Apeil 23, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



605 



Professor W. Winternitz, of Vienna, known 

 as the founder of scientific hydiotliepapy, cele- 

 brated his eightieth birthday on March 1. 



Professor Lillien J. Martin, of Stanford! 

 University, has undertaken the chairmanship 

 of the committee of the American Psycho- 

 logical Association appointed to arrange for 

 and conduct the program of psychology to be 

 held at San Francisco during the first week 

 of August. The conunittee otherwise remain^ 

 as previously announced, the additional mem- 

 bers being Professors G. M. Stratton and 

 Warner Brown, of the University of California. 

 Dr. W. H. Manwaring, of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed chairman of the patho- 

 logical section of the National Association for 

 the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 

 that will meet in Seattle, Wash., from June 14 

 to 16. 



Ts accordance with a provision in the an- 

 nual Naval Appropriation bill. President 

 Wilson has appointed an advisory committee 

 on aeronautics. The purpose of the committee 

 is to map out plans for stimulating aviation in 

 the army and navy, and to adopt the best 

 measures for overcoming the relative weak- 

 ness of the United States military services in 

 this field. The committee is composed of 

 Brigadier-General George P. Scriven, chief 

 signal officer, U. S. A.; Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Samuel Eeber, aviation section of the Army 

 Signal Corps; Captain Mark L. Bristol, 

 U. S. N., in charge of the Naval Aeronautic 

 Service; Naval Constructor Holden C. Eich- 

 ardson, U. S. N.; Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 

 secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; 

 Charles F. Marvin, chief of the Weather Bu- 

 reau; Dr. S. W. Stratton, chief of the Bureau 

 of Standards; Byron R. Newton, assistant 

 secretary of the Treasury; Professor W. F. 

 Durand, of Stanford University; Professor 

 Michael I. Pupin, of Columbia University; 

 Professor John F. Hayford, of the College of 

 Engineering, Northwestern University, and 

 Professor Joseph S. Ames, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University. 



Professor G. D. Harris, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, will repeat this summer the tour which 

 he took last sunxmer. The trip will be made 



in the motor-boat Ecphora and will cover ap- 

 proximately the same territory as last year. 

 The party wiU leave Ithaca early in June and 

 will consist of Professor Harris and the six or 

 seven graduate students who intend to make 

 geology their life work. The route chosen 

 takes an inland course down the Atlantic coast, 

 planned in such a way that the geologists can 

 study the different rock systems of the geologic 

 column. From Cayuga Lake the party will 

 enter the Erie Canal via the Montezuma Canal, 

 proceed to Albany and thence down the Hud- 

 son to New York, cross New Jersey by the 

 New Brunswick Canal and reach Chesapeake 

 Bay through the Delaware River and the Dela- 

 ware-Chesapeake Canal. The last part of the 

 journey will be a tour through the canals of 

 the Dismal Swamp, and the trip will end in 

 the vicinity of Wilmington, North Carolina. 



Dr. Allen W. Freeman, Richmond, Va., has 

 resigned as assistant state health commis- 

 sioner to become epidemiologist for the U. S. 

 Public Health Service at Washington. 



Stuart P. Miller, graduate assistant in the 

 chemical department of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, has accepted an ap- 

 pointment with Parke, Davis and Company, 

 of Detroit, Michigan. 



A general meeting of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and its affiliated societies is 

 announced for Monday, April 26, 1915, at the 

 American Museum of Natural History. There 

 will be a social hour, with refreshments, be- 

 ginning at 9 :30 p.m., preceded, at 8 :15 p.m., 

 by a lecture under the auspices of the Section 

 of Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, en- 

 titled "The Volcano Kilauea in Action," il- 

 lustrated with lantern slides, by Dr. Arthur L. 

 Day, director, Geophysical Laboratory, Car- 

 negie Institution, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, professor of hy- 

 giene and preventive medicine in the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, Aan Arbor, delivered an ad- 

 dress at a special meeting of the College of 

 Physicians of Philadelphia, on April 12, on 

 phases of modern military hygiene and camp 

 sanitation, particularly in reference to war 

 mortality. 



