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K. Mees, head of the research department, 

 Eastman Kodak Company. 



Problem of diffusion and its hearing on civiliza- 

 tion, Professor Ernst Cohen, professor of 

 chemistry. University of Utrecht. 



Catalysis: the new economic factor, Professor 

 Wilder D. Bancroft, professor of physical 

 chemistry, Cornell University. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Joel Asaph Allen, curator of the De- 

 partment of Birds and Mammals at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History since 1885, 

 died at Cornwall-on-Hudson on August 29, 

 aged eighty-three years. 



As has already been noted in Science the 

 Second International Congress of Eugenics, 

 which will meet at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York City, from Sep- 

 tember 22 to 28, will hold four sections. The 

 opening addresses before the sections are an- 

 nounced as follows: The address before Sec- 

 tion I, Human and Comparative Heredity, 

 will be given by M. Lucien Cuenot, professor 

 of zoology and physiology in the University 

 at Nancy, France, on " Adaptation and Modern 

 Genetic Conception " ; before Section II., Eu- 

 genics and the Human Family, by Dr. Her- 

 man Lundborg, professor of psychiatry and 

 neurology in the University of Upsala, Swe- 

 den, on " Eugenics and the Human Family." 

 The address before Section III, Human Ra- 

 cial Differences, will be given by Georges 

 Vacher de Lapouge, Poitiers, France, the title 

 of whose address is still to be announced. 

 The address before Section IV, Eugenics and 

 the State, will be given by Major Leonard 

 Darwin, of London, on " The Aims and Meth- 

 ods of Eugenical Societies." 



The annual summer meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Phytopathological Society was held in 

 conjunction with the Conference of Cereal 

 Pathologists at St. Paul, Minnesota and 

 Fargo, North Dakota on July 19 to 22 inclu- 

 sive. The following scientific men were pres- 

 ent as invited guests of the society: Dr. E. 

 J. Butler, Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Lon- 

 don; Dr Kingo Miyabe, professor of botany 

 and director of the Botanic Garden, Hokkaido 



Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan; Mr. E. 

 J. Noble, and Mr. James P. Shelton, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, New South Wales, 

 Australia. Members of the society were pres- 

 ent from Philippine Islands, from three prov- 

 inces of Canada and from ten states. The 

 meeting really constituted an international 

 conference on cereal diseases. Drs. Butler 

 and Miyabe will visit a number of institutions 

 before returning home, and Mr. Noble and 

 Mr. Shelton expect to remain for at least a 

 year to engage in research. Professor A. Jac- 

 zewski, director of the Institute of Mycology 

 and Phytopathology, Petrograd, Russia, and 

 Professor N. I. Vavilov, Bureau of Applied 

 Botany and Plant Breeding, Petrograd, Rus- 

 sia, arrived too late to attend the conference. 

 They will make an extended tour of the 

 United States and Canada before returning to 

 Russia. 



The following honorary degrees were con- 

 ferred upon members of the British Medical 

 Association by the University of Durham on 

 the occasion of the recent meeting of the 

 association in that city: — Doctor of Civil 

 Laws: Sir William MacEwen, Sir Thomas 

 Oliver, and Sir Humphry D. Rolleston. 

 Doctor of Hygiene: Dr. T. E. Hill and Dr. J. 

 W. Smith. Doctor of Science: Sir Arthur 

 Keith. Doctor of Literature: Sir Dawson 

 Williams, editor of the British Medical 

 Journal. M.A.: Dr. Alfred Cox, medical 

 secretary of the association. 



A MARBLE bust of Professor E. Fuchs, the 

 Vienna ophthalmologist, was unveiled at the 

 University of Vienna on June 14, the occasion 

 being his seventieth birthday. He retired in 

 1915. 



F. J. W. RouGHTON, of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge has been elected to the Michael 

 Foster research studentship in physiology. 

 The Raymond Horton Smith prize in medi- 

 cine has been awarded to Dr. R. L. M. Wallis 

 of Downing College. 



Dr. Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, of 

 Tale University, medical director of the 

 American Red Cross, is in Geneva attending 

 the meeting of the Health Commission of the 



