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Director A. A. Johnson, of the New York 

 State Institute of Applied Agriculture, who 

 was in Armenia to stuidy conditions for the 

 establishment of industrial and agricultural 

 schools, and later went to Moscow by the re- 

 quest of Secretary Hoover to take charge of 

 the food administration of the surrounding 

 famine area, has completed his mission and has 

 sailed for New York to resume his work. 



Dr. Stephen S. Visher, a Bishop Museum 

 fellow of Yale University, is studying hur- 

 ricanes and their effects on mau and on the 

 distribution of life in the Pacific. He is now 

 in the Fiji Islands. 



We learn from Nature that an expedition 

 to Sumatra, under the leadership of Mr. C. 

 Lockhart Cottle, is to sail towards the end 

 of the year for the purpose of making zoologi- 

 cal and museum collections. A special effort 

 will be made to obtain particulars of the life- 

 history of the orang. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, Dr. August Hermeier 

 Wittenberg, professor of anatomy in the 

 medical department of the University of Ten- 

 nessee, has been refused citizenship in the 

 United States. Failure to register for service 

 in the war was given as the reason for the 

 withdrawal of Dr. Wittenborg's petition for 

 naturalization. Dr. Wittenberg is a German 

 by birth, but has resided in this country for 

 several years. 



Dr. C. E. Stockard, professor of anatomy, 

 .Cornell University Medical College, will de- 

 liver the First Harvey Society Lecture at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine on Saturday 

 evening, October 22, 1921, at eight-thirty. His 

 subject will be " The Significance of Modifi- 

 cations in Body Structure." 



The first meeting of the Physics Club of 

 the Bureau of Standards for the season will 

 be held on October 17. The speaker will be 

 Dr. A. L. Day, whose subject will be " The 

 Study of California Earth Movements." This 

 is to be the first of a series of about ten lec- 

 tures on the general subject of physical 

 measurements pertaining to the earth. Meet- 

 ings of the Physics Club are held on consecu- 



tive Monday afternoons at 4 : 30 in the as- 

 sembly room of the east building of the 

 Bureau of Standards and are open to all 

 who may care to attend. 



Mr. J. H. Jeans, secretary to the Eoyal 

 Society, has been appointed Halley lecturer 

 for 1922, at Oxford University. 



The following lectures have been arranged 

 for delivery at the Eoyal College of Physici- 

 ans : The Mitchell lecture, on " The Eela- 

 tions of Tuberculosis to General Conditions 

 of the Body and Diseases other than Tubercu- 

 losis," by Dr. F. Parkes Weber, on November 

 1 ; The Bradshaw lecture, on " Subtropical 

 Esculents," by Dr. M. Grabham, on Novem- 

 ber 3 ; and the Fitz-Patrick lecture, on " Hip- 

 pocrates in Eelation to the Philosophy of his 

 Time," by Dr. E. O. Moon, on November 8 

 and 10. 



Dr. Arno Behr. a well-known industrial 

 chemist, Perkin Medalist and charter mem- 

 ber of the American Chemical Society, has 

 died at his home in South Pasadena, Cal., in 

 his seventy-fifth year. 



As has been noted in Science the board of 

 curators of the University of Missouri has 

 voted to establish a four year course in medi- 

 cine as soon as hospital facilities can be pro- 

 vided for clinical instruction. For a number 

 of years the medical course at the state univer- 

 sity has consisted of two years. We learn from 

 the Journal of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion that the extra session of the legislature, 

 recently adjourned, appropriated $250,000 for 

 the erection of a state hospital at Columbia for 

 the purpose of providing clinical material for 

 the medical students. It is expected that a 

 similar sum will be appropriated at each ses- 

 sion of the legislature until $1,000,000 has been 

 appropriated for hospital facilities. The legis- 

 lature also appropriated $200,000 for the erec- 

 tion of a new building for State Hospital No. 

 2 at St. Joseph. 



On September 22, President Harding by 

 public proclamation accepted and added to the 

 present Muir Woods National Monument, Cali- 

 fornia, 128.14 acres of land, a gift to the 



