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the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee for 

 tlie last twenty-four years, has resigned, but 

 remains on the staff of the institution as re- 

 search assistant. Mr. J. Eonald Bruce has 

 been appointed naturalist-in-eharge. 



We learn from Nature that at the annual 

 general meeting of the Eontgen Society the 

 following ofScers and council were elected: 

 President, Professor J. W. Nicholson; Vice- 

 Presidents, Dr. G. H. Eodman, Sir Ernest 

 Eutherford, and Sir William Bragg; Hon. 

 Treasurer, Mr. G. Pearce; Hon. Secretaries, 

 Dr. E. A. Owen and Dr. J. E. Eeynolds ; Hon. 

 Editor, Dr. G. W. C. Kaye; Council, C. An- 

 drews, Dr. H. Black, A. E. Dean, Major Ken- 

 elm Edgcumbe, N. S. Finzi, Dr. E. L. Hop- 

 wood, Dr. F. H. Johnson, Dr. E. Morton, C. 

 E. S. Phillips, Professor A. W. Porter, Profes- 

 sor A. 0. Eankine, and Sir Archibald D. Eeid. 



The following physicians have been elected 

 members of the Brazilian Congress: Profes- 

 sors C. Fraga and P. Mendes, from Bahia, and 

 Professors A. Sodre, A. Austregesilo and Dr. 

 M. de Medeiros from Eio de Janeiro. 



Professor William H. Hobbs, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, is now in Japan to make 

 an investigation of the coral islands. 



According to Terrestrial Magnetism, the 

 New Zealand Government has made arrange- 

 ments for the continuation of the magnetic 

 and seismic work of the Samoa Observatory 

 at Apia. Dr. Angenheister, in charge from 

 1914 to 1921, has returned to Gottingen, 

 Germany. The New Zealand government did 

 not have available funds for the observational 

 work in atmospheric electricity and meteorol- 

 ogy. Accordingly, Dr. H. M. W. Edmonds, of 

 the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of 

 the Carnegie Institution, was stationed at Apia 

 for the continuation, during the year, of the 

 work and for the purpose of taking charge of 

 the department's secular-variation work in the 

 Pacific Ocean. He arrived at Apia the latter 

 part of June. Mr. C. J. Westland, of New 

 Zealand, succeeds Dr. Angenheister in the 

 charge of the Observatory. 



Professor Frank H. Bigelow retired from 

 the directorship of the Observatorio Solar y 



Magnetico, Pilar, Argentina, on June 30, and 

 will reside for the present in Southern France. 

 He will prepare for publication a series of 

 papers describing his researches on atmospheric 

 physics. 



Governor Baxter, of Maine, has received an 

 undated letter from Captain Donald B. Mac- 

 Millan, the Arctic explorer, now on an expedi- 

 tion to Baffin Land, in which he writes: "I 

 have taken on the last provisions and fresh 

 water and am now awaiting weather to clear 

 before proceeding northward to Hopedale, the 

 first Eskimo settlement.. The Bowdoin is 

 proving to be a wonderful sea boat. Had her 

 going the other day with sea rail under and 

 fore rigging cutting every wave." 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that as Eamon y Cajal will 

 soon retire as professor of histology in the 

 School of Medicine of Madrid, Dr. Van- 

 Baubergen introduced a bill providing that 

 Cajal should be appointed honorary dean of all 

 Spanish medical schools, and that he should 

 be granted an annual pension of 25,000 pesetas 

 (about $3,200). The minister of public edu- 

 cation, while endorsing its first paragraph, 

 held that the pension could not be granted, as 

 it would violate the budget law. Cajal tried to 

 stop subsequent action in favor of the pension, 

 publishing a letter in which he said, " The 

 legend of the poverty-stricken and neglected 

 researcher has no application in my case." 

 Cajal asked in his letter that, rather than 

 granting him a pension he does not need, they 

 should increase the funds for the Cajal School. 

 The government accepted the suggestion and 

 increased by 50,000 pesetas (about $6,500) the 

 annual appropriation for the school. 



The Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry states that the Fixed Nitrogen 

 Eesearch Laboratory, located at American 

 University, Washington, has been transferred 

 from the War Department to the Department 

 of Agriculture. Dr. E. C. Tolman, director, 

 will remain in charge, and the entire personnel 

 of 110 to 120, including 50 of the best trained 

 experts in the world on nitrogen, is trans- 

 ferred. Most of the work of the laboratory 



