June 27, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



609 



did manner in which the unfavorable mathe- 

 matical situation among the Spanish-speaking 

 people is depicted in a short note appearing in 

 the first number of this journal. The com- 

 paratively slight contributions made by these 

 people along the line of mathematical re- 

 search stan(b in great contrast with the large 

 advances made by the people living immedi- 

 ately north of Spain. 



One of the most important steps towards the 

 remedy of an unfortunate public situation is 

 to exhibit the great need of such a remedy. It 

 is hoped that the present journal may be suc- 

 cessful in this direction and also in awakening 

 interest in a field which is so fundamental for 

 the further scientific development of the peo- 

 ple using the Spanish language. The editor 

 of the journal is J. Eey Pastor. 



G. A. Miller 



EXPEDITIONS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY 

 OF SCIENCES 



Miss Alice Eastwood, curator of botany, of 

 the California Academy of Sciences, has just 

 returned from a three months' study of the 

 flora of Arizona and New Mexico. Miss East- 

 wood's special mission was to collect trees and 

 shrubs but chiefly cottonwoods for Professor 

 C. S. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum in 

 connection with the revision of his Trees of 

 North America. At the same time Miss East- 

 wood made important additions to the her- 

 barium of the academy. 



The academy is undertaking exploration 

 work this summer in lower California. Mr. 

 Joseph R. Slevin, assistant curator of the de- 

 partment of herpetology, sailed on June 14 on 

 the steamer Alliance for La Paz, Mexico, with 

 the purpose of investigating the reptiles and 

 amphibians of the cape region of the penin- 

 sula. Mr. Slevin is accompanied by Mr. 

 Gordon F. Ferris, instructor in entomology of 

 Stanford University. Mr. Ferris is commis- 

 sioned by Stanford University to make a spe- 

 cial study of the scale insects of the region 

 and will also collect for the departments of 

 entomology and invertebrate zoology of the 

 California Academy of Sciences. This work 

 will be chiefly in the lower third of the penin- 

 sula and will require about three months time. 



Dr. Roy E. Dickerson, honorary curator of 

 the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, 

 sailed May 31 with Mrs. Dickerson for Manila, 

 Philippine Islands. Dr. Dickerson will make 

 an investigation of the Phillippine Islands 

 with a view to the location of oil deposits. 

 During Dr. Dickerson's connection with the 

 California Academy of Sciences as curator of 

 the department of invertebrate paleontology 

 important research work was carried on in the 

 geology of the Pacific coast area, which re- 

 ceived publication in the Proceedings of the 

 academy. These papers are much in demand 

 at present by the commercial interests en- 

 gaged in oil production. 



FOREIGN DELEGATES AND GUESTS AT THE AT- 

 LANTIC CITY MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 



Physicians from fourteen foreign countries 

 were in attendance at the meeting. Apart from 

 Canadians they were as follows: 



Lehman, WiUner S., Xjolodorf, Cameroon, W. 



Africa, 

 easier. Baron Ernest, Belgium. 

 Depage, Antoine, Belgium. 

 Duesberg, J., Belgium. 

 Melis, L., Brussels, Belgium. 

 Nolf, P., Brussels, Belgium. 

 Sand, E^n^, Brussels, Belgium. 

 Captain Van de Yelde, Belgium. 

 Chutro, Pedro, Buenos Aires. 

 Lee, S. T., Peking, China. 

 Leonard, Eliza E., Peking, China. 

 Ming-Shao, Hsu, China. 

 Peter, William Wesley, Shanghai, China. 

 Ting-han, Chang, China. 

 Almila, E., Havana, Cuba. 

 Carrera, Julio, Cuba. 

 Fernandez, Francisco M., Havana, Cuba. 

 Guiteras, Juan, Cuba. 

 Martinez, Emilo, Cuba, 

 Somodevilla, Santiago U., San Luis, Cuba. 

 Kingman, E. L., Zaruma, Ecuador. 

 Brown, W. Herbert, Glasgow, Scotland. 

 Dimsey, Edgar K., British Admiralty. 

 Groves, Ernest W. Hey, England. 

 Hurst, Arthur F., England. 

 Lane, Sir William Arbuthnot, England. 

 Murphy, Shirley, England. 

 Newsholme, Sir Arthur, England. 

 Rose, Frank A., London, England. 



