Apeil 7, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



371 



Health in the place of Dr. Edmund Boddy, who 

 has resigned. 



Db. George P. Donehoo, a member of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and secretary of the Pennsylvania His- 

 torical Commission, has been appointed by Gov- 

 ernor W. C. Sproul, state librarian and director 

 of the Pennsylvania State Museum. 



Dr. Arthur S. Rhoads, formerly assistant in 

 forest pathology of the U. S. Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, and more recently of the office of 

 Cereal Investigations and the office of Fruit 

 Disease Investigations of the same bureau, has 

 resigned to accept the position of pathologist 

 at the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Mountain Grove, Missouri. 



Dr. H. C. Bryant, economic ornithologist in 

 the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the Uni- 

 versity of California, will again be in charge of 

 the Yosemite Free Nature Guide Service, during 

 the summer of 1922. This service furnished by 

 the National Park Sei-vice with the cooperation 

 of the California Fish and Game Commission, 

 aims, through the medium of lectures, field ex- 

 cursions and office hours, to interest and in- 

 struct summer visitors in regard to the 

 faima and flora and the means to be taken to 

 conserve it. During the season of 1921, over 

 31,000 persons heard lectures and campfire 

 talks, and over 2,200 were given first-hand ac- 

 quaintance with living things on field excur- 

 sions. 



At a meeting of the Board of Directors of 

 the Gorgas Memorial Institute, at Wash- 

 ington on April 1, announcement was made 

 that the Panama Government had provided 

 a site for the proposed Gorgas Institute 

 of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. The 

 site is adjacent to the St. Thomas Hospital, 

 which contains laboratories and buildings and 

 represents a cost of approximately $500,000. 

 Dr. Richard Strong, professor of tropical medi- 

 cines at Harvard University, has been elected 

 director of the institute. The board also an- 

 nounced the selection of the direotoi-s of the 

 Gorgas School of Sanitation to be established 

 at Tuscaloosa, Ala. They are: Dr. S. W. 



Welch, of Alabama; Dr. Charles F. Dalton, 

 of Vermont; Dr. A. J. Chesley, of Min- 

 nesota; Dr. E. G. Williams, of Virginia; Dr. 

 Lloyd Noland, medical director of the Tennes- 

 see Coal and Iron Company, and J. A. Laprince 

 representing the United States Public Health 

 Servica This board wiU meet at Tuscaloosa 

 during the last week in May and arrange the 

 courses. At that time they will also probably 

 elect a faculty. 



A MEMORIAL to the late Dr. Charles Basker- 

 ville, professor of chemistry in the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York, who died last 

 January, is planned by the faculty and stud- 

 ents of the college. It is proposed that the 

 memorial will take one or more of the following 

 forms: (1) The placing of a bronze tablet on 

 the Chemistry Building, which is to be renamed 

 Baskerville Hall. (2) The founding of a fund 

 to provide for a medal to be called the Charles 

 BaskerviUe Prize and to be awarded each year 

 to the student doing the best work in chemistry. 

 (3) The establishment of a scholarship to per- 

 mit students who qualify to pursue courses in 

 advanced chemistry. Subscriptions to the fund 

 should be sent to Professor W. L. Prager of the 

 college. 



We learn of the death on March 19, at Los 

 Angeles, California, of Mrs. Martha Burton 

 Williamson, long a prominent figure in that 

 city, a contributor to the conchological litera- 

 ture of the Pacific Coast, and the donor of a 

 large collection of shells to the Los Angeles 

 City Museum. She had been for many years 

 vice-president of the Historical Society of 

 Southern California. 



Dr. Benjamin Moore, Whitney professor 

 of biochemistry in the University of Oxford, 

 and formerly professor of physiology at Yale 

 University, died on March 3, at the age of 

 tifty-five years. 



Dr. Augustus D. Waller, professor of 

 physiology and director of the physiological 

 laboratory of the University of London, died on 

 March 11, at the age of fifty-five years. 



The death is announced from Paris, at the 

 age of 84, of the dean of French mathema- 



