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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has re- 

 signed to accept a position with the Proctor 

 and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



De. Eatmond W. Woodward has resigned 



as physicist and chief of the section of mech- 

 anical metallurgy of the Bureau of Standards, 

 to become chief metallurgist for the Whitney 

 Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Con- 

 necticut. 



DuKiNG December, Dr. George Joannovich, 

 professor of pathological anatomy, and Dr. 

 Eadenko Stankovich, professor of internal 

 medicine of the medical school of the Univer- 

 sity of Belgrade, paid a visit to London as 

 guests of the Rockefeller Foundation. They 

 had previously made an extensive tour in 

 Canada and the United States, studying meth- 

 ods of medical education and public health 

 administration. 



The course of three Stewart lectures was 

 given in November before the University of 

 Melbourne on "The Modern Psychology," by 

 Dr. R. J. A. Berry, professor of anatomy in 

 the university. 



Captain Roald Amundsen visited the De- 

 partment of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington on January 16, 

 in order to complete arrangements with regard 

 to cooperative work in terrestrial magnetism 

 and atmospheric electricity between the De- 

 partment and his forthcoming expedition to 

 the Arctic regions. During the Northeast Pas- 

 sage, 1918-1921, the Amundsen Expedition 

 made a series of highly valuable magnetic ob- 

 servations at somewhat over 50 different points. 

 Captain Amundsen's chief scientific assistant. 

 Dr. H. U. Sverdrup, has been associated with 

 the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism since 

 last October in order to complete the reduction 

 and publication of the magnetic observations 

 thus far obtained by the expedition. He will 

 rejoin the Maud, Captain Amundsen's vessel, 

 early in March at Seattle. It is expected that 

 Captain Amundsen will resume his Arctic ex- 

 pedition about June 1. During his brief stay 

 in Washington, Captain Amundsen also paid 

 a visit to the non-magnetic ship Carnegie. In 

 the evening he met at the Cosmos Club a num- 



ber of the scientific men of Washington with 

 whom he discussed the plans of his Arctic ex- 

 pedition, the chief object of which is to obtain 

 scientific data relating to geography, oceano- 

 graphy, meteorology, gravity, terrestrial mag- 

 netism and atmospheric electricity. 



The annual meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion will be held in the university buildings at 

 Glasgow on July 21-28 next. The first three 

 days of the meeting will be taken up by the 

 annual representative meeting, and in the even- 

 ing of July 25 the president. Sir William Mac- 

 ewen, will deliver his address. Presidents of 

 sections are : Medicine, Professor T. K. Munro 

 (Glasgow) ; Surgery, Professor Alexis Thom- 

 son (Edinburgh) ; Pathology, Professor Robert 

 Muir (Glasgow) ; Ophthalmology, Mr. A. S. 

 Percival (Newcastle-on-Tyne) ; Neurology and 

 Psychological Medicine, Dr. George M. Robert- 

 son (Edinburgh) ; Obstetrics and Gynecology, 

 Professor Ewen J. Maclean (Cardiff) ; Micro- 

 biology (including Bacteriology), Dr. R. M. 

 Buchanan (Glasgow); Diseases of Children, 

 Sir Herbert F. Waterhouse (London) ; Public 

 Health, Dr. A. K. Chalmers (Glasgow) ; 

 Physiology, Professor J. A. Mc William (Aber- 

 deen) ; Dermatology, Dr. Leslie Roberts (Liver- 

 pool). 



At the last ordinary scientific meeting of 

 the Chemical Society, London, held on January 

 19, Professor Arthur Smithells gave an account 

 of Dr. Langmuir's theory of atomic structure, 

 and exhibited models. Sir Ernest Rutherford's 

 lecture on "Artificial Disintegration of Ele- 

 ments" will be given on February 9. 



Dr. Ludwik Silbeestein of the Research 

 Laboratory, Eastman Kodak Company, lectured 

 before the Franklin Institute on Thursday 

 evening, January 26, on "An optical experi- 

 ment in connection with the rotation of the 

 earth." 



Dueing the week of January 9, Dr. H. H. 

 Love, of- the Department of Plant Breeding of 

 Cornell University, delivered a series of lec- 

 tures before the faculty of the School of Agri- 

 culture of the Pennsylvania State College on 

 the importance of biometrical methods in in- 

 terpreting experimental results. 



