Apeil 14, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



395 



Nemours & Co. at the Jackson Laboratory, has 

 resigned to accept a position with the E. L. 

 Patch Company, Boston, Mass., to establish a 

 research laboratory which will be concerned 

 with investigations along biological and physi- 

 ological lines. 



Dr. Perley Spaulding, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, sailed on April 4 for Europe, 

 where he will make a prolonged investigation 

 of the white-pine blister rust. He will spend 

 about eight months in Europe, covering the 

 entire growing season, and visiting all parts 

 except Spain, Eussia and the Balkans. He 

 will also represent the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at the general assembly 

 of the International Institute of Agriculture 

 at Rome on May 8 to 18. 



Nature reports that an expedition, consisting 

 of Professor J. W. Gregory, of Glasgow Uni- 

 versity, and his son, Mr. Christopher J. Greg- 

 ory, which has for its primary object the inves- 

 tigation of some features in the mountain 

 structure of northwestern Yunnan and western 

 Szechuan, expected to leave for Burma at the 

 end of March. The area is one of special geo- 

 logical and biological interest. It includes 

 some mountains of which the height varies, ac- 

 cording to the available information, from 

 20,000 to 25,000 feet; and as these mountains 

 occur in line with the Himalaya and the moun- 

 tains south of Assam it has lieen suggested that 

 they represent a prolongation of the Hima- 

 laya. Some zoological and botanical collec- 

 tions will be made which it is hoped will be 

 worked out in the British Museum of Natural 

 History and in the India Museum, Calcutta. 

 The expedition will travel via Rangoon, and 

 hopes to start from Bliamo, near the north- 

 western frontier of Burma, at the beginning of 

 May. 



We learn from the Journal of the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences that Secretary of 

 Agriculture Wallace has appointed a com- 

 mittee of six scientific men from the department 

 to consider the problem of land utilization. The 

 committee consists of Messrs. L. C. Gray, of the 

 Office of Parm Management and Farm Eco- 

 nomies; C. V. Piper, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry; G. M. Rommel, of the Bureau of Ani- 



mal Industry; C. F. Marbut, of the Bureau of 

 Soils; E. E. Carter, of the Forest Service; and 

 S. H. McCory, of the Bureau of Public Roads. 



Governor W. D. Stephens, of California, 

 has appointed the following as a committee to 

 investigate the agricultural colleges of the 

 United States and report on a plan for im- 

 proving the agricultural , work of the state : 

 G. H. Powell, Los Angeles; W. S. Guilford, 

 Butte City; Ehvood Mead, professor of rural 

 institutions. University of California; James J. 

 HoUister, Gaviota; Samuel G. Mortland, 

 Fresno; Sheridan W. Baker, Santa Rosa, and 

 R. G. Sproul, comptroller of the University of 

 California. 



On the request of W. D. Bancroft, the Na- 

 tional Research Council has appointed the fol- 

 lowing committee on theory of reactions of non- 

 electrodes : Julius Stieglitz, of the University 

 of Chicago, Roger P. Brunei, of Bryn Mawr 

 College, H. S. Fry, of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati, L. W. Jones, of Princeton University, 

 James Kendall, of Colmnbia University, G. N. 

 Lewis, of the University of California, and 

 W. A. Noyes, of the University of Illinois. 



The National Canners' Association has just 

 contributed to the University of Chicago 

 $10,000 a year for two years for investigation 

 into the causes of disease connected with their 

 Avork. The investigation is to be under the 

 direction of Professor Edwin Oakes Jordan, 

 chairman of the department of hygiene and 

 bacteriology, and will be in cooperation with 

 the United States Public Health Service. Dr. 

 J. C. Geiger has been detailed by the surgeon 

 general of the United States to carry on this 

 work under Professor Jordan, and for this 

 purpose he has been appointed for two years 

 to an associate professorship of epidemiology 

 in the department of hygiene and bacteriology. 



Dr. F. W. Aston, of the University of Cam- 

 bridge, delivered an address on "Isotopes and 

 the structure of the atom" before the joint 

 meeting of the Washington Academy of Sci- 

 ences, Philosophical Society of Washington 

 and the Chemical Society of Washington, on 

 March 29. Dr. Aston also gave lectures on 

 March 30 and 31 before the North Carolina 

 Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi. 



