April 21, 192Si] 



SCIENCE 



427 



The John Macoiin Memorial Committee of 

 the Ottawa Field Naturalist's Club announces 

 that, as the number of copies to be issued of 

 the autobiography of the late Professor John 

 Macoun, naturalist to the Geological Survey 

 of Canada, is limited, orders, with or without 

 the subscription price of $3, should be sent in 

 by May 15, addressed to Mr. Arthur Gibson, 

 treasurer, John Macoun Memorial Committee, 

 Birks Building, Ottawa, Canada. 



Dr. Geza Horvath, director of the section 

 of Zoology of the Hungarian National Museum 

 in Budapest, writes that the price of the com- 

 plete series of the A^males historico-naturales 

 Musei Nationalis Himgarici (Volumes I to 

 XVIII) has been reduced from $108 to $58. It 

 is the hope of the administration of the mnsemn 

 that, through the sale of sets of these import- 

 ant Annals, they will be able to add to the 

 funds needed to pay the present exorbitant 

 charges for the publication of current and 

 future volumes. 



The Royal Academy of Belgium announces 

 that a triennial prize of 2,500 francs, to be 

 known as the Prix Joseph Sehepkens, for the 

 best experimental work on plant genetics, has 

 been established. 



The Gennan Congress of Surgery will be 

 held at Berlin, under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor Hildebrand, from April 19 to April 22, 

 when the following subjects will be discussed : 

 The experimental principles of wound injec- 

 tion, introduced by Professor Neufeld, of Ber- 

 lin; general surgical infection, introduced by 

 Professor Lesser, of Freiburg; operative trans- 

 plantation of muscles, introduced by Professor 

 Wullstein, of Essen, and the importance of 

 histological examination of the blood, intro- 

 duced bv Professor Stahl, of Berlin. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., 

 will erect a new chemistry building to cost 

 $125,000. 



Miss Kate C. Garrick, daughter of the late 

 Sir James Francis Garrick, for ten years agent- 

 general in London for Queensland, has by her 



will bequeathed £10,000 to the University of 

 Queensland to found a James Francis Garrick 

 professorship of either law or medicine, as maj- 

 seem best to the univei-sity, in memory of her 

 father. 



Dr. Edwin B. Wilson, professor of mathe- 

 matical physics in charge of the department of 

 physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology and a member of the administrative 

 committee of the institute, has been appointed 

 professor of vital statistics at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. He has also been appointed a mem- 

 ber of the administrative board of the School 

 of Public Health, the other members being 

 David L. Edsall, chairman, Milton J. Rosenau, 

 Roger I. Lee and Cecil K. Drinker. 



The following promotions to associate jDro- 

 f essorships have been made at Yale University : 

 Dr. Francis Kovarik and Horace Scudder 

 Uhler, in physics; Herbert L. Seward, in me- 

 chanical engineering; Charles S. Farnham, in 

 civil engineering, and Richard S. Kirby, in 

 engineering drawing. Dr. Arthur J. Hill has 

 been promoted to an associate professorship in 

 organic chemistry, with assignment to the 

 Sheffield Scientific School and the Graduate 

 School. William L. Crum, Ph.D., has been ad- 

 vanced to an assistant professorship in mathe- 

 matics. English Bagby, Ph.D., in psychology, 

 and Archer E. Knowlton, E.E., in electrical 

 engineering, have been advanced to assistant 

 professorships. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 DEVONIAN PLANTS 



To the geologist, the invertebrate paleon- 

 tologist, or the stratigrapher who turns to the 

 map of North America, the Devonian system 

 is one of a completeness and grandeur that 

 must be satisfying in the extreme. The map- 

 ping has proceeded through nearly a century, 

 and the horizons have been divided on accu- 

 rate faunal data. To long lists of invertebrates 

 are added remarkable fishes. 



To the paleobotanist on the contrary, the 

 Devonian is at once alluring and forbidding. 

 While the algse with a great record go back to 



