June 30, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



699 



Parma, and of Professor Jeno Holzwartli, who 

 held the chair of radiology in the University 

 of Budapesth. 



A CABLEGRAM from Prague announces that 

 Professor Edmund Weil has died from typhus 

 contracted by infection in his laboratory at 

 Lemberg, where he was working at the invita- 

 tion of the Polish government. 



Preparations for the fourth Boston meeting 

 of the American Association for the Advence- 

 ment of Science, to be held from December 26 

 to 30, by invitation of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Techonology and Harvard University, 

 are progressing in a very satisfactory way. The 

 privilege of reduced railway rates for those 

 attending the meeting has already been granted 

 by the New England Passenger Association, 

 the Trunk Line Association, the Central Pas- 

 senger Association, the Southeastern Passenger 

 Association, and the Eastern Canadian Passen- 

 ger Association. This privilege is based on the 

 certificate plan, and the cost of the round trip 

 to Boston will be one and one half times the 

 regular one-way tariff. The region thus far 

 included extends about to the Mississippi Eiver. 

 Sigma Delta Epsilon, graduate women's 

 scientific fraternity, founded at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, May, 1921, recently became incor- 

 porated and installed Beta Chapter at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin on April 25. The national 

 ofQcers, who serve until the convention in Bos- 

 ton in December at the time of the meetings of 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science are : Christianna Smith, Cornell, 

 president; Elizabeth Smith, Wisconsin, first 

 vice-president; Helen M. Johanns, Wisconsin, 

 second vice-president ; Evelyn Pernald, Cornell, 

 secretary; Helen Brewster Owens, Cornell, 

 treasurer. 



Dr. Vernon Kellogg writes : "The industry 

 and commerce committee of the Polish parlia- 

 ment has drafted a bill providing for the adop- 

 tion of the metric system of weights and 

 measures for the whole of reunited Poland. The 

 bill provides that beginning January 1, 1923, 

 all retail trade in Poland wUl be conducted on 

 this basis, and that on and after January 1, 

 1924, all trade, whether retail or wholesale. At 

 present the metric system is in use in the parts 

 of Poland which were formerly under German 



and Austrian rule, but the Russian system, with 

 its versts and poods, is still being used in 

 former Russian Poland. 



Following an unconditional gift of its large 

 collection of books and documents on public 

 health, medical and related subjects to the Sur- 

 geon General's Library of Washington, the 

 Prudential Ijife Insurance Company of America 

 has made a similar, though less extensive, pre- 

 sentation of its books and documents on fores- 

 try and agi'iculture to the library of Yale 

 University. 



Professor Arnold Pick, the well-known 

 neurologist at Prague, is about to retire from 

 teaching and wants to sell his library. It eon- 

 tains some 3,000 works on psychiatry, neu- 

 rology and psychology, besides 7,000 reprints 

 and theses. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 strong protests have been made by the medical 

 profession in France, and especially by the 

 Syndieat general des medecins frangais 

 electro-radiologistes, against the appointment 

 by the prefect of the department of the Seine 

 of a radiographer who is not a qualified medi- 

 cal practitioner to be director of the radio- 

 logical laboratory of the Salpetriere Hospital 

 in succession to the late Dr. Charles Infroit. 



Mr. F. H. Riddle, president of the Amer- 

 ican Ceramic Society, writes : "Allow me to 

 submit a correction to the item relating to the 

 annual meeting of the American Ceramic Soci- 

 ety which appeared in Science on June 2. As 

 it stands, it is made to appear that in the inves- 

 tigation on special porcelains adapted for 

 spark plugs, etc., conducted by the Bureau of 

 Standards, the work of Mr. A. V. Bleininger 

 was of a secondary and minor character. Per- 

 mit me to say that his contribution was vital 

 and important and that the final conclusions 

 reached were the result of close cooperation." 



A replecting telescope with a 61-inch mir- 

 ror is to be made for Ohio Wesleyan University. 

 It will be housed in the Perkins Observatory, 

 of which Professor Clifford Crump is director. 

 There are only two reflecting telescopes in the 

 world which will exceed this new instrument 

 in size, according to officials of the Warner 

 and Swasey Company, which has contracted 

 to make the installation. These are the 100- 



