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SCIENCE 



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of tlie service which the retiring admiidstrative 

 head of the Sheffield Scientific School has ren- 

 dered since he succeeded Dr. George Jarvis Brush 

 in lSi)8. The latter was the first incumbent of 

 an office which offered unusually large opportunity 

 to a man of energy and imagination. That Dr. 

 Chittenden has taken advantage of the oppor- 

 tunity is strikingly demonstrated by a review of 

 the development of the school under his far-seeing 

 administration. This sympathetic interest has 

 covered not alone his own special field of physio- 

 logical chemistry, in which he as well as other 

 members of the Scientific School faculty group 

 have accomplished important results, but also 

 other departments, including those in engineering. 

 It is doubtful if any administrative ofticer of the 

 university lias ever followed more intimately the 

 work of his office or brought to his task a more 

 generous measure of loyal and intelligent effort. 

 The qualities ivhich distinguish the Scientific 

 ScJiool aud elevate it to the front ranks of insti- 

 tutions of its class must be attributed largely to 

 the man who now quietly laj-s down duties which 

 he has unremittingly carried on for almost a 

 quarter of a centurj'. Graduates of the university, 

 whatever their school affiliations and interests, 

 will unite in paying tribute to such a record of 

 servite. Thej' will look for 3'ears to come for the 

 results of the successive contributions of Director 

 Brush and Director Chittenden and will certainly 

 find those results in an ever more useful Sheffield 

 Scientific School. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Sir Ernest Rutherford, Cavendish pro- 

 fessor of experimental physics iu the Univer- 

 sitj' of Cambridge, has been named as presi- 

 dent of the British Association for the Ad- 

 veneement of Science for the annual meeting 

 to be held at Liverpool next year. 



A DiNXEE in honor of Dr. Mansfield Merri- 

 man, editor of the American Civil Engineers' 

 Handbook and former professor of civil engi- 

 neering at Lehigh University, is to be given 

 by the New York alumni of that institution at 

 tlie Aldine Club, New York City, on April 18. 

 John R. Freeman, George H. Pegram, Robert 

 Ridgway, Henry S. Jacoby, Frank P. Me- 

 Hibben and Ralph J. Fogg will be the speakers. 



Ramon y Cajal will reach the retirement 

 age on May 1, and a committee has been formed 



in Spain to organize a national demonstration 

 showing the high regard in which he is held. 

 An organizing committee has been appointed, 

 the president of which is Dr. C. M. Cortezo, 

 president of the Royal Academy of Medicine, 

 and the secretary. Dr. C. Pittaluga. The plans 

 of the committee include a special edition of 

 Cajal's works, the construction of a monument 

 and an increase in the appropriation allotted 

 by the government for the maintenance of the 

 Instituto Cajal. 



Sir Frank Dyson was elected president of 

 the British Optical Society at the annual meet- 

 ing held on February 9. At the same meeting 

 Professor A. A. Miehelson, of the University 

 of Chicago, and Dr. M. von Rohr, of Messrs. 

 Carl Zeiss, Jena, were elected honorary fellows 

 of the society. 



Mr. G. V. Colchester has been appointed to 

 the post of geologist on the Geological Survey 

 of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in succession to 

 Mr. C. T. JIadigan, who now holds a lecture- 

 ship in geologj' at Adelaide University. 



Dr. Charles D. Woods, who for nearly 25 

 years was director of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station and more recently con- 

 sultant in agriculture in the United States War 

 Department, has accepted the directorship of 

 the Division of Agricultural Information with 

 the State Department of Agriculture of the 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Mr. C. S. Brinton has been appointed chief 

 of the Philadelphia Food and Drug Inspection 

 Station of the Bureau of Chemistry, effective 

 March 1, 1922. This appointment is made to 

 fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr. 

 Arthur Stengel to the Bureau of Chemistry in 

 Washington. 



Mr. D. D. Berolzheimer, assistant technical 

 editor of the Chemical Engineering Catalog 

 and co-author of the Condensed Chemical Dic- 

 tionarj', has been appointed manager of the 

 information bureau of the Chemical Catalog 

 Company, Inc., and of the service department 

 of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry. 



Mr. Arthur D. Holmes, who has been re- 

 search chemist with the E. I. du Pont de 



