January 13, 1922] 



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of the Department of Commerce toward the 

 elimination of waste in industry by simplify- 

 ing and standardizing commercial practices. 

 The new organization will form a subdivision 

 of the Bureau of Standards. 



The Huxley lecture at the University of 

 Birmingham was delivered on November 25 

 by Professor C. Lloyd Morgan on "A philo- 

 sophy of evolution." 



Charles Darwin's birthplace, according to 

 the London Times, has been sold. The pur- 

 chase includes the Darwin Walk above the 

 Severn River. It is said that its future use 

 is to be for the Office of Works to house a 

 body of clerks. 



Dr. Hubert Work, president of the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association, has appointed as the 

 Commitee on the Gorgas Memorial, Drs. George 

 E. de Sehweinitz, Philadelphia; Charles W. 

 Richardson, Washington, D. C, and Fred B. 

 Lund, Boston. This appointment was made in 

 compliance with the request received by the 

 Board of Trustees from the Gorgas Memorial 

 Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine 

 of Panama for the cooperation of the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association. 



Dr. Howabd B. Cross of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research died at Vera 

 Cruz on December 27 from yellow fever con- 

 tracted at Tustepec. Dr. Cross was a mem- 

 ber of the staff: of the International Health 

 Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. He was 

 a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and 

 received the doctorate of philosophy from the 

 Johns Hopkins University in 1921. 



The death is announced at the age of 57 

 years of Max Verworn, professor of physi- 

 ology at the University of Bonn. 



Dr. G. P. Jordan, port health officer of 

 Hong-Kong and professor of tropical medi- 

 cine in the Hong-Kong University, died in 

 London on December 4 at the age of 64 years. 



The spring meeting of the American Electro- 

 chemical Society is to be held in Baltimore 

 from April 27 to 29. There will be three ses- 

 sions, dealing respectively with electric fur- 



nace cast iron, the electrochemical industries 

 and electromotive chemistry. Inspection trips 

 will be made through industrial plants near 

 Baltimore. 



The Association of German Men of Science 

 and Physicians will hold its centennial meet- 

 ing in Leipzig from September 17 to 23. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Psychological Association in Princeton, N. J., 

 provision was made for the accrediting as con- 

 sulting psychologists of qualified persons be- 

 longing to the American Psychological Asso- 

 ciation. The committee asks that members of 

 the Section for Clinical Psychology of this 

 association desiring such action on their behalf 

 await the receipt of a circular letter of instruc- 

 tions as to their procedure. Other members of 

 the association are asked to await a further 

 announcement of the committee which will be 

 forwarded to Science and to the Psychological 

 Bulletin. 



The annual reiDort shows that the work of 

 the United States Geological Survey for last 

 year included detailed geologic surveys of 

 4,600 square miles, reconnaissance geologic 

 surveys of 21,500 square miles, exploratory 

 geologic surveys of 18,000 square miles, co- 

 operative geologic work with 17 state organ- 

 izations, studies of ore deposits in 10 states, 

 oil and gas surveys in 10 states, geologic sur- 

 veys in Alaska of 1,500 square miles, and the 

 continuation of studies of mineral deposits in 

 Alaska. It included also topographic surveys 

 in the United States of 12,311 square miles 

 and topographic reconnaissance surveys in the 

 Alaska Range of 390 square miles, running 

 of 4,796 miles of levels, establishing 1,123 

 bench marks and making 576 linear miles of 

 river surveys. The Geological Survey con- 

 tinued measurements of stream flow throughout 

 the United States and in Alaska and Hawaii, 

 cooperating in part with other federal organ- 

 izations and with 31 states and Hawaii; also 

 continued investigation of waterpower re- 

 sources of Southeastern Alaska. It also made 

 field examinations in 11 states under the 

 enlarged homestead and stock-raising home- 

 stead laws, increased designations of stock- 

 raising lands by 31,000,000 acres, and reported 



