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[Vol. LV, No. 1424 



The Harben lectures will be given duriug 

 the meeting at Plymouth of the Koyal Institute 

 of Public Health from May 31 to June 5 by 

 Dr. T. Madsen, director of the State Serum 

 Institute, Copenhagen. 



The death is announced of Professor V. I. 

 Palladin, the well-known plant physiologist, 

 at the age of 63 years. Palladin pvxblished 

 manj- scientific contributions, notably on the 

 fundamental molecular phenomena of respira- 

 tion. An English translation of his text book 

 of plant physiology is used in many American 

 universities. 



Jules Schevitz, secretary of the Oklahoma 

 Public Health Association, died on JIarch 22, 

 1922, at the age of twenty-four years. A cor- 

 respondent writes: "During the four years of 

 his association with the work, he built uj) a 

 statewide organization for the jsromotion of 

 the public health, established tuberculosis dis- 

 pensaries, initiated infant and child welfare 

 activities, conducted a state-wide public health 

 siu'vey of urban conditions and succeeded in 

 getting legislative action for the construction 

 of three tuberculosis sanatoria." 



The Pacific Division of the American Phyto- 

 pathological Society will meet in Salt Lake 

 City, Utah, from June 22 to 24, in conjunction 

 with the summer session of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science. It is 

 hoped that any members of the parent society 

 who are contemplating a trip to the Rocky 

 Mountains or the Pacific Coast will arrange to 

 be at Salt Lake for this meeting. Those who 

 wish to present papers should notify S. M. 

 Zeller, secretary-treasurer. Pacific Division, 

 American Phytopathological Society, Oregon 

 Agricultural College, CorvalUs, Oregon. 



The fourth annual meeting of the American 

 Society of Mammalogists will be held in New 

 York City from May 16 to 18. The sessions on 

 the first two days, May 16-17, will be devoted 

 to the reading of papers, discussion and busi- 

 ness, and will be held from 10 A.M. to 4:30 

 P.M. in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. A session will also be arranged for 

 the evening of May 17. On Slay 18 the society 

 will visit the New York Zoological Park as the 



guest of the New York Zoological Society. 

 Headquarters will Ije at the Hotel Majestic, 

 72d Street and Central Park West. 



The second national convention on commer- 

 cial engineering called by the United States 

 commissioner of education will be held on May 

 1 and 2 at the Carnegie Institute of Technol- 

 ogy in Pittsburgh. Dr. Thomas S. Baker, 

 acting president of the institute, has invited 

 about 200 colleges in the United States and 

 Canada to appoint delegates, many of which 

 have already announced appointees. Invita- 

 tions have also gone out from Washington to 

 engineering professional societies, to indi- 

 viduals, and to more than 1,400 chambers of 

 commerce aiul trade organizations. Dr. Glen 

 Levin Swiggett, of the United States Bureau 

 of Education, is chairman of the national com- 

 mittee, which includes prominent representa- 

 tives of commerce and engineering interests 

 throughout the country. 



The National Committee on Mathematical 

 Rec|uirements announces that, owing to unfor- 

 tunate delays in printing, its complete final 

 report, "The Reorganization of Mathematics in 

 Secondary Education," will not be ready for 

 distribution before ilay, 1922. Requests for 

 free copies of this 500 page report may be 

 sent to J. W. Young, chairman, Hanover, New 

 Hampshire. Owing to the labor and expense 

 involved, the receipt of applications for copies 

 of the report is not in general being individu- 

 ally acknowledged. Applicants may rest as- 

 sured, however, that their requests will be filled 

 when the report is ready for distribution. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation reports that establishment in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, under permanent federal support 

 of an institution where problems of disease 

 and health may be attacked cooperatively along 

 general chemical, physical, biologic, pharma- 

 cologic and other necessary lines, with the ob- 

 ject of mastering these problems for the com- 

 mon good of humanity, are the proposals of a 

 bill shortly to be introduced in the House of 

 Representatives by. Representative Roy O. 

 Woodruff of Michigan. Dr. Woodruft is a 

 physician as well as a dentist and he asserts 

 that the practical advantage of such an insti- 



