Mat 16, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



469 



Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, will deliver the commencement ad- 

 dress at the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



The Silvanus Thompson Memorial Lecture 

 of the British Rontgen Society was delivered 

 by Professor W. M. Bayliss, at tlie lloyal So- 

 ciety of Medicine on May 6. 



William H. Hale, former superintendent of 

 public baths of the City of Xew York, died 

 on May 2, at the age of seventy-nine years. 

 Dr. Hale became a member of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 in 1S74 and was a constant attendant at its 

 meetings which he reported for journals and 

 the press. 



The professor of physiology of the School 

 of Medicine of the University of Buenos 

 Aires, Dr. H. G. Piiiero, died recently at Mar 

 del Plata. 



Mr. George Eastman, president of the East- 

 man Kodak Company, has provided the Dental 

 Dispensary at Rochester, N. T., with an en- 

 dowment of $1,000,000. The object of the in- 

 stitution is to provide dental work for the 

 city's school children. 



The third Tuberculosis Sanitorium of the 

 Virginia State Board of Health is now being 

 designed. It will be situated at Charlottesville. 

 In conducting it the State Board of Health 

 will affiliate with the Medical School of the 

 University of Virginia. According to the 

 plan the students from the school and the 

 nurses from the University Hospital Training 

 School will have regular periods of service in 

 the sanatorium. The sanatorium with one 

 hundred beds or more will open next autumn. 



The Utah Experiment Station has received 

 a special $20,000 appropriation from the state 

 legislature for experimental work on under- 

 ground water development. Investigations 

 conducted by the Experiment Station and the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture show that 

 vast areas of land in the southwestern part of 

 the state contain sufficient underground water 

 for irrigation. The experimental work to be 

 done under this appropriation will be to de- 

 termine the best type of well and equipment 



for various sections of the state. One well is 

 now being driven in Iron County and others 

 will be started in different sections of the state 

 soon. 



Epsilox chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon 

 has been installed recently at the University of 

 Missouri. This is a professional fraternity 

 for those in geology, mining and metallurgy. 



M. Albert Sarraut, governor-general of 

 Indo-China, recently announced the establish- 

 ment of a scientific institute at Saigon, to 

 study the development and utilization of the 

 products of the soil and of the water of Indo- 

 China. An inventory will be made of the nat- 

 ural resources of Indo-China, and the insti- 

 tute will aim to exploit them properly by means 

 of laboratory studies, experimental research 

 and scientific explorations. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the National Association 

 for the Study of Tuberculosis has recently 

 granted $10,000 for an exhaustive scientific 

 study to be made in Baltimore of the under- 

 lying causes of tuberculosis, under the direc- 

 tion of a committee consisting of Dr. Henrj' 

 Barton Jacobs, Baltimore, president of the 

 Maryland Association for the Study and Pre- 

 vention of Tuberculosis; Dr. Raymond Pearl, 

 professor of biometry and vital statistics in the 

 School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns 

 Hopkins University, and Dr. William T. How- 

 ard, Baltimore, assistant commissioner of 

 health. The grant is intended to defray the 

 expense of the investigation and study for a 

 year and the start will be made as soon as the 

 necessary force of investigators can be organ- 

 ized. Baltimore city makes an annual appro- 

 priation of $30,000 to the health department 

 for its tuberculosis work, and yet little progress 

 has been made toward the reduction of the 

 death rate. This is because the department has 

 been unable to make its investigation as far 

 reaching and as effective as the officials in 

 charge have felt that the situation demanded. 



Through the aid of a grant made by the 

 Research Committee of the American Medical 

 Association, Roy L. Moodie, assistant professor 

 of anatomy in the University of Illinois, re- 



