December 21, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



615 



a large and representative exposition, all tlie 

 exhibitors wishing to confine their efforts 

 toward making the Fourth National Exposi- 

 tion of Chemical Industries in New York, 

 week of September 23, 1918, the greatest event 

 in the history of .American Chemical Industry. 



The directors of the Fenger Memorial Fund 

 announce that the sum of $500 has been set 

 aside for medical investigation, the money to 

 be used to pay a worker, the work to be done 

 under direction in an established institution, 

 which will furnish the necessary facilities and 

 supplies free. It is desirable that the work 

 should have a direct clinical bearing. Ap- 

 plications with full particulars should be ad- 

 dressed to Dr. L. Hektoen, 637 S. Wood St., 

 Chicago, before January 15, 1918. 



A NATIONAL institute of malariology is about 

 to be established in Italy; it will be a part of 

 the department of agriculture. Its objects are 

 to investigate the relations between malaria 

 and agriculture; to study experimentally and 

 otherwise the direct and indirect causes of the 

 unhealthiness of malarial districts; and to or- 

 ganize and direct a campaign against those 

 causes, and particularly against the Anopheles. 



Mr. Hodge, British minister of pensions, re- 

 ceived on September 17, a private deputation 

 from the Eoehampton Hospital Committee 

 regarding the proposal to establish a national 

 experimental laboratory for the purpose of de- 

 signing and controlling the manufacture of 

 artificial limbs for disabled soldiers. By ex- 

 periments, and by making full use of the ex- 

 perience of men who had been fitted with arti- 

 ficial limbs, it was hoped, the deputation sug- 

 gested, to improve greatly the types of limbs 

 supplied at present. Mr. Hodge declared his 

 intention of taking immediate steps to seek 

 the necessary funds for the establishment of a 

 National Experimental Laboratory which 

 might ultimately become a national factory 

 for manufacturing limbs. For the present, 

 however, he was opposed to the establishment 

 of a national factory. It was, in his view, es- 

 sential that the committee of management of 

 the National Laboratory should be small, rep- 

 resentative of surgeons and mechanical experts, 



and distinct from any committee managing 

 hospitals for limbless men. The laboratory 

 committee would be directly responsible to the 

 Ministry of Pensions, and would be empow- 

 ered to ensure that the improvements which 

 they recommended should at once be intro- 

 duced into the manufacture of artificial limbs. 



It was proposed to submit a plan for estab- 

 lishing a central organization of engineers and 

 educationists to a conference of engineers 

 from all parts of the country which was held 

 at the British Institution of Civil Engineers 

 on October 25. Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, 

 president of the institution, presided and the 

 honorary organizers of the movement are Mr. 

 A. P. M. Fleming (British Westinghouse 

 Company, Trafford Park, Manchester) and 

 Mr. A. E. Berriman (chief engineer, Daimler 

 Company, Coventry). The plan suggested, 

 which includes the reinstatement of the best 

 ideals of the old system of apprenticeship, pro- 

 vides for the setting up by engineering firms 

 of a central bureau for the better coordination 

 of engineering training and the appointment 

 of a representative committee of engineering 

 and educational interests to initiate action. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A GENERAL Science Hall, erected at a cost of 

 $60,000, is under construction at Defiance Col- 

 lege, Defiance, Ohio. It will be a three story 

 building and is expected to be completed by 

 next July. 



The Provost Marshal General has sent the 

 following telegram to the governors of all 

 states : 



Under such regulations as the Chief of Engi- 

 neers may prescribe a proportion of the students, 

 as named by the school faculty, pursuing an engi- 

 neering course in one of the approved technical 

 engineering schools listed in the War Department, 

 may enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the 

 Engineer Department and thereafter, upon pre- 

 sentation by the registrant to his local board of a 

 certificate of enlistment, such certificate shall be 

 filed with the Questionnaire and the registrant shall 

 be placed in Class 5 on the ground that he is in the 

 military service of the United States. 



