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France to assist Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the in- 

 stitute, who recently has heen detached from 

 the Lyons Hospital and placed in charge of a 

 hospital at Compiegne, France, near the north- 

 ern line of battle. Dr. H. D. Dakin, the bio- 

 logical chemist, who worked some years in this 

 country, has also joined Dr. Carrel. 



President Raymond A. Pearson, of the 

 State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, has 

 decided not to accept the offer of Governor 

 Whitman, of New York, to become state com- 

 missioner of agriculture to succeed Mr. Calvin 

 Hudson. Dr. Pearson was commissioner of 

 agriculture under Governor Hughes. 



Mr. Willet M. Hayes, formerly assistant 

 secretary of agriculture, has returned from a 

 year's service as adviser to the government of 

 the Argentine Republic and of the Province of 

 Tucuman. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton, of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, Mrs. N. Wille, Mr. 

 John F. Oowell, director of the Buffalo Bo- 

 tanical Garden, and Mr. Stewardson Brown, 

 of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ence, are in Porto Eico engaged in botanical 

 explorations. 



Dr. Janet T. Howell, daughter of Dr. Wil- 

 liam Howell, professor of physiology in the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School, has been 

 awarded the Sarah Berliner Fellowship for 

 Women. This fellowship carries with it a gift 

 of $1,000 to enable the recipient to engage in 

 research work in physics, chemistry or biology. 

 Dr. Howell received the A.B. from Bryn Mawr 

 College in 1910, and the Ph.D. from the Johns 

 Hopkins University in 1913. She was holder 

 of the Helen Schaffer Huff research fellow- 

 ship in physics at Bryn Mawr College during 

 1913-14 and this year she holds the position of 

 lecturer in physics at Bryn Mawr College, ta- 

 king the place of Professor James Barnes. 



On February 26, Professor Alexander 

 Smith, of Columbia University, delivered a 

 lecture to the Boylston Chemical Club of Har- 

 vard University on " The Forms of Sulphur 

 and Their Eolations." 



Professor W. K. Hatt, of Purdue Univer- 

 sity, lectured at the University of Illinois on 



February 24 on the subject of " Flood Protec- 

 tion in Indiana." 



Ira O. Baker, professor of civil engineering 

 in the University of Illinois, lectured recently 

 before the students of the Short Course in 

 Highway Engineering at the University of 

 Michigan. His subject was " Selecting the 

 Eoad Surface." 



Dr. Walter Hough, curator of ethnology, 

 U. S. National Museum, gave an address be- 

 fore the California Academy of Sciences on 

 February lY, on " Explorations of a Sacred 

 Cave in Arizona." 



Dr. Barton W. Evermann, director of the 

 Museum' of the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, gave the Sigma Xi lecture at the Uni- 

 versity of California on February 24. His 

 subject was " The Conservation of the Cali- 

 fornia Elk." 



Dr. Eichaed Mills Pearce, professor of re- 

 search medicine in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, addressed the Buffalo Academy of Med- 

 icine on Wednesday evening, February 24, on 

 " Experimental Studies of the Spleen in its 

 Relation to Anemia, Hemolysis and Hemo- 

 lytic Jaundice." A reception to the speaker 

 followed the lecture. 



We learn from Nature that M. Louis Mois- 

 san, son of the late Professor Henri Moissan, 

 and assistant at the Ecole superieure de Phar- 

 macie at Paris, who died on the field of 

 battle on August 10, has left to his school, in 

 addition to the scientific books and apparatus 

 of his father, the capital sum of 200,000 francs 

 for the foundation of two prizes — one for 

 chemistry (prix Moissan), and one for phar- 

 macy (prix Lugan), in memory respectively of 

 his father and his mother, nee Lugan. 



Dr. T. Wesley Mills, emeritus professor 

 of physiology in McGill University, died in 

 London on February 14. 



Professor James Geikie, the distinguished 

 geologist, died in Edinburgh, on March 2, in 

 his seventy-sixth year. He entered the British 

 Geological Survey in 1861 and was called to 

 the Murchison chair of geology at Edinburgh 

 University in 1882, succeeding his brother. Sir 

 Archibald Geikie. 



