June 13, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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where it is probable that a meeting will be 

 held. There are already indications that these 

 meetings will be interesting ones. The Min- 

 ing Institute is arranging a pyrometry sym- 

 posium which will consider such questions as: 

 Jlethods of pyrometry, industrial pyrometry, 

 pyrometry and its relation to science. Special 

 stress will also be laid upon the iron and steel 

 industry by the institute. The American Elec- 

 trochemical Society is planning an interesting 

 program; so, too, is the Ceramic Society. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Willum Gilson F.\rlow, professor of 

 cryptogamic botany in Harvard University, 

 died at his home in Cambridge on the third 

 instant, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. 



The American Medical Association is meet- 

 ing this week in Atlantic City under the 

 presidency of Dr. Alexander Lambert, of New 

 York City. The Congress of American Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons meets in the same place 

 next week under the presidency of Dr. Simon 

 Flexner, director of the laboratories of the 

 Eockefeller Institute for Medical Research. 



Professor Thomas C. Ch.-miberlin, head of 

 the department of geology and paleontology 

 of the University of Chicago, retires at the 

 end of the present academic year. 



The French minister of education, acting 

 on representations made by the Bureau of 

 Longitudes, has named the following corre- 

 spondents: George Ellery Hale, director of 

 the observatory, Mt. Wilson, Calif. ; William 

 Wallace Campbell, director of the observatory, 

 Mt. Hamilton, Calif. ; William Snyder Eichel- 

 bergcr, director of the United States Naval 

 Observatory, Washington, to replace Professor 

 M. Foerster, disbarred from the list of corre- 

 spondents as being a German subject; and 

 Senator Righi, professor at the University of 

 Bologna, Italy. The late Professor E. C. Pick- 

 ering was for many years the only American 

 correspondent of the Bureau of Longitudes. 



Sir Napier Shaw has resmned the adminis- 

 trative duties of the directorship of the British 

 Meteorological Office, from which he was re- 



lieved in May of last year by the appointment 

 of Colonel H. G. Lyons to be acting director 

 for the period of the war. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed consisting of 

 colleagues, students and friends of Professor 

 Landouzy to secure funds by subscription with 

 which to establish a Landouzy Museum at the 

 Paris School of Medicine and to strike off a 

 medal in his honor. 



In view of the retirement of Professor F. P. 

 Durmington, of the school of analytical and 

 industrial chemistry of the University of Vir- 

 ginia, the following resolution has been passed 

 by the visitors : " Resolved, that the rector and 

 visitors of the University of Virginia accept 

 the resignation of Professor Francis Perry 

 Punuington with very sincere acknowledg- 

 ment of his long, capable and faithful service 

 to the university. The rector and visitors as- 

 sure him of their confidence and good will, 

 and wish for him a long life of continued use- 

 fulness in his career." 



I Dr. J. C. Martix, assistant curator in the 

 division of economic geology of the National 

 Museum, has accepted a position with the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Earl V. Shan- 

 non has been appointed assistant curator in 

 the department of geology of the museum. 

 I Lieutenant Colonel Alfred H. Brooks, 

 geologist in charge of Alaskan Mineral Re- 

 sources, U. S. Geological Survey, who has been 

 with the American Army in France since the 

 ^ummer of 1917, has returned to Washington 

 and is sgain taking up his geological work 

 :with the survey. 



Dr. Arthur W. Do.^, after nineteen months' 

 military ser\-ice as captain in the Sanitary 

 Corps, has returned to his former position as 

 chief of the chemistry section of the Iowa 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Dr. David Klein; formerly state chemist of 

 Illinois, who has been serving in the Sanitary 

 Corps with the American Expeditionary 

 Forces in France, has been promoted from the 

 rank of captain to that of major. He will 

 spend part of the summer in Serbia with tlie 

 American Relief Administration. Major 

 Klein has just been appointed associate pro- 



