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they hope to study some of the highest volcanic 



Dr. Philip J. Castleman, who has held the 

 position of assistant director of the bacterio- 

 logical laboratory of the Boston Board of 

 Health, has been appointed director of the 

 laboratory. He succeeds Dr. James J. Scan- 

 Ian, whose death occurred recently. 



Cooperative agreements have been effected 

 by the Oregon Agricultural College and the 

 Drainage Division of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, whereby extensive 

 drainage operations will be carried on in Ore- 

 gon during the coming year. Mr. Guy N. 

 Hart, of the federal department, and Pro- 

 fessor W. L. Powers, irrigation and drainage 

 specialist of the college, expect to begin opera- 

 tion about April 15. 



Dr. Ernest Anderson, professor of general 

 and physical chemistry at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, has had under consid- 

 eration the position as head of the department 

 of science of the Margaret Morrison School 

 of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Penn- 

 sylvania, but has decided to remain in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Franklin C. GurLey, a graduate assistant 

 in chemistry at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, has accepted a position as chemist 

 with the Benzol Products Company of Phila- 

 delphia. 



The third annual Faculty Eesearch Lecture 

 at the University of California was given by 

 Professor Armin O. Leuschner on March 23 

 on " Eecent Progress in the Study of Motions 

 of Bodies of the Solar System." 



The annual meeting of the Syracuse Uni- 

 versity Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha 

 Fraternity was held March 18. A banquet 

 was served at which the guest of honor was 

 Dr. Walter B. Cannon, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, who delivered an address on " The Psy- 

 chology of Martial Emotions." 



At a general meeting of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and its aifiliated societies on 

 March 22 at the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History there was a social hour, with re- 

 freshments, beginning at 9:30 p.m., preceded, 

 at 8 :15 p.m., by a lecture under the auspices 



of the Section of Anthropology and Psychol- 

 ogy, entitled, " Incidence of the Effect of 

 Moderate Doses of Alcohol on the Nervous 

 System," by Professor Eaymond Dodge, of 

 Wesleyan University. 



Dr. Augustus H. Gill, professor of tech- 

 nical analysis at the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, addressed the Detroit Engi- 

 neering Society on March 19 on " Lubricating 

 Oils: Essentials and Characteristics." 



Dr. George W. Crile repeated his lecture 

 on " Education and War " in the Amasa Stone 

 Memorial Chapel, Western Eeserve Univer- 

 sity, on the evening of March 31. Dr. Crile 

 consented to repeat his lecture by reason of 

 the great numbers who were unable to gain 

 admission at its first delivery. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, head of the United 

 States Eeclamation Service, addressed the stu- 

 dents of the College of Engineering, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, on March 24, on the subject of 

 " The Engineering and Economic Eesults of 

 Eeclamation Work." 



Professor Chas. Baskerville lectured be- 

 fore the Princeton Chemical Society on Feb- 

 ruary 25, on " Physical Chemistry and An- 

 esthesia." 



Professor H. P. Talbot, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, lectured on 

 " The Noble Gases," on March 25, before the 

 Phi Lambda Upsilon of Columbia University. 

 The fifth annual May lecture of the Insti- 

 tute of Metals, London, will be given on May 

 12 by Sir J. J. Thomson. 



A special lecture on the septic infection of 

 wounds was delivered before the Eoyal Society 

 of Medicine, London, on March 30, by Sir 

 Almroth Wright, who dealt with the results of 

 his investigations and research with the ex- 

 peditionary force. 



A state biological survey, suggested by the 

 Ohio Academy of Science, is being undertaken 

 with a state appropriation of $2,500, a number 

 of the colleges of the state cooperating. The 

 preparation of duplicate material and sepa- 

 rate collections for the colleges and other edu- 

 cational institutions is the primary feature of 

 the work. 



