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partment of Agriculture, with headquarters at 
Athens, Ga. 
Mr. N. A. Benetsan has been appointed 
special representative of the War Trade Board 
for work in Denmark and expects to leave soon 
for Copenhagen. During the past summer and 
autumn he has been commodity expert, in 
charge of cereal investigations in the Bureau 
of Research of the War Trade Board. Next 
autumn Dr. Bengtsan expects to resume the 
duties of professor of geography at the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska. 
Proressor Henry C. Cow es, of the Univer- 
sity of Chicago, delivered a lecture at the 
.meeting of the Geographic Society of Chi- 
cago on November 8, entitled “Forests and 
Forest Politics in Illinois,” substituting for 
Mr. Currelly, who is‘ detained in Toronto by 
illness. 
Ar the first scientific meeting of the Zoolog- 
ical Society of London for the present session 
Professor H. M. Lefroy read a paper, illus- 
trated by lantern slides, on the wheat weevil in 
Australia, which has done so much damage to 
the stores of the Wheat Commission. 
AT a meeting of the New York Section of 
the American Chemical Society on November 
8, the program consisted of fifteen-minute ad- 
dresses on the subject of an institute for co- 
operative research by chemists, biologists and 
manufacturers as an aid in the development 
of the American drug industry. Addresses 
were made by Dr. John J. Abel, Johns Hop- 
kins University Medical School (by letter) ; 
Dr. P. A. Levene, Rockefeller Institute for 
Medical Research; Dr. ©. L. Alsberg, U. S. 
Bureau of Chemistry; Dr. A. S. Loevenhart, 
American University Experiment Station; Dr. 
F,. R. Eldred, Eli Lilly & Co.; Dr. D. W. 
Jayne, The Barrett Company. 
Proressor Henri L. Joy has given a course 
of three public lectures in English on France’s 
share in the progress of science, at University 
College, London. The first lecture, on October 
22, dealt with mathematics, astronomy and 
physical science; the second, on October 29, 
with chemistry and the natural sciences, and 
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the third, on November 5, with biology and the 
medical sciences. 
Tue annual Thomas Hawksley lecture of 
the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Lon- 
don, was delivered in the hall of the Institu- > 
tion of Civil Engineers on October 4, by Dr. 
W. CO. Unwin, who took as his subject “ The 
Experimental Study of the Mechanical Prop- 
erties of Materials.” 
Tue first annual Streatfield memorial lec- 
ture was delivered on October 17, at the City 
and Guilds Technical College, London, by Pro- 
fessor W. J. Pope, who took as his subject 
“The future of chemistry.” 
Tue late Dr. Magnan, the French psychia- 
trist, left $5,000 to the Paris Academy of 
Medicine, to be applied to the foundation of 
a triennial prize for the best work on mental 
medicine. 
We learn from Nature that a memorial 
tablet and medallion of the late Mr. F. W. 
Rudler, in the quadrangle of the University 
College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in which Mr. 
Rudler was one of the earliest professors, 
1876-79, was unveiled by Professor J. Mor- 
timer Angus, on October 18. Mr. Rudler at- 
tached great value to students’ geological ex- 
eursions, in regard to which he himself rend- 
ered devoted service during his membership 
of the Geologists’ Association. A few of his 
friends are, therefore, desirous of creating a 
fund to be capitalized, the annual income from 
which is to be devoted, on the recommendation 
of the professor of geology, towards the de- 
frayment, where necessary, of the expenses 
of students during such excursions. 
Over $3,000 has been contributed to the 
Ramsay Memorial Fund in the United States 
up to November 1. It is hoped that the 
American subscription may reach $10,000 by 
January 1, 1919. Checks should be made pay- 
able and sent to the Ramsay Memorial Fund 
Committee, W. J. Matheson, treasurer, 2 
Burling Slip, New York City. 
Proressor Vouney M. Spaupinc, formerly 
professor of botany in the University of Mich- 
