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made up of a representative of the War De- 

 partment and representatives of the agricul- 

 tural bureaus which are directly interested in 

 the fixation of nitrogen. It is expected that 

 the present allotment will maintain the labor- 

 atory for about two years. 



The Sections of Eastern and Western Areal 

 Geology in the U. S. Geological Survey have 

 been merged into one section under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. Sidney Paige. 



Upon nomination of the French Govern- 

 ment, the Harvard University corporation has 

 appointed Emile F. Gautier, professor of 

 geography in the University of Algiers, as the 

 French exchange professor at Harvard this 

 year. He will lecture at Harvard during the 

 second half-year. Professor Maurice DeWulf, 

 who was one of the Louvain University (Bel- 

 gium) teachers invited to Harvard after the 

 destruction of the university by the Germans 

 in 1914, has now been invited to return on a 

 permanent appointment as professor of phi- 

 losophy. 



M. J. Cavalier, professor of metallurgy in 

 the University of Toulouse, has arrived in 

 l^ew York City to take up his work as French 

 exchange professor at Columbia University. 

 He will be at Columbia from October 1 to 

 October 30. Professor Cavalier, rector of 

 Toulouse University, knovra. as an authority 

 on metallurgical chemistry, comes to America 

 as the result of arrangements for an annual 

 exchange of professors of engineering and 

 applied science between French and American 

 universities. Professor Cavalier will divide 

 his time among Columbia, Harvard, Yale, 

 Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology and the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Professor Eeginald A. Daly and Professor 

 Charles Palache of Harvard University are 

 members of the Shaler Memorial Expedition 

 to South Africa. A large part of Dr. Daly's 

 work will be conduc.ted by Dr. Eliot Black- 

 welder, chief geologist of the Argus Oil Com- 

 pany at Denver. 



The British Tropical Disease Prevention 

 Association is sending out a mission under Dr. 



Claude H. Marshall, a senior medical officer 

 in Uganda, whose services are being lent by 

 the government of Uganda for that purpose, 

 to investigate certain methods of treating 

 trypanosomiasis. 



Professor S. ELato, Keio University Med- 

 ical College, Japan, plans to visit colleges and 

 laboratories in Germany, Austria, Denmark, 

 Belgium, France and England. He expects to 

 return to Japan by way of America. He ex- 

 pected to leave Japan on September 30. 



Mr. F. W. L. Sladen, the well known author- 

 ity on bees, and author of " The Humble- 

 Bee," was accidentally drowned at Duck 

 Island, Lake Ontario, on September 10. Mr. 

 Sladen was carrying on research work in bee 

 breeding on this island. 



In memory of the late Dr. Susumu Sato, 

 who devoted his life to the progress of med- 

 ical science in Japan, a laboratory will be con- 

 structed at a cost of 300,000 yen, for the Yun- 

 tendo Hospital, the largest private hospital in 

 Japan. Courses in every branch of medical 

 science will be offered under the presidency of 

 Dr. Susumu Nukada, and clinics will also be 

 held in the institution. 



We learn from the Journal of the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences that at the invita- 

 tion of Mr. ISTorthcott, owner of the Luray 

 Caverns, Virginia, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the 

 National Museum has visited the caverns for 

 the purpose of examining and removing cer- 

 tain bones, enclosed in stalagmite, which were 

 believed to be human. After considerable diffi- 

 culties, the entire deposit containing the bones 

 was taken out in pieces which showed the re- 

 mains of most of the parts of a human skele- 

 ton; but no trace remained of the skull with 

 the exception of a portion of the lower jaw. 

 The specimens have been given to the museum 

 for further study. 



It has been finally decided to hold the 

 International Congress for Comparative Pa- 

 thology at Rome, beginning on September 20, 

 1922, under the presidency of Professor Per- 

 roncito. The Biforma Medica of August 13, 

 1921, gives the list of twenty subjects ap- 

 pointed for discussion, and communications 



