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the perfecting of gas masks. He has been ap- 

 pointed by the National Research Council 

 member of a committee of four, known as the 

 sub-committee on colloids. 



Professor H. Buroer, of Amsterdam, has 

 been elected corresponding member of the lar- 

 yngological section of the Royal Society of 

 Medicine at London. 



Mr. W. Boyd Campbell, assistant superin- 

 tendent at the forest products laboratory, 

 McGill University, Montreal, is now in charge 

 of the chemical engineering work of the Proc- 

 ess Engineers Limited Montreal. 



The fourth lecture of Harvey Society will 

 be given by Dr. Frederic S. Lee on "Industrial 

 Fatigue" at the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine on Saturday evening, March 1. 



Professor Robert F. GRicns, director of the 

 National Geographical Society Katmai Expe- 

 ditions, delivered an address on " Katmai and 

 ten Thousand Smokes" before the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences on February IS. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the division 

 of phy9ical anthropology, United States Na- 

 tional Museum, will give four lectures on 

 "The Origin and Antiquity of the American 

 Indiaia" at the Wagner Free Institute of Sci- 

 ence. The lectures, which are in the Richard 

 B. Wegtbrook foundation, will be given on 

 March 8, 15, 22 and 29. 



Sir R. H. Inglis Palgraa-e, distinguished 

 for his work on economies and statistics died 

 on January 25 at the age of ninety-one years. 



Dr. Louis-Edouard Bureau, formerly pro- 

 fesor of botany at the Paris Museum of Nat- 

 ural History has died at the age of eighty- 

 eight years. 



Dr. Eugene Penard, of Greneva, Switzer- 

 land, has nearly completed his great work on 

 the Infusaria, on which he has been working 

 for five years. He has material for two vol- 

 umes of 850 pages each, but it will be nec- 

 essary, on accoimt of the cost of the publica- 

 tion, to condense it to a single volume of 650 

 pages. Dr. Penard is much occupied at the 

 present time with his duties as a member of 

 the comnimission to administer relief to 



refugee Russians in Switzerland, mider the 

 American Red Cross. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A GROiT of alumni, headed by George P. 

 Adamson, have completed the endowment of 

 the Edward Hart fellowship at Lafayette Col- 

 lege. The endowment is in the sum of $10,000, 

 yielding $500 per annum, and is open to stu- 

 dents of chemistry holding the bachelor's de- 

 gree desiring to do research work in problems 

 connected with viscous and plastic flow. The 

 endowment was made in honor of Professor 

 Edward Hart, who has completed forty years 

 as professor of chemistry at Lafayette. 



The Women's College in Brown University 

 received a gift of $50,000 to be used for a new 

 dormitory. 



Dr. Bexjajiix Ide Wheelf.r has presented 

 his resignation as president of the University 

 of California. 



Professor D. W. Working, of the Office of 

 Farm Management of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, has accepted the positions of 

 dean of the Arizona College of Agriculture 

 and director of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



In the absence on leave in Europe of Direc- 

 tor H. Hayward, Professor A. E. Grantham, 

 agronomist, has been appointed acting direc- 

 tor of the Delaware College Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station beginning February 1. E. 

 A. Hodson, of Cornell University, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of agronomy. 



Dr. W. E. Milne has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at the University of 

 Oregon, to succeed Dr. R. M. Winger. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



A STANDARD SCIENTIFIC ALPHABET 



Standardizing is one of the unending labors 

 of science. By accurate standards scientists 

 are able to test and prove, to plan intelligently, 

 and to indicate precisely. Scientists substi- 

 tuted a simple and definite metric system for 

 a great number of irregular and unrelated 



