Tebruary 17, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



175 



trieal and Manufacturing Company, resigned 

 on January 1, to become associate physicist in 

 the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Louis J. Teostel, who for the past two years 

 has been stationed at the Pittsburgh Station of 

 the Bureau of Mines, engaged on problems re- 

 lating to industrial gases and dusts, has ac- 

 cepted a position with the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry as assistant chemical engineer. He is en- 

 gaged on chemical problems relating to ex- 

 plosions from starch and other carbonaceous 

 dusts. 



Dr. J. H. White has been appointed by the 

 Rockefeller Foundation director of the Mexi- 

 can commission against yellow fever, to re- 

 place Dr. T. C. Lyster, who has resigned. 



Dr. Florence L. McKay, recently assistant 

 director of child hygiene, Children's Bureau, 

 U. S. Department of Labor, has been appointed 

 director of the division of child hygiene of the 

 New York State Department of Health. 



Dr. Harold S. Davis has resigned from his 

 industrial fellowship at the Mellon Institute 

 of Industrial Research at the University of 

 Pittsburgh to accept a position on the research 

 staff of the Arthur D. Little Company. 



A SERIES of five lectures will be given in the 

 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 

 lege under its Herter Foundation on "Inter- 

 facial Forces and Phenomena in Physiology" 

 by Dr. W. M. Bayliss, professor of general 

 physiology. University College, London, begin- 

 ning on Monday, the twenty-seventh of Febru- 

 ary, 1922, at 4 p. m. and continuing daily at 

 the same hour at the Carnegie Laboratoi-y, 338 

 !^ast 26th Street. Dr. Bayliss will deliver the 

 seventh Harvey Society lecture at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine on Saturday even- 

 ing, March 4, 1922. His subject will be "Vaso- 

 motor reactions and wound shock." 



Dr. Edwin 0. Jordan, professor of bacterio- 

 logy in the University of Chicago, lectured at 

 the School of Hygiene and Public Health of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, on "Interepi- 

 demic Influenza," on January 30. His lecture 



is one of the series of the DeLamai- lectui-es 

 on hygiene. 



The schedule for the spring public lectures, 

 to be held at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 at 4 p. m., is as follows: 



April 7. The Cultivation of Woodland Flow- 

 ers: Mr. Norman Taylor, curator of plants, 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



April 14. English Gardens: Mias Hilda 

 Loines, president of the Women's Auxiliary, 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



April 21. American Forests and the Necessity 

 for Regrowth: Professor J. W. Toumey, Yale 

 School of Forestry, New Haven, Conn. 



April 28. The Civic Value of Botanic Gardens: 

 Dr. C. Stuart Gager, director, Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. 



"Research in Chemisti-y as related to Medi- 

 cine" was the subject of an address delivered 

 on February 10 by Dr. Russell H. Chittenden 

 of the Shefaeld Scientific School, Yale Univer- 

 sity, before a joint meeting of the New York 

 sections of the American Chemical Society and 

 the American Electrochemical Society, the 

 American sections of the Society de Ohimie 

 Industrielle and the Society of Chemical In- 

 dustry. The address was followed by a dis- 

 cussion by C. H. Herty, H. T. Bogert and 

 F. P. Garvan. 



Dr. William McPherson, chairman of the 

 department of chemisti-y at Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, spoke before the Chicago section of the 

 American Chemical Society, January 20, en 

 his experiences in visiting Italian universities. 



A lecture on "Dyeing: Ancient and Mod- 

 ern" will be given by Professor A. G. Perkin 

 at afternoon meetings of the Royal Institution 

 on Februai-y 16 and 23. 



Morten P. Porsild^ director of the Danish 

 Aixitic station, Disco Island, Greenland, recent- 

 ly delivered lectures at the University of Cam- 

 bridge on the "Flora of Greenland" and the 

 "Excavations in the old Eskimo culture layers." 



Professor H. E. Armstrong has consented 

 to deliver the first Messel Memorial Lecture at 

 the annual meeting in Glasgow of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry. The medal to be pre- 

 sented to Professor Armstrong will, if practi- 



