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imj)ortaiice as well as a large collection of 

 the artifacts, utensils, weapons, etc., of pre- 

 hitoric man here and abroad. 



Dr. J. Howard Wilson and his mother, 

 Mrs. J. B. Wilson, are the donors. Rather 

 than place his important exhibits in some of 

 the larger museums, Dr. Wilson preferred to 

 give the citizens of Castine this modern 

 structure and interest them in the beginnings 

 of human culture as well as preserve their own 

 priceless historical relics. It is quite fitting 

 that the building-lot adjoins the famous Fort 

 Pentagoet site. 



The building and endowment of local 

 museums should be encouraged, since by that 

 means knowledge is more generally dis- 

 seminated than through the larger museums. 



By November the structure will be com- 

 pleted, and it is proiwsed to have it dedicated 

 some time next spring. Dr. Wilson's collec- 

 tions total many thousands, and there are 

 numerous French, English and colonial objects 

 in Castine which are available for exhibition. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Walter G. Campbell, assistant chief of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry since 1916, has been ap- 

 pointed acting chief to fill the place of Dr. 

 Carl L. Alsberg, who resigned to become one 

 of the directors of the Institute for Food Re- 

 search at Stanford University. Dr. W. W. 

 Skinner, chief of the water and beverage labo- 

 ratory of the bureau since 1908, has been desig- 

 nated as assistant chief. 



Dr. Roscoe Thatcher, who succeeds Dr. 

 W. H. Jordan as director of the N'ew York 

 State Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 taken up his work at Geneva. 



Des. George Dock, St. Louis; Otto Folin, 

 Boston; and Ludvig Hektoen, Chicago, have 

 accepted appointments as consultants to the 

 National Pathological Laboratories to advise 

 on methods used, interpretation of results and 

 ethical policies. 



David Peescott Barrows, president of the 

 University of California, has been appointed a 

 member of the National Research Council 



for a period of three years in the Division of 

 States Relations. 



We learn from Nature that at the meeting 

 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on July 

 4 the following were elected honorary fellows : 

 — British: William Henry Perkin, Sir Ronald 

 Ross, Sir Ernest Rutherford and Sir Jethro 

 J. H. Teall. Foreign: Reginald Aldworth 

 Daly (Cambridge), Johan Hjort (Bergen), 

 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (Paris), 

 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Leyden), and Sal- 

 vatore Pincherle (Bologna). 



On June 22 a portrait of Sir Napier Shaw, 

 painted by W. W. Russell, was presented to 

 him by the staff of the Meteorological Office, 

 South Kensington, for preservation in the 

 office. A copy of the portrait was presented to 

 Lady Shaw. 



An International Hydrographic Bureau has 

 been established at Monaco, with the follow- 

 ing directors: Vice- Admiral Sir John Parry 

 (Great Britain), Captain Phaff (Netherlands), 

 and Captain Muller (Norway). The secretary 

 is Captain Spicer-Simson (Great Britain). 



Colonel Thomas Sinclair, professor of sur- 

 gery in (Jueen's College, Belfast, is among the 

 twenty-four members elected to the senate of 

 the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and Sir 

 Thomas Joseph Stafford, late medical commis- 

 sioner. Local Government Board, Ireland, is 

 elected to the senate for the Southern Parlia- 

 ment. 



A French society " for encouragement du 

 lien," recently awarded a civic crown to the 

 Institut Pasteur at Paris, and presented it to 

 Dr. Roux as the representative of that in- 

 stitute. 



The trustees of the Beit Fellowships for 

 Scientific Research, endowed in 1913 by Sir 

 Otto Beit, to promote the advancement of 

 science by means of research, have elected to 

 fellowships Messrs. H. L. Riley and W. A. P. 

 Challenor. Both will carry out research at the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology 

 at South Kensington. 



Professor and Mrs. E. W. D. Holway, of 

 the University of Minnesota, sailed from New 



