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partment of physics, who is at present en- 
gaged in war work for the Council of Na- 
tional Defense. 
BRiGADIER-GENERAL Epcar WILLIAM Cox, 
head of the Intelligence Staff of the British 
Army in France, was accidentally drowned on 
August 26, aged thirty-six years. His ad- 
“ vyancement in the army had been rapid. To 
scientific men he was known for topographical 
surveys and publications. 
SIXTEEN platinum dishes and crucibles were 
stolen from the Kentucky Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, Lexington, Kentucky, during the 
week following October 17. The police de- 
partment of Lexington offers $100 for their 
recovery or for information leading to the 
conviction of the thief. The urgent need! for 
this material at this time deserves earnest ef- 
fort and cooperation in its recovery. 
Tue Field Museum of Natural History in 
Grant Park, Chicago, which is nearing com- 
pletion, and has cost $7,000,000, has been 
turned over to the government for use as a hos- 
pital. The interior will be rearranged so that 
4,300 patients can be accommodated and a 
number of smaller buildings will be erected 
around the main structure for the accommo- 
dation of 1,000 nurses. The museum building 
covers six acres and has more than twenty-five 
acres floor space. 
Over 30,000 persons paid for admission to 
the British Scientific Products Exhibition at 
King’s College. Professor R. A. Gregory, 
chairman of the organizing committee, states 
that it is proposed to arrange for an annual 
exhibition of British science and invention. 
AuFRreD I. pu Pont, the owner of the Grand 
Central Palace, N. Y., has announced that, 
notwithstanding the fact that the government 
is to take over the building for the period of 
the war as a base hospital for the Army and 
Navy, he intends to proceed with his plans for 
creating there a center for world commerce 
after the war in an Allied Industries Corpora- 
tion. | 
The Sibley Journal of Engineering, pub- 
lished at Cornell University, announces that 
with the November issue it will cease to appear 
SCIENCE 
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until the resumption of normal university con- 
ditions. 
WE learn from The Auk that at the annual 
meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Union, 
Dr. W. Eagle Clarke was elected president to 
succeed Colonel R. Wardlaw Ramsey who had 
served for the last five years. The member- 
ship of the Union stands as follows: Ordinary 
423, Extraordinary 1, Honorary 8, Honorary 
Lady (the only lady members) 8, Colonial 9 
and Foreign 19. The Honorary and Foreign 
(equivalent to the Corresponding Olass of the 
A. O. U.) it will be noticed are much more 
restricted than in the A. O. U. The American 
ornithologists represented in these classes are 
as follows: Honorary, Dr. J. A. Allen, Dr. 
Frank M. Chapman, Dr. Harry C. Oberholser, 
Dr. Chas. W. Richmond and Mr. Robert Ridg- 
way. Foreign, Dr. Leonhard Stejneger and 
Dr. Witmer Stone. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
NEWS 
Appitions to the teaching staff of the col- 
lege of medicine, University of Cincinnati, 
are Professor Dennis E. Jackson, of Wash- 
ington University, Professor Albert Prescott 
Mathews, of the University of Chicago, and 
Dr. Shiro Tashiro, of the University of 
Chicago. They have been appointed, respec- 
tively, to the chairs of pharmacology, bio- 
chemistry and physiological chemistry. 
Dean Mortimer EB. Coorny, of the depart- 
ment of engineering of the University of 
Michigan, has been made regional director in 
the Student Army Training Corps for the 
district comprising Wisconsin, Michigan and 
Indiana. 
Proressor J. W. YounG, of Dartmouth Col- 
lege, has accepted the position of director of 
the mathematical instruction given under the 
auspices of the Y. M. C. A., to serve for three 
months, beginning November 1. 
Dr. Eart F. Farnav, assistant professor of 
chemistry at New York University, has been 
appointed associate professor of organic chem- 
istry at the University of Cincinnati. 
