Decembee 23, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. Morten P. Porsild, director of the 

 Danish Arctic Station, Disko, Greenland, is 

 at present in Copenhagen, Denmark, where 

 he is making plans for a visit to England and 

 America. In Decemher and January he will 

 lecture at the University of Cambridge, Eng- 

 land, on botanical and ethnological subjects. 

 He expects to reach the Unitud States about 

 the middle of February and may lecture at 

 scientific centers. 



Dr. Clement Pirquet, Dr. Charles War- 

 dell Stiles and Dr. Alfred F. Hess, have been 

 appointed to give this year the Cutter Lec- 

 tures on Preventive Medicine under the au- 

 spices of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. 

 Pirquet is professor of pediatrics at the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna and is best known for his 

 work on behalf of the under-nourished child- 

 ren of Austria since the war. Dr. Stiles is 

 assistant surgeon general of the U. S. Public 

 Health Service and consulting zoologist of 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry in the Federal 

 Department of Agriculture; Dr. Hess is a 

 New York pediatrist. 



Dr. E. M. East, of the Bussey Institution 

 of Harvard University, gave a series of lec- 

 tures at Cornell University, December 8-10, 

 1921, as follows : " Problems of population in 

 relation to agi'iculture," to the Society of 

 Sig-ma Xi; "Inbreeding as a tool in plant 

 improvement," to the staff and students of 

 the College of Agriculture, and " The prob- 

 lem of self-sterility in plants," to the semi- 

 nary of the department of plant breeding. 



Henrietta Swan Jewett, of the Harvard 

 College Observatory, died on December 19. 

 Since 1902- she had been engaged in the study 

 of the photographic brightness of the stars and 

 the disti-ibution and periods of variable stars. 



The Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund has 

 been serviceable for many years in giving aid, 

 by small grants, to research which otherwise 

 might not be readily undertaken. The grants 

 are made only for scientific investigations and 

 must be applied to actual expenses of the re- 

 search, i.e., they are not made to support an in- 

 vestigator or to meet the ordinary expenses of 

 publication. The trustees give preference to 



researches involving international cooperation. 

 The grants are not made for researches of nar- 

 row or merely local interest, nor are they avail- 

 able for equipment of private laboratories or 

 for purchase of apparatus ordinarily to be 

 found in scientific institutions. Applications 

 for grants from this fund should be made be- 

 fore January 15, 1922, to Professor W. B. 

 Cannon, secretary of the trustees of the fund. 

 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. 



The Fifth National Medical Congress of 

 Cuba, which takes place every five years, will 

 be held from December 11 to lY, under the 

 presidency of Professor J. A. Presno, founder 

 and director of the Bevista de Medicina y 

 Cirurgia of Havana. 



Adolph Lewisohn has given $150,000 for 

 the pathological laboratory of Mount Sinai 

 Hospital, New York City. The gift is in ad- 

 dition to others to the hospital and labora- 

 tory made by Mr. Lewisohn, including a 

 similar amount for the laboratory. 



The Committee of the Universities' Libra- 

 ry for Central Europe, formed in England 

 to renew the stocks of books and scientific 

 and learned periodicals in the universities of 

 Central Europe, has recently issued its report 

 for its first year of working, ending March 

 31, 1921. It has sent consignments of litera- 

 ture to Austria, Czecho- Slovakia, Esthonia, 

 Germany, Hungary and Poland. Donations 

 of money and English books published since 

 1914 are still urgently needed, and may be 

 sent to the honorary secretary, Mr. B. M. 

 Headicar, London School of Economics, 

 Clare Market, W. C. 2. 



The Sarah Berliner Fellowship for re- 

 search in physics, chemistry or biology is now 

 of the value of from one thousand to twelve 

 hundred dollars. In view of the fact that 

 some of the holders of this fellowship have 

 given important courses of lectures at Cor- 

 nell, the Johns Hopkins, Yale and other uni- 

 versities, the committee in charge of the 

 fund has decided to give explicit recognition 

 to this aspect of the fellowship. Hereafter, 

 therefore, preference will be given those 

 candidates who can carry on research and at 



