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president, to conduct further explorations in 

 the Arctic regions to the extreme north of 

 Canada. It is said that he expects to investi- 

 gate the possibilities of marketing reindeer 

 and of developing the fur trade in the Arctic 

 circle, as well as to continue his scientific ex- 

 plorations. 



The Eede lecture at the University of Cam- 

 bridge was delivered on June 9 by Sir INTapier 

 Shaw on " The air and its ways." 



The lectureship established in London to 

 commemorate the work of Moncure Conway 

 was held this year by Dr. A. C. Haddon, who 

 selected as his subject " The practical value 

 of ethnology." 



The college of agriculture of the Univer- 

 sity of Georgia announces the formation of a 

 forestry camp in Fannin County, Georgia. 

 This camp in the heart of the Cherokee Na- 

 tional Forest Reservation is known as the 

 Henry McHatton Forestry Camp, being named 

 after Dr. Henry McHatton, a physician and 

 naturalist of Macon, Georgia. The camp site 

 was given to the university by Dr. McHatton's 

 son as a memorial to his father. 



We learn from Nature that the Ottawa 

 Field-Naturalists' Club has decided to open 

 a subscription list for a permanent memorial to 

 the late Professor John Maeoun, naturalist 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada, who died 

 at Sidney, British Columbia, on July 18, 

 1920. Professor Maeoun specialized in bot- 

 any, and was the founder of the Canadian 

 National Herbarium. Other sciences, how- 

 ever, especially zoology, were enriched by him. 

 The memorial will take the form of a portrait 

 to be hung in the Victoria Memorial Museum, 

 which will be executed by Mr. Franklin 

 Brownell, of Ottawa. Subscriptions, which 

 should be forwarded to Mj. Arthur Gibson, 

 Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, are invited. 



The president and secretary of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society have authorized another 

 meeting of the Cellulose Section in connection 

 with the fall meeting of the parent society in 

 New York, September 6-10, 1921. Professor 

 Harold Hibbert has been reappointed chair- 

 man and Gustavus J. Esselen, Jr., secretary. 



This will be the fourth consecutive session de- 

 voted to cellulose and its derivatives, a sym- 

 posium on the subject having been held in 

 both St. Louis and Chicago, and the first meet- 

 ing of the Cellulose Section, as such, at 

 Rochester last April. At this last meeting 

 great interest was shown and there is no 

 doubt that the Cellulose Section has made a 

 place for itself in the activities of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society. It is the plan this 

 year to issue the preliminary program much 

 earlier than on previous occasions, and ac- 

 cordingly those who plan to present papers 

 before the Cellulose Section are urged to send 

 the titles at once to the secretary of the 

 section, G. J. Esselen, Jr., 248 Boylston St., 

 Boston, lY, Mass. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Louisiana State University will receive 

 $7,500,000 for new buildings and equipment 

 as a result of the action of the Constitutional 

 Convention which has just adjourned, this sum 

 having been set apart for this purpose from 

 funds accruing from the newly established sev- 

 erance tax on oil and other natural resources. 

 Plans are now being made for the erection of 

 the new buildings on a 2,000-acre tract near 

 Baton Rouge, Olmstead Brothers, of Brook- 

 line, Mass., having been secured as landscape 

 architects. The new constitution, which has 

 ]ust gone into effect, also provides for a half- 

 mill tax, which it is estimated will yield an 

 annual income of approximately $1,000,000 

 for the maintenance of the university. 



Dr. Thomas W. Salmon has been appointed 

 professor of psychiatry at the Columbia Uni- 

 versity College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 and has resigned from the staff of the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation. Dr. Salmon will continue 

 to serve as medical director of the National 

 Committee for Mental Hygiene. 



Dr. Harold E. Robertson, formerly direc- 

 tor of pathology and bacteriology in the medical 

 school of the University of Minnesota, has 

 been transferred to the staff of the Mayo 

 Foundation of the university as professor o£ 



