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Dr. Eyan declares that the Eed Cross was sending 

 Professor Pawlow food and states that Pawlow's 

 two sons, Victor and Vsevolod Ivanovitch, had not 

 been heard from for two years and that he was 

 very desirous of obtaining information regarding 

 them. Again, April 24, Dr. Eyan reported that he 

 had been able to send to Pawlow certain definite 

 supplies which are listed. Furthermore, I have 

 a letter from Professor Carl Tigerstedt of Hel- 

 singfors, Finland, dated July 30, 1921, in which 

 he acknowledges the receipt of money collected 

 from friends of Pawlow in the United States and 

 sent to him for Pawlow 's aid. The Finns have 

 of&cial representatives in Petrograd. Dr. Tiger- 

 stedt reports that he has been sending a consign- 

 ment of food of all kinds twice monthly to Paw- 

 low through the Finnish commission, and that he 

 is thus not suffering any more from lack of nour- 

 ishment. Nevertheless, I am sending to Dr. Tiger- 

 stedt the report from Budapest and asking for 

 specific information regarding Pawlow 's welfare. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. C. S. Sherrington, professor of phys- 

 iology at Oxford University and president 

 of the Royal Society, will be elected president 

 of the British Association for the meeting to 

 be held at Hull in 1922. It is expected that 

 the meeting of 1923 will be at Liverpool and 

 the meeting of 1924 at Toronto. 



The International Eugenics Congress has 

 been holding a successful meeting in New 

 York City. We hope to publish next week 

 the addresses given at the opening session by 

 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Major Leonard 

 Darwin and Professor Charles B. Davenport. 



The thirteenth course of lectures on the 

 Herter Foundation at the Johns Hopkins 

 University will be given by Sir Arthur Keith, 

 F.R.S., conservator of the Museum and Hun- 

 terian professor of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, England. The lectures will be given on 

 October 5, 6 and Y, the subject being " The 

 differentiation of modern races of mankind 

 in the light of the hormone theory." 



At the recent meeting of the American As- 

 tronomical Society, held at Middletown, Conn., 

 Professor 0. V. L. Charlier was elected an 

 honorary member. Professor J. C. Kapteyn 

 and Sir Frank Dyson are the only other liv- 

 ing astronomers who have been thus honored. 



Professor Robert W. Hegner, of the de- 

 partment of medical zoology, school of 

 hygiene and public health, Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been elected a fellow of the 

 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and 

 Hygiene, London, England. 



Dr. Heber W. Youngken, professor of 

 botany and pharmacognosy in The Phila- 

 delphia College of Pharmacy and Science was 

 elected chairman of The Scientific Section 

 of The American Pharmaceutical Associa- 

 tion at its sixty-ninth annual convention 

 held in New Orleans, from September 5-9. 



WiLLARD Rouse Jillson, director and state 

 geologist of the Kentucky Geological Survey 

 with offices at Frankfort, Kentucky, received 

 the doctorate of science from Syracuse Uni- 

 versity at its fiftieth commencement last 

 June. 



Professor J. J. Thornber has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station of the University of Arizona, 

 at Tucson, and began his work on September 

 1. Professor Thornber has completed twenty 

 years' continuous service as head of the de- 

 partment of biology in the College of Letters, 

 Arts and Sciences, University of Arizona, and 

 henceforth will devote his time to admini- 

 strative work and investigation. 



Professor R. J. Terry, of the department 

 of anthropology of Washington University, 

 Saint Louis, has been appointed anthropolo- 

 gist to the Barnes Hospital and Saint Louis 

 Children's Hospital. 



Dr. Michael F. Gardner has been ap- 

 pointed chief of the Bureau of Preventable 

 Diseases and director of the bacteriological 

 laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service. 



The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, 

 together with about a half million dollars from 

 the original appropriation made for the in- 

 vestigation of nitrogen fixation, was trans- 

 ferred on June 30 from the jurisdiction of the 

 War Department to the Department of Agri- 

 culture. The laboratory is now an independent 

 unit of the Department of Agriculture, under 

 the direction of Dr. Richard C. Tolman, who 

 has the assistance of an advisory committee 



