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SCIENCE 



477 



had discovered, and was studying with her hus- 

 band, Pierre Curie. He rapidly reviewed the 

 ground traveled since then, and continued: 

 "All these discoveries which result from yours 

 are as nothing compared with the fundamental 

 fact which you found — I mean the formidable 

 energy contained in the atomic system. If we 

 are to succeed in being able to release it 

 methodically it would relieve the world from 

 the dread of seeing disappear, at short notice, 

 reckoning time in relation to the age of the 

 world, the fuel accumulated in former centuries 

 which is at present our principal source of 

 energy." Mme. Curie bowed low and took her 

 seat simply and without a word among her 

 eminent colleagues. 



Dr. Ltnds Jones, from the department of 

 animal ecology of Oberlin College, is arranging 

 a special field expedition to leave Oberlin on 

 June 23, going west through Illinois, across 

 the Mississippi to Iowa and on toward Mac- 

 Gregor, through Southern Dakota, across the 

 Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming into Yellow- 

 stone Park. The itinerary will then take the 

 party to Pocatelo, Idaho, on to Salt Lake City 

 and southern Utah, visiting the National Moun- 

 tains and Bryce's Canyon. Leaving Utah, the 

 group will strike across the northern part of 

 Arizona and the southern tip of Nevada into 

 southern California. Proceeding to the coast a 

 week's camp will be made near San Diego. 

 Sixteen students will make up the party, trav- 

 eling with automobiles with complete camping 

 outfit. Special attention will be given to the 

 study of bird and animal life and field maps 

 and topographical surveys will be prepared 

 covering all parts of the route. 



The Department of Commerce will send a 

 party, headed by Assistant Secretary C. H. 

 Huston, to Alaska this summer for the purpose 

 of making a general investigation of conditions 

 in which that department is particularly inter- 

 ested. The Bureau of Fisheries, the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, the Lighthouse Service and 

 the Steamboat Inspection Service are the 

 bureaus of the department which are closely 

 identified with the affairs of the territory. It 

 is the purpose to determine in what ways these 

 bureaus can be made of greater benefit in devel- 



oping' Alaska. Particular attention will be de- 

 voted to the salmon fisheries, which yield 

 products of an average annual value of about 

 $40,000,000 and in normal seasons give employ- 

 ment to upwards of 20,000 persons and repre- 

 sent an investment of about $70,000,000. It 

 will be the purpose also to observe conditions 

 in respect to the fur-seal industry at the 

 Pribilof Islands, which work is administered 

 by the Department of Commerce through the 

 Bureau of Fisheries. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that ground was broken on April 

 10 for a new building which will accommodate 

 the departments of botany, zoology, pharm- 

 acology and physiologic chemistry at Tulane 

 University of Louisiana School of Medicine, 

 New Orleans. The building is to be four stories 

 high and will be erected at a cost of about $180,- 

 000, $125,000 of which has been subscribed by 

 the general education board. The laboratory 

 will be equipped at a cost of $30,000 and it is 

 expected that the institution will be completed 

 in December. 



Dr. Waepield Theobald Longcope, Bard 

 professor of medicine at Columbia University, 

 and physician in chief at the Presbyterian Hos- 

 pital, New York City, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity Medical Department, and physician in 

 chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, beginning 

 on July 1, when the one-year term of Dr. H. 

 Canby Robinson will expire. Dr. Robinson 

 went to the hospital with the understanding 

 that at the end of one year he was to return to 

 his post as professor of medicine and dean of 

 the Vanderbilt University Medical Department. 



Professor Charles L. Norton, head of the 

 division of cooperation and research at the Mas- 

 sachusetts Institute of Technology, will become 

 head of the department of physics, vacant by 

 the acceptance by Professor E. B. Wilson of a 

 call to the Harvard School of Public Health. 



Benjamin Britton Gottsberger, who since 

 1920 has been a consulting engineer with offices 



