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the following officers were elected: President, 

 Sir Eobert Hadfield, Bart., F.R.S.; Vice-pres- 

 idents, W. R. Bousfield K.C., F.R.S.. Pro- 

 fessor F. G. Donnan, F.R.S., Dr. Eugene 

 Haanel, Professor A. K. Hvuitington, Dr. T. 

 Martin Lowry, F.R.S., Professor Alfred W. 

 Porter, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Robert L. Mond; 

 Council, G. S. Albright, W. R. Cooper, Dr. 

 C. H. Desch, Dr. J. A. Harker. F.R.S., Emil 

 Hatscliek, Cosmo Johns, Harold Moore, E. H. 

 Rayner, Dr. George Senter, Cav. Magg, E. 

 Stassano. 



At the annual meeting of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences held at the Administra- 

 tion Building of the Carnegie Institution on 

 January 14, 1919, the retiring president. Dr. 

 Lyman J. Briggs, delivered an address on " The 

 resistance of the air." 



A JOINT meeting of the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and the Chemical Society of 

 Washington was held on January 9, when Dr. 

 F. B. Power, retiring president of the Chemical 

 Society, delivered an illustrated address on 

 " The distribution and character of some of 

 the odorous principles of plants." 



The annual Darwin Lecture of New York 

 University will be given on February 12 by Dr. 

 C. L. Bristol, of the department of biology. In 

 connection with the lecture a series of motion 

 pictures of marine life made in Naples, Italy, 

 will be shown by Dr. R. L. Ditmars, curator of 

 reptiles, New York Zoological Gardens. 



A CABLE message announces the death in 

 Rome, on December 31, of David Lubin, of 

 San Francisco, founder of the International 

 Institute of Agriculture, and the American 

 representative on its permanent board. He 

 was bom in 1841, and was formerly a merchant 

 in Sacramento, where early in his career he 

 made a fortune. He then devoted himself to 

 economic reforms and was responsible for the 

 establishment at Rome of an international 

 agency for collecting official and reliable in- 

 formation from all parts of the world as to the 

 acreage, output and ability of the cereal crops. 



Through an anonymous donor The Long 

 Island Collie Hospital (Hoagland Labora- 



tory) has had placed at its disposal a farm for 

 keeping animals used in research. Already 

 work and experimentation in fowl influenza 

 (roup), diphtheria and chicken-pox have been 

 begun. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Proposals for extending the accommodation 

 and equipment of the department of pathology 

 and bacteriology at Leeds University have been 

 approved. It is hoped to concentrate the whole 

 of the bacteriological work of the city in the 

 additional accommodation provided by adapt- 

 ing the premises adjacent to the medical school. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 plans to ofFer to students who have substan- 

 tially completed courses leading to the d^ree 

 of bachelor of science in chemistry or chemical 

 engineering, an opportunity to enter the school 

 of engineering practise in February. Two 

 terms of preparatory work will be given at 

 Cambridge, the first beginning February 17 ; it 

 is expected that the work at the practise sta- 

 tions will begin about October 1, and continue 

 until the following May. The general plan of 

 the course will be the same as that carried out 

 while the school was in operation just before 

 the opening of the war. 



The Rev. Edward P. Tivnan, S.J., professor 

 of chemistry and regent of the school of medi- 

 cine, Fordham University, has been appointed 

 president of the university, to succeed the Rev. 

 Joseph A. Mulry, S.J. 



The departments of descriptive geometry 

 and mechanical drawing and of mechanism and 

 machine design at Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology have been combined to form a new de- 

 partment of machine design, of which Frank- 

 lin DeR. Furman is professor and head. The 

 work of the department has been organized 

 with two divisions — one the mechanism divi- 

 sion, in which William R. Halliday is assist- 

 ant professor, and the other the mechanical 

 drawing division, in which Edwin R. Knapp is 

 professor and Samuel H. Lott, assistant pro- 

 fessor. The following changes in rank have 

 been made at the institute : Louis A. Hazeltine, 



