April 21, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



423 



constantly employed to bombard a tungsten 

 target for long intervals, but no evolution of 

 helium has so far been observed. 



A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN BACTERI- 

 OLOGY 



The Society of American Bacteriologists at 

 its recent meeting in Philadelphia, appropri- 

 ated a fund for the support of a research 

 fellowship in pure bacteriology. While excel- 

 lent work is being carried on in many places, 

 nearly all the problems under investigation 

 have as their aim a practical application and 

 there are, therefore, many gaps in our knowl- 

 edge of fundamental principles. The society, 

 believing it to be the duty of bacteriologists to 

 fill these lacuncE, requires that the line of work 

 to be carried orf under its fund must concern a 

 purely scientifie and fundamental phase of 

 bacteriology, although a certain latitude of 

 choice will be permitted, conditioned by the 

 previous training and the desires of the re- 

 search fellow himself. 



Applicants for the fellowship must have the 

 degree of B.S. or its equivalent. The success- 

 ful candidate, through arrangements now being 

 made, will receive academic credit for the work 

 done from a university of recognized standing. 

 One hundred dollars a month will be available 

 for the living expenses of the fellow. Approx- 

 imately half his time will be devoted to details 

 connected with the society's collection of bac- 

 teria, deposited at the Army Medical Museum. 



The selection of the research fellow will be 

 in charge of a committee consisting of : 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, chairman of the Med- 

 ical Section, National Keseareli Council, Chairman. 



Captain C. S. Butler, Medical Corps, U. S. 

 Navy, commandant, Naval Medical School. 



Dr. Geo. W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic 

 Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Service. 



Dr. John E. Mohler, chief, Bureau of Animal 

 Industry. 



Mr. li. A. Eogers (president of the Society of 

 American Bacteriologists), in charge of research 

 laboratory, Dairy Division, Bureau of Animal 

 Industry. 



Colonel Joseph F. Siler, Medical Corps, U. S. 

 Army, Division of Sanitation, Office of the Sur- 

 geon General of the Army. 



Dr. Erwin F. Smith, pathologist in charge. 

 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Bureau of Plant 

 Pathology. 



This committee will have general supervision 

 of the work, approve the problem selected and 

 pass upon the thesis which the fellow will sub- 

 mit as the report of his research. Applications 

 for and communications concerning the re- 

 search fellowship should be addressed to the 

 chairman of the committee. Dr. Victor C. 

 Vaughan, National Research Council, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



A. Parker Hitchens, 

 Secretary of the Committee 

 Arjit Medical School, 

 Washington, D. C. 



THE CULTURE COLLECTION OF THE SO- 

 CIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS 



The Societj'' of American Bacteriologists has 

 taken over the collection of cultures which for 

 the past ten years has been maintained at the 

 American Museum of Natural History by Pi'o- 

 fessor C.-E. A. Wiuslow, and has deposited it 

 at the Army Medical Museum, where facilities 

 have been arranged for its housing and main- 

 tenance. 



The following committee will be in charge : 



Dr. J. M. Sherman, Dairy Division, Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, Chairman. 



Major G. K. Callander, curator of the Army 

 Medical Museum. 



Dr. Geo. W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic 

 Laboratory, V. S. Public Health Service. 



Major H. J. Nichols, Army Medical School. 



The president of the society. 



The secretary of the society. 



These and other members of the society in 

 and near Washington will do volunteer work 

 and the research fellow will do part time work 

 in maintaining the collection. No charge ^\^ll 

 be made for cultures. In making requests, the 

 elassiiication of the society should be followed 

 as far as possible. Mail should be addressed 

 to the Department of Bacteriology, Army Med- 

 ical Museum, 7th and B Streets, S. W., Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



J. M. Sherman 

 Chairman of the Committee 



STATION FOR THE STUDY OF DECIDUOUS 

 FRUITS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY 



The United States Government has estab- 

 lished an experiment station on the Stanford 

 campus in cooperation with the university for 

 scientifie work on the breeding and improve- 



