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land expected to be in position by next sum- 

 mer to cooperate in collecting the desired sta- 

 tistical information. Pursuant to the resolu- 

 tion adopted at the first meeting looking to 

 uniformity in reporting statistics of the off- 

 shore fisheries on the Atlantic coast, the com- 

 mittee adopted a form to be used, beginning 

 with the first of the year 1922, for the record- 

 ing of data obtained. Another resolution pro- 

 vided for the undertaking at an early date of 

 investigations of the life histories of the cod 

 and the haddock. Subcommittees were ap- 

 pointed for consideration of questions of tag- 

 ging fish and studying ocean currents by the 

 use of drift bottles. The third Friday in May, 

 1922, was appointed for the next meeting of 

 the committee, which will be held in Montreal. 



In connection with the establishment of 

 funds for scientific research in Norway, grants 

 have now been made for the following pur- 

 poses: (1) 8,000 kroner for experiments to 

 be made in connection with the use of acetylene 

 gas as motor fuel; (2) 24,000 kroner for the 

 purpose of investigation of vitamines with 

 special reference to cod-liver oil; (3) 6,000 

 kroner to examine the possibility of employing 

 calcium carbide as a basis for further manu- 

 facture in Norway. 



The London Times reports that Dr. Morten- 

 sen and Mr. Hjalmar Jensen, Danish biologists 

 distinguished, respectively, in zoology and 

 botany, are leading a small expedition to the 

 Kei Islands, west of New Guinea, where, fol- 

 lowing the advice of Dutch zoologists, they 

 expect to find a suitable site and to draw up 

 plans for the establishment of a permanent 

 station. The plan was proposed some years 

 ago at a Scandinavian research conference in 

 Copenhagen. The Kei Islands lie on a small 

 area of shallow water above the 100 fathom 

 line, but the ocean floor shelves steeply down to 

 the abyssal depths of the Banda Sea. This 

 natural conformation is favorable to scientific 

 work, for some of the fishes, corals and plants, 

 usually to be obtained only by very deep 

 dredging, are believed to ascend to within easy 

 range. The larger island. Great Kei, is of 

 tertiai-y formation, with mountains and forests; 

 its bird and insect life will repay intensive 



study. Little Kei and some of the smaller 

 islands were raised above the sea by volcanic 

 eruption less than a century ago, and there 

 is plenty of clean bottom. The islands lie on 

 the Pacific side of Wallace's line, one of the 

 primitive land and ocean frontiers of the 

 globe. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



By the wUl of Mrs. Dexter Smith, of Spring- 

 field, Mass., Wesleyan University receives 

 $150,000. 



One hundred thousand dollars has been re- 

 ceived by the University of California from 

 the estate of E. P. Kraft, to be held in trust 

 for the purpose of creating at the university 

 scholarships to be known as the "Edward Frank 

 Kraft Scholarships." Under the terms of the 

 trust, the scholarships are to be apportioned 

 among the various colleges except agriculture, 

 for which scholai'ships have previously been 

 provided out of the estate of G«orge H. Kraft. 



The Committee of the University of Cam- 

 bridge for Geodesy and Geodynamics has re- 

 ported in favor of the erection and equipment 

 of a two-roomed observation building neai' the 

 observatory as a first step towards the institu- 

 tion that the committee ultimately aims at to 

 meet the requirements of international geodesy. 



Chables Russ Richards, dean of the Col- 

 lege of Engineering and director of the Ex- 

 perimental Engineering Department of the 

 University of Illinois, was elected president of 

 Lehigh University on February 7. Mr. Rich- 

 ards succeeds Dr. Henry S. Drinker, now 

 president emeritus. 



The following appointments are noted in 

 The Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry : Mr. James H. Ransom has changed 

 his position as research chemist with the Michi- 

 gan Smelting & Refining Co., Detroit, Mich., 

 to head of the department of chemistry in 

 James MUlikin University, Decatur, lU. Mr. 

 W. H. Rodebush has been appointed associate 

 professor in charge of the division of physical 

 chemistry. University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



