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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1056 



Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend has been 

 elected the first honorary member in the New 

 York chapter of the Alpha Mu Pi Omega 

 Medical Fraternity. 



Professor A. Loess, formerly connected with 

 the school of medicine, Cairo, Egypt, has re- 

 tired from that position. His present address 

 is Stephanstrasse 18, Leipzig, Germany. 



Dr. J. C. BosE, who has been lecturing in 

 the United States on physiological botany, 

 sailed from San Francisco for the Orient on 

 March 20. 



Dr. W. J. HussEY, professor of astronomy 

 at the University of Michigan and director of 

 the observatory, has returned to Ann Arbor, 

 after having spent the past six months at La 

 Plata University in South America. 



News has been received from the University 

 of Pennsylvania's Amazon expedition through 

 its director, Dr. W. C. Farrabee. It is the 

 first news that has come through in four 

 months. Dr. Farrabee reports that he has 

 spent three months at work in the interior, 

 where he has been successful in getting much 

 information and many specimens. He further 

 states that he has just started for the high- 

 lands on the borders of Bolivia, Peru and 

 Brazil, from which he had to turn back last 

 August. 



Professor William Trelease, of the depart- 

 ment of botany of the University of Illinois, 

 has been granted leave of absence from the 

 university until May 1, for a botanical expe- 

 dition to Guatemala, Central America. 



Dr. Julius Stieglitz, professor of chemistry 

 and director of analytical chemistry in the 

 University of Chicago, has accepted an invita- 

 tion to give courses in chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of California during the summer term 

 that begins June 21 and closes on August 1. 

 Professor Stieglitz will give a seminar on spe- 

 cial topics in organic chemistry and also a 

 college course in organic chemistry. 



On March 3, Professor E. E. Barnard, di- 

 rector of the Yerkes Observatory, lectured be- 

 fore the California chapter of the Sigma Si 

 upon the subject : " Some of the Visible Re- 

 sults of Astronomical Photography." The 



lecture was illustrated by a remarkable series 

 of astronomical photographs. 



Dr. Leland O. Howard delivered a lecture 

 on " Insects and Disease " before the biological 

 club and students of the medical department 

 of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C, 

 on March 11. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave an illustrated lecture, 

 on March 15, at Smith College, Northampton, 

 under the auspices of the Physics Club, en- 

 titled " Following the Compass." 



Professor Dayton C. Miller, of the Case 

 School of Applied Science, lectured, on March 

 4 and 5, at the State University of Iowa. His 

 subjects were (1) " The Science of Musical 

 Sounds " and (2) " The Physical Character- 

 istics of Vowels." Professor Miller also ad- 

 dressed the seminar of the department of 

 physics on some of the more technical parts 

 of his investigations. Professor C. G. Derick, 

 of the University of Illinois, delivered two 

 lectures at the university on March 13. The 

 first was on the subject " The Teacher in Re- 

 search." The second was upon the study of 

 valence through ionization and dealt largely 

 with Professor Deriek's own work. 



Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, professor in the 

 University of Chicago, recently spent several 

 days at the Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 where he delivered several lectures to the stu- 

 dents and scientific organizations of the 

 college. 



Dr. Frederick Winslow Taylor, of Phila- 

 delphia, past president of the Society of Me- 

 chanical Engineers, known for his inaugura- 

 tion of methods of " scientific management," 

 died on March 21 at the age of sixty-nine 

 years. 



It is announced that Dr. Philip Beck, head 

 of the Austrian Army Medical staff, recently 

 died of typhus fever. 



Dr. F. a. Bather, of the British Museum, 

 writing in the Museum Journal of February, 

 1915, states that some international scientific 

 activities continue between the countries now 

 at war. Thus the German collaborators of the 

 International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 

 ture continue to send their manuscript to the 



