NOTEMBEB 1, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



591 



A JOINT meeting of the American Anthro- 

 pological Association, the American Polk-Lore 

 Society and Section H of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science will 

 be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 30, 

 1912, to January 4, 1913. Titles of papers to 

 be read and abstracts of the same should be 

 »ent by December 1 to Professor George Grant 

 MacCurdy, Yale University Museum, New 

 Haven, Conn., who is responsible for the joint 

 program. 



The Association of American Universities 

 wiU hold its annual meeting at the University 

 of Pennsylvania on November 7, 8, and 9, 

 1912. 



Professor Beegson, of Paris; Professor De 

 Tries, of the University of Amsterdam, and 

 Sir William Eamsay, of London, have been 

 appointed Woodward lecturers at Tale Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Felix Krueger, professor of philosophy 

 and psychology at Halle, who is this year's 

 Kaiser Wilhelm professor at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, delivered his inaugural lecture on 

 October 29. His subject was " New Aims 

 and Tendencies in Psychology." 



Professor Emile Borel, director of scien- 

 tific studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure 

 and professor of the theory of function at the 

 University of Paris, will lecture at Princeton 

 University on November 6. 



Professor Jorge Engerrand, of the City of 

 Mexico, has been designated honorary pro- 

 fessor in the New University of Brussels. 

 The Mexican government has appointed him 

 to the directorship for 1912-13 of the Inter- 

 national School of Archeology and Ethnology, 

 recently founded in the City of Mexico. In 

 this latter capacity Professor Engerrand's 

 work will deal largely with the antiquity of 

 man in America and especially from the 

 geological standpoint. 



Professor John E. Sweet, formerly pro- 

 fessor of practical mechanics in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, was eighty years old on October 21, 

 and some of his former students gave him. a 

 banquet at the Onondaga Hotel in Syracuse 

 OH that night. 



Dr. Mazyck p. Eavenel, head of the state 

 hygienic laboratory at the University of Wis- 

 consin, has been appointed first lieutenant in 

 the medical reserve corps of the United States 

 Army by President Taft. 



At the Nutrition Laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution Dr. Raymond Dodge, pro- 

 fessor of psychology at Wesleyan University, 

 Middletown, Conn., has been appointed con- 

 sulting experimental psychologist, and an 

 especial laboratory has been equipped for his 

 investigation. Dr. Sergius Morgulis, Sheldon 

 fellow of Harvard University during the 

 year 1911-12, and who has engaged in investi- 

 gation in the laboratory of Professor Zuntz, 

 of Berlin, has been appointed associate in ani- 

 mal metabolism. 



M. F. Smith, B.S. (Tale, '97), has been 

 appointed assistant astronomer at the Tale 

 University Observatory. 



Dr. Charles Porter Small, who has been 

 the university physician since the founding 

 of the University of Chicago, has resigned to 

 devote his entire time to private practise. 



At the last meeting of the Eumford Com- 

 mittee of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences a grant of $250 was made to Mr. W. 

 O. Sawtelle, of the Jefferson Physical Labora- 

 tory, Harvard University, in aid of his re- 

 search on the spectra of the light from the 

 spark in the oscillatory discharge. 



Professor Wm. T. Magruder has resumed 

 his duties as head of the department of me- 

 chanical engineering in the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity after a year's leave of absence. Pro- 

 fessor Magruder spent a considerable part of 

 the year in travel through Europe, investiga- 

 ting the trades schools. He has recently been 

 elected president of the Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Engineering Education. 



The Eev. Jose Algue, director of the Ma- 

 nila Observatory, P. I., is now in this country 

 and is making his headquarters at George- 

 town University, of whose observatory he was 

 formerly director. 



Dr. Krusius, dozent at Marburg, has under- 

 taken, with the support of the Prussian and 



