Apeil 9, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



527 



Sampson, astronomer royal for Scotland; Vice- 

 presidents, J. "W. L. Glaisher, Esq., Colonel 

 E. H. Hills, W. H. Maw, Esq., H. H. Turner, 

 Savilian professor of astronomy, Oxford; 

 Treasurer, E. B. KJnobel, Esq.; Secretaries 



A. S. Eddington, Plumian professor of astron- 

 omy, Cambridge, Alfred Fowler, Esq. ; Foreign 

 Secretary, Arthur Schuster, Esq. 



Nine members of the American Eed Cross 

 Sanitary Commission, on their way to Servia 

 to fight the ravages of typhus and other con- 

 tagious diseases in that country, sailed on 

 April 3 on the steamship Due D'Aosta, for 

 Naples. They were : Dr. Thomas W. Jackson, 

 chief sanitary inspector; Dr. Hans Zinsser, 

 bacteriologist; Dr. Andrew W. Sellards, Dr. 

 George C. Shattuck, Dr. F. B. Grinnell, Dr. 



B. W. CaldweU, W. S. Standifer, Luis de la 

 Pena and Hobart D. Brink. Dr. Eichard P. 

 Strong, the director of the commission," will 

 meet them at Salonika. The expenses are 

 being paid jointly by the Eockefeller Commis- 

 sion and the Eed Cross. 



On the retirement of Mr. Otto H. Tittmann 

 from the superintendency of the United States 

 Coast Survey, recently announced from Wash- 

 ington, Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of 

 the Carnegie Foundation, writes : " He entered 

 the Coast Survey forty-eight years ago, and re- 

 ceived his scientific training, as was the custom 

 in that day, in the survey itself. Passing 

 through all the divisions of scientific work, in- 

 cluding hydrography, geodesy, terrestrial 

 magnetism and tidal observation and predic- 

 tion, Mr. Tittmann reached the highest scien- 

 tific position in the survey and became in 

 1898 assistant superintendent, and in 1900 

 superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. His administration of this great post 

 has been admirable, both from the scientific 

 and the administrative point of view. His con- 

 tributions to the determination of the figure 

 of the earth, to the fixation of the boundary 

 line between Canada and the United States, 

 and his part in international geodesy have done 

 credit to the country. With all his distin- 

 guished ability and service, he has united a 

 modesty as fine as it is rare. It is a fortunate 

 country which has such public servants." 



Dr. Arthur W. Goodspeed, professor of 

 physics in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 has returned from Marburg, Germany, where 

 he intended to pursue research work. 



Professor Lynds Jones, of Oberlin CoUege, 

 is planning to take a party of twelve students 

 with an assistant to the coast of Washington, 

 leaving Chicago June 21. Seven weeks will 

 be spent studying the ecology of the region. 

 From Neah Bay to Moclips the party will 

 have as guides Guilliute Indians, making use 

 of a gasoline launch and canoes along the 

 coast. Special scientific investigation will be 

 made of Coelentera, Echinodermata and Mol- 

 lusca which abound between the tides. In 

 addition, particular attention will be given 

 to the kelp beds, the trees and bushes of the 

 coast and the land animals of the islands. 

 Members of the expedition wiU later visit the 

 exposition at San Francisco. 



The address to the graduating class of the 

 Michigan College of Mines is to be given this 

 year by Professor James F. Kemp, of Colum- 

 bia University, on AprU 16. 



Dr. John F. Anderson, director of the 

 hygienic laboratory, U. S. Public Health 

 Service, addressed the Minnesota Pathological 

 Society, on March 30, at the Institute of 

 Anatomy. His subject was: "The Present 

 Status of Our Knowledge of the Etiology and 

 Distribution of Typhus Fever." 



Dr. Edith J. Claypole, research associate 

 in pathology in the University of California, 

 died on March 27, in Berkeley, California. 

 Dr. Claypole was well known as a teacher and 

 investigator in biology and during recent years 

 for her work on the differentiation of strepto- 

 thrix infections in human beings, and on im- 

 munization against typhoid fever. 



J. Foster Crowell, known as an expert in 

 railroad construction and hydraulic engineer- 

 ing, author of works on engineering subjects, 

 including " Training a Tropic Torrent," " How 

 Holland Was Made " and " Modem Wharves 

 and Harbor Facilities," died in New York 

 City, on March 29, aged sixty-seven years. 



Miss Mary E. Garrett died on AprU 3, in 

 the sixty-second year of her age. Miss Garrett 



