Apkil 30j 1915] 



SCIENCE 



641 



0. M. Jansky, professor of electrical engi- 

 neering at the University of Wisconsin, has 

 accepted an appointment on the jury of 

 awards in the electrical group of the machinery 

 exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International 

 Exposition. He takes up his duties at San 

 Francisco on May 3. 



Dr. K. Hiratama, professor of astronomy in 

 the University of Tokio, arrived at San Fran- 

 cisco on April 19 for tvro years' research study 

 in the United States, principally at Tale Uni- 

 versity. He will inspect the observatories of 

 the country and seek suggestions for the ad- 

 vancement of astronomical work in Japan. 



The Anglo-Swedish Antarctic expedition, 

 under the leadership of Professor Otto Nor- 

 denskjold, has been postponed until the war 

 has ended. 



During part of March and April, Mr. Eobert 

 Cushman Murphy, of the Brooklyn Museum, 

 conducted field work in the Lower California 

 desert. The principal object of the expedition 

 was to study and obtaiu specimens of the 

 pronghorn antelope. The material collected is 

 to be used in a large exhibit illustrating plant 

 and animal life of the arid southwest. 



Professor J. S. Huxley, of the department 

 of biology, Rice Institute, accompanied by 

 Mr. W. M. Winton, biological fellow, and Dr. 

 W. C. Graustein, instructor in mathematics, 

 visited the Texas College, April 17-19, for an 

 examination of local fossils gathered by Pro- 

 fessor Francis from the Brazos Valley, as a 

 preliminary to a collecting trip planned for 

 later in the spring. 



At the meeting of the New England Federa- 

 tion of Natural History Societies held last 

 week in the building of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, Boston, the principal busi- 

 ness was the reports of societies and the elec- 

 tion of officers. More than twenty societies 

 responded to the former with statements out- 

 lining their activities. The election resulted 

 as follows: President, John Eitchie, Jr., Bos- 

 ton Scientific Society; vice-presidents, Arthur 

 H. Norton, Portland Society of Natural His- 

 tory; Norman S. Easton, Fall Eiver Society of 

 Natural History; secretary, James H. Emer- 



ton, Cambridge Entomological Club, Boston; 

 treasurer. Miss Delia I. Griffin, curator. Chil- 

 dren's Museum, Pine Banks, Jamaica Plain. 

 The members of Sigma Xi in the University 

 of Oklahoma have organized a club to be 

 known as the Sigma Xi Club of Oklahoma. 

 Dr. Irving Perrine addressed the first regiilar 

 meeting, on March 29, on the subject of " Some 

 Problems in Oklahoma Geology." It is the 

 purpose of the organization to stimulate scien- 

 tific research in the University of Oklahoma 

 and the secretary, W. C. Allee, desires to get 

 in communication with members of Sigma Xi 

 who are planning to pass through Oklahoma. 

 Professor T. B. Brodie, professor of physi- 

 ology in the University of Toronto, will de- 

 liver a course of four lectures on " The Gases 

 of the Blood" at King's College, London, on 

 May 31, June 2, Y and 9. 



M. Edmond Eigaus, of Boulogne, known for 

 his work in geology and paleontology, has died 

 in his seventy-seventh year. 



Dr. W. Grylls Adams, F.E.S., emeritus 

 professor of natural philosophy and astronomy 

 in King's College, London, died on April 10, 

 at the age of seventy-nine years. 



Dr. Otto N. Witt, professor of chemical 

 technology in the Technical High School at 

 Charlottenburg, died on March 23, aged 

 sixty-four years. 



A NEW publication called the Illinois Chem- 

 ist will make its appearance at the University 

 of Illinois in May. Four chemistry organiza- 

 tions will cooperate with the chemistry de- 

 partment in issuing this new quarterly. It 

 will publish among other things, information 

 iti regard to research work — results of experi- 

 ments, notes on the work of alumni in the 

 science. H. D. Valentine has been elected 

 editor and V. W. Haag, business manager. 



It is announced in Nature that the whole 

 of the collections and library of the late 

 Fortescue W. MiUett, of Marazion and Brix- 

 ham, have been acquired by Mr. Heron- Allen, 

 and will be incorporated as a special section of 

 the Heron-Allen and Earland collection, to 

 which the collection of the late J. D. Siddall, 

 of Chester, was also added recently. It is 



