890 
City, on June 5, in honor of W. Rees Jefireys, 
Esq., secretary of the road board of England 
and honorary general secretary of the local 
organizing committee of the third Interna- 
tional Road Congress to be held in London in 
June, 1913. 
Proressor THomas A. JAGGaR, JR., professor 
of geology in the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, has been granted leave of absence 
for five years, and sails for Honolulu early 
this month to take charge of the Volcano 
Laboratory of the institute on the crater of 
Kilauea. Drs. A. L. Day and E. 8. Shepherd, 
of the Carnegie Institution, are now in 
Hawaii and expect to spend the summer in 
investigations of optical pyrometry and spec- 
troscopie analysis. 
Proressor ELttswortH Huntineton, of Yale 
University, will this year carry further the 
work of investigating climatic changes during 
the last two or three thousand years which he 
undertook last summer under the auspices of 
the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Ac- 
companied by Professor H. S. Canby, he has 
left for California, where he will be joined by 
a party of four or five students and others 
from the University of California. They will 
proceed into the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 
the King’s River section south of Yosemite, 
where they will spend two months measuring 
trees. 
Proressor ALFRED DopGE Cote, head of the 
department of physics at Ohio State Univer- 
sity, has been granted leave of absence for the 
college year 1912-13. It is probable that he 
will spend four months in research at the 
National Bureau of Standards, Washington, 
and a semester similarly at the University of 
Berlin. j 
Dr. Apert BusHNeLt Hart, professor of 
the science of government at Harvard Uni- 
versity, is at present lecturing at Colorado 
College in Colorado Springs as exchange pro- 
fessor. He is giving lectures on American 
history (1850-1865), on American biography, 
and on the Orient (Japan, China, Philippines, 
India). 
Tue Harrington lectures arranged by the 
medical faculty of the University of Buffalo 
SCIENCE 
[N.S. Vou. XXXV. No. 910 
will be delivered in Alumni Hall by Dr. Lud- 
vig Hektoen, of Chicago, on May 28 to 31, on 
“ Tmmunity.” 
Prorressor OC. A. Apams, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, gave a lecture “On the Place of the 
Engineer in Modern Society,” at the Univer- 
sity of Vermont on the evening of May 15, 
and a lecture on “The Synchronous Motor,” 
on the morning of May 16. 
Tue Illinois State Association of Operating 
Engineers met at the University of Illinois on 
May 24. Addresses were given by President 
James, Dean W. F. Goss, of the College of 
Engineering, Professor Parr and Professor 
Bartow, of the department of chemistry. 
A CONFERENCE will be held at the Graduate 
School of Agriculture, Lansing, Mich., on 
July 24, to discuss the formulation of stand- 
ard rations for experimental work in deter- 
mining the comparative value of feed stuffs. 
Mr. B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy division, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, President 
H. J. Waters, of the Kansas Agricultural Col- 
lege, Professor C. H. Eckles, of the Missouri 
Experiment Station, and other leading work- 
ers in this field are expected to be present and 
lead the discussion. 
ALL persons interested in the scientific sec- 
tion of the American Pharmaceutical Associa- 
tion are requested to notify any of the officers 
of the section of the title or titles of the paper 
or papers that they contemplate presenting 
before the section at the annual meeting of 
the Association at Denver, Colorado, August 
19-24 inclusive, 1912. Original papers of 
scientific interest, whether directly of pharma- 
ceutical interest or not will be considered by 
the committee. The committee on scientific 
papers consists of W. O. Richtmann, chair- 
man; F. P. Stroup, secretary, 145 North 10th 
St., Philadelphia, Pa.; F. R. Eldred, associate, 
3323 Kenwood Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 
THe second annual meeting of the Ameri- 
ean Climatological Association will be held 
in Hartford, Conn., June 10-12, under the 
presidency of Dr. A. D. Blackader, Montreal. 
Tuer conference of bath officials and others 
interested in public baths, held at New York 
City, on May 14 and 15, resulted in the or- 
