July 27, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



87 



along the eastern shore of Lake Nipigon, the 

 large lake in Ontario immediately north of 

 Lake, some sixty miles distant. Mr. Thomas H. 

 Lake, some sixty miles distant. Mr. Thomas H. 

 Kearney, of the Bureau of Plant Industi-y of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, is plan- 

 ning in cooperation with Dr. IT. L. Shantz, of 

 the TJ. S. Department of Agriculture, the stud- 

 ies of native vegetation as an indicator of the 

 agricultural capabilities of land in the western 

 states which have been in progress during the 

 past five or six years. 



Professor Lawrence Martin, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, gave instruction in 

 topography at the Officers Training Camp, 

 Fort Sheridan, 111., during the last part of 

 June and first part of July. 



Dr. Hugh McGuigan, professor of pharm- 

 acology in the Northwestern University, re- 

 cently delivered an address on " Blood Sugar 

 in relation to Diabetes " before the faculty 

 and students of the graduate summer quarter 

 in medicine of the University of Illinois. 



The first appointment to one of the new 

 Logan fellowships at the University of 

 Chicago has been made to Professor "Walter 

 George Sackett, of the Agricultural Experi- 

 mental Station, Fort Collins, Colorado, for 

 the academic year 1917—18. These fellowshijis 

 were recently endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Frank 

 G. Logan, of Chicago, for research in experi- 

 mental medicine for the purpose of discover- 

 ing new methods and means of preventing and 

 curing disease. 



The Council of the University of Leeds has 

 conferred upon Colonel de Burgh Birch, C.B., 

 late professor of physiology and dean of the 

 faculty of medicine, the title of emeritus 

 professor. 



Sm Cooper Perry, physician at, and super- 

 intendent of, Guy's Hospital, has been elected 

 to the office of vice-chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity of London for the year 1917-18, in . 

 succession to Sir Alfred Pearce Gould. 



Sm K'.wiER Shaw, director of the British 

 Meteorological Office, has been appointed 

 Halley lecturer for 1918, at Oxford. 



The death is announced of H. Van Laer, 

 professor of chemistry at Mons, and president 

 of the Chemical Society of Belgivim. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 

 At the meeting of the board of regents of 

 the University of Texas, held on July 12 and 

 13, President Vinson was continued as head of 

 the institution, though without formal action 

 to that efi'ect on the part of the board. The 

 following members of the faculty were 

 dropped: Professors L. M. Keasbey, W. H. 

 Mayes, W. T. Mather and A. Caswell Ellis, and 

 the secretary of the university, John A. Lomax. 

 Of these most had been previously mentioned 

 as slated for dismissal by the governor, but 

 Professor Keasbey was charged with disloyal 

 utterances at the recent pacifist meeting in 

 Chicago. The governor has not indicated any 

 method by which the funds for the mainte- 

 nance of the university may be secured, but 

 the regents are making plans, on a restricted 

 program, to have the institution open for work 

 in the autumn. 



We learn from Nature that the valuable col- 

 lections of Arachnida, containing more than 

 1,000 types, with the library, notebooks, draw- 

 ings and papers in connection therewith, be- 

 queathed by the late Eev. O. Pickard-Cam- 

 bridge, to the University of Oxford, have been 

 deposited in the University Museum and 

 placed in the charge of the Hope professor of 

 zoology. Professor E. B. Poulton. 



J. C. Bradley, of Cornell University, will 

 spend next year as assistant professor of ento- 

 mology at the University of California. 



Fred W. Padgett, who for the past four 

 years has been research fellow in oil, gas and 

 gasoline in the University of Pittsburgh, has 

 been appointed associate professor of chemis- 

 try in the University of Oklahoma, where he 

 will have charge of developing a research de- 

 partment in oil, gas and gasoline. 



Harry Clinton Goss.\rd, assistant professor 

 of mathematics in the University of Oklahoma, 

 has been appointed to a mathematical position 

 in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. 



