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said to be the richest in the world. Professor 

 Seouppe christened the mineral "Curite." The 

 Belgian authorities have started the construc- 

 tion of a plant at Hoboken near Antwerp, 

 which, it is said, will produce one gram of 

 radium from nine tons of the mineral. 



At a meeting of the C. M. Warren Com- 

 mittee of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, held on Tuesday, Tebruary 21, it was 

 voted to make the following grants : To Pro- 

 fessor R. P. Brunei, of Bryn Mawr College, 

 $200 to assist him in his work on the study of 

 the action of halogen hydrides on unsaturated 

 compounds. To Professor V. K. Krieble, of 

 Trinity College, $100 to aid his investigation 

 of the nature of asphalts. It was voted by 

 the committee that applications for grants 

 would be considered at three stated meetings 

 of the committee each year. Applications for 

 grants should be in the hands of the chairman 

 of the committee. Professor James F. Norris, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam- 

 bridge, by the first of February, May or No- 

 vember. 



Mr. G. V. Colchester has been appointed 

 to the post of geologist on the Geological Sur- 

 vey of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in succession 

 to Mr. C. T. Madigan, who now holds a lec- 

 tureship in geology at Adelaide University. 



Me. Howard T. Geaber has been elected 

 secretary of the Digestive Ferments Company, 

 Detroit. Mr. Graber retains his former duties 

 as director of the Chemical Laboratory and 

 chairman of the publicity eonunittee. 



Me. Edmuxd B. Stiles, formerly with the 

 Subsurface Department of the Bureau of Eco- 

 nomic Geology of the University' of Texas, and 

 W. Armstrong Price, formerly paleontologist 

 for the West Virginia Geological Survey and 

 lately with the Transcontinental Petroleum 

 Company in Tampico, are now engaged in sub- 

 surface studies for F. Julius Fobs, chief geolo- 

 gist of the Humphreys Oil Company, at Dallas, 

 Texas. 



The fifth Hanna lecture was delivered on 

 February 24 at the Medical Library, Cleveland, 

 by Professor Joseph Barcroft, F.R.S., fellow 

 of Kings College, Cambridge, England, on the 



subject of "The physiology of life at high alti- 

 tudes." 



Dr. a. C. Crehoee, of the Nela Research 

 Laboratory, gave a series of lectures from 

 February 14 to 23 at the University of Illinois 

 on the general subject: "Modern theories of 

 the structure and behavior of atoms." 



De. Lyman J. Briggs, of the Bureau of 

 Standards, gave an illustrated lecture before 

 the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on Feb- 

 ruarj' 15, on "The resistance of the air." 



De. Henet S. Washington gave recently a 

 series of four lectures to the students in the 

 Geological Department of McGill University 

 on the subjects of "The distribution of metah 

 in the earth's crust," "Isostacy and rock de- 

 formation," "Petrographical classification," 

 and "Co-magmatic regions." 



Professor Roger Adams, of the University 

 of Illinois, lectured before the Columbus Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society on 

 February 20 on "Synthetic drugs." 



Mr. B. G. Lamme, chief engineer of the 

 Westinghouse Company, lectured at the Ohio 

 State University on February 24, under the 

 auspices of the University Branch of the 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

 Following the lecture, there was a smoker by 

 the members of the Society for the Promotion 

 of Engineering Education. Mr. Lamme, Mr. 

 C. S. Coler, of the educational department of 

 the Westinghouse Company, and Dr. W. H. 

 Kennerson, of Brown University, addressed 

 this meeting on various phases of engineering 

 education. 



Additional lectures at the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden this spring are as follows : On March 

 23 at 3:30 p.m., "The flora of Greenland: Its 

 affinity to surrounding Arctic lands and proba- 

 ble history," Dr. Morton P. Porsild, director of 

 the Danish Arctic Station, Disko, Greenland; 

 and on April 16 at 4 p.m., "The virgin forest 

 of Java," by Professor J. P. Lotsy, director 

 of the Museum, Haarlem, Holland. 



Maj. James E. Mills, U. S. Army, delivered 

 the following series of lectures at the Univer- 

 sity of North Carolina on February 24 and 25 : 



