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biology; Dr. Henry Lyman, research fellow in 
chemistry, and Clarence ©. Little, research 
fellow in genetics. 
Ar the annual meeting of the American 
Surgical Association, held in Cincinnati, June 
6 to 8, under the presidency of Dr. Thomas W. 
Huntington, San Francisco, the following offi- 
cers were elected: President, Dr. Lewis S. 
Pilcher, Brooklyn; Vice-presidents, Drs. 
George W. Crile and Edward Martin, Phila- 
delphia; Secretary, Dr. John H. Gibbon, Phila- 
delphia; Assistant Secretary, Dr. Francis T. 
Stewart, Philadelphia; Treasurer, Dr. Charles 
H. Peck, and Assistant Treasurer, Dr. Charles 
N. Dowd, New York City. 
THE sixteenth annual meeting of the South 
African Association for the Advancement of 
Science is being held in Johannesburg, July 
8 to 18, under the presidency of Dr. C. F. 
Juritz. The presidents of the sectional com- 
mittees are as follows: Section A, astronomy, 
mathematics, physics, meteorology, geodesy, - 
surveying, engineering, architecture and irri- 
gation: Professor J. T. Morrison. Section B, 
chemistry, geology, metallurgy, mineralogy 
and geography: Dr. P. A. Wagner. Section 
C, botany, bacteriology, agriculture and for- 
estry: Mr. C. E. Legat. Section D, zoology, 
physiology, hygiene and sanitary science: Pro- 
fessor E. J. Goddard. Section E, anthropol- 
ogy, ethnology, native education, philology 
and native sociology: Rev. W. A. Norton. Sec- 
tion F, education, history, mental science, po- 
litical economy, general sociology and statis- 
ties: Professor T. M. Forysth. 
Roatp AmuNDsEN’s ship Maude, in which 
he will attempt to reach the North Pole, left 
Christiania on June 28 for the north. Cap- 
tain Amundsen will board the vessel at 
Tromsoe. Captain Amundsen plans to follow 
the Siberian coast eastward from North Cape. 
He hopes to make most of the trip by sail. 
The ship carries two airplanes in which the 
explorer will attempt to complete his journey 
to the pole. 
Tue Journal of the Royal Geographical 
Society states that the Argentine corvette 
Uruguay left Buenos Aires on February 18 
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with a new staff for the meteorological and 
magnetic station on Laurie Island, to replace 
those whose time has expired. The chief of 
the Argentine Commission is Senor Ole Holm, 
who, together with another member, has al- 
ready seen service on the island. Continuous 
hourly eye observations have now been main- 
tained since March, 1903, at this the most 
southern observatory in the world. 
Tue Wilbur Wright memorial lecture of the 
British Aeronautical Society was delivered in 
the Central Hall, Westminster, on June 25, 
by Professor W. F. Durand, chairman of the 
American Advisory Committee for Aeronaut- 
ies, scientific attaché to the American Avyia- 
tion Mission in Europe, and professor ot 
mechanical engineering, Stanford University, 
U. S. A. The subject was “Some Outstand- 
ing Problems in Aeronautics.” 
Proressor A. J. ANDREWS, of Tufts College, 
is lecturing at Cleveland. Under his charge 
for the Boston region the National Board of 
Historical Service has been giving well at- 
tended lectures on the geography and _his- 
torical meaning of the war at Camp Devens 
and the dozen other Y. M. C. A. “huts” 
around Boston. 
Unprer the terms of the will of James 
Douglas, former president of copper producing 
firm, Phelps, Dodge & Oo., $100,000 is be- 
queathed to the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers for a scientific library. McGill 
University, Montreal, receives $50,000 for a 
dormitory, the Kingston General Hospital, 
Ontario, $100,000 and the Museum of Natural 
History here $100,000. 
ANNOUNCEMENT is made that the position 
of research assistant under the Ellen H. Rich- 
ards Research Fund is available for women 
graduates properly qualified in chemistry. 
Further information may be obtained from the 
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts In- 
stitute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 
Present WiILson by executive order on 
July 2 placed all sanitary and public health ac- 
tivities carried on by executive bureaus, agen- 
cies and offices created during the war under 
the jurisdiction of the public health service. 
