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igan, died at Loma Linda, California, on No- 
vember 12, at the age of sixty-nine years. 
Mr. Doucuas C. Masszort, biologist of the 
Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agri- 
‘culture, has been killed in action in France, 
at the age of twenty-five years. He was the 
author of papers on American wild ducks and 
their food habits. 
Winturor D. Foster, of the zoological di- 
vision, U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, 
died of pneumonia, on October 6, at Washing- 
ton, aged thirty-eight years. 
Cuarence Smyey VERRILL was lost on the 
Princess Sophia, which was wrecked on Oc- 
tober 26, on the coast of British Columbia, 
with the loss of all on board. He was a min- 
ing engineer and was returning from the 
examination of a gold mine. He was the 
youngest son of Addison Emery Verrill, pro- 
fessor emeritus of zoology at Yale University. 
THE annual meeting of the American Asso- 
ciation of Anatomists which is usually held 
during the Christmas vacation, has been post- 
poned until the spring, and will be held pos- 
sibly during the Kaster recess. 
Tue council of the American Psychological 
Association has voted to abandon the annual 
meeting scheduled for December, 1918. This 
action seemed advisable in view of the pros- 
pect of a very small attendance and many diffi- 
culties in the arrangements for the meeting. . 
ProFressor JoHN W. HarsHBERGER has been 
elected president of the University of Penn- 
sylvania chapter of the Sigma Xi. The pro- 
gram for the session of 1918-19 is as follows: 
November 20, The Hngineering Departments, 
University of Pennsylvania, speaker—Professor 
Robert H. Fernald. ‘‘Is Our Fuel Supply nearing 
Exhaustion???’ 
January 22, The John Harrison Laboratory of 
Chemistry. Speakers—Provost Smith and Pro- 
fessor Walter H. Taggart. 
March 12, The Psychological Department, Col- 
lege Hall. Speaker—Professor Lightner Witmer. 
May 1, Joint Meeting of Phi Beta Kappa and 
Sigma Xi. 
June 11, Gardens of the Zoological Society of 
Philadelphia. Speaker—Dr. Charles B. Penrose, 
president of the Zoological Society. 
SCIENCE 
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Tue meeting of the Connecticut Section of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers was held at Yale University on Novem- 
ber 20. At the afternoon session in the Mason 
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Mr. J. 
Arnold Norcross presided and addresses were 
made by Mr. C. C. Sibley, plant engineer of 
the Marlin-Rockwell Corporation, on its new 
Dixwell Avenue Power Plant, and by Mr. C. 
E. Libbey, construction engineer, with Hollis 
French & Allen Hubbard, Boston, Mass., on 
the new University Central Heating Plant on 
Ashmun Street. At the evening session at 
7.30 in Lampson Lyceum there was a joint 
meeting with the United States Naval Unit. 
Professor Breckenridge presided and an illus-, 
trated address was given by Mr. W. H. Blood, 
of the American International Shipbuilding 
Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa, on “The 
Building of the Hog Island Shipyard.” 
Tur Madrid correspondent of the Journal 
of the American Medical Association writes 
that Dr. Gomez Casas, physician of the Al- 
meira prison, reported to his superiors the 
presence of influenza among the inmates of 
the prison early in the first epidemic. The 
governor of Almeira was not pleased at haying 
his province invaded by the disease, and he 
summoned Dr. Casas and ordered him to sign 
a written report to the effect that he had been 
mistaken in his diagnosis, and retract his 
statements as to the existence of influenza in 
the prison. The Colegio Medico publicly an- 
nounced that it would stand by Dr. Casas and 
subseribe the amount to pay the fine which a 
governor ignorant of his duties had imposed 
on him. At the same time an official protest 
was filed with the central public health author- 
ities. 
Tur Ordnance Department of the Army, 
particularly in the production and Inspection 
Divisions, is in need of men with training in 
the manufacture of explosives and the related 
raw materials. The manufacture of explosives 
is developing out of proportion to the number 
of men in the country: who have had training 
and experience in that work. To meet this 
condition the War Department Committee on 
