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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVI. No. 915 



Professor Frederick H. Saffoed, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, has sailed for 

 Europe and will attend the International Con- 

 gress of Mathematicians at Cambridge. 



Professor George C. Whipple, Mr. M. C. 

 Whipple and Dr. J. W. M. Bunker, of Harvard 

 University, are making a sanitary survey of 

 Lake Ontario near the mouth of the Genesee 

 River, in order to ascertain the effect of the 

 sevsfage of the city of Eochester, N. T., on the 

 river and lake. 



Frederick Haynes Newell, director of the 

 United States Reclamation Service, delivered 

 the commencement address at the Case School 

 of Applied Science on May 29, his subject 

 being " The Engineer in Public Service." At 

 the close of the address the honorary degree 

 of doctor of engineering was conferred upon 

 him. 



Dr. Joseph Jastrow, professor of psychol- 

 ogy in the University of Wisconsin, has given 

 three lectures on " The Sensibilities," " The 

 Emotions " and " The Appraisal of Human 

 Qualities " at the summer session of the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



Dr. E. F. Bashford, director of the Imperial 

 Cancer Research Fund of London, has ac- 

 cepted an invitation to deliver the Middleton- 

 Goldsmith lectures of the New York Patholog- 

 ical Society next October. 



Me. E. W. C. Shelford, known for his wo^k 

 in entomology, formerly connected with the 

 Oxford Museum, died on June 22, aged thirty- 

 nine years. 



Dr. Ferdinand Zirkel, emeritus professor of 

 mineralogy at Leipzig and eminent for his 

 contributions to this science, died on June 12, 

 aged seventy-four years. 



Dr. Ernst Sohulze, professor of agricul- 

 tural chemistry at the Zurich Technological 

 Institute, has died at the age of seventy-two 

 years. 



Professor Charles Andre, director of the 

 Lyons Observatory, well known for his astro- 

 nomical publications, died on June 6, aged 

 seventy years. 



Under the will of the late Lord Wandsworth, 

 a sum of £10,000 was bequeathed to Sir William 

 Bennett, to be applied by him at his discretion 

 for the promotion of medical research. Sir 

 William has now decided to entrust the admin- 

 istration of the legacy to the London School 

 of Tropical Medicine, under conditions which 

 include the establishment of a research schol- 

 arship. 



The organization of the Canadian National 

 Museum has recently taken a new impetus, 

 due to the completion of its home, the Vic- 

 toria Memorial Museum building at Ottawa. 

 Lawrence M. Lambe, representing paleontol- 

 ogy; Harlan I. Smith, representing anthro- 

 pology; Percy A. Tavernier, representing zool- 

 ogy; Robert A. A. Johnston, representing 

 mineralogy, and Reginald W. Brock, director, 

 have been elected as the executive committee 

 of the museum staff, Mr. Johnston serving as 

 secretary. Several expeditions are in the field. 

 Research work is also being carried on in the 

 museum and popular educational work is not 

 being neglected. 



The agricultural demonstration train, which 

 the University of California sends out yearly, 

 through the cooperation of the Southern Pa- 

 cific Company, in the year just completed was 

 visited by more than 102,000 persons, a gain 

 of 24,000 over the previous year. It has proved 

 useful in bringing to the attention of farmers 

 improved agricultural methods and sources of 

 information and aid in farming problems. 



The United States Weather Bureau has 

 changed the cooperative station at the North 

 Dakota State University to a special meteor- 

 ological station. As such, it is known as the 

 Grand Forks station. It is closely affiliated 

 in its work with the university's department of 

 geology with Assistant Professor Howard E. 

 Simpson in charge as special meteorological 

 observer, the work being carried on as a part 

 of the geographical work of that department. 

 A complete meteorological equipment is fur- 

 nished by the United States Weather Bureau. 

 Constant records are kept of temperature, 

 pressure, wind velocity and direction, sunshine 

 and rainfall. Regular observations are made 



