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ington, after a three-years' leave of absence 

 wMch he spent in Central and South America 

 as geologist for the Standard Oil Co. 



Dr. William Crocker, director of research 

 of The Thompson Institute for Plant Research, 

 Tonkers, New York, sailed on the Olympic on 

 October 15, for a three- or four-months' stay in 

 Europe. He will visit England, France, Ger- 

 many, Austria and other European countries 

 for the purpose of acquiring materials for the 

 library and of studying the organization, equip- 

 ment and activities of the principal biological 

 institutions of Europe. 



Professor C. C. Nutting, head of the de- 

 partment of zoology at the University of Iowa, 

 who has conducted expeditions to the Bahama 

 Islands and to Barbados and Antigua in the 

 interests of scientific research work at the uni- 

 versity, has been invited by Colonel Fell, sec- 

 retary for the Fiji Islands, to bring an expedi- 

 tion there. Secretary Fell was formerly gov- 

 ernor of the Barbados Islands, where he was 

 stationed when the Iowa Expedition visited 

 there in 1918. 



M. Y. Williams, professor of paleontology in 

 the University of British Columbia, Vancou- 

 ver, is one of a party sent out by the Canadian 

 Geological Survey to make a survey of the 

 Mackenzie River district. 



Professor N. I. Vavilov, of the Petrograd 

 Agricultural Institute, who can be addressed 

 in care of W. P. Anderson, 512 Fifth Ave., 

 ISTew York, states that the first Russian Euge- 

 nics Society was founded in Petrograd and 

 Moscow two years ago; and that the president 

 of this society. Dr. IST. K. Koltzon, requests 

 American eugenicists to send their publica- 

 tions to the society through Professor Vavilov. 

 Scientific literature has not reached Russia for 

 the past four years. 



Professor Jacques Cavalier, rector of Tou- 

 louse and a widely known authority on metal- 

 lurgical chemistry, is in America as the result 

 of arrangements for an annual exchange of pro- 

 fessors of engineering and applied science be- 

 tween French and American universities. Pro- 

 fessor Cavalier, who is now at Columbia, will 

 divide his time during the academic year 



among the cooperating institutions, Columbia, 

 Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology and the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. The American uni- 

 versities have, as has been already noted here, 

 selected as their representative for the first 

 year Dr. A. E. Kennelly, professor of electrical 

 engineering at Harvard and the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



Dr. Hawley O. Taylor, associate physicist 

 at the Bureau of Standards, has resigned to 

 take charge of the electrical department, 

 Division of Rehabilitation, Franklin Union, 

 Boston. Dr. Taylor was formerly radio engi- 

 neer of the Signal Corps of the U. S. Army; 

 research physicist of the National Electric Sig- 

 naling Co., Brooklyn ; and research associate at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



John Mills, for ten years a member of the 

 Research Laboratories of the American Tele- 

 phone and Telegraph Company and the West- 

 ern Electric Company, has been appointed 

 assistant personnel manager in charge of edu- 

 cational promotion in the engineering depart- 

 ment of the Western Electric Company. 



Professor R. C. Archibald, of Brown Uni- 

 versity, has been granted leave of absence for 

 the second half of the academic year. He ex- 

 pects to spend it in visiting mathematicians 

 at universities of Italy, France, Belgium, Hol- 

 land, Scandinavia and Great Britain. 



Dr. C. C. Little, research associate, of the 

 Station for Experimental Evolution of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, will de- 

 liver the second Harvey Society Lecture at 

 the New York Academy of Medicine Satur- 

 day evening, November 26. His subject will 

 be " The relation of genetics to cancer re- 

 search." 



Professor F. E. Armstrong, professor of 

 Mining at Sheffield University, has died at 

 the age of forty-two years. 



The death is reported from Paris, at the 

 age of seventy -two years, of the French engi- 

 neer, M. Albert Sarpiaux, who had long been 

 connected with the scheme for the construc- 

 tion of a tunnel under the French Channel. 



