Jaxuaby 24, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



89 



Standards, Department of Commerce, and Dr. 

 Arthur A. Hamerschlag, president of Car- 

 negie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh, 

 have been appointed by the secretary of com- 

 merce, Hon.William C. Redfield, a committee 

 of five to represent the Department of Com- 

 merce in connection with the formation of and 

 arrangement for an international cotton con- 

 ference. This body is to be formed to discuss 

 subjects of international interest relative to 

 the cotton trade throughout the world. 



Professor F. 0. Grover, head of the depart- 

 ment of botany of Oberlin Collie, has been 

 granted leave of absence for special study in 

 the University of Chicago. 



Dr. J.4S. A. Nelson has resigned his position 

 as expert in the Bureau of Entomology at 

 Washington, D. C, and will make his home 

 near Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he will give 

 his attention to farming. He will remain in 

 connection with the Bureau of Entomology as 

 collaborator. 



Dr. D. R. Harper resigned at the close of the 

 year from his position as physicist in the Na- 

 tional Bureau of Standards with which he had 

 been associated for ten years as a physicist in 

 the field of thermodynamics. With the en- 

 trance of the United States into the war, this 

 work was laid aside as not being of special 

 military importance, and Dr. Harper left the 

 laboratory for administrative work to assist 

 Director Stratton in finding the hundreds of 

 scientific men needed by the bureau. Dr. 

 Harper will continue his work as a personnel 

 and employment expert and has accepted a 

 call to the United States Bureau of Efficiency. 



The eleventh annual conference of Veteri- 

 narians was held at Cornell University Veteri- 

 nary College on January 16 and 17. About 

 two hundred veterinarians from all parts of 

 the state were in attendance. Among those on 

 the program were H. B. Leonard, of the Bu- 

 reau of Animal Industry; J. G. Wills, chief 

 veterinarian of New York State; Charles S. 

 Wilson, st^te commissioner of agriculture; 

 John W. Adams, of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania; Captain F. C. Waite and Lieutenant 

 Colonel R. J. Stanclift, of the Surgeon Gen- 



eral's Office, U. S. A. President Schurman 

 made the address of welcome. 



Dr. David Eugene Smith, of Teachers Col- 

 lege, Columbia University, will address the 

 Association of Teachers of Secondary Mathe- 

 matics of North Carolina in Greensboro, N. C, 

 February 7 and 8. The Association meets this 

 year under the auspices of the State Normal 

 College. On February 6, Dr. Smith will ad- 

 dress the students of mathematics of the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina. 



The third lecture of the series of the Har- 

 vey Society will be given by Major R. M. 

 Yerkes, on " Psychological Examination of 

 the soldier," New York Academy of Medicine, 

 on Saturday evening, January 25, at 8 : 30 p.m. 



Horace Fletcher, known as an expert on 

 dietetics, died at Copenhagen, on January 13, 

 from bronchitis after a long illness. 



Edwaed a. Ingham, district health officer of 

 the California Board of Health, a graduate of 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 

 former instructor there, has died in California 

 from influenza, contracted while combating 

 the epidemic. 



The deaths are announced of Dr. Carlos 

 Barajas, a prominent physician in Mexico 

 City and professor of anatomy in the univer- 

 sity, and of Dr. R. S. Gomez, professor of 

 internal pathology and descriptive anatomy at 

 the University of Buenos Aires. 



The committee on scientific research ap- 

 pointed by the trustees of the American Med- 

 ical Association will consider applications 

 for grants of money to aid in medical research. 

 Applications, which should explain fully the 

 conditions and reasons that appear to warrant 

 requests for aid, may be addressed to Com- 

 mittee on Scientific Research, 535 North Dear- 

 born Street, Chicago, 111. 



Subscriptions have been collected and Sena- 

 tor Borletti has donated a handsome villa with 

 extensive grounds near Milan for an institute 

 to care for the cases of nervous disease which 

 need special and continuous attendance. The 

 president of the association having the matter 

 in charge is Professor C. Golgi, who is also 



