February 14, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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Henry Crew, Northwestern University, on 

 Februarj' 14. On March 21 in the series of 

 lectures on Swedish Contributions to Science 

 ■which arc to be given under the auspices of 

 the Swedish Study League in coojwration 

 with the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Pro- 

 fessor Crew will speak on " Swedish Con- 

 tributions to the Science of Physics." 



A COURSE of nine lectures on dynamical 

 meteorology is being given at the Meteoro- 

 logical Office, London, by Sir Napier Shaw, 

 reader in meteorology in the University of 

 London. Each lecture is followed by a con- 

 versational class. The informal meetings at 

 the Meteorological Office for the discussion of 

 important current contributions to meteorol- 

 ogy, chiefly in colonial or foreign journals. 

 will be resumed on April 28. 



Ox January 15, Dr. George T. Moore, 

 ■director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 sjioke before the St. Louis Natural History 

 Museum Association at the Public Librar:\% 

 on " The Educational Value of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden." 



Efforts are being made to establish a chair 

 of mathematical physics at the University of 

 Edinburgh in memory of the late Professor 

 Tait. 



Dr. Clarence Joii.x Blake, Walter Augustus 

 Leconipte professor of otology-, emeritus, in the 

 Harvard Medical School, died at his home in 

 Boston on January 29, in the seventy-sixth 

 year of his age. 



We learn from the Journal of the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences of the death of Cap- 

 tain Howard E. Ames, medical director, U. S. 

 N., retired, who died on December 27, 1918. 

 Dr. Ames had been an officer in the Navy 

 since 1875, and had been on the retired list 

 since 1912. He served as medical officer on 

 board the Bear, which rescued General Greely 

 and his party in the Arctic regions. He was a 

 member of the Biological Society. 



We learn from Nature that Casimir De Can- 

 doUe, died on October 3, 1918, at Geneva, where 

 he was born in 1836, and where the greater 

 part of his life had been spent. Casimir De 

 Candolle made valuable additions to the sum 



of botanical knowledge, though his work was 

 not of sucli fundamental importance as that 

 of his father, Alphonse, and grandfather, Au- 

 gustin. 



Mr. Andrew Braid, hydrographic and geo- 

 detic engineer of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, and chairman of the U. S. Geographic 

 Board, has died in his seventy-third year. 



Dr. Gabriel Marcus Green, instructor in 

 mathematics in Harvard University, died in 

 Cambridge on January 24, in the twenty- 

 eighth year of his age. 



Dr. W. Marshall Watts, who while en- 

 gaged as a science teacher in an English 

 school carried on valuable work on spectro- 

 scopy, died on January 13, at the age of 

 seventy-four years. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation reports the following deaths from in- 

 fluenza in Brazil: Di-. T. Bayma, the distin- 

 guished physician and bacteriologist of S. 

 Paulo, director of the baeteriologic and the 

 vaccine institutes there, aged fifty-five; Dr. 

 Santos Moreira, a leading iiediatrist of Rio 

 de Janeiro, director of the Medicina Clinica, 

 and Dr. Paulo Silva Araujo, a leading micro- 

 biologist, who published in 1915 his " Vaccine 

 Therapy of Bronchial Asthma." 



The American Chemical Society will hold 

 its spring meeting at Buffalo beginning on the 

 morning of April 8. 



It is announced that Genera Insectoriun, 

 the great work describing all the genera of in- 

 sects, published at Brussels, is to be continued. 

 When the country was invaded in 1914, several 

 parts were about to be published; these are to 

 appear in 1919. The stock of the previously 

 published parts was saved, and is now avail- 

 able. 



The laboratory of forest pathology of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. D. A., Dr. 

 James R. Weir in charge, has been removed 

 from Missoula, Montana, to Spokane, Wash- 

 ington, where it will be permanently installed 

 in a fireproof building. The most intensive 

 work of this laboratory is centered in the great 

 wliite pine forests of Idaho. To promote 

 pathological investigation in this region, a 



