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Captain Leo 31. Beilix, M. C, U. S. Army, 

 of Springfield, 111., started for Siberia, on 

 February 15, -where he is to be placed in 

 charge of a unit to combat typhus. 



Dr. L. a. Baueu left Washington early in 

 March for England, where he will organize 

 an expedition for magnetic and electric ob- 

 servation during the solar eclipse of May 29, 

 1919 at a station in South Africa; he expects 

 next to proceed to South America and arrange 

 for similar observations dui'ing the eclipse 

 there. His eclipse station will probably be La 

 Paz, Bolivia. "While in South America he 

 will visit various institutions and return to 

 Washington next July. 



Mr. HExnY Wigglesworth, of the General 

 Chemical Company, has accepted a commission 

 for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- 

 merce to study the dyestuff and textile condi- 

 tions in France. 



Professor L. M. Winsor, B.S., specialist in 

 irrigation and drainage for the Utah Experi- 

 ment Station in cooperation with the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, who has been 

 granted a leave of absence, recently left for 

 South America to determine the possibilities 

 of bringing a large tract of arid land under 

 cultivation in Chile by irrigation. The land 

 is controlled by the Guggenheim mining in- 

 terests. 



At the meeting of the Baltimore City Med- 

 ical Society, held in Osier Hall on February 

 21, Brig.-Gen. William S. Thayer, chief con- 

 sultant of the medical division, and Major- 

 Gen. John M. T. Finney, chief consultant of 

 the surgical division. Medical Corps, United 

 States Army, spoke on the work in France. 



Provost Edg.\r F. Smith, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, delivered an address on 

 "Early Mineralogists and Chemists" at the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 

 on Tuesday evening, February 18. 



The sixth lecture of the series of The Harvey 

 Society lectures will be by Dr. Yandell Hen- 

 derson on " Physiology of the Aviator " at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine on Saturday 

 evening, March 29, at 8 :30. The Harvey Lec- 

 tures are open to the public. 



Lieutenant Colonel A. M. Patterson, pro- 

 fessor of anatomy in the University of Liver- 

 pool, who has held the office of assistant in- 

 spector of military orthopedics for several 

 years, has died at the age of fifty-six years. 



M. CoGGU, assistant in the Marseilles Ob- 

 servatory for more than fifty years, died on 

 January 15, at tlie age of seventy years. 



The work on volcanology at Kilauea has 

 been placed under the U. S. Weather Bureau. 

 The transfer was effective on February 15 

 and the appointment of the Director Pro- 

 fessor T. A. .Jaggar has been approved. An 

 appropriation of $10,000 for the year is made 

 by the government for continuing the work 

 heretofore maintained by the volcano Kesearch 

 Association. 



The thirtieth session of the Biological Lab- 

 oratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, 

 will be held from Juno to September, 1919. 

 Regular class work will be held for six weeks 

 beginning July second. The courses of in- 

 struction include field zoologj' by Drs. Walter 

 Kornhauser and Parshley; bird study by Mrs. 

 Walter; comparative anatomy by Professor 

 Pratt; animal bionomics by Dr. Davenport; 

 systematic and field botany by Dr. John W. 

 Harshberger and Mr. C. A. Stiteler; advanced 

 botany by Dr. Harshberger; heredity by Pro- 

 fessor Harold D. Fish and training course for 

 field workers in eugenics by Drs. C. B. Daven- 

 port, H. H. Laughlin and Harris H. Wilder. 

 Copies of the announcement may be obtained 

 from the Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Dr. Samuel W. LA>rBERT, professor of clin- 

 ical medicine and dean of the College of Phy- 

 sicians and Surgeons, of Columbia University, 

 has resigned. 



Major J. H. Mathews, Ordnance Dept., U. 

 S. A., has been released from military service 

 and has returned to the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, where he has been promoted to a full pro- 

 fessorship in charge of the courses in physical 

 chemistry. 



