December 16, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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at the University of Birmington and dean of 

 the faculty of medicine, died recently at the 

 age of fifty years. 



Professor Erb, the neurologist, of Heidel- 

 berg, has died at the age of eighty-three years. 



For the Toronto meeting of the American 

 Association one of the attractions will be an 

 exhibition of scientific apparatus and products 

 held under the auspices of the association. It 

 is hoped that firms and individual scientific 

 men who have something new to exhibit will 

 take advantage of this exhibition. The exhibi- 

 tion is in charge of an exhibition committee at 

 Toronto, the chairman of this committee being 

 Professor F. E. Burton, of the University of 

 Toronto. Arrangements for entering exhibits 

 are to be made by direct correspondence with 

 Professor Burton. 



The American Anthropological Association 

 will meet in conjunction with the American 

 Folk-lore Society, the Maya Society and the 

 Southwest Society at the Brooklyn Institute 

 Museum from December 28 to 30 inclusive. 



The Geological Society of America will 

 meet at Amherst, Mass., from December 28 

 to 30. 



The date for the Birmingham, Ala., meet- 

 ing of the American Chemical Society has 

 been placed from April 4 to Y, 1922. 



The American Petroleum Institute held 

 its annual meeting at the Congress Hotel, 

 Chicago, on December 6, 7 and 8. 



The tenth International Congress of Otol- 

 ogy will be held in Paris next year. Dr. A. 

 Hautant of Paris is secretary-general of the 

 French committee. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Molteno Institute for Research in Para- 

 sitology, presented to the University of Cam- 

 bridge by Mr. and Mrs. Percy A. Molteno, was 

 formally opened on ISTovember 28. 



Dr. Henry Laurens, formerly assistant pro- 

 fessor in biology in Yale College, has been pro- 

 moted to be an associate professor of physiology 

 and transferred from the department of zoo- 

 logy to the medical school faculty, where he 



has charge of the physiology. Associated with 

 him is Dr. W. F. Hamilton, formerly instructor 

 in physiology in the University of Texas. Dr. 

 J. W. Buchanan (University of Chicago) has 

 been appointed an instructor in biology in Yale 

 College in Dr. Laurens's place. 



Dr. Lansing S. Wells, until recently re- 

 search chemist with the Barrett Company, 

 Philadelphia, has accepted an appointment as 

 assistant professor of organic and physical 

 chemistry at the Montana State College, Boze- 

 man, Mont. 



Dr. Glen E. Cullen has been elected asso- 

 ciate professor of research medicine, and Dr. 

 Goldschmidt, former lecturer in physiology in 

 the School of Medicine, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, ISr. Y., has been elected assistant pro- 

 fessor of physiology in the School of Medicine 

 of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. James 

 Harold Austin was elected, last spring, profes- 

 sor of research medicine, to succeed Dr. Rich- 

 ard M. Pearce, who resigned to accept a posi- 

 tion with the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Mr. Herbert H. Tanner has been appointed 

 assistant professor of chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Oregon. 



Julian D. Carrington, lately curator of 

 biology at Cornell University, has resig-ned 

 to become assistant professor of biology at 

 the University of South Carolina. 



Appointments for the present year at the 

 Case School of Applied Science include Dr. H. 

 H. Lester, from the University of Washington 

 and commercial work, to be assistant professor 

 of physics, and Dr. J. J. Nassau, from Syra- 

 cuse University, to be assistant professor of 

 mathematics and astronomy. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



IN ASSISTANCE OF THE ARCHIVES 

 DE BIOLOGIE 



It will be remembered by the biological 

 laboratories of about one hundred and fifty 

 colleges and universities that last spring 

 their attention was called to sets of lantern 

 slides made from photomicrographs of Nereis 

 egg preparations put up by Professor O. Van 

 der Stricht, of the University of Ghent. The 



