November 9, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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Professor H. S. Pratt, of Haverford Col- 

 lege, assisted by Frank C. Baker, zoological in- 

 vestigator of the New York State College of 

 Forestry, made during the past summer a 

 study of the parasitic worms of Oneida Lake 

 fishes. This work was made by cooperation be- 

 tween the U. S. Bureau of Fishes and the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse, 

 and was a part of the fish survey which has 

 been carried on there for the past three years. 



Professor CAL^^N H. KIauffman, curator of 

 the Cryptogamic Herbarium, and professor in 

 the department of botany of the University of 

 Michigan, has left for Colorado where he will 

 spend the year gathering and selecting mush- 

 rooms in order to experiment on them for cer- 

 tain malignant diseases which affect crops. 

 Professor Kauffman was granted a year's leave 

 of absence in order that he might work on 

 these plant diseases for the United States 

 government. 



Dr. William C. Farabee, director of the 

 University of Pennsylvania Museum, who re- 

 cently returned from a two years' exploring 

 trip to the Amazon River, is now engaged in 

 installing the exhibits he collected. Thousands 

 of rare specimens are being made ready and 

 when finished they will occupy the entire floor 

 of the museum. The collection, which will be 

 opened to the public early in November, 

 promises to be the finest of its kind in the 

 world. In the absence of Director Gordon, Dr. 

 Farabee is acting director of the museum. 



Dr. Frank Carney, professor of geology 

 and geography at Denison University, has re- 

 signed to enter the employment of The Na- 

 tional Eefining Company of Cleveland, Ohio. 



L. M. Tolman, for seventeen years connected 

 with the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and for the last three 

 years chief of the central food and drug in- 

 spection district of that bureau, has resigned 

 to become chief chemist of Wilson & Co., Chi- 

 cago, to have charge of their control and re- 

 search work. 



Sm Maurice Fitzmaurice, C.M.G., has been 

 appointed to fill the vacancy on the advisory 

 council of the Committee of the Privy Coun- 



cil for Scientific and Industrial Research of 

 Great Britain, caused by the retirement, by 

 rotation, of Mr. W. Duddell, C.B.E., F.R.S. 



A Peruvian Medical Commission, which will 

 tour the United States inspecting medical 

 schools and hospitals, began its work in Balti- 

 more, October 14, and from there went to 

 Philadelphia and New York. The commission 

 is composed of Professor Dr. Guillermo Gasta- 

 neta and Drs. E. Campodonico and R. Asplazu. 

 The object of the commission is to secure in- 

 formation for the reorganization of the med- 

 ical schools of Peru in accordance with Amer- 

 ican standards. 



Dr. Henry C. Sherman, professor of food 

 chemistry in Columbia University, who has 

 recently returned from service in Petrograd 

 as a member of the scientific division of the 

 American Red Cross Mission to Russia, spoke 

 of the work of the mission in Russia at Hast- 

 ings-on-Hudson, New York. 



Professor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, will present a paper on the evening of 

 November 12 before the Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Agricultural Science in Washing- 

 ton on " Permanent Agriculture and Democ- 

 racy (suggested by the situation in China)." 



Professor Simeon E. Baldwin, of Yale 

 University, was reelected president of the 

 Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences at 

 its annual meeting on October 18. At this 

 meeting Professor Baldwin read a paper on 

 " The growth of law during the past year." 

 Dr. Olive Day and Dr. George F. Eaton were 

 elected vice presidents. 



The Harvey Society lectures will be given 

 at the New York Academy of Medicine, as 

 follows: Nov. 10, Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, " Current food problems " ; 

 Nov. 24, Dr. Linsly R. Williams, " The medi- 

 cal problem of the war " ; Dec. 8, Professor 

 Aldred S. Warthin, Ann Arbor, " The new 

 pathology of syphilis." 



Mr. Fisher, the British minister for educa- 

 tion, presided, on October 31, at a meeting in 

 London, which was addressed by Mr. Waldorf 

 Astor, on " Health problems and a state min- 

 istry of health." Mr. Kingsley Wood, of the 



