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The seventeenth annual New England In- 

 tercollegiate Geologic Excursion was held 

 October 15 at Attleboro, Massachusetts, under 

 the leadership of Professor J". B. Woodworth 

 of Harvard University. Forty-eight persons 

 representing thirteen institutions were pres- 

 ent. The institutions represented were as 

 follows: Associated Petroleum Engineers, 

 Brown University, Colby College, College of 

 Education, Providence, Harvard University, 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, Mount 

 Holyoke College, Tufts College, University of 

 Vermont, University of Washington, United 

 States Geological Survey, Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity, and Tale University. The group visited 

 the exposures of Dighton conglomerate in 

 the vicinity, of Attleboro, the Wamsuuta 

 series consisting of red shales, felsites and 

 diabases in South Attleboro, the Cambrian 

 outcrops at Hoppin Hill, the shale series of 

 the Coal Measures near the station at Plain- 

 ville containing fossil plants and amphibian 

 footprints, and other minor localities in the 

 vicinity of Eed Eock Hill and Oldtown. 

 Plans were discussed for the eighteenth ex- 

 cursion which will be held in the vicinity 

 either of Amherst or Worchester, Massachu- 

 setts. 



We learn from the Journal of the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association that the board of 

 directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute 

 at the national headquarters in Washington 

 has elected the following officers: Dr. Wil- 

 liam C. Braisted, president; Dr. Eranklin 

 Martin, vice-president; Dr. Arthur P. Eob- 

 bins, Burlington, Iowa, executive secretary, 

 and Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, president of 

 the Union Trust Company, Washington, 

 treasurer. The purpose of the organization 

 of an executive committee is to further a 

 movement to introduce the sanitary methods 

 devised by the late Surgeon-General Gorgas 

 in all the civilized countries of the world. 

 Word was recently received by the institute 

 that Dr. Eichard P. Strong, dean of the de- 

 partment of tropical medicine of Harvard 

 University and former director of the biolo- 

 gic laboratory at Manila has accepted the 

 post of scientific director of the Gorgas Mem- 



orial Institute of Tropical and Preventive 

 Medicine to be built at Panama City on a 

 site presented to the United States by Dr. 

 Belisano Porras, president of the Eepublic 

 of Panama. The presentation of the site 

 was made recently in Philadelphia by Jose 

 Lefevre, charge d'affaires of Panama at 

 Washington. 



Dr. Charles H. Gilbert, of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries, and Field Assistant Henry O'Mal- 

 ley have returned from an extensive trip to 

 Alaska, which was devoted to a study of the 

 runs of salmon in the southeastern and cen- 

 tral districts. Special attention was given to 

 the salmon of Kodiak Island, where a rack 

 had been constructed in Karluk Eiver early 

 in the season and the counting of red salmon 

 ascending the stream was being carried on. 

 It is reported that up to September 17, the 

 total escapement of red salmon up the river 

 was 1,322.000. Dr. Gilbert advises that the 

 investigations in the Karluk region were 

 most interesting and profitable. Every spawn- 

 ing stream tributary to Karluk Lake was ex- 

 amined. 



EDUCATIONAL NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Association of University 

 Professors meet at Pittsburgh on December 

 29 and 30 in association with the national 

 societies devoted to the economic and social 

 sciences. 



Dr. Theodore Lyman, director of the Jef- 

 ferson Physical Laboratory of Harvard Uni- 

 versity and professor of physics since 1913, has 

 been made Hollis professor of mathematics and 

 natural philosophy. He is the ninth incum- 

 bent of this foundation, which was established 

 by Thomas Hollis in 1727. Lyman's three im- 

 mediate predecessors were Joseph Levering, 

 1838-1888, and Lyman's teachers and friends, 

 B. O. Pierce, 1888-1914, and Wallace C. 

 Sabine, 1914-1919. 



Professor Harold J. Lookwood has been 

 appointed professor of electrical engineering 

 in the Thayer School of Engineering of Dart- 

 mouth College, to fill the vacancy caused by 

 the resignation of Professor F. E. Austin. 



