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[N. S. Vol. LIV. No. 1401 



System on the Farm; El Campo Internacional, 

 and The Field Year Booh. 



Mr. Alfred Chaston Chapman, F.E.S., 

 president of the Institute of Cliemistry of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, has been appointed 

 a member of the British Eoyal Commission on 

 Awards to Inventors, in the room of Sir 

 James Johnston Dobbie, D.Sc, F.R.S., re- 

 signed. 



It is announced that the Colonial Office of 

 Great Britian is organizing an expedition 

 for research on the serotherapy of sleeping 

 sickness in Africa. The research is to in- 

 clude both men and animals, and plans for a 

 two years' stay. The expedition is in charge 

 of Drs. Marshall and Bassolo of the Uganda 

 Public Health Service, with two assistant 

 physicians and two veterinarians. 



The University of Toronto through its de- 

 parment of biology is developing a plan for 

 the systematic study of the inland waters of 

 Ontario. The work will be chiefly economic 

 in outlook and will be under the supervision 

 of Professor B. A. Bensley. A field party in 

 charge of Professor W. A. Clemens spent the 

 past summer on Lake !Nipigon. 



Dr. R. P. HiBBARD, associate professor of 

 plant physiology at the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College and plant physiologist at the 

 Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 has been granted leave of absence for the 

 current year in order to accept a Johnston 

 scholarship in the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity. He is engaged in research in the labora- 

 tory of plant physiology. 



The first meeting for the session 1921-1922 

 of the Chicago Institute of Medicine was held 

 October 21, when the Pasteur lecture was de- 

 livered by Dr. Theobald Smith on " Theories 

 of Susceptibility and Resistance in Relation 

 to Methods of Artificial Immunity." 



Dr. Rene Ledoux Lebard, of Paris, ad- 

 dressed the historical section of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on October 13. The 

 subject of his paper was " Color Print Illus- 

 tration of Medical Books up to the Year 

 1800." 



Sir Harold J. Stiles, of Edinburgh, de- 

 livered the Wesley M. Carpenter Lecture be- 



fore the New York Academy of Medicine on 

 the evening of October 20. His subject was 

 " Surgical Tuberculosis in Children and Its 

 Relation to the Milk Problem." On Octo- 

 ber 14 he delivered a Mayo Foimdation lec- 

 ture, " The history of medicine in Edin- 

 burgh." 



Professor Charles Baskerville, of the 

 College of the City of New York, lectured 

 on " Science and Civilization ; the Role of 

 Chemistry," at the joint meeting of the 

 Technical Societies and the Rhode Island 

 Section of the American Chemical Society, 

 at Providence on October 18. 



Sir W. J. Pope, president of the British 

 Society of Chemical Industry, lectured be- 

 fore the Congress of Industrial Chemistry 

 recently held in Paris on the future of or- 

 ganic chemistry, with special reference to the 

 advantages which France and Britain might 

 derive from their tropical possessions. Sir 

 "William Pope spoke at the annual dinner of 

 the British Society of Chemical Industry 

 when he referred to the recent visit of dele- 

 gates of the society to Canada and the United 

 States. 



Nature states that Charles Darwin's birth- 

 place, known as The Mount, Shrewsbury, situ- 

 ated in that part of the town known as Frank- 

 well, has been purchased by H. M. Office of 

 Works. The house was built about 1800, and 

 at the time when Sir Francis Darwin wrote, in 

 1887, " The Life and Letters of Charles Dar- 

 win," it had undergone but little alteration. It 

 was " a large, plain, square, red-brick house, of 

 which the most attractive feature " was " the 

 pretty greenhouse, opening out of the morning- 

 room." 



Professor Alexander Gray, director of the 

 school of electrical engineering at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, died at his home in Ithaca on Octo- 

 ber 13. 



The death is announced of Dr. M. H. Fus- 

 sell, professor of applied therapeutics in the 

 University of Pennsylvania and a member of 

 the committee on revision of the U. S. Phar- 

 macopeial Convention. 



