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the Geological Survey of Minnesota; Wallace 

 Walter Atwood, S.B., '97, Ph.D., 1903, professor 

 of physiogTaphy, Harvard University; Edvpin 

 Bayer Branson, Ph.D., 1905, professor of geol- 

 ogy, the University of Missouri; Ermine 

 Cowles Case, Ph.D., 1896, professor of histor- 

 ical geology and paleontology, the University 

 of Michigan; George Frederick Kay, Ph.D., 

 '14, professor of economic geology and petrol- 

 ogy of the State University of Iowa, director of 

 the Geological Survey of Iowa. The exercises 

 were held in the lecture room of the new hall, 

 and the entire building, with its equipment, 

 was then placed on exhibition. 



A NEW site for the Fuertes Observatory of 

 Cornell University has been approved by the 

 committee on buildings and grounds, on the 

 recommendation of a subcommittee which had 

 considered the matter in consultation with 

 Dean Haskell of the College of Civil Engi- 

 neering. The observatory was torn down last 

 fall to make room for the new drill hall. It is 

 to be erected on the sumimit of a knoll just 

 north of Beebe Lake, near the east end of the 

 lake. The site is on a part of the Kline farm 

 which was purchased by the university a year 

 or two ago. It is just 900 feet above sea level. 



At a meeting of the Yale corporation on 

 March 15, Dr. John Zeleny, professor of phys- 

 ics at the University of Minnesota, was ap- 

 pointed professor in the SheiSeld School to 

 succeed Professor Charles S. Hastings. Dr. 

 J. M. Siemens, professor of obstetrics and 

 gynecology in the University of California, 

 was appointed to the corresponding chair in 

 the medical school. Dr. Hiram Bingham was 

 promoted to be professor of Latin-American 

 history; Dr. T. S. Taylor, now instructor, was 

 made assistant professor of physics in the col- 

 lege ; Dr. A. E. Holding, of the Cornell Med- 

 ical School, was made assistant professor of 

 radiography in the medical school; Dr. A. M. 

 Bateman, of Queen's College, was made in- 

 structor in biology, and Mr. H. L. Bruce, of 

 the University of California, instructor in 

 engineering. 



Dr. Herbert M. Evans, associate professor 

 of anatomy in the Johns Hopkins University 



and research associate in the department of 

 embryology of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, has accepted a call to the pro- 

 fessorship in anatomy and directorship of the 

 department of anatomy of the University of 

 California. Dr. Evans will assume his new 

 duties on July first. 



Dr. W. V. Bingham, assistant professor of 

 psychology and education at Dartmouth Col- 

 lege and for the past three years director of 

 the summer session, has accepted appointment 

 as professor of psychology in the Carnegie In- 

 stitute of Technology at Pittsburgh. Dr. 

 Bingham will not leave Hanover until Sep- 

 tember, after the summer session. 



Among new promotions at the University of 

 Chicago are the following : To a professorship : 

 Henry Chandler Cowles, of the department of 

 botany, Charles Joseph Chamberlain, of the 

 department of botany; Otis William Caldwell, 

 of the college of education (botany). To an 

 assistant professorship: J. EEarlen Bretz, of 

 the department of geology; George William 

 Bartelmez, of the department of anatomy; 

 Elbert Clark, of the department of anatomy. 

 To an instructorship : Harold S. Adams, of 

 the department of physiology. 



Dr. Charles Kenneth Tinkler has been 

 appointed to the readership in chemistry ten- 

 able in the home science department of King's 

 College for Women, London. He has been a 

 research student of the University of Edin- 

 burgh, and since 1904 lecturer and demon- 

 strator in chemistry in the University of Bir- 

 mingham. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



CONRAD RONTGEN 



The twenty-seventh of March marks the 

 seventieth birthday of Conrad Eontgen, an 

 event which was to have been jointly com- 

 memorated by physicists of all nationalities, 

 especially English, French and German, the 

 three which have contributed most markedly 

 to the development of the new era in physics — 

 an era which may with some reason be dated 

 from the announcement in January, 1896, of 

 the discovery of X-rays. 



