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SCIENCE 



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John P. Campbell, for thirty years professor 

 of biology ill the University of Georgia, died 

 on December 3. A correspondent writes that 

 he was eminently a successful teacher and will 

 be remembered by a large number of students 

 whom he inspired. Le Conte Hall, erected in 

 1906 on the University of Georgia campus, is 

 said to have been the first building in the south 

 dedicated from the start to biological work. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the July-August 

 number of the handsome journal issued by the 

 national public health authorities of Cuba is 

 entitled " Numero extraordinario en homenaje 

 a la memorial de Dr. Carlos J. Finlay," on 

 the anniversary of his death. It contains 197 

 pages with a photograph of Dr. Finlay and of 

 the monument with his portrait bust which has 

 been installed in the court of the headquarters 

 of the public health department, the Secretaria 

 de Sanidad y Beneficencia. All Finlay's sci- 

 entific works are reproduced or summarized, 

 from 1865 to 1912. His communication on the 

 transmission of yellow fever through an inter- 

 mediary agent was presented to the Interna- 

 tional Sanitary Conference at Washington, D. 

 C, in 1881. He did not specify the mosquito 

 in that communication, but did this in his ad- 

 dress before the Academia de Ciencias Medicas, 

 Fisicas y Naturales, at Havana, August 14, 

 1881. His address was republished in English 

 and Spanish with the title " The mosquito 

 hypothetically considered as an agent of trans- 

 mission of yellow fever." 



The annual general meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society will be held from 

 April 24 to 26, beginning at 2 p.m. on Thurs- 

 day, April 24. 



John A. Roeblikg, of Bernardsville, New 

 Jersey, has offered the British Museum a 

 gift of five $1,000 bonds of the United States 

 Liberty Loan, which is unaccompanied by con- 

 ditions of any kind and is intended as a mark 

 of community of sympathy which unites Eng- 

 land and America. The trustees have ac- 

 cepted the gift and wiU consider to what pur- 

 pose it may be most appropriately applied. 



The trustees of the British Museum are 

 considering tlie question of reopening those 

 parts of the museum which have been closed 

 during the war, and of bringing out the 

 treasures which have been stored in the base- 

 ment. This may take some time, however, as 

 one wing of the building is being used as the 

 offices of a government department, and many 

 of the exhibits are heavily sandbagged, and 

 labor for uncovering them is not yet available. 



We learn from Kature that the British Sci- 

 entific Instrument Research Association, one 

 of the earliest associations formed under the 

 scheme of the Department of Scientific and 

 Industrial Research, has secured premises at 

 26 Russell Square, W.C., 1, where offices and 

 research laboratories will be equipped. The 

 first chairman of the association was Mr. A. S. 

 Esslemont, whose recent lamented death has 

 been a severe loss to the association. The 

 council has elected Mr. H. A. Colefax, K.C., 

 as chairman to fill the vacancy. The vice- 

 chairman is Mr. Conrad Beck, to whose energy 

 and personal influence is largely due the suc- 

 cessful formation of the association. Almost 

 all the leading optical and scientific instru- 

 ment manufacturers are members. The de- 

 partment of scientific and industrial research 

 is represented by Major C. J. Stewart, Captain 

 F. O. Creagh-Osborne, R. N., Mr. S. W. 

 Morrison, Colonel R. E. Home, R. A., and Mr. 

 Percy Ashlej'. The council has recently co- 

 opted as members of its body the Hon. Sir 

 Charles A. Parsons, F.R.S., and Professor 

 J. W. Nicholson, F.R.S. Sir Herbert Jack- 

 son, K. B. E., F.R.S., has been appointed di- 

 rector of research and Mr. J. W. Williamson 

 secretary of the association. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 Salters' Company have issued a circular giving 

 the outline of the Salters' Institute, now being 

 founded to promote research in industrial 

 chemistry, and to train students. An im- 

 portant part of the scheme is the foundation 

 of Post-Graduate Fellowships. The new or- 

 ganization will be called " The Salters Insti- 

 tute of Industrial Chemistry," and for the 



