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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1412 



A MEDICAL scholarship for women is to be 

 established in the University of California in 

 memorj- of Dr. Sarah Sluey of the class of 

 1876. Dr. Sluey was the first woman who 

 graduated in medicine from the university. 



T. M. Jasper, assistant professor of mech- 

 anics at the University of Wisconsin, has been 

 placed in charge of tests in the joint investiga- 

 tion of the fatigue of metals, being carried 

 on at the Engineering- Experiment Station of 

 the University of Illinois, in conjunction with 

 the National Research Council and the En- 

 gineering Foundation. 



Mr. Philip L. Gile, formerly connected 

 with the American Agricultural Chemical 

 Company, in their agricultural service bureau, 

 and for eleven years prior to that position 

 chemist of the Porto Rico Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, is at present in charge of 

 the division of soil chemical investigations of 

 the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C. 



At the annual general meeting of the Har- 

 veian Society, held in London on January 12, 

 Dr. G. de Bee Turtle delivered the presidential 

 address on "Some Points on Spasm in the 

 Alimentary Tract." 



Alfred H. Brooks, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, retiring president of the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences, delivered 

 an address on "The Scientist in the Federal 

 Service" at the annual meeting held at the 

 Carnegie Institution on January 10. 



Warren T. Clarke, professor of agi-icultu- 

 ral extension of the University of California, 

 has been invited as a guest of the Pacific Mail 

 Steamship Company to study the control of 

 ants on shipboard. He sailed on December 

 12 on the Columbia which makes Mexican and 

 Central American ports passing through the 

 Canal and proceeding by way of Havana to 

 Baltimore. 



The American Society for Testing Materials 

 and the United States Forest Service have 

 been designated by the American Engineering 

 Standards Committee as joint sponsors for the 

 development of uniform standard methods of 



testing wood. This action was taken as the 

 result of a canvass made of the principal na- 

 tional bodies concerned with the proposed 

 project, from which it was apparent that there 

 is a real demand for the work, and that the 

 joint sponsorship here indicated would be ac- 

 ceptable to the industry. 



A CONFERENCE Under the auspices of the 

 National Research Council in Washington was 

 held on December 23 to consider the problem 

 of the university and college student of supe- 

 rior attainment. The conference was attended 

 by Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore 

 College; S. P. Capen, director of the American 

 Council on Education; J. Crosby Chapman, 

 associate professor of educational psychology, 

 Yale University; John J. Coss, assistant pro- 

 fessor of philosophy, Columbia University; 

 Louis T. More, professor of physics. University 

 of Cincinnati; A. A. Potter, dean of the 

 schools of engineering, Purdue University; 

 J. J. Tigert, United States commissioner of 

 education; Ernest H. Wilkins, professor of 

 romance languages, University of Chicago; 

 C. E. Seashore, professor of psychology. Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, and chairman of the Division 

 of Anthropology and Psychology, National 

 Research Council, and A. L. Barrows, assist- 

 ant secretary of the National Research 

 Council. Dr. Vernon Kellogg, permanent 

 secretary of the council and chairman of 

 the Division of Educational Relations, pre- 

 sided. Gener.al discussions,- specially intro- 

 duced by various members of the conference, 

 were had of such subjects as honors courses, 

 fellowships, special privileges, sectioning of 

 classes, analyzed ratings, etc. Various sugges- 

 tions were made of work which might be done 

 to stimulate interest in and active attention to 

 the problem by university and college faculties, 

 and a resolution was passed urging the Na- 

 tional Research Council to continue and 

 extend work along the line already undertaken 

 by it. 



The London Times announces that the coun- 

 cil of the Royal Horticultural Society has 

 become responsible for continuing the publica- 

 tion of Curtis's Botanical Magasine. During 

 the war the number of subscribers fell and. 



