rEBF.UAHY 24, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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Indiana Universities. Dr. Visher studied in 

 the Hawaiian, Fijian and Philippine Islands 

 and in Australia, coastal China and Japan. 



Dr. Howaed S. Reed, professor of plant 

 physiology in the University of California, is 

 spending the winter in the West Indies and 

 Central America, in travel and in observation 

 of the citrus industry. 



J. S. Negru, managing editor of Chemical 

 and Metallurgical Engineering, sailed for 

 Europe on February 11, for a six months trip 

 through Germany, France, Belgium and other 

 European countries. The purpose of the trip 

 is to study industrial and economic conditions 

 and observe the latest advances in engineer- 

 ing and technology. 



Leave of absence has been granted a party 

 of naturalists from the State University of 

 Iowa to spend the summer of 1922 in the Fiji 

 Islands and New Zealand. The party will con- 

 sist of Professor C. C. Nutting, zoologist, who 

 will act as leader; Professor R. B. Wylie, 

 botanist; Professor A. 0. Thomas, geologist; 

 Assistant Professor Dayton Stoner, entomolo- 

 gist and ornithologist; Mrs. Dayton Stoner, 

 assistant entomologist, and Mr. Waldo S. 

 Glock, assistant geologist. 



Dh. J. Gordon Thompson, lecturer on pro- 

 tozoology at the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine, has, at the in^dtation of the British 

 South African Country, gone to Rhodesia to 

 investigate protozoological diseases. Dr. Thom- 

 son sailed on January 5 and expects to be ab- 

 sent six months. He will give special atten- 

 tion to the etiology of blackwater fever. 



Professor H. S. Langpeld, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, delivered an address on "Instinct and 

 War" at an open meeting of the William 

 James Club of Wesleyan University on Decem- 

 ber 4. Professor E. G. Boring, of Clark Uni- 

 versity, addressed the club on February 10, on 

 "The Changing Status of Introspection." 



Dr. Hawley 0. Taylor gave a course of 

 twelve lectures on auditorium acoustics at 

 Franklin Union, Boston, beginning on January 

 3. The lectures were addressed particularly 

 to architects and builders and treated the sub- 



ject in a way to enable architects to satis- 

 factorily adjust the acoustics of the rooms 

 which they desigti. 



On February 9, Professor J. Howard 

 Mathews, chairman of the department of chem- 

 istry of the University of Wisconsin, addressed 

 the Purdue Section of the American Chemical 

 Society on the subject "Some of the Research 

 Methods and Research Problems of Photo- 

 chemistry." 



Dr. J. C. Bloodgood, of Baltimore, Asso- 

 ciate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, gave a Mayo Founda- 

 tion Lecture, January 14; he discussed "The 

 present day trend of surgery and pathology 

 and the outlook for the future." 



Dr. Roger I. Lee, professor of hygiene. Har- 

 vard University, leetui'ed before the School of 

 Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins' 

 University, on "The physical examination of 

 large groups of individuals," at its regular 

 weekly lecture, February 6. 



Dr. J. A. Detlepsen, of the University of 

 Illinois, delivered a lecture before the Royal 

 Canadian Institute at Toronto on January 21, 

 on "Recent experiments bearing upon the in- 

 heritance of acquired characters." 



Professor H. A. Beottwer, of Delft, Hol- 

 land, who is exchange professor in the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan for the spring semester, will 

 deliver a course of lectures on the "Geology of 

 the Dutch East Indies." He will also deliver 

 a series of more popular lectures upon "The 

 people and geology of the East Indies." 



The annual meeting of the Eugenics Re- 

 search Association will be held at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island, Satm-day, June 10, 1922. 

 The title of Dr. Lewellys F. Barker's presiden- 

 tial address is "Heredity and the Endocrine 

 Glands." 



Professor Leffler, of Stockholm, is en- 

 deavoring to organize an International Con- 

 gress of Mathematicians, to be held at Stock- 

 holm in the coming summer. 



The Royal Society of Archeology of Brus- 

 sels has formed a section of the history of 



