June 9, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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will be received by the Perroneito Committee, 

 via Nizza 52, Turin, Italy. 



Dr. Norman MacLeod Harris, of Dalhousie 

 University, has been appointed chief of the 

 division of medical research of the Canadian 

 Dominion Department of Health. 



Sib Thomas Henry Holland, F.R.S., for- 

 merly director of the Geological Survey of 

 India and later professor of geology in Man- 

 chester University, has accepted the invitation 

 of "the governing body of the Imperial College 

 of Science and Technology, London, to be 

 rector from September 1 next, in succession to 

 Sir Alfred Keogh, who is retiring under the 

 age limit. 



Mr. D. D. Bebolzheimer, assistant technical 

 editor of the Chemical Engineering Catalog and 

 co-author of the Condensed Chemical Diction- 

 ary, has been appointed manager of the Infor- 

 mation Bureau of The Chemical Catalog Co., 

 Inc., and of that of the service department of 

 The Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry. 



Elbert A. Wilson has resigned as director 

 of the Pyralin Research Laboratory of the 

 E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company to 

 enter private practice as a consulting chemical 

 engineer. 



Me. Harry E. Rice has severed his connec- 

 tion with the R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 

 printers, of Chicago, where he has been em- 

 ployed for several years in the capacity of 

 chemist. He is now in charge of research and 

 development work for the American Printing 

 Companj', also of Chicago. 



The following have been appointed as the 

 official delegates of the United States to the 

 International Chemical Conference at Lyons : 

 C. L. Parsons, chairman; E. W. Washburn, 

 vice-chairman and secretary; R. B. Moore, 

 H. S. Washington, Edward S. Chapin and Ed- 

 ward Bartow. 



Dk, Louis A. Bauer, after attending the 

 meetings of the International Geodetic and 

 Geophysical Union, sailed from Marseilles on 

 May 19 for Australia, where he will inspect 

 the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory of the De- 

 partment of Terrestrial Magnetism. He ex- 

 pects to visit the magnetic observatories in 



New Zealand and Samoa, returning to Wash- 

 ington early in September. 



Dr. August Krogh, professor of compara- 

 tive physiology at the University of Copen- 

 hagen, who received the Nobel prize for medi- 

 cine in 1920, will visit the United States in 

 the autumn. 



Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, will spend the summer in the 

 Commander Islands and other points of inter- 

 est in and around Bering Sea. He expects to 

 return in October. 



Dr. R. D. Rands, for the past three years en- 

 gaged in rubber disease research for the Dutch 

 goverimrent at Buitenzorg, Java, has recently 

 returned to this country and accepted an ap- 

 pointment as pathologist in the Office of Cot- 

 ton, Truck and Forage Crop Disease Investiga- 

 tions, Bureau of Plant Industry. Dr. Rands 

 will take charge of the department's work on 

 diseases of beans, with headquarters in Wash- 

 ington. 



The Journal of Industrial Chemistry and 

 Engineering reports that on May 10, the Soci- 

 ety of Industrial and Micrographic Photog- 

 raphy was organized at the Chemists' Club in 

 New York. A further meeting to discuss and 

 ratify the constitution and by-laws will be 

 held on June 14. In the interim the following 

 serve as an executive committee charged with 

 preparing the constitution: President, James 

 McDowell, Sharp and Hamilton Manufacturing 

 Company, Boston; secretary and treasurer, 

 Thomas J. Keenan, editor of Paper, New York; 

 vice-presidents, J. H. Graff, Brown Company, 

 Berlin, N. H., Bennett Grotta, Atlas Powder 

 Company. 



At the anjiual meeting of the Congress of 

 Physicians and Surgeons of North America, 

 Dr. Frank Billings, Chicago, was elected presi- 

 dent. Presidents of societies meeting with the 

 congress were elected as follows: American 

 Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, 

 Dr. Paul A. Lewis, Philadelphia; American 

 Clima.tological and Clinical Association, Dr. 

 Charles W. Richardson, Washington; American 

 Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological 

 Society, Dr. Dunbar Roy, Atlanta, Ga. ; Amer- 

 ican Ophthalmological Society, Dr. William H. 

 Wilmei-, Washington, D. C. ; American Bron- 



