112 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLV. No. 1153 



fixation processes. He was offered unusual op- 

 portunities for studying the chemical indus- 

 tries, especially those whose development has 

 resulted from the European war. He also 

 visited the clay deposits and the tin and tin 

 concentration works at Cornwall, England. 



Professor Yernon L. Kellogg, of Stanford 

 University, continues his work of overseeing 

 the feeding of the Belgian people for another 

 six months. This gives him a year and a half 

 of this work as first assistant to his Stanford 

 colleague, Herbert Clark Hoover. 



Dr. G. H. a. Clowes, director of the Grat- 

 wick Eesearch Laboratory, spoke on " Col- 

 loidal Equilibrium" at the meeting of the 

 Indiana Section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety on December 8. Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft 

 will address the Indiana Section on March 9, 

 and Dr. E. V. McCollum on May 11. 



Dr. Ira N". Hollis, president of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Mechanical Engineers, visited 

 the University of Hlinois last week, to give an 

 address to the faculty and students in the col- 

 lege of engineering, on the subject of " The 

 Relation of Efficiency to Democracy." 



Professor Douglas W. Johnson, of Colum- 

 bia University, addressed the American Philo- 

 sophical Society on January 5, on the subject, 

 " The Strategic Geography of the Balkan Cam- 

 paign." 



The death has occurred at his home in New 

 Eochelle, N. T., of Henry Gordon Stott, past 

 president of the American Institute of Elec- 

 trical Engineers and of the American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers. He was born in the 

 Orkney Islands in 1866. 



Eoberdeau Buchannan, computer in the U. 

 S. Naval Observatory from 1879 to 1910, the 

 author of works on mathematics, astronomy 

 and genealogy, died on December 18, at the age 

 of seventy-seven years. 



The Eev. Brother Chrysostom (Joseph J. 

 Conlen), professor of philosophy and psychol- 

 ogy at Manhattan College, died on January 

 24, aged fifty-four years. 



Mr. Juan J. Eodriguez, of Guatemala City, 

 Guatemala, died on December 22, aged seventy- 

 five years. Mr. Eodriguez for many years 



studied and collected the fauna of Guatemala, 

 and was well known to naturalists as the dis- 

 coverer of many new and interesting species. 



Mr. William Marriot, for forty-three years 

 assistant secretary of the British Meteorolog- 

 ical Society and for thirty years editor of the 

 Meteorological Record,, died on December 28, 

 at the age of sixty-eight years. 



Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, Hon. D.C.L., 

 M.A., formerly keeper of the Oxford Univer- 

 sity Museum, professor and reader in anthro- 

 pology and professor emeritus, died at Wel- 

 lington, Somerset, on January 2. 



Captain F. C. Selous, known for his zoo- 

 logical explorations in Africa, has been killed 

 in action in East Africa, aged sixty-five years. 



Sir E. B. Ty'lor, professor emeritus of 

 anthropology in the University of Oxford, 

 distinguished for his publications in ethnol- 

 ogy, died on January 2, at the age of eighty- 

 four years. 



Dr. J. Little, Eegius professor of physic, 

 Dublin University, has died in his eightieth 

 year. 



Dr. B. E. Poppius, the Finnish entomologist, 

 died on November 27 at the age of forty years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A BILL has been introduced into the state 

 legislature of Arkansas providing a half -mill 

 tax for the University of Arkansas. The bill 

 has been recommended by the trustees of the 

 university and approved by the governor. 



Two industrial fellowships for the chemis- 

 try of indiarubber have been established in 

 the University of Akron, provided by the 

 Goodyear Tire and Eiibber Company and the 

 Firestone Tire and Eubber Company. These 

 fellowships are of the value of $300, and the 

 holder may subsequently enter the employ of 

 the company. 



The building of the Hunterian Laboratory 

 of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, com- 

 pleted at the cost of $115,000, has now been 

 opened. According to the Journal of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association, the building is con- 

 nected by tunnels with the medical school and 



