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Peopbssok Edgar James Swift^ head of the 

 department of psychology and education in 

 Washington University, gave an address on 

 "The psychology of testimony and rumor" at 

 the Naval War College, Newport, R. I., on 

 January 26. 



The annual meeting of the Society of Heat- 

 ing and Ventilating Engineers was held at the 

 Hotel Pennsylvania from January 24 to 26. 

 Among the papers presented were: "The Con- 

 trol of Blower Motors", by Heni-y H. Issertel, 

 and "The Underfeed Stoker," by Frank A. 

 De Boos. 



The Mathematics Club of the University of 

 Southern California, which the late Professor 

 Paul Arnold helped to found, proposes to es- 

 tablish as a memorial to him the Paul Arnold 

 Library of Mathematics. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed with Mrs. 

 Mary K. Bryan, of the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, as chairman, to establish a memorial to 

 Miss Eunice R. Oberly, librarian of the bureau 

 from 1808 until her death on November 5. 

 It is planned that the money given by her 

 friends shall be used to establish a prize to be 

 awarded for the work in which Miss Oberly 

 was interested. 



SiE German Sims Woodhead, professor of 

 pathology in the University of Cambridge, died 

 on December 29, at the age of sixty-six years. 



Dr. Reginald Paerar, of Harrow, England, 

 died on December 29, of typhus fever at Mos- 

 cow, whither he had gone to assist Dr. Nan- 

 sen in organizing arrangements for famine re- 

 lief in Russia, under the auspices of the League 

 of Nations and the League of Red Cross So- 

 cieties. 



Dr. George Stewardson Bradt, F. R. S., 

 who died at Sheffield on December 25, in his 

 ninetieth year, was engaged in the practice of 

 medicine and in 1875 became professor of nat- 

 ural history at Armstrong College, Newcastle, 

 retiring as professor emeritus in 1906. He had 

 done much useful work on the material gath- 

 ered by the Challenger Expedition, having 

 published reports on the ostracoda and cope- 

 poda. He also wrote a monograph of the free 



and semi-parasitic eopepoda of the British 

 Islands, and collaborated in a monograph of 

 the ostracoda of the North Atlantic and North- 

 western Europe. 



The annual joint meeting of the American 

 Geographical Society and the Association of 

 American Geographers will be held in New 

 York City on April 28 and 29. The program 

 will be piiblished about April 1. All interested 

 are invited to attend the sessions to be held at 

 the building of the American Geographical So- 

 ciety. 



The Royal Institute of Public Health wUl 

 hold a congress in Plymouth from May 31 to 

 June 5. In addition to conferences on various 

 matters there will be four sections: (1) state 

 medicine and municipal hygiene; (2) naval, 

 military and air; (3) bacteriology and bio- 

 chemistry; (4) women and public health. The 

 Harben lectures will be given during the meet- 

 ing by Dr. T. Madsen, director of the State 

 Sermn Institute, Copenhagen. 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the Paleon- 

 tological Society was held at Amherst, Mass., 

 from December 28 to 30, as the guest of Am- 

 herst College, in affiliation with the Geological 

 Society of America. The special meetings of 

 the society were held in the Geology-Biology 

 building, while the i"?ml>cjfs were comfortably 

 lodged in the fraternity houses on the campus. 

 Seven new members were elected at the meet- 

 ing, making the membership at the end of 1921 

 total 214. The officers elected for 1922 were 

 as follows : President, W. D. Matthew, New 

 York City; First Vice-President, E. S. Riggs, 

 Chicago, Illinois; Second Vice-President, E. W. 

 Berry, Baltimore, Maryland; Third Vice- 

 President, B. L. Clark, Berkeley, California; 

 Secretary, R. S. Bassler, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Treasurer, Richard S. Lull, New Haven, Con- 

 necticut; Editor, Walter Granger, New York 



The Russian Academic Group held its first 

 annual meeting on January 12. The group 

 consists of scientific men and women from Rus- 

 sia living in the United States. They have 

 organized with the purpose (1) of studying 

 the social, economic and industrial problems 

 involved in the further development of Rvis- 



