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the death of Professor J. H. Long, North- 

 western University, who had been a member 

 of the council since its organization. 



C. W. HuNGERFORD, assistant plant pathol- 

 ogist at the Oregon Agricultural College, con- 

 nected with the office of cereal investigations, 

 "Washington, D. C, has left for Moscow, Ida., 

 where he has been appointed plant pathologist 

 in the University of Idaho experiment station. 



Miss Katherine Van Winkle, a former 

 student in the University of Washington, 

 Seattle, Wash., is spending the year at Cornell 

 University, where she holds a fellowship in the 

 geological department. She is specially in- 

 terested in making a comparison of the East 

 and West Coast Eocene MoUusca. 



C. M. Bauer, formerly with the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, and Mr. E. W. Clark, formerly 

 of the geological department of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, have opened a consulting 

 office at Okmulgee, Oklahoma. 



Edw.uid W. Berry, professor of paleontology, 

 and Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., professor of 

 economic geology, at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, will leave in April to spend six or 

 seven months in geological explorations in 

 the Andes of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, vmder 

 the George Huntington WiUiams Memorial 

 fund. 



Henry S. Graves, United States forester, 

 spoke on " The Need of Private Forestry," 

 before the Boston Chamber of Commerce on 

 February 24, 1919. This address was part of 

 the program in connection with the forestry 

 conference held at Boston on February 24 and 

 25 under the auspices of the Massachusetts 

 Forestry Association. 



The Washington Section of the Society of 

 American Foresters, at its meeting on Febru- 

 ary 2G, 1919, had presented to it papers on 

 the " Application of the Principles of Plant 

 Succession in relation to Range Revegeta- 

 tion," by Arthur W. Sampson, and in rela- 

 tion to Forest Regeneration, G. A. Pearson. 



The fifth Harvey Society lecture of the 

 series will be by Colonel F. P. Underbill on 

 " War Gases " at the New York Academy of 

 Medicine on Saturday evening, March 15. 



The annual Darwin Day lecture at New 

 York University, commemorating his birth- 

 day, was given on February 12 in the audi- 

 torium at University Heights by R. L. Dit- 

 mars, curator of reptiles, at the New York 

 Zoological Gardens. His subject was " Life at 

 the Bottom of the Sea," illustrated by four 

 reels of motion pictures of submarine life 

 taken in the bay of Naples. Professor Charles 

 L. Bristol also spoke on the work of Darwin. 



A JOINT meeting under the auspices of the 

 New York Section of the American Electro- 

 chemical Society with the New York Section 

 of the American Chemical Society and the 

 Society of Chemical Industry was held at 

 Rumford Hall on February 7, when the pro- 

 gram was " Electro-chemistry in War Time " 

 by Lieut. Col. Wilder D. Bancroft, C.W.S. 

 U. S., and " War Time Trip to Europe " by 

 H. C. Parmalee. 



The American Institute of Mining Engi- 

 neers meeting in New York on February 17 

 held a service in memory of Dr. Rossiter W. 

 Raymond, second president of the institute 

 and secretary emeritus at the time of his 

 recent death. 



Dr. Timothy Matlack Cheesman, instruc- 

 tor in bacteriology in Columbia University 

 from 18S8 to 1899 and later a trustee of the 

 university, died on February 28, at his home 

 at Garrison-on-Hudson, aged sixty-six yeai-s. 



The death on February 8 in Philadelphia, 

 from pleurisy and pneumonia, of Dr. Frederic 

 Putnam Gulliver, of Norwich, Conn., is an- 

 nounced. Dr. Gulliver was connected with 

 the chestnut blight commission in Philadelphia 

 for some years, prior to which he was topog- 

 rapher in the United States Geological Survey. 

 For eight years he was master of science at 

 Saint Mark's School in Southborough, Mass. 

 He was secretary of .Section E (Geology and 

 Geography) of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science from 1907 to 

 1911. 



Dr. Paul Carus, editor of the Open Court 

 and The Motiist, the author of many philo- 



