iNOVEMBEB 4, 1921J 



SCIENCE 



433 



The death is announced of Emile Houze, 

 professor of anthropology at the University of 

 Brussels and at the Ecole d'Anthropologie of 

 that city. 



We regret to record the death of Seymour C. 

 Loomis, Esq., who while practicing law at New 

 Haven long served the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science as secretary 

 of the section of social and economic sciences. 



The 111th regular meeting of the American 

 Physical Society will be held in Chicago, at 

 the Eyerson Physical Laboratory, on Saturday, 

 November 26. If the length of the program 

 requires it, there will also be sessions on Fri- 

 day, November 25. Other meetings for the 

 current season are as follows: December 27- 

 31, Toronto : annual meeting. February 25, 

 New York. April 22, Washington. 



A PUBLIC meeting under the auspices of the 

 New York sections of the four national engi- 

 neering societies on the subject of " the St. 

 Lawrence Ship Canal and Power Project " will 

 be held in New York City on November 14. 



The annual meeting of the American Phil- 

 osophical Association will be held on December 

 28, 29, and 30, at Vassar College, Poughkeep- 

 sie, N. Y. The meeting will open with an in- 

 formal smoker on Wednesday evening. On 

 Thursday morning and afternoon and Friday 

 morning the sessions will be devoted to the 

 reading and discussion of papers. The annual 

 dinner, followed by the address of the presi- 

 dent, will be held on Thursday evening. 



We learn from Nature that the number of 

 ordinary scientific meetings of the London 

 Chemical Society to be held during the coming 

 year has been increased with the object of 

 affording greater facilities for papers to be read 

 before the society. The first meeting was held 

 at Burlington House on October 6. Follow- 

 ing the custom of the last few years, the coun- 

 cil has again arranged for the delivery during 

 the session of three special lectures which, by 

 the courtesy of the council of the Institution 

 of Mechanical Engineers, will be held in the 

 lecture-hall of that institution. The first, en- 

 titled " The genesis of ores," will be delivered 

 by Professor J. W. Gregory on December 8. 



On February 9, Sir Ernest Eutherford will 

 lecture on "Artificial disintegration of ele- 

 ments"; while the last lecture, by Dr. H. H. 

 Dale, entitled " Chemical and physiological 

 properties," will be given on June 8. 



TiiE Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation reports that an appropriation of 

 $16,000,000 for the construction of additional 

 hospital facilities to provide medical, surgical 

 and hospital services for former service men 

 is contained in a bill introduced by Eepre- 

 sentative Langley of Kentucky, chairman of 

 the House Committee on Public Buildings 

 and Grounds. The money is supplementary 

 to the $18,500,000 appropriated at the last 

 session of Congress, the total of which has 

 already been disbursed with the exception of 

 $1,339,000. In the new Langley measure 

 $15,500,000 will be used for hospitals and ex- 

 tensions to present facilities to be distributed 

 under the supervision of the Secretary of the 

 Treasury. The other $500,000 carried by the 

 bill will be assigned to the purchase of ad- 

 ditional land and for the erection of new 

 buildings at the Mount Alto institution. 

 Eepresentative Langley presented his bill 

 after extensive conferences with representa- 

 tives of the Treasury Department and with 

 officials of the American Legion. 



The prevalence of foot and mouth disease 

 in some countries in Europe, in certain parts 

 of Asia and Africa, as well as in South 

 America, has caused the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture to institute special 

 quarantines against the importation of live 

 stock from these places. Any one who wishes 

 to import cattle, sheep, goats, swine or other 

 animals from any country, except Canada or 

 Mexico, must first obtain from the Secretary 

 of Agriculture a permit, to be presented to 

 the American consul at the port from which 

 the animals will be shipped. No permits arc 

 issued for shipment from countries where 

 rinderpest, surra, foot and mouth disease, or 

 contagious pleuro-pneumonia exist. Foot 

 and mouth disease prevailed to a serious ex- 

 tent in England during the last two years, 

 but recently has been abated to the extent 

 that horses from both England and Ireland 



