August 2, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



143. 



The death is announced of Dr. Moritz Sei- 

 dell, honorary professor of pharmacology at 

 Jena. 



M. Florio Osmond, eminent for his contri- 

 butions to the metallurgy of steel, has died at 

 the age of sixty-three years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces examinations to fill a vacancy in the 

 position of plant pathologist, $2,750 per an- 

 num, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department 

 of Agriculture; of entomological assistant 

 (male), at salaries ranging from $1,400 to 

 $1,800 per annum, in the Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy, and of assistant in agricultural technol- 

 ogy for work in cotton grading. Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, at salaries ranging from 

 $1,200 to $2,250. 



Since the summer of 1909 the joint com- 

 mission appointed by the United States and 

 Canadian governments to locate and mark 

 the boundary line separating British territory 

 from Alaska has been actively engaged in this 

 work, pushing the line northward from the 

 Yukon to Porcupine River by the end of the 

 1910 season. Last summer the field opera- 

 tions were advanced farther along that part 

 of the one hundred and forty-first meridian 

 which extends from Porcupine River to the 

 Arctic Ocean, and it is believed that the pres- 

 ent year will witness the completion of this 

 part of the survey. Realizing that its well- 

 equipped field organization afforded unusual 

 facilities in this remote and rather inaccess- 

 ible region for gathering much information 

 not directly connected with the particular work 

 of locating and marking the boundary line, the 

 joint commission extended an invitation, which 

 was readily accepted, to the Geological Survey 

 of Canada and the United States Geological 

 Survey to send geologists to accompany the 

 field parties during 1911 and 1912, and to ex- 

 amine the geology along the boundary from 

 the Yukon to the Arctic. The most satisfac- 

 tory arrangement for making such a geologic 

 examination in the two summers appeared to 

 be to assign one of the two sections of the line 

 to each government, as otherwise there would 

 have been much duplication of work and the 



observers would be required to traverse the 

 whole length of both sections. Under the ar- 

 rangement adopted the Canadian geologists 

 undertook to examine the southern or Yukon- 

 Porcupine section and the United States geol- 

 ogists the northern or Porcupine-Arctic sec- 

 tion. The United States geologists last year 

 commenced field examinations in June and 

 carried their work northward approximately 

 100 miles, to the headwaters of Firth River, 

 which flows into the Arctic Ocean. A prelim- 

 inary outline of the geologic results obtained 

 by this party has been published by the United 

 States Geological Survey as Bulletin 520-K, 

 by A. G. Maddren. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Ajst anonymous donor has given 10,000 

 guineas for the erection of a physiological 

 laboratory for the medical faculty of* Univer- 

 sity College of South Wales and Monmouth- 

 shire. 



A MOTION has been placed on the records 

 of the Supreme Court of the state of 'Sew 

 York changing the ofilcial name of " The 

 Trustees of Columbia College of the City of 

 New York " to " The Trustees of Columbia 

 University in the City of New York." 



At the summer session of Columbia Uni- 

 versity there are registered 3,615 students; at 

 the University of Chicago the registration is 

 3,053. 



Dr. Edward Davidson Congdon, A.B., A.M. 

 (Syracuse), Ph.D. (Harvard), instructor in 

 anatomy at the Cornell Medical School, has 

 been appointed instructor in anatomy at Stan- 

 ford University and not at Pittsburgh as has 

 been announced. 



Professor Thomas L. Patterson, head of 

 the department of biology in the Highland 

 Park College, has accepted an appointment as 

 associate professor of biology and physiology 

 in the University of Maryland School of 

 Medicine, Baltimore. 



Dr. Ernst Gaupp, of Freiburg, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of anatomy at Konigsberg. 



