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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIV. No. 1407. 



Dr. S. K. Ley, chief chemist for the Rocky 

 Mountain Division of the Standard Oil Com- 

 pany (Inc.), Casper, Wyoming, have accepted 

 appointments as consulting chemists to the U. 

 S. Bureau of Mines. They will assist the regu- 

 lar staff in the investigations now being car- 

 ried on by the bureau with Colorado and Utah 

 oil shales at its Boulder and Salt Lake sta- 

 tions. 



James H. Mason Knox, Jr., associate in clin- 

 ical pediatrics in the John Hopkins Medical 

 School, has been granted a year's leave of ab- 

 sence to assume charge of child welfare work 

 in Europe, under the Eed Cross. 



Gaichi Tamada, assistant professor of metal- 

 lurgy at the Kyoto Imperial University of 

 Kyoto, Japan, has been visiting the mills and 

 smelters of the Great Lakes district in conclu- 

 sion to a year's tour of the United States. 



Dr. Cayetano Lopez, port inspector of Bar- 

 celona for the Spanish Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry, recently spent some time in Washing- 

 ton studying the organization and methods of 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture with special 

 reference to bacteriology and pathology. The 

 Spanish Government contemplates the estab- 

 lishment of a laboratory in connection with the 

 agricultural department for the study of ani- 

 mal diseases. 



Professor Arthur de Jaczewski, director 

 of the Institute of Mycology and Phytopa- 

 thology at Petrograd and president of the 

 Russian Mycological and Phytopathological 

 Society, and Professor N. I. Vavilov, direc- 

 tor of the Bureau of Applied Botany and 

 Plant Breeding at Petrograd and editor-in- 

 chief of tlie Russian Phytopathological So- 

 ciety, who came to the United States last 

 August as the guests of the American Phyt«- 

 pathological Society, have completed their 

 study trip through this eounti-y, and the fol- 

 lowing telegram has been received from 

 them : " Leaving America we wish to send 

 our American friends a last farewell and to 

 thank you once more for the heartfelt and 

 kind reception that made our trip in this 

 country so pleasant and useful. We shall 



never forget the time spent with American 

 scientists, and we hope that the connections 

 established now in such a good way will be 

 continued for the good of science and of our 

 countries." 



Dr. W. H. Parks, director of the research 

 laboratory in the iSTew York Board of Health, 

 was the guest of the Wisconsin Branch of the 

 Society of American Bacteriologists on De- 

 cember 2. In the afternoon he gave a lec- 

 ture on " The Importance of the Schick Test 

 in the Control of Diphtheria," which was 

 open to the public. This was followed in 

 the evening by a dinner and smoker at the 

 University Club where Dr. Parks spoke in- 

 formally about the work of his laboratory. 



A course of ten lectures in applied an- 

 thropology will be given under the auspices 

 of the Young Men's Christian Association 

 and the Institute of Vocational Research of 

 Washington, D. C, by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



Professor J. H. Walton, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of the University of Wis- 

 consin, lectured before the Milwaukee section 

 of the American Chemical Society on No- 

 vember 18, on the subject " The Influence of 

 Impurities on the Rate of Growth of Cer- 

 tain Crystals." 



The second of the series of lectures on the 

 " Progress of Science," under the auspices of 

 the Society of Sigma Xi, Columbia Chapter, 

 was held on December 15, by Dr. James Ken- 

 dall, associate professor of chemistry, on 

 " Recent progi'ess in the science of chemistry." 



A BUST of the late Professor G. Galeotti is 

 to be placed in the pathological institute at 

 Naples. 



Sir Douglas Fox, past president of the In- 

 stitute of Civil Engineers and honorary mem- 

 ber of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 

 died in London on November 12, at the age of 

 eighty-one years. 



Mr. Edward Windsor Richards, a past presi- 

 dent of the Institution of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers and of the Iron and Steel Institute, died 

 on November 12, at the age of ninety years. 



Dr. Peter Thompson, professor of anatomy 



