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SCIENCE 



IN. S. Vol. SLI. No. 1067 



of Washington. University and St. Louis Uni- 

 versity and members of the Biological Society 

 of St. Louis. 



A TESTIMONIAL dinner to Henry Smith Mun- 

 roe, professor of mining in Columbia Univer- 

 sity, 187Y-1915, was given by his old students 

 in the schools of mines, engineering and 

 chemistry at the Chemists' Club, New York, 

 on May 28. The special occasion for this was 

 the approaching retirement of Professor Mun- 

 roe at the close of the present collegiate year. 

 Professor Munroe, who is the senior member 

 of the faculty, will then have completed 

 thirty-eight years of service. The speaking 

 foUovsdng the dinner was begun by E. V. 

 Norris, president of the Alumni Association, 

 who introduced Professor J. P. Kemp as toast- 

 master. The other speakers were President 

 Nicholas Murray Butler for the university; 

 Thomas Haight Leggett for the American 

 Institute of Mining Engineers; Walter Een- 

 ton Ingalls for the Mining and Metallurgical 

 Society of America, and John Parke Chan- 

 ning for the alumni. In concluding his re- 

 marks, Mr. Channing presented to Professor 

 Munroe, on behalf of his former students, a 

 massive bronze — ^the Sluice-Miner — by Louis 

 Potter. To these speeches Professor Munroe 

 replied. 



The Alpha Chapter of the Society of Sigma 

 Xi has elected the following officers for 1915- 

 1916: President, J. G. IsTeedham; Vice-presi- 

 dent, P. K. Eichtmeyer; Recording Secretary, 

 J. G. Pertsch; Corresponding Secretary, 

 James McMahon; Treasurer, O. A. Johann- 

 sen. 



At the annual meeting of the Tale Chapter 

 of Sigma XI, Professor L. L. Woodruff was 

 elected president and Dr. H. L. Seward vice- 

 president. Professor E. S. Lull will give the 

 address at the joint commencement meeting 

 of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa at Tale. 



Dr. James W. Jobling, of the Vanderbilt 

 School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn., was 

 elected president of the American Associa- 

 tion of Immunologists at its recent Washing- 

 ton meeting. 



Professor Alfred Dachnowski, in charge 

 of plant physiology and ecology at Ohio State 



University, has accepted a position in the 

 bureau of plant industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. He will continue his investi- 

 gations upon peat soils and their agricultural 

 utilization. 



Mr. G. L. Pawoett, plant pathologist of 

 the Porto Eico Experiment Station at Maya- 

 guez, resigned in February and has gone to 

 Argentina, where he has accepted a position 

 as plant pathologist of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Tucuman. 



Mr. Louis G. Sghultz, director of the Ar- 

 gentine Central Magnetic Observatory at 

 Pilar, since its foundation in 1903, has re- 

 cently resigned and returned to the United 

 States. 



PouL LiNDHOLM, engineer of highways, 

 Copenhagen, Denmark, has been awarded the 

 traveling fellowship of the American Scandi- 

 navian Foundation for 1915-16. He will de- 

 vote the year to graduate work in highway 

 engineering at Columbia University. 



Professor Hans Ludendorff has been ap- 

 pointed head observer in the Astrophysical 

 Observatory at Potsdam. 



Dr. E. Tait McKenzie, director of the de- 

 partment of physical education at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, sailed on May 29, 

 for London, where he will take charge of the 

 new physical department established by the 

 British government to care for the health of 

 recruits. 



Professor John M. Coulter, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, will give two courses of 

 lectures in the University of California dur- 

 ing their summer session, which begins on 

 June 21. One of them is an elementary 

 course in evolution and heredity; the other is 

 an advanced course in the evolution of sex in 

 plants. 



Professor Graham J. Mitchell, of the de- 

 partment of geology of the University of 

 Oregon, will spend the coming summer in 

 Curry County with Professor B. S. Butler, of 

 the school of mines of the Oregon Agricul- 

 tural College. Professor Warren D. Smith, 

 head of the department of geology of the 

 University of Oregon, will spend a part of 



