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the Catholic University, died on July 8, at the 
age of seventy-nine years. Dr. Searle gradu- 
ated from Harvard College in 1857 and held 
positions in the Dudley, Naval and Harvard 
observatories. 
Proressor STEPHEN FARNHAM PECKHAM, 
known for his work on the chemistry of bi- 
tumens, died on July 11, in his eightieth year. 
Professor Peckham was a graduate of Brown 
University in the class of 1861, and was pro- 
fessor of chemistry in the University of Min- 
nesota from 1873 to 1880. Subsequently, he 
was engaged in the work of the U. S. Census, 
and was in the department of finance of New 
York City until his retirement in 1911. 
Lieutenant Vernon Kino, formerly scientific 
assistant in cereal and forage-crop insect in- 
vestigations, Bureau of Entomology, United 
States Department of Agriculture, has died 
from wounds received when the British air- 
plane in which he was serving as a flying ob- 
server was shot down. Lieutenant King was 
attached to the staff of the Wellington, Kans., 
field laboratory and was in charge of the 
Charleston, Mo., station prior to November 5, 
1914, when he resigned to enter the British 
army. 
EDUCATIONAL NOTES AND NEWS 
Mount Union Couiecer, Alliance, Ohio, has 
received $512,000 for endowment and equip- 
ment to increase its educational work. Suc- 
cessful completion of this fund was made pos- 
sible by the gift of $50,000 by the friends of 
the late Captain Milton J. Lichty, M.D., of 
Cleveland. The professorship of biology will 
be named in his memory. 
Tue Journal of the American Medical Asso- 
ciation states that the national government has 
modified the statutes of the University of Cor- 
doba in accord with the general demand on the 
part of professors, students and graduates, giv- 
ing them a more democratic control. The 
Academia will retain only its scientifie func- 
tions, while the direction of the different de- 
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partments of the university will be in the 
hands of a managing board for each. The 
members of these consejos are to be elected 
for a term of three years at a general assembly 
of all the professors. 
Because of almost continuous absence of 
Dr. Richard P. Strong since the outbreak of 
the war, the department of tropical medicine 
of the Harvard Medical School, has been 
placed in charge of Dr. Andrew W. Sellards, 
whose title as associate is now made that of 
assistant professor. 
Proressor C. A. SisaM, of the University of 
Tllinois, has accepted the headship of the de- 
partment of mathematics in Colorado College. 
He has been connected with the University of 
Tllinois since 1906. 
Dr. Grorce R. Bancrorr has resigned the 
professorship of chemistry and physics in 
Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., to ac- 
cept a position at the University of Kentucky 
as assistant professor of organic and physical 
chemistry. 
Dr. Cuartes T. Brurs has been promoted 
to be assistant professor of economic ento- 
mology in Harvard University. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
A MUSICAL, CRICKET-LIKE CHIRPING OF A 
GRASSHOPPER 
In August, 1917, I made frequent trips to a 
certain swamp near Spring Hill, Vinson 
Station, Va., to study the stridulating habits 
of a colony of locusts, Neoconocephalus Ex- 
iliscanorus (Davis), which have been located 
here for several years. The usual notes of the . 
cone-headed grasshoppers (Neoconocephalus) 
are quite devoid of any musical tone such as is 
characteristic of the chirpings and trillings of 
the crickets. In truth, the sounds produced by 
these insects are usually harsh, lisping or 
rasping noises which may be intermittent or 
prolonged, depending upon the species. The 
stridulations of the cone-headed grasshopper 
(N. Exiliscanorus) are of the intermittent 
type, and are brief, insistent phrases—zeet— 
zeet—zeet—zeet—zeet, delivered very regularly 
