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thanks of the Trustees be tendered to the 

 committee in charge and to all the Cornell 

 men who have contributed to the gift for this 

 admirable and appropriate tribute to Pro- 

 fessor Church; and, thirdly, that it be re- 

 ferred to the dean of the college of civil 

 engineering to hang the portrait in a suitable 

 place." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. rRANKLiN P. Mall, professor of an- 

 atomy in the Johns Hopkins University and 

 director of the department of embryology of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington, died 

 in Baltimore on November lY. 



The anniversary address of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine was delivered on No- 

 vember 15 by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 L.L.D., president of the American Museum of 

 National History, on " The origin and na- 

 ture of life." 



At its meeting held November 14 the Eum- 

 ford Committee of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences voted the following appro- 

 priations : To Professor Raymond T. Birge, 

 of Syracuse University, $150 in aid of his 

 research on the Structure of Series Spectra; 

 to Professor Theodore W. Richards, of Har- 

 vard University, $250 in aid of the publica- 

 tion of Marie's Tables of Physico-Chemical 

 Data; to Professor Ancel St. John, $500 for 

 the purchase of a refrigerating machine and 

 accessories to be the property of the com- 

 mittee and loaned tto Dr. St. John for use in 

 connection with his researches on crystal 

 structure by means of X-Eays. 



Professor J. P. Kemp, for many years head 

 of the department of geology in Columbia 

 University, has become associated temporarily 

 ■with the firm of Hager Bates and Lewis of 

 Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the absence of 

 Whitney Lewis in France. 



GusTAVE E. TusKA, consulting engineer. 

 New York City, formerly chief engineer of 

 the Panama Railroad Company and lecturer 

 in engineering at Columbia University, has 



been commissioned as major in the Engi- 

 neer Section of the Officers' Reserve Corps 

 of the United States Army. 



Major John M. T. Finney, M. R. C, U. S. 

 Army, has been appointed director of general 

 surgery with the American Expeditionary 

 Forces in France; Major Hugh H. Young, 

 M. R. C, director of venereal skin and genito- 

 urinary surgery, and Lieutenant- Colonel 

 Joseph Filer, M. C, U. S. Army, director of 

 the laboratory service. 



It is announced that Dr. Hugh Cabot of 

 British Base Hospital No. 22 has been made 

 lieutenant colonel of the Royal English Medi- 

 cal Corps. He has succeeded Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Sir Allan Perry as commanding 

 officer of the hospital. This is in addition to 

 being chief surgeon, which position he has 

 held for some months. 



Dr. a. B. Cordley, dean of agriculture and 

 director of the Oregon Experiment Station, 

 has been elected chairman of the State Lime 

 Committee, authorized by the state legisla- 

 ture to build and operate a state-owned lime 

 plant for providing cheap agricultural lime. 



Dr. Caroline Rumbold^ formerly collabo- 

 rator in forest pathology. Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, has been appointed assistant pa- 

 thologist in the Office of Sugar Plant Inves- 

 tigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. 



The sulphur committee of the War Indus- 

 tries Board has recently visited Texas. The 

 committee consists of J. Parke Channing, 

 J. W. Malcolmson, A. B. W. Hodges, P. S. 

 Smith, of the U. S. Geological Survey, and 

 W. O. Hotchkiss of the University of Wis- 

 consin. 



The course of popular scientific lectures of 

 the California Academy of Sciences, Golden 

 Gate Park, is being continued on Sunday 

 afternoons in the Auditorium of the Museum 

 in Golden Gate Park, as follows : 



November 18. Professor G. A. Louderback, 

 geology department, University of California, "A 

 geological expedition into the interior of China." 

 (Illustrated.) 



November 25. Professor E. 0. Franklin, chem- 



