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at the special institution for tliis purpose, 

 which is practically his creation. 



Recent appointments to industrial fellow- 

 ships in the Mellon Institute of Industrial Re- 

 search of the University of Pittsburgh include 

 the following: E. R. Clark, B.A. (Yale) ; H. E. 

 Dierich, A.B. (Kansas); Mare Darrin, B.S. 

 and M.S. (Washington); O. B. J. Eraser, B.S. 

 (Queen's); A. W. Harvey, B.S. (Syracuse), 

 M.S. and Ph.D (Pittsburgh); C. R. Texter, 

 B.S. (Pennsylvania State); and B. B. Wescott, 

 B.S. and M.S. (Pittsburgh). 



Alexander Weinstein, Ph.D., now holding 

 the Sigma Xi fellowship and working in the 

 laboratory of Professor T. H. Morgan at 

 Columbia University, has been appointed to a 

 Johnston scholarship in the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Dr. Ales Hrducka, curator of the Division 

 of Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, has consented to serve the Children's 

 Bureau of the United States Department of 

 Labor in an advisory capacity on matters re- 

 lated to the field of anthropology. 



Professor William Trelease, of the de- 

 partment of botany in the University of Illi- 

 nois, sailed for Europe on June 3, to complete 

 an intensive study of certain plant gi-oups. 

 Professor Trelease will visit herbaria at Kew, 

 Paris, Geneva, Berlin, Stockholm and Copen- 

 hagen. 



Dr. Albert Johannsen, professor of petrol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago, will spend 

 the summer in Europe, doing geological work 

 and visiting various universities. He sailed 

 from New York on June 21. 



Professor Olaf P. Jenkins, of the State 

 College of Washington, is to take charge of 

 geological investigations of the coal of What- 

 com and Skagit counties, Washington, for the 

 State Division of Geology, Department of 

 Conservation and Development. 



Harlan I. Smith, archeologist of the Vic- 

 toria Memorial Museum of Ottawa, is at Bella 

 Coola, British Columbia, continuing his inves- 

 tigations into the material culture of the Bella- 

 coola Indians. 



Dr. Vernon Bjillogg, permanent secretary 



of the National Research Council, gave the 

 annual Phi Beta Kappa address at the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia on June 13. 



On June 7, Dr. D. S. Jordan delivered the 

 commencement address to the University of 

 Denver, Colorado, his subject being "The melt- 

 ing pot." 



On June 11, Dr. H. P. Nichols, rector of 

 Holy Trinity Church, New York, delivered the 

 baccalaureate address at the University of Col- 

 orado. He took as his subject "Evolution, and 

 its highest product, man." 



Professor Ernst Puchs, of Vienna, gave a 

 Mayo Foundation lecture at the Mayo Clinic 

 June 9. His subject was "Syphilis and its 

 relation to diseases of the eye." On June 1 

 Dr. H. Berglung, of the department of bio- 

 chemistry, Harvard Medical School, lectured on 

 "The chemistry of the nonprotein nitrogen of 

 the blood." 



On June 16, Mr. Edward R. Weidlin, direc- 

 tor of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Re- 

 search of the University of Pittsburgh, ad- 

 dressed the fourth annual convention of the 

 National Lime Association on "The value of 

 research to industrial associations." This con- 

 vention was held in Cleveland, Ohio. 



A public meeting of the British National 

 Union of Scientific Workers was held at Uni- 

 versity College, London, on June 15, when an 

 address was given by Mr. F. W. Sanderson, 

 headmaster of Oundle, on "The duty and 

 service of science in the new era." The chair 

 was taken by Mr. H. G. Wells. 



The Yale Corporation has voted that the 

 Botanical Garden shall be known as the Marsh 

 Botanical Garden, in order that the memory of 

 Othniel C. Marsh and of his generosity to the 

 university may be more effectively perpetuated. 

 Othniel C. Marsh was a graduate of Yale Col- 

 lege in the class of 1860 who became the first 

 professor of paleontology in the university. 

 Professor Marsh died in 1899, bequeathing to 

 the university his former residence, which has 

 since been used as the School of Forestry. The 

 Botanical Garden is connected with this school. 



James McMahon, emeritus professor of 

 mathematics at Cornell University, died on 

 June 1 at the age of sixty-six years. 



