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eastern corner of the park. Dr. Robert A. 

 Muttkowski has been making an investigation 

 of the fish food producing capacity of the 

 trout streams, and Dr. Gilbert M. Smith the 

 relation of the aquatic plants to this fish food 

 supply. Mr. Edward R. Warren, assisted by 

 Mr. Ellis L. Spackman, is making an inten- 

 sive study of the beaver, including the mapping 

 of their dams and ponds. Another friend of 

 the station has made it possible for Mr. Ed- 

 mund Heller, formerly naturalist on the 

 Roosevelt African Expedition, to conduct for 

 the station an investigation of the status of 

 the large game mammals of the park. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the opening session of the New York 

 meeting of the American Chemical Society, 

 which will be held at Columbia University, 

 New York City, on September 8, Dr. Edgar 

 F. Smith, provost emeritus of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, will preside, and addresses 

 will be made by Mr. Herbert C. Hoover, 

 secretary of the Department of Commerce, 

 and Sir William Pope, president of the British 

 Society of Chemical Industry. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science met during the first week in 

 August at Rouen under the presidency of M. 

 Rateau. 



Dr. Henry Gordon Gale, professor of 

 physics in the University of Chicago, and 

 dean of the colleges of science, has been 

 made chairman of the division of Physical 

 Science of the National Research Council, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Henry H. Donaldson, professor of 

 neurology at the Wistar Institute, has been 

 elected a foreign corresponding member of II 

 Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Let- 

 tere di Milano. 



Professor Heinrich O. Hoffman, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been elected an honorary member of the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. 



Dr. Walter Nernst, professor of chemistry, 

 has been elected rector of the Berlin Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. J. Sheppard, of the Municipal Museums 

 at Hull, has been elected president of the 

 British Museums Association. 



Dr. W. J. Humphreys, of the Weather 

 Bureau, has been elected secretary of the 

 American Geophysical Union, to succeed Dr. 

 H. O. Wood, resigned. 



E. G. Montgomery, professor of agronomy 

 in Cornell University, has been named by Sec- 

 cretary Hoover as chief of the food-stuffs 

 division of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce. 



Mr. Robert C. Duncan, physicist of the 

 Bureau of Standards, has accepted a position 

 with the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy 

 Department. 



Professor Paul Anderson, dean of the 

 School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineer- 

 ing at the University of Kentucky, has been 

 appointed director of the research laboratory 

 of the Heat Engineering Society at Pitts- 

 burgh. 



Edward F. McCarthy, of the New York 

 State College of Forestry at Syracuse, has 

 been assigned to the new forest experiment 

 station of the U. S. Forest Service at Ash- 

 ville, N. C. 



Professor G. F. Warren, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been requested by Mr. Wallace, 

 Secretary of Agriculture, to serve as consult- 

 ing specialist to the chief of the Bureau of 

 Markets and Crop Estimates during the re- 

 organization and consolidation of the bureau. 

 Professor Warren has accepted and has been 

 granted leave of absence from Cornell until 

 February 1, 1922. 



Donald D. Smyth, instructor in economic 

 geology at Cornell University, has accepted a 

 position as geologist with the Cerro de Pasco 

 Copper Corporation of Peru. 



Foreign zoologists who attended the recent 

 summer meeting of the American Phytopatho- 

 logical Society included Dr. E. J. Butler, 

 director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology, 

 Kew Gardens, Surrey, England, and Dr. Kingo 

 Miyabe, of the College of Agriculture, Hak- 

 kaido Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan. 



Dr. p. H. Aaser, director of the Norwegian 



