November 22, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



711 



The secretary of the interior lias announced 

 the appointment of Mr. David White as chief 

 geologist of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey to succeed Mr. Waldemar Lindgren, who 

 leaves Washington to hecome Rogers professor 

 of geology and head of the geological depart- 

 ment of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. Dr. F. L. Eansome succeeds Mr. 

 Lindgren as chief of the section of economic 

 geology of metalliferous deposits. Mr. Lind- 

 gren retains his position as one of the geolo- 

 gists of the survey. He will probahly take up 

 for the survey next summer the study of the 

 Homestake mine, South Dakota, and has in 

 view also some reconnaissance work in soiith- 

 western Arizona. 



The General Education Board of lY Battery 

 Place, New York City, announces that Mr. 

 Abraham Mexner has become a member of its 

 staff. Mr. Flexner is the author of " The 

 American College" (1908), and of the "Bul- 

 letins on Medical Education in the United 

 States and Canada " (1910) and " Medical 

 Education in Europe " (1912), issued by the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. 



M. Emile Boutroux, known for his contri- 

 butions to philosophy, has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the French Academy. 



The gold medal for science of the Prussian 

 government has been conferred on Dr. Walther 

 Nernst, professor of chemistry at Berlin. 



The Swedish Medical Society has conferred 

 the Eetzius gold medal on Dr. John Newport 

 Langley, professor of physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, for his work on the 

 nervous system. 



The Weber-Parkes prize of 150 guineas and 

 a silver medal, founded in 1895 by Sir Her- 

 mann Weber in memory of the late Dr. E. A. 

 Parkes, and awarded every third year to the 

 author of the best essay on tuberculosis, has 

 been awarded by the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians to Mr. J. A. D. Eadcliiie, pathologist to 

 the King Edward VII. Sanatorium, Midhurst. 



Br. Jacques Huber, director of the Goeldi 

 Museum of Natural History and of the Bo- 

 tanical Garden of Para, Brazil, has been visit- 



ing the scientific institutions of the United 

 States. 



Walter Sheldon Tower, associate professor 

 of geography in the University of Chicago, has 

 returned from a seven months' tour of investi- 

 gation of the economic, geographic and com- 

 mercial conditions of Chile, the Argentine Re- 

 public, Uruguay and Brazil. 



Mr. D. W. Berky, magnetic observer of the 

 department of terrestrial magnetism, Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington, left Biskra, 

 Algeria, on October 29 for a trans-Saharan 

 trip to Timbuktu. Mr. Berky is accompanied 

 by Mr. H. E. Sawyer, magnetic observer of the 

 department, an interpreter and caravan party. 

 The expedition will require from four to five 

 months' time and it is expected much valuable 

 magnetic data will be secured. 



J. Paul Goode, associate professor of geog- 

 raphy in the University of Chicago, has well 

 advanced toward completion a series of wall 

 maps for colleges and universities — an attempt 

 to produce in America maps of as high quality 

 as those of Germany. 



Princeton University has inaugurated a 

 course of public lectures by members of the 

 faculty on " Some Aspects of the Rennais- 

 sance." The lectures include " Philosophy," 

 by Professor Kemp-Smith ; " Natural Sci- 

 ence," by Professor Trowbridge, and " The 

 Medieval Mind," by Dr. Stewart Paton. 



Under the auspices of the department of 

 geology of Columbia University an illustrated 

 public lecture was given by Dr. Herman Le 

 Roy Fairchild, professor of geology in the 

 University of Rochester on " Glacial Geology 

 of New York State," on November 12. 



Professor C. F. Hodge, of Clark College, 

 Worcester, Mass., addressed the Science Club 

 of the University of Wisconsin on " Fly Ex- 

 termination as a Problem in University Biol- 

 ogy," on November 6, 1912. 



Professor Robert A. Millikan, of the de- 

 partment of physics in the University of Chi- 

 cago, who recently presented papers before the 

 Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in Ber- 

 lin and the Dundee meeting of the British As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science, is 



