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Hague in 1921 imder the auspices of the Inter- 

 national Association of Poultry Instructors 

 and Investigators. 



Lord Rayleigh, who recently accepted the 

 presidentship of the British Society of Psy- 

 chical Research, gave his presidential address 

 on April 11. 



Peofessor Francis Carter Wood, director 

 of cancer research under the George Crocker 

 Special Research Fund, Columbia University, 

 lectured on April 15, before the Georgia State 

 Medical Society and the students of Emery 

 University, at Atlanta, Ga. 



Dr. C. K. Edmunds, president of the Canton 

 Christian College, spoke at the Cosmos Club, 

 Washington, D. C, on April 14, on " Thirty 

 Thousand Miles in China." The lecture was 

 illustrated by lantern slides. Dr. Edmunds is 

 lecturing on scientific aspects^ of China at 

 different institutions. 



Mr. G. S. Baker has given £500 for the 

 foimdation at University College, London, of 

 a prize for the encouragement of botanical re- 

 search to be named after his daughter, the late 

 Dr. Sarah M. Baker, an old student and mem- 

 ber of the staff of the college. 



George Carlton Worthen, of the Bussey 

 Institution, Harvard University, known for 

 his work in economic botany, died on April 10, 

 aged forty-eight years. 



Dr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., the English phys- 

 icist died on March 29, at eighty-six years 

 of age. 



Sir Edward Charles Stirling, professor of 

 physiology at the University of Adelaide, and 

 director of the South Australian Museum, died 

 on March 20, aged seventy years. 



The Experiment Station Record notes that 

 the renewed receipt of scientific literature from 

 Germany brings news of the death of Geheim- 

 rat Bernhard ToUens, of the University of Got- 

 tingen. He died on January 31, 1918, in his 

 seventy- seventh year. A graduate of Got- 

 tingen, Dr. Tollens spent several years as 

 assistant in chemistry at Heidelberg and in 

 Paris, going for a year to Portugal, but re- 

 turned to Gottingen in 1879 as assistant to the 



famous chemist Wohler. Three years later he 

 became director of the Agricultural Chemical 

 Laboratory of the Agricultural Institute, oc- 

 cupying that position up to the time of his 

 retirement in 1911. Professor Theodore Diet- 

 rich, known for his work on animal nutrition, 

 was director of one of the earliest German ex- 

 periment stations, established at Haidau in 

 the district of Cassell in 1857, and removed to 

 Marburg in 1880. He died on October 1, 1917, 

 in his eighty-fiith year. 



We learn from Nature that at a special gen- 

 eral meeting of the Geological Society, held in 

 London on March 26, the following resolution 

 of council was carried by 55 votes against 12: 

 " That it is desirable to admit women as fel- 

 lows of the society." In submitting the mo- 

 tion, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, president of the 

 society, said: "It will be within the recollec- 

 tion of most of the fellows that the question of 

 the admission of women to candidatiire for 

 the fellowship of the society has been raised 

 on more than one occasion in the past. It was 

 considered in 1889 and 1901, and, again, more 

 systematically in 1908-09, when a poll of the 

 fellows was taken and three special general 

 meetings were held, with inconclusive results. 

 It is generally recognized that the course of 

 events since these dates has materially changed 

 the situation. Women have been welcomed to 

 our meetings as visitors, and we have had 

 many examples of their quaUfications for fel- 

 lowships in the excellent papers which they 

 have from time to time contributed to the so- 

 ciety. The value of these papers has been aj)- 

 preciated by all geologists, and has been re- 

 peatedly acknowledged by the council in its 

 awards. Therefore, in the opinion of the coun- 

 cil, it is no longer reasonable to maintain a 

 sex-bar against qualified candidates for the 

 fellowship of the society, and I am empowered 

 by the council to submit the above-mentioned 

 resolution for your consideration." 



The summer session of the Hopkins Marine 

 Station of Stanford University, situated on 

 Monterey Bay, California, begins on June 17. 

 This session corresponds to the summer quar- 

 ter of Stanford University, the first half quar- 

 ter ending on July 23, and the quarter, August 



