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SCIENCE 



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oal College, London, by Mr. W. P. Dreaper, 

 on October 20. The subject was " Chemical 

 Industry a Branch of Science." 



The death is announced of Dr. Albert 

 Sidney Leyton, professor of pathology at the 

 University of Leeds, Great Shelford, Cam- 

 bridge, aged fifty-two years. His death is 

 said to be directly due to his war service. 

 He was a major and served as bacteriological 

 consultant to the Northern Command, and it 

 was during his investigations of trench fever 

 that he developed the malady from which he 

 died. 



The British Association has marked its 

 appreciation of the plan for establishing the 

 Event Valley Bird Sanctuai-y as a perma- 

 nent nature reserve in memory of Gilbert 

 White by making a contribution through the 

 Selborne Society towards the upkeep and en- 

 dowment fund. 



To mark the recent centenary of James 

 Watt, the Institution of Shipbuilders and En- 

 gineers has founded two new chairs in Glas- 

 gow University — a James Watt Chair of 

 Electrical Engineering, and a James Watt 

 Chair of the Theory and Practise of Heat. 



Professoe Edward Hjelt, professor of 

 organic chemistry in the University of Hel- 

 singfors and at one time Finnish ambassador 

 at Berlin, died on July 2 at the age of sixty- 

 six years. 



It is announced that the annual meeting for 

 1922 of the British Medical Association will 

 be held at Glasgow on July 21-29. 



We learn from the Journal of Industrial and 

 Engineering Chemistry that the appointment 

 of the permanent chief of the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry has been delayed because of the impos- 

 sibility of finding a properly qualified chemist 

 who is willing to take the position at the $5,000 

 salary attached to it. As a result of this situa- 

 tion, an increase in appropriation to $7,500 will 

 be asked, but under present conditions no con- 

 gressional action is likely before the middle of 

 next year. 



The Knud Rasmussen expedition left God- 

 thaab, on the southwest coast of Greenland, 



on September 7. The London Times states 

 that the motor schooner Sea King during 

 August had been to Thule (northwest Green- 

 land) and brought back the Eskimo members 

 of the expedition, four men and three women, 

 as well as 72 dogs, sledges and furs which 

 excel anything previously known. Part of 

 the clothing sent from Denmark and lost 

 in the shipwreck of the Bele has been re- 

 placed, and the expedition starts with as good 

 an outfit as possible. In regard to personnel, 

 the expedition unfortunately is less lucky. 

 Eirst Peter Freuchen's Eskimo wife ISTavarana, 

 who was going to follow her husband, died at 

 Upernivik on August 3, and during their south- 

 ward journey the Cape York Eskimos caught 

 cold which developed into pneumonia. After 

 their arrival at Godthaab they were taken to 

 hospital, where one, the huntsman Iggian- 

 guak, who had taken part in some of the pre- 

 vious Thule expeditions, died. The others 

 had so far recovered that the doctor per- 

 mitted them to rejoin the expedition. The 

 Sea King will first go to the coast of Labra- 

 dor, where M. Lindow, one of the Green- 

 land trade inspectors, will carry on scientific 

 investigations. It will then proceed with Ras- 

 mussen's party to Lyon inlet, in the Melville 

 Peninsula. Captain Pedersen will afterwards 

 take the vessel to St. John's, Newfoundland, 

 from which the next report will be sent. The 

 object of the expedition is to explore and map 

 the archipelago between Greenland and the 

 American continent, and also to investigate 

 the migrations of the Eskimo, their folk-lore, 

 and cognate subjects. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of the late Jonathan M. Par- 

 menter, of Wayland, Mass., a trust fund of 

 over $250,000 is left to Harvard College for 

 the establishment of scholarships. 



Dr. John Lee Coulter has been elected 

 president of the North Dakota Agricultural 

 College. He takes the place occupied by Dr. 

 E. F. Ladd, who was elected to the United 

 States Senate last March. 



