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SCIENCE 



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chemist at the Worcester sewage purification 

 works. 



At a meeting of the Lawes Agricultural 

 Trust Committee, held on June 25, Dr. E. J. 

 Eussell, at present Goldsmiths' Company's as- 

 sistant for soil investigations, was appointed 

 director of the Eothamsted Experimental 

 Station in succession to Mr. A. D. Hall, 

 F.E.S. 



The Maekinnon studentships of the Eoyal 

 Society for the ensuing year have been 

 awarded to H. M. Kyle, D.Sc. (St. Andrews), 

 for a research on the metamorphosis and 

 origin of the flat fishes, and to Mr. A. L. 

 Hughes, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for 

 a research on the ionization in mercury vapor 

 produced by ultra-violet light. 



The special board for biology and geology 

 of Cambridge University has nominated Mr. 

 G. E. Mines, M.A., Sidney Sussex College, 

 and Mr. H. M. Fuchs, B.A., Gonville and 

 Caius College, to use the university table at 

 Naples, and Mr. James Gray, B.A., King's 

 College, to occupy the university table at the 

 Laboratory of the Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion at Plymouth. 



Professor S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia 

 University, will spend a year at Terkes Ob- 

 servatory. 



Professor Theodore Lyman, of Harvard 

 University, has gone to the Altai Mountains, 

 on the borders of Siberia and Mongolia, on a 

 hunting expedition. He takes with him Mr. 

 N. Hollister, assistant curator at the National 

 Museum, Washington, who will make zoolog- 

 ical collections to be divided between that 

 museum and the Harvard Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology. 



AssocLiTE Professor Frederick Starr, of 

 the University of Chicago, sailed on June 20 

 for Africa on an expedition for anthropolog- 

 ical research. After a visit to Morocco and 

 the Canary Islands, Professor Starr and his 

 party will go directly to Liberia, and thence 

 into the back country, where they will spend 

 the rest of the year, returning about January 

 1, 1913. 



Dr. Herbert Muller, of the Anthropolog- 

 ical Museum in Berlin, has gone to China for 

 ethnological researches in Manchuria and 

 eastern Mongolia. 



Mr. E. H. Hooker, M.A., has been ap- 

 pointed Newmarch lecturer in statistics at 

 University College for the session 1912-13. 

 The subject of his lectures will be " The Food 

 Supply of the United Kingdom." 



Leonardo da Vinci's contributions to the 

 principles of aviation were celebrated in Paris 

 on July 4, when addresses were made by the 

 French prime minister and the Italian am- 

 bassador. 



The session of the Chemical Society, Lon- 

 don, for 1912-13 will open on October 17 with 

 a memorial lecture in honor of Antoine Henri 

 Becquerel, late honorary and foreign member 

 of the society, to be delivered by Sir Oliver 

 Lodge, F.E.S. 



Mr. William E. Smith, for sixty years 

 superintendent of the National Botanical Gar- 

 den, died at Washington on July 7, aged 

 eighty-four years. 



Professor Orville Briggs Stacy, for forty- 

 two years a member of the faculty of the 

 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, holding the 

 chair of natural science and mathematics at 

 the time of his retirement in 1906, has died 

 at the age of eighty years. 



Dr. Thomas H. Bache, great-great-grandson 

 of Benjamin Franklin, a distinguished physi- 

 cian of Philadelphia, has died at the age of 

 eighty-six years. 



The board of trustees announces that the 

 next annual session of the American Medical 

 Association will be held in Minneapolis from 

 June 17 to 20, 1913. 



A recent addition which has been made to 

 the equipment of the Colorado School of 

 Mines is a new 14-foot Littrow spectrograph, 

 purchased at a cost of $1,500, through the 

 Vinson Walsh research fund. This fund was 

 given by the late Thomas F. Walsh for the 

 determination and study of rare metals in ores. 



