SCIENCE 



Friday, August 12, 1921 



The California Institute of Technology 119 



The Course in General Zoology — Methods of 

 Teaching: Professor D. H. Wenrich.... 120 



Louis Albert Fischer: Dr. C. W. Waibner.. 123 



Scientific Events : 



The British National Physical Laboratory ; 

 Resolutions of the Medical Board of the 

 Johns HopTcins Hospital; The Hunan-Yale 

 College of Medicine; A New Museum at 



e, Maine 1 25 



fie Notes and News. 127 



University and Educational Notes 129 



Discussion and Correspondence : 



' ' Denudation, " " Erosion, " " Corrosion ' ' 

 and "Corrosion": Dr. Wilbur G. Foye. 

 A Possible Factor in the Increasing Inci- 

 dence of Goiter: Dr. E. R. Hayhurst. The 

 Social Aspects of Country Planning: C. J. 

 Gilpin 130 



Quotations : 



Customs Legislation in England 132 



Special Articles: 



The Practical Significance of the Bevolution 



of the Embryo in Aphid Eggs: Dr. A. 0. 



Baker 1 33 



The American Chemical Society : Dr. Charles 

 L. Parsons 135 



MSS. intended for 'publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF 

 TECHNOLOGY 



Egbert A. Millikan, professor of physics at 

 the University of Chicago, has been ap- 

 ftointed director of the Norman Bridge 

 Laboratory of Physics at the California 

 Institute of Technology and chairman of the 

 executive council of the institute. Dr. Mil- 

 likan has for a number of years spent the 

 winter term at the institute, but he will now 

 give his whole time to it, beginning in 

 October, when the new physical laboratory 

 will be ready for occupancy. 



Dr. Millikan will devote himself mainly 

 to the development at the institute of a large 

 and effective research laboratory of physics. 

 The trustees, though prepared to appoint him 

 president, were appreciative of his desire not 

 to be burdened with the administrative duties 

 which are usually attached to that office, and 

 have created a new administrative board, to be 

 called the executive council, which will com- 

 bine the usual functions of the president and 

 the executive committee of the board of trus- 

 tees. This executive council will consist of six 

 members, three from the board of trustees and 

 three from the faculty, as follows: Eobert A. 

 Millikan, chairman; from the trustees, Arthur 

 H. Fleming, president of the board; Henry 

 M. Eobinson, first vice-president of the board, 

 president of the First National Bank of Los 

 Angeles; and George E. Hale, director of 

 the Mt. Wilson Observatory ; from the faculty, 

 in addition to Dr. Millikan, Arthur A. Noyes, 

 director of the Gates Chemical Laboratory, 

 and Edward C. Barrett, secretary of the 

 institute. 



Liberal provision, made possible by large 

 gifts to the institute, has been made for the 

 physical laboratory, for which an annual 

 appropriation of $95,000 has been guaranteed. 

 These funds will enable a large staff of able 

 investigators and teachers and an unusually 



