June 29, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



657 



Engineer Eeak-Admiral G. G. Goodwin, 

 C.B., has been appointed engineer-in-chief of 

 the British fleet in succession to Engineer 

 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry J. Oram, K.C.B., 

 E.E.S. 



Former and present graduate students of the 

 department of psychology of Cornell Univer- 

 sity and a number of his more intimate friends 

 among the faculty met with Professor E. B. 

 Titchener in the Psychological Laboratory on 

 the evening of June 22, to celebrate the com- 

 pletion of twenty-five years of his service to 

 Cornell. A volume of " Studies in Psychol- 

 ogy," edited by Professors W. B. Pillsbury, J. 

 W. Baird and M. F. Washburn, was presented 

 to him on the occasion. After the presenta- 

 tion, Professor Titchener responded with some 

 reminiscences of the early days of the Cornell 

 Laboratory, and in conclusion announced that 

 he had declined acceptance of the chair of psy- 

 chology recently tendered him by Harvard 

 University. 



In the annual report of the visitors of the 

 Oxford University Observatory they express 

 their sorrow at the death of the late Professor 

 Esson, who acted as secretary to the visitors 

 during the whole forty-two years of the work 

 of the observatory. Several lectures to mili- 

 tary bodies have been given by the director. 

 Professor H. H. Turner, including lectures in 

 France and in the camps on Salisbury Plain. 



The fifteenth annual session of the South 

 African Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, as we learn from Nature, will be held 

 at Stellenboseh, from July 2 to Y, under 

 the presidency of Professor J. Orr. The sec- 

 tional committees and their presidents will be 

 as follows : A : Astronomy, Mathematics, 

 Physics, Meteorology, Geodesy, Surveying, 

 Engineering, Architecture and Irrigation, 

 Professor W. N. Eoseveare ; B : Chemistry, 

 Geology, Metallurgy, Mineralogy and Geog- 

 raphy, Professor M. M. Rindl ; C : Bacteriol- 

 ogy, Botany, Zoology, Agriculture, Forestry, 

 Physiology, Hygiene and Sanitary Science, 

 J. Burtt-Davy ; D : Education, History, 

 Mental Science, Political Economy, General 

 Sociology and Statistics, Rev. Professor N. 



J. Briimmer; E: Antliropology, Ethnology, 

 ISTative Education, Philology and Native 

 Sociology, Eev. N. Roberts. The local secre- 

 tary is Professor B. van der Eiet, Victoria 

 College, Stellenboseh. 



Professor Hugo De Veies is preparing, as 

 has been noted in Science, a new experi- 

 mental garden and laboratory in Limteren. 

 He has now transplanted to it the young 

 rosettes of his cultures of QHnothera. He 

 plans to continue at Lunteren the work which 

 he had been doing at Amsterdam. 



The official duties of Professor Eobert A. 

 Millikan, of the department of physics at the 

 University of Chicago, who has been in "Wash- 

 ington during the spring quarter as vice- 

 chairman of the ISTational Eesearch Council, 

 which is acting in close relations with the 

 Council of National Defense, have delayed 

 the appearance of his new volume on The 

 Electron, but the University of Chicago Press 

 announces its publication early in July. 



Professor Carl E. Seashore, of the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, is giving courses at the sum- 

 mer school of the University of California. 

 He offers special work on the relation of 

 psychology to music. 



Professor John Weinzirl, head of the de- 

 partment of bacteriology of the University of 

 Washington, Seattle, has obtained leave of 

 absence for the coming year and will study 

 preventive medicine with Dr. M. J. Eosenau, 

 of the Harvard Medical School. 



A portrait of the late Professor Eaphael 

 Meldola is being painted by Mr. Solomon J. 

 Solomon, in order that copies may be presented 

 to the Eoyal Society and the Institute of 

 Chemistry. 



A memorial tablet to the late Dr. S. Weir 

 Mitchell was unveiled at the recent commence- 

 ment exercises of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



The death on June 22 is announced of Pro- 

 fessor Leverett Mears, head of the department 

 of chemistry at Williams College. 



Dr. J^rgen Beunchorst, Norwegian minis- 

 ter at Rome, known for his publications in bot- 



