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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIV. No. 1406. 



The regular lecture at tlie Johns Hopkins 

 University School of Hygiene and Public 

 Health was given on ISTovember 28 by Dr. 

 S. Josephine Baker, director of the Bureau 

 of Child Hygiene, Department of Health, 

 IvTew York, who sftoke on " The place of child 

 hygiene in a public health program." 



Professor J. H. Mathews, dii-ector of the 

 course in chemistry at the University of 

 Wisconsin, lectured before the department of 

 chemistry at Oberlin College, on November 

 30, on the subjects : " A general survey of 

 photochemistry " and " Color photography." 

 The following evening he spoke before the 

 Cleveland Section of the American Chemical 

 Society on the subject: "Photochemistry 

 and some of its research problems." 



The ninety-sixth Christmas course of juve- 

 nile lectures, founded at the Royal Institu- 

 tion in 1826 by Michael Faraday, will be de- 

 livered this year by Professor J. A. Fleming, 

 F.E.S., on " Electric waves and wireless tele- 

 phony." 



John D. Rockefeller has provided funds 

 for the purchase of the birthplace of Pasteur 

 at Dole in the Jura. It will be transformed 

 into a museum in which will probably be 

 housed an extensive medical and surgical 

 library, with the authentic documents of 

 Pasteur. 



The memorial tablet to the late Lord Eay- 

 leigh was unveiled in the north transept of 

 Westminster Abbey on November 30. It is 

 placed between the memorials to Sir Humph- 

 ry Davy and Dr. Thomas Young. 



Dr. Sheridan Delepine, professor of public 

 health and bacteriology and director of the 

 public health laboratory. University of Man- 

 chester, died on November 13 at the age of 

 sixty-six years. 



Word has been received from Russia of the 

 death on January 2, 1921, at the age of 

 eighty-one years, of Dimitri Konstantinoviteh 

 Tschernoff, eminent for his work on the 

 metallography of iron. 



The annual meeting of the Society of 

 Economic Geologists will be held in con- 



junction with the annual meeting of the Ge- 

 ological Society of America at Amherst Col- 

 lege from December 28 to 30. 



Formal organization of the American As- 

 sociation of Textile Chemists and Colorists 

 was completed at a meeting held in the En- 

 gineers' Club at Boston on November 3. Pro- 

 fessor Louis A. Olney, of the Lowell Textile 

 School, was elected president. 



The Institution of Rubber Industry held 

 its first meeting in the lecture hall of the 

 Royal Society of Arts on October 19, when 

 Mr. J. H. C. Brooking delivered a presiden- 

 tial address. 



An International Congress of Maternal 

 and Child Welfare will be held in Paris, July 

 6 to 8, 1922. 



At a meeting of the British Optical Society 

 held on October 13, the resolution passed early 

 in 1915 suspending certain members, subjects 

 of countries then at war with Great Britain, 

 was revoked. 



Steps have been taken to organize the engi- 

 neers of the British Empire on the lines pur- 

 sued by the Federated American Engineering 

 Societies. 



Beginning with the January issue, the 

 Journal of Orthopedic Surgery, the olficial 

 organ of the American Orthopedic Associa- 

 tion and of the British Orthojyedic Associa- 

 tion, has announced that the publication will 

 change from a monthly to a quarterly publi- 

 cation. 



Astronomical journals report that early in 

 1920 following a call sent out by leading 

 German men of science, an Einstein fund 

 was raised. The purpose of the fund is to 

 test the relativity theory experimentally and 

 to make possible the development in Germany 

 of its astrophysieal consequences. Sufficient 

 funds were obtained, thanks to the Ministry 

 and Germany Industry, to undertake the con- 

 struction of a tower-telescope and a physical 

 laboratory. 



Professor William Herbert Hobbs, now 

 making a geological reconnaissance in charge 

 of the Osborn Expedition from the University 



