January 27, 1922] 



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cal Union, addressing communications in care 

 of the Research Information Service, National 

 Research Council, 1701 Massachusetts Avenue, 

 N. W., Washington, D. C, U. S. A. It is 

 hoped, further, that complete as weU as accu- 

 rate information may be supplied concerning 

 all stations not now fully described. 



The Genetics Division of the California 

 Agricultural Experiment Station is investiga- 

 ting the genus Crepis for the purpose of find- 

 ing favorable material for genetic research. 

 As many as possible of the species in this 

 genus will be grown and tested. Incidentally 

 material will be accumulated for a monograph 

 on the genus. About 35 species from foreign 

 countries are now being grown at Berkeley, 

 but none that are native to North America. 

 The object of this appeal is to interest Ameri- 

 can collectors in the work so as to secure vi- 

 able seeds of American species during the 

 present year. Seeds may be sent to Division 

 of Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, 

 California. 



De. C. E. Ruby is making a collection of 

 verse of aU varieties, whose subject matter re- 

 lates to the sciences, with the ultimate purpose 

 of publishing an anthology of such poetry. 

 Readers of Science are invited to send any 

 verses of this character, which may be avail- 

 able to them, or to send suggestions as to pos- 

 sible sources of such verse to Dr. Ruby, 7 St. 

 Paul Street, Cambridge, Mass. In sending 

 such contributions, it is desirable that the 

 author's name, and other needful details, in- 

 cluding the permission to publish the poem 

 (if it is possible for the contributor to include 

 this permission) accompany each poem. 



FiKE during the night of January 9 in the 

 laboratories of the department of anatomy, 

 Loyola University School of Medicine, 706 S. 

 Lincoln Street, Chicago, destroyed the collec- 

 tion of reprints and files of journals of Pro- 

 fessor R. M. Strong. He writes that he would 

 be gi-ateful to authors who have sent him re- 

 prints in the past for any replacements which 

 it may be convenient for them to make. The 

 research material, unpublished drawings and 

 loan collections of the department were essen- 

 tially untouched. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The Corporation of Yale University has re- 

 ceived an anonymous pledge of $100,000 for 

 the establishment of the William H. Carmalt 

 professorship fund in the School of Medicine. 

 The president was authorized to designate an- 

 nually a professor of the medical school as 

 the William H. Carmalt professor. 



De. Allen Fiske Voshell, former resident 

 orthopedist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, 

 has assumed charge of the department of ortho- 

 pedic surgery at the University of Virginia 

 Medical School and Hospital. 



The General Education Board has offered 

 $250,000 toward the one million dollars of the 

 Radcliffe Endowment Fund provided that the 

 rest of the million is raised by July 1. 



De. John Heislee is now carrying on the 

 work of anatomy in the School of Medicine of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, a position 

 formerly filled by Dr. Piersol. Dr. G. P. 

 McHoueh has been appointed a full-time in- 

 structor in physiology. 



De. Austin Bailey, who has recently been 

 employed as superintendent of the apparatus 

 division of the Corning Glass Works, has re- 

 signed his position to accept an assistant pro- 

 fessorship in the department of physics at the 

 University of Kansas. 



Me. Hubeet H. Newell, of the Research 

 Laboratory of the Westinghouse Electric and 

 Manufacturing Company, has resigned to 

 accept a position at the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute. 



E. A. Allcut has been appointed associate 

 professor in the department of thermo-dyna- 

 mics at the University of Toronto. 



Peopessoe J. W. Nicholson has been elected 

 to a war memorial fellowship in physics and 

 mathematics at BalHol College, Oxford. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 



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