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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLV. No. 1169 



Frank R. Cole, scientific assistant in tlie 

 Bureau of Entomology, formerly located at 

 "Washington, D. C, has been detailed to Hood 

 River, Ore., to investigate insects injurious to 

 strawberries and other truck crops in coopera- 

 tion with the Oregon Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Corvallis. 



Dr. L. H. Pennington, of the college of for- 

 estry of Syracuse University, has been put in 

 charge of the white-pine blister rust survey 

 for the State of Michigan, as the representa- 

 tive of the Bureau of Plant Industry. His 

 headquarters, when not in the field, are at the 

 department of botany, Michigan Agricultural 

 College, East Lansing, Mich. 



Thomas Clachar Brown has resigned his 

 position as associate professor of geology at 

 Bryn Mawr College and has taken up work in 

 agriculture. He may be addressed at Laurel 

 Bank Earm, Eitchburg, Mass. 



Professor Edward Oeton, Jr., for many 

 years dean of the college of engineering of 

 Ohio State University, and at present re- 

 search professor in ceramic engineering, has 

 obtained indefinite leave of absence from the 

 university. He has been commissioned as a 

 niajor in the Quartermasters Corps, Officers 

 Heserve Corps, United States Army, and has 

 been ordered to report for duty to Eort Sam 

 Houston, Texas. 



Dr. Bertram G. Smith, associate professor 

 of zoology at the Michigan State Normal Col- 

 lege, Ypsilanti, has obtained leave of absence 

 to enlist in the Reserve Officers' Training 

 Corps, and is now stationed at Fort Sheridan, 

 111. Mr. A. G. Papworth, of the University of 

 Michigan, is taking charge of Dr. Smith's 

 work at the Normal College. 



At its last meeting on May 9, 1917, the 

 Rumford Committee of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences made the following 

 appropriations : 



To Professor ITrederie Palmer, Jr., in aid of Ids 

 research on ligM of very short wave-lengths (in 

 addition to former appropriations), $100. 



To Mr. David Ij. Webster for the salary of an 

 assistant in connection with his research on the 

 intensity of lines in X-ray spectra, $100. 



To Professor B. J. Spence in aid of his research 

 upon a new Color Identity Pyrometer, $75. 



To Professor B. J. Spence in aid of his research 

 upon a new and more sensitive form of radiometer, 

 $150. 



To Professor E. C. Gibbs in aid of his investiga- 

 tions on the absorption of organic and other solu- 

 tions for ultra-violet, visible and infra-red rays, 

 $500. 



To Professor W. M. Baldwin in aid of his re- 

 search on the character of chemical substances 

 necessary to sensitize animal tissues to the influ- 

 ence of X-rays, $125. 



The North Carolina Academy of Science at 

 its recent meeting elected as officers for the en- 

 suing year: 



President, Professor W. A. Withers, Agricultural 

 and Engineering College, West Ealeigh. 



Vice-president, Dr. J. H. Pratt, State Geologist, 

 Chapel Hill. 



Secretary -Treasurer (tenth year). Professor E. 

 W. Gudger, State Normal College, Greensboro. 



Additional Members of the Executive Committee, 

 Mr. Bert Cunningham, High School, Durham; Mr. 

 H. E. Totten, University of North Carolina, Chapel 

 Hill; Professor H. C. Beardslee, Asheville School, 

 Asheville. 



Dr. Julius Stieglitz, chairman of the de- 

 partment of chemistry of the University of 

 Chicago, lectured before the Nebraska Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society on 

 the morning of April 28 and before the 

 Nebraska Chapter of Sigma Xi on same even- 

 ing. The subject of his morning lecture was 

 " The Electron Theory of Positive and Nega- 

 tive Valences " and of the evening lecture 

 " Combustion or the Electrical Theory of 

 Oxidation." 



Dr. J. McKeen Cattell gave an address on 

 May 19 before the Twentieth Century Club at 

 Boston on " Free speech in the university." 



The annual public botanical address, under 

 the auspices of the Botanical Seminar of 

 Michigan Agricultural College, was delivered 

 on May 15, by Dr. L. H. Pennington, of Syra- 

 cuse University, his topic being "White-pine 

 blister rust." 



By the death of Samuel Alexander at his 

 home in Detroit on May 15 is lost one of the 

 old time amateur botanists, that is, a man 



