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address on " Food efficiency in the United 

 States Army" before the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences on March 20. 



At the annual joint meeting of the Alabama 

 Technical Association (Alabama Sections of 

 the A. S. C. E., A. S. M. E., A. S. E. E. and 

 A. C. S.), held in Birmingham on March 1, 

 Professor Isaac Newton Kugelmass addressed 

 the conference on ■" The relations of chemistry 

 to modern laundering and its field for research 

 in the economic service of man." 



Major K. M. Yerkes, of the Office of the 

 Surgeon General of the Army, delivered an il- 

 lustrated lecture before the District of Colum- 

 bia Chapter of the Sigma Xi on the subject, 

 " The relationship of the army mental tests to 

 education and vocational guidance" on 

 March 6. 



Dr. J. McEIeen Cattell gave, on March 20, 

 the address before the Syracuse University 

 chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, the subject being 

 " Science and civilization." 



Lectures recently given at the Royal In- 

 stitution, London, include the following: Sir 

 Oliver Lodge on " Ether and Matter " ; Cap- 

 tain G. P. Thomson two lectures on " Aero- 

 planes in the Great War " ; Professor H. M. 

 Lefroy two lectures on " Insect Enemies of 

 Our Food Supplies " and on " How Silk is 

 Grown and Made " ; Mr. A. T. Hare on " Clock 

 Escapements." 



A COMMITTEE has been formed to raise an 

 endowment fund of $100,000 to perpetuate the 

 method of after care for maternity cases 

 evolved by the late Dr. Edwin Bradford Cra- 

 gin, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Columbia University, in connection with the 

 work of the Sloane Hospital for Women. 



Dr. Herbert Huntington Smith, curator at 

 the museum of the University of Alabama, was 

 killed on March 22 by a train. Dr. Smith, 

 known for his work in entomology and on 

 mollusea, was born at Manlius, N. Y., in 1851. 



Elizabeth Letson Bryan, wife of Professor 

 William Alanson Bryan, of the College of 

 Hawaii, died on February 28, aged forty-four 

 years. Dr. Bryan before her marriage was 

 director of the Museum of the Bu£Falo Society 



of Natural Science and was known for her 

 contributions to conchology. 



On account of the disturbed conditions of 

 transportation, etc., the session of the Twen- 

 tieth International Congress of Americanists 

 has been postponed until June, 1 920. 



Joseph and John W. Mailliard, prominent 

 business men of San Francisco and well- 

 known students of American birds, have do- 

 nated their entire ornithological and oological 

 collections to the Museum of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. These collections con- 

 tain more than 11,000 birds and over 13,000 

 specimens of nests and eggs, representing 

 nearly 800 species. Joseph Mailliard has ac- 

 cepted the position of honorary curator, de- 

 partment of ornithology, in the museum of the 

 academy. 



The trustees of the British Museum have 

 had presented to them a valuable collection of 

 ancient British coins by Sir Arthur Evans, to 

 whom they were bequeathed by his father, Sir 

 John Evans, the distinguished archeologist. 

 Sir John Evans, in 1864 wrote an important 

 book on " The Coins of Ancient Britain." 



The Puget Sound Biological Station at Fri- 

 day Harbor, Washington, will open on June 16, 



1919, its sixteenth annual session, which is to 

 continue for six weeks. The station will be 

 open to independent workers until October; 

 and as early as June 1, if arrangements are 

 made with the director. The earlier part of 

 the season is the best for embryological work. 

 Tents and research rooms may be reserved by 

 writing the director, T. C. Frye, University of 

 Washington, Seattle. 



In the act making appropriation for the leg- 

 islative, executive and judicial expenses of the 

 government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 



1920, there is provision for increased compen- 

 sation amounting to $240 per annum for all 

 employees holding regular appointments in the 

 Bureau of Fisheries now receiving $2,500 or 

 less. This increase becomes efifective on July 

 1, 1919; and is in lieu of the existing increase 

 of $120 per annum. 



The following letter addressed by the editor 

 of Science to M. George Sarton at Wondelgem- 



