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of the University of Rio de Janeiro; and Dr. 

 L. De Torres Quevedo, director of the eleetro- 

 medieal laboratory of Madrid. The commission 

 will include a consideration of the three follow- 

 ing topics: (1) possibilities of encouraging 

 and improving the organization of scientific 

 research by means of congresses, commissions 

 and institutes; (2) the international relations 

 between universities and means for the organ- 

 ization of an international bureau of universi- 

 ties, and possibly an international university; 

 (3) international organization of scientific 

 bibliography, and exchange of scientific pub- 

 lications. 



The oiScers elected in Section III of the 

 Royal Society of Canada at the annual meeting 

 in May were: President, Professor J. Watson 

 Bain, of the department of chemistry of the 

 University of Toronto ; vice-president, Dr. J. S. 

 Plaskett, director of the Astro-physical Observa- 

 tory, Victoria, B. C. ; secretary, J. Patterson, 

 Meteorological Service, Toronto. 



Db. Nathaniel W. Faxon, assistant director 

 of the Massachusetts General Hospital of 

 Boston, has accepted the position of dii'ectoi- 

 of the Strong Memorial Teaching Hospital, 

 which will be built in connection with the 

 School of Medicine and Dentistry at Rochester 

 University. 



Dr. J. C. Witt has been appointed a con- 

 sulting chemist in the Bureau of Mines, and 

 from time to time will cooperate with that 

 bureau in the study of some phases of portland 

 cement manufacture. 



Dr. a. G. Johnson, associate professor' of 

 plant pathology at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin and pathologist of the Office of Cereal In- 

 vestigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, formerly stationed 

 at Madison, Wisconsin, has transferred head- 

 quarters to Washington, D. C, where he will 

 continue his work in the Office of Cereal Inves- 

 tigations. He has resigned his university ap- 

 pointment. 



Mr. R. L. Hov^ard, who has been associate 

 professor of chemistry in the Medical College 

 of Virginia, has been awarded the research 

 fellowship in pharmacology at Western Re- 

 serve University. 



Victor K. LaMer, instructor in chemistry 

 at Columbia University, has been granted a 

 leave of absence for the coming year to accept 

 the Cutting traveling fellowship for studj' 

 abroad. 



Professor L. Michaelis has received leave 

 of absence from the University of Berlin to 

 lecture on physiologic chemistry at the Japan- 

 ese University of Nagoya. 



Mr. Ernest E. Hubert, assistant pathologist 

 in the Office of Forest Pathology, cooperating 

 with the Forest Service at the Forest Products 

 Laboratory, left on June 7 for a field trip 

 through Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Missis- 

 sippi, Louisiana and Georgia. The purpose of 

 the trip is a general survey of the problem of 

 sap stains and molds on lumber. The methods 

 of controlling the enormous losses due to these 

 organisms will be studied in detail, and special 

 attention will be given to the steaming and sea- 

 soning of sap gum and other lumber and to the 

 treatment of southern yellow pine to prevent 

 blue stain. 



Neil M. Judd, euratoi' of American arche- 

 ology in the U. S. National Museum, left for 

 New Mexico on May 1 to resume direction of 

 the National Geograjahic Society's Pueblo 

 Bonito Expedition. During Mr. Judd's ab- 

 sence John L. Baer will again serve as acting 

 curator of American archeology. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer addressed the Biological 

 Society of Washington on May 13 on "Twenty 

 years of federal protection of the bison." A 

 historical sketch of attempts to prevent the ex- 

 tinction of the bison was given; in 1922, there 

 were over 10,000 bison in existence. 



The annual Jones' Lectures of the University 

 of Oregon Medical School were given this year 

 by Sir Thomas Lewis. The subjects were as 

 follows : "The nature of auricular flutter and 

 fibrillation as these occur in man," "The action 

 of cinchona alkaloids," and "Digitalis." 



The annual meeting of the Canadian Medical 

 Association will be held at Winnipeg from June 

 20 to 23, inclusive. Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, 

 of Baltimore, is to give the address in medicine, 

 and Dr. J. M. T. Finney, al.so of Baltimore, 

 has been asked to give the address in surgery. 

 The scientific work of the meeting will be car- 



