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and Guilds (Engineering) College, lias been 

 appointed superintendent of the electrical de- 

 partment of the British ISTational Physical 

 Laboratory. 



Me. J. Bare, head of the textile analysis 

 department of the City of Bradford Con- 

 ditioning House, has been apjiointed manager 

 of the new yarn-testing bureau at University 

 College, Nottingham. 



Dr. William Walter Cort, associate pro- 

 fessor of helminthology in the school of hy- 

 giene and public health of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has returned after spending 

 four months studying hookworm larvK in 

 Trinidad, West Indies. He was director of 

 the expedition sent out for that purpose by the 

 International Health Board of the Rockefeller 

 Poundation. 



Mr. John Eitchie, associate editor of the 

 American Journal of Puhlic Health since 

 1918, has relinquished this position on the 

 removal of the journal from Boston to New 

 York. 



Dr. Edward A. Spitzka has been appointed 

 chief of the Medical Eating Section in the 

 New York Office of the U. S. Veterans' Bu- 

 reau, at 23 West 43d Street. 



Dr. Thomas S. Egberts, professor of or- 

 nithology and associate curator of the zoolog- 

 ical museum of the University of Minnesota, 

 gave a lecture on Itasca Park, on Sep- 

 tember 23, in the lobby of the Mayo Clinic. 

 The lecture was under the auspices of the 

 Mayo Foundation Chapter of Sigma Xi and 

 the Eochester Unit of the Minnesota General 

 Alumni Association. 



We learn from Nature that the death took 

 place on September 11, at the age of seventy- 

 one, of Mr. E. E. Baynes, senior student of 

 Christ Church, Oxford, and Lee's reader in 

 physics. 



Mr. Q. W. Walker, F.E.S., known for his 

 work in physics and seismology, died on Sep- 

 tember 6 at the age of forty-seven years. 



The annual conference of Potato Growers 

 was held from October 4 to 6 at the Uni- 

 versity of California Farm School at Davis. 

 The production and marketing of potatoes 



was presented in lectures, discussions and 

 demonstrations at the University Farm Gar- 

 dens. These lectures were given by mem- 

 bers of the staff of the College of Agriculture 

 of the University of California and the State 

 and Federal Department of Agriculture. The 

 meetings of the first two days were at Davis 

 and the meetings of the third day at the Uni- 

 versity of California campus at Berkeley. 



An institute of hydrology and climatology, 

 containing laboratories, a museum, and a li- 

 brary, was inaugurated recently at the College 

 of France. Lectures in hydrology will be 

 given, and courses will be held to train special- 

 ists for watering-places and thermal and cli- 

 matic stations. 



It was recently reported in Soienoe that 

 Baron Edmond de Eothschild had contrib- 

 uted 10,000,000,000 francs for the endowment 

 of an institute for scientific research. The 

 foundation will be administered by a scientific 

 council, composed of delegates from scientific 

 institutions devoted to the study of physics 

 and -chemistry. It will include two repre- 

 sentatives of the Academy of Sciences — one, 

 each, from the sections of chemistry and 

 physics. The College de France, the Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle, I'Ecole Superieure des 

 Mines, the Faculte des Sciences de Paris, the . 

 Faculte de Pharmacie, I'Ecole Normale Su- 

 perieure, the Conservatoire National des Arts 

 et Metiers and I'Ecole Polytechnique will each 

 have one representative. There will also be 

 several members elected by the council itself, 

 so that the total number of members in the 

 council will reach approximately twenty-five. 

 The foundation will have at its disposal each 

 year 600,000 francs to be distributed among 

 investigators. In accordance with the terms 

 of the endowment 300,000 francs must be dis- 

 tributed in small amounts; the balance may 

 be bestowed in the form of one or more lump 

 sums for costly researches of great impor- 

 tance. Educational establishments and gov- 

 ernment laboratories will not share in the 

 grants offered by the foundation, as these will 

 be reserved exclusively for the use of inde- 

 pendent investigators in the field of physics 

 and chemistry. 



