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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIX. No. 1257 



editor witli The Cliemical Catalogue Com- 

 pany, 'New York. 



Announcement is made at tiie Smithsonian 

 Institution of the appointment of ITeil M. 

 Judd of the department of anthropology as 

 curator of American archeology. United 

 States National Museum. Mr. Judd has been 

 a member of the scientific staff of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for eight years. He re- 

 turned to Washington on January 1, after 

 eleven months' service in the aviation section 

 of the army. 



In January Professor H. Austin Aikins, of 

 Western Reserve University, gave two lectures 

 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pitts- 

 burgh, before the occupational therapy class 

 on problems of psychotherapy and the work in 

 Canadian hospitals of importance for occupa- 

 tional aids. Lieutenant Colonel E. K. Strong 

 spoke on job analysis in the army before the 

 Research Bureau for Retail Training at the 

 Carnegie Institute of Technology on Jan- 

 uary 22. 



RoLLA C. Carpenter, professor of experi- 

 mental engineering at Cornell University since 

 1890, died at his home on J2inuary 19. Pro- 

 fessor Carpenter, who was born in Orion, 

 Mich., 1852, had active charge of many large 

 engineering projects, and was the author of 

 important works on engineering. 



TjiE death from influenza is announced of 

 Edwin Henry IngersoU, chemist in the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of 

 AgTiculture. 



Pboi'ESSOR R. ISTietzki, professor of chem- 

 istry at Bale, known for his work on the 

 chemistry of dyestuffs, has died at the age of 

 seventy-one years. 



At a meeting of the bureau chiefs and other 

 high officials of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, December 11, 1918, held to take 

 action on the death of L. W. Page, Dr. L. O. 

 Howard said : " During the forty years of my 

 daily association with the workers of the 

 departrnent, I have seen many changes. 

 Many men of different types have been here. 

 Many have come and many have gone. Some 

 of the best of us are still here. Some of the 



very best of us have gone — some to other fields 

 of work, some to the Unknown. Among them 

 all I think that Logan Waller Page, looking 

 at his individuality as a whole, was unique. 

 Absolutely unspoiled by his wealth, his cul- 

 ture, his family connections, his social posi- 

 tion, gaining from his Harvard education all 

 that was good and nothing that was bad; 

 frank, straight forward, honest, despising 

 sham and pretense, hating graft, highly 

 trained, idealistic in a way but with a clear, 

 cool brain, full of great plans and with the 

 ability to make them practical; unselfish, 

 working intensely for the good of the whole 

 country, dedicating to the good of all ideas 

 which might have been turned to his own 

 personal profit, a wonderful miser, meeting 

 every man on his own level, a marvellous 

 teller of apt anecdotes; a citizen of the world 

 and the highest type of good American — ^no 

 other single one of us has approached him 

 and I am sure that no one of us will ever 

 meet just his like again." 



In the article by Willard J. Fisher, entitled 

 " The Balance, the Steelyard and the Concept 

 of Force," in Science for November 1, 1918, 

 " the words animism and animists, wherever 

 used, should be replaced by " animatism " 

 and " animatists." For the distinction be- 

 tween these reference may be made to the 

 Encyclopedia Britannica, from which . the 

 definition in the article was drawn." 



The secretary general of the Nineteenth 

 International Congress of Americanists has 

 on inquiry received information from the 

 Brazilian Embassy at Washington regarding 

 the coming session of the Americanists at Rio 

 De Janeiro, to the effect that, according to a 

 cable received from the Foreign Office of 

 Brazil, the Twentieth International Congress 

 of Americanists will be held from the eight- 

 eenth to the thirtieth of June, 1919. In 

 view of the above decision, and in consider- 

 ation of the importance from many stand- 

 points of the congress in Brazil, it seems ad- 

 visable that due steps be taken without delay 

 by the Americanists in this country and 

 Canada for a good representation. 



