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static precipitation of fumes to the research 

 corporation, the receipts from licenses to be 

 used for the furtherance of research. As a 

 result of this gift the research corporation is 

 now in a flourishing condition. 



The new officers of the Society of American 

 Bacteriologists are as follows: 



President, T). H. Bergey, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Vice-president, John Weinzirl, Seattle, Wash- 

 ington. 



Secretary-Treasurer, A. Parker Hitchens, Glen- 

 olden, Pa. 



Council, K. F. Kellerman, W. A. Stocking, R. E. 

 Buchanan and H. J. Conn. 



Delegate to the council of the A. A. A. S., M. J. 

 Bosenau. 



The council of the society has decided to hold 

 the next annual meeting in Urbana, Illinois, 

 on December 28, 29 and 30 of December, 1915. 

 There will be a special meeting in the summer 

 in San Francisco the date of which has not yet 

 been fixed. 



The Paleontological Society at its recent 

 Philadelphia meeting elected officers as follows : 



President, E. O. Ulrich, Washington, D. C. 



Vice-presidents, J. C. Merriam, Berkeley, Cal. ; 

 Gilbert Van Ingen, Princeton, N. J.; F. H. 

 Knowlton, Washington, D. C. 



Treasurer, R. S. Lull, New Haven, Conn. 



Secretary, E. S. Bassler, Washington, D. C. 



Editor, C. E. Eastman, New York. 



Dr. E. F. Bashford has resigned the post of 

 general superintendent of the Imperial Can- 

 cer Research Fund, which he has held for the 

 past eight years. 



Professor W. H. Kavanaugh, head of the 

 experimental department of the college of 

 engineering of the University of Minnesota, 

 has been elected chairman of the Minnesota 

 Section of the American Society of Mechan- 

 ical Engineering. 



F. C. Dose has been appointed assistant in 

 animal nutrition in the Pennsylvania Insti- 

 tute of Animal Nutrition. 



Dr. E. G. Fearnsides, Miss F. M. G. Mickle- 

 thwait and Dr. E. P. Poulton have been elected 

 to Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical 

 Research. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, left Wash- 

 ington on January 6, to take up his fieldwork 

 in Arizona. Incidentally he will represent the 

 Smithsonian Institution at the inaugural 

 ceremonies of Eufus Bernhard von BUeinsmid 

 as president of the University of Arizona. 

 The exercises occur on January 11 and 12, at 

 Tucson, Arizona. At the conclusion of the 

 ceremonies. Dr. Fewkes will continue his 

 archeological work in that state, and then 

 proceed to New Mexico to conduct researches 

 concerning the early inhabitants of the lower 

 Mimbres Valley, in connection with which the 

 institution has recently published a report. 



A SUCCESSFUL exploration tour through the 

 wilds of Patagonia has been made by Dr. L. 

 S. Rowe, of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 Accompanied by the director of national terri- 

 tories and the governor of the Territory of 

 Neuquen, Dr. Rowe traversed the southern 

 section of the Argentine from the Atlantic to 

 the Andes, and from parallel 37 to parallel 42 

 south. Dr. Rowe depicts in glowing colors 

 the agricultural and industrial possibilities 

 of this district, at one time looked upon as a 

 desert region. 



A CABLEGRAM from Cairo, Egypt, has been 

 received at the University of Pennsylvania 

 announcing the arrival of Dr. Clarence S. 

 Fisher, leader of the university museum's 

 Eekley B. Coxe, Jr., expedition, to make 

 further excavations in Egypt. 



Professor M. A. Rosanoff, of the Mellon 

 Institute and the Graduate School, Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh, lectured on January 4 

 and 5 before the New York University 

 department of chemistry, on the partial vapor 

 pressures of mixtures in their bearings on the 

 theory of solutions and the theory of distilla- 

 tion. 



Dr. G. N. Stewart, of Western Reserve 

 Medical School, lectured before the Syracuse 

 Chapter of Sigma Xi on December 15, taking 

 as his subject " The Physiologist in the Hos- 

 pital and in the State." Other speakers this 

 semester have been Dr. F. P. Knowlton, of 

 the Syracuse Medical College, who spoke on 



