp F. MacDonatp, geologist to 
the Isthmian Canal Commission, has been 
granted three months leave of absence from 
his duties with the Commission to make a 
geological study of the disputed territory be- 
tween the republics of Panama and Costa 
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Rica. Mr. MacDonald sailed from Colon for 
Boeas del Toro, near the Costa Rician 
border, on April 1. From there he will pro- 
ceed by small boat and by native porters to 
the region to be examined. 
ACCORDING to a cablegram to the New York 
Times the Austrian Red Cross Society will be 
represented at the International Conference 
of Red Cross Societies, which meets in Wash- 
ington on May 7 to 17, by Dr. Maurice Victor 
Silbermark and Dr. Yetta Silbermark Reis- 
sing, who sail by the Auguste Victoria on 
April 16. 
Mr. Artuur S. Watts was elected president 
and Edward Orton, Jr., secretary of the Amer- 
ican Ceramic Society at the recent Chicago 
meeting. 
Proressor GrorcE Grant MacOurpy will be 
the delegate from Yale University to the In- 
ternational Congress of Anthropology and 
Prehistoric Archeology to be held in Geneva, 
Switzerland, during the first week of Sep- 
tember, 1912. 
Tue following delegates have been ap- 
pointed to represent the American Philosoph- 
ical Society on the following occasions: Vice- 
president William B. Scott, of Princeton, to 
represent the society at the two hundred and 
fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the 
Royal Society in July next; Professors Paul 
Haupt, of Baltimore, E. Washburn Hopkins, 
of New Haven, Morris Jastrow Jr., of Phila- 
delphia, and A. V. Williams Jackson, of New 
York, as delegates to the eleventh Interna- 
tional Congress of Orientalists, to be held at 
Athens on April 7 to 14; Dr. Franz Boas, of 
New York, a delegate to the eighteenth Inter- 
national Congress of Americanists, to be held 
in London from May 27 to June 1. At the 
centenary of the Academy of Natural Sci- 
ences on March 19 to 21 the society was 
officially represented by Professor Henry F. 
Osborn, of New York, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 
of Washington, Mr. Samuel Vauclain, of 
Philadelphia, Professor Wm. Bullock Clark, 
of Baltimore, and Dr. Henry H. Donaldson, 
of Philadelphia. 
