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to Roger Chew, inspection department, Stan- 

 dard Oil Company of New Jersey. He will 

 be succeeded in his position at the Pittsburgh 

 Station by N. A. C. Smith of the Washington, 

 D. C, laboratory. F. W. Lane, organic chemist 

 at Pittsburgh, will succeed Mr. Smith. 



Dr. H. W. Dye has resigned as assistant 

 professor of plant pathology, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, to become chief pathologist of the re- 

 search department, Dosch Chemical Company, 

 Louisville, Ky., manufacturers of insecticide 

 materials and appliances. Dr. G. E. Sanders 

 also joins the research department of this com- 

 pany, having resigned as chief of insecticide 

 investigations of the Canadian Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. H. H. Morris, formerly in the chemical 

 department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and 

 Company, is now director of the research de- 

 partment of the Bond Manufacturing Corpora- 

 tion, Wilmington, Del. 



Louis E. Saunders has been appointed di- 

 rector of the research department of Norton 

 Company, Worcester, Mass. 



Sten De Geer, acting professor and chair- 

 man of the Geografiska Institutet, University 

 of Stockholm, is to give two courses at the 

 University of Chicago during the coming Sum- 

 mer Quarter. One course will deal with the 

 geography of the Scandinavian countries, while 

 the other involves a survey from the stand- 

 point of political and economic geography of 

 the "New Europe." 



Emile F. Gautier^ professor of geography 

 in the University of Algiers, has arrived in 

 Cambridge to take up his work as French ex- 

 change professor at Harvard University for 

 the second half of the current year. Professor 

 Gautier will give a half course on the geog- 

 raphy of Northern Africa and the Near East, 

 which will be open both to graduate students 

 and undergraduates and a research course pri- 

 marily for graduates. 



Dr. Christen Lundsgaaed, formerly of the 

 faculty of the University of Copenhagen, has 

 arrived in the United States to become asso- 

 ciated with the Rockefeller Institute for the 



next two years. He will conduct research 

 work in diseases of the heart and on pneu- 

 monia. 



Chaeles E. Simon, of the department of 

 medical zoology. School of Hygiene and Pub- 

 lic Health, Johns Hopkins University, has been 

 appointed a delegate from this school to the 

 Second International Congress of Comparative 

 Pathology, to be held at Rome on September 

 20. 



Three members of the staff of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute, Dr. Paulo Provenga, Dr. Fred- 

 erick Russell and Dr. Richard M. Pearce, sailed 

 February 2, for Sao Paulo, Brazil, where they 

 will consult Dr. Carlos Chagas of the Brazilian 

 Department of Health upon the care and treat- 

 ment of tropical diseases. 



Dr. Chaeles P. Berket, professor of geol- 

 ogy at Columbia University, has been given 

 leave of absence to accompany an expedition 

 for research work in Mongolia, which is being 

 financed by the American Museum of Natural 

 History and by the magazine, Asia. 



De. Robert S. Platt, of the department of 

 geography at the University of Chicago, is now 

 in Porto Rico in connection with a study of 

 the economic geography of Middle America. 

 The other places to be visited include several 

 of the islands of the West Indies and parts 

 of Mexico, Central America, and the Carri- 

 bean coast of South America. Dr. Platt is 

 accompanied by Harold S. Kemp, a student 

 in the geography department and for a time 

 secretary to the Geographic Society of Chicago. 



A MESSAGE has been received at Ottawa 

 through Canadian customs officials under date 

 of November 18 last, from a manager of a 

 Hudson Bay post, stating that Donald B. 

 MacMillan was spending the winter at Nau- 

 watta, eighty miles north of Cape Dorset. 



The Middleton Goldsmith lecture of the 

 New York Pathological Society was delivered 

 at the New York Academy of Medicine on 

 February 3, by Professor Thomas Hunt Mor- 

 gan, of Columbia University, the subject being 

 "Some Possible Bearings of Genetics on Patho- 

 logy." 



