August 23, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



In connection with the visit to Dundee in 

 the beginning of September of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 the senate of the "University of St. Andrews 

 has resolved to confer the degree of LL.D. on 

 sixteen foreign men of science who are ex- 

 pected to attend the meetings of the associa- 

 tion. As a recognition of the president of the 

 association, Professor E. A. Schaefer, of 

 Edinburgh "University, they are largely physi- 

 ologists. The United States is represented by 

 Dr. S. J. Meltzer, of the Eockefeller Institute 

 of Medical Eesearch. 



Dr. Karl Schwarzschild, director of the 

 astrophysical observatory near Potsdam, has 

 been elected a member of the Berlin Academy 

 of Sciences. 



The Bavarian Academy of Sciences has 

 conferred the medal " Bene merenti " on Dr. 

 Karl Hoseus for his botanical collections 

 from Siam. 



Dr. J. G. ScHURMAN, president of Cornell 

 University, has been appointed minister to 

 Greece, where he will spend a sabbatical year 

 of leave of absence. 



Professor Greenfield, of the University of 

 Edinburgh, has been granted permission to 

 retire, on a retiring allowance, frora the chair 

 of pathology. 



Mr. J. C. Umney has been elected to pre- 

 side over the jubilee meeting of the British 

 Pharmaceutical Congress which will be held 

 in London next year. 



Dr. Langdon C. Stewardson has resigned 

 the presidency of Hobart College. 



Major W. W. Crosby has resigned as chief 

 engineer of the state roads commission of 

 Maryland to engage in practise as consulting 

 engineer. 



Dr. "W. J. Holland, the director of the Car- 

 negie Museum, accompanied by Mr. Arthur 

 S. Coggeshall, the chief preparator in the sec- 

 tion of paleontology of that museum, sailed 

 for Buenos Aires on August 20 by the S.S. 

 Vasari of the Lamport and Holt Line. Their 

 errand is to install in the National Museum at 



La Plata a replica of Diplodocus carnegiei 

 presented by Mr. Carnegie to the president of 

 the Argentine Republic. 



Dr. Eaymond Pearl has returned from a 

 brief visit to London, undertaken for the pur- 

 pose of attending the first International 

 Eugenics Congress and also a meeting of a 

 provisional committee for the organization of 

 an International Association of Poultry In- 

 structors and Investigators. This association 

 was formed, with representatives of twenty- 

 seven countries in attendance. Mr. Edward 

 Brown, E.L.S., of London, was chosen as the 

 first president and Dr. Pearl as secretary. 



Dr. a. F. Blakeslee has a year's leave of 

 ■ absence from the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College. He has a temporary appointment 

 on the staff of the Carnegie Station for Ex- 

 perimental Evolution at' Cold Spring Harbor,, 

 L. I., N. T., where he will spend the year iu 

 research work on the lower fungi. 



Mr. Charles H. T. Townsend, who has been 

 in Piura, Peru, for the past two years, removed 

 with his family to Lima in June, 1912, to take 

 charge of the Estacion de Entomologia, which 

 will comprise all government entomological 

 work in Peru and whose headquarters will be 

 located at the capital. Mr. E. "W. Eust rer 

 mains in Piura in charge of the work there 

 against cotton plagues, which will constitute 

 a branch station. Mr. Eust was unharmed by 

 the severe earthquake which occurred at Piura 

 on the morning of July 24, 1912. All the col- 

 lections, notes, books and manuscripts, and 

 the more important part of the equipment of 

 Mr. Townsend's office were removed to Lima 

 with him, and thus escaped the effects of the 

 earthquake. 



Mr. Paul Korchoof, agricultural expert, 

 department of the Eussian ministry of agri- 

 culture, and Mr. Vaseelie Turieff, assistant 

 director, Kharkow Central Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, have been visiting the 

 agricultural colleges and stations of this coun- 

 try. 



Professor W. A. Bone, F.E.S., will lecture 

 before the German Chemical Society on No- 

 vember 30 on " Surface Combustion." 



