December 28, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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archeology and general antliropology. Pro- 

 fessor Starr has been conducting special an- 

 thropological investigations in Korea and has 

 published a book of some five hundred pages in 

 Japanese. He has also published a paper on 

 '' Korean Coin Charms," which is issued by the 

 Korean branch of the Eoyal Asiatic Society. 

 Before leaving Japan Professor Starr gave two 

 public addresses, one before the Tokyo Anthro- 

 pological Society and one before the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan. 



Professor Charles Baskerville, professor 

 of chemistry and director of laboratories of the 

 College of the City of New York, delivered a 

 lecture at the Royal Canadian Institute, To- 

 ronto, Canada, on December 8, the subject 

 being. The Hydrogenation of Vegetable Oils. 



Dr. E. O. Hovey, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, delivered a public address 

 on " Two years in the far North " at Syracuse 

 University on December Y, under the auspices 

 of the Sigma Xi Society. 



Professor O. D. von Engeln, of Cornell 

 University, addressed the Physiographers' 

 Club of Columbia University on November 23 

 on " Types of Alaskan glaciers and features 

 of the associated deposits." 



Sir Arthur Newsholme gave this year the 

 Lady Priestley Memorial Lecture of the Na- 

 tional Health Society. The subject was " The 

 child and the home." 



Dr. Louis Pope Gratacap, for the last 

 twenty-seven years curator of mineralogy and 

 a member of the staff of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History for forty-one years, 

 died at New Brighton on December 19, aged 

 sixty-seven years. 



Dr. Charles M. Mansfield, scientific as- 

 sistant in the Biochemic Division of the U. 

 S. Bureau of Animal Industry, died at his 

 home in Washington, D. C, on December 17. 

 Dr. Mansfield was an accomplished photog- 

 rapher and had contributed several articles 

 to the photographic journals. 



The death is announced at the age of 43, 

 of Dr. J. Eambousek, professor of factory 

 Jiygiene, and chief state health officer, Prague. 



Lieut. Cyril Green, known for his work 

 in plant ecology and the physiological an- 

 atomy of water plants, was killed on the 

 Palestine front early in November. He had 

 been a member of the staff of the department 

 of botany of the University College, London. 

 Since the outbreak of the war he had been 

 appointed head of the department of botany 

 in the new Welsh National Museum at Car- 

 diff, a position which was to have been held 

 open for him until the conclusion of hos- 

 tilities. 



The death is announced on November 4 

 of M. R. Nichels, professor of geology in the 

 University of Nancy. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists 

 will hold its annual meeting in Washington, 

 D. C, on December 27, 28 and 29. The morn- 

 ing and afternoon sessions will be held in the 

 new National Museum. The president is Dr. 

 Leo F. Rettger, New Haven, Conn.; the sec- 

 retary. Dr. A. Parker Kitchens, Glenolden, 

 Pa. 



At their recent annual meeting the board of 

 trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington accepted from Mrs. E. H. Harriman the 

 gift of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold 

 Spring Harbor. This gift comprises about 80 

 acres of land, the office building with its records 

 and other contents, the large residence and 

 other buildings. In addition Mrs. Harriman 

 has given to the trustees of the institution 

 securities yielding an annual income of $12,- 

 000, as a fund for the office. The total valua- 

 tion of the gift is about half a million dol- 

 lars. The transfer has been made by Mrs. 

 Harriman in order to ensure the permanent 

 continuation of the work of the Eugenics 

 Record Office. Except that the former board 

 of scientific directors is dissolved the imme- 

 diate management and personnel of the office 

 have not been affected by the transfer. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences was held on De- 

 cember 19, when a lecture was given by Pro- 

 fessor J. C. Bradley, Cornell University, on 

 "The Okefinokee" (illustrated). Following 

 the lecture Dr. Barton W. Evermann spoke 



