June 25, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



937 



divulged, but it is probably in England. 

 Most of tie thirty-four members of the 

 unit have been taken from the staffs of the 

 Boston City Hospital and the Massachusetts 

 General Hospital, but a few have come from 

 suburban hospitals. Dr. E. H. Nichols, asso- 

 ciate professor of surgery and visiting surgeon 

 to the City Hospital, will be in charge of the 

 unit. Other senior surgeons are : Dr. William 

 E. Faulkner and Dr. John I. Thomas, both of 

 the City Hospital, and tlie following from the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital: Dr. Charles 

 A. Porter, Dr. Franklin G. Balch, Dr. Alex- 

 ander Quackenboss, Dr. Harris P. Mosher, Dr. 

 Walter J. Dodd and Dr. Roger I. Lee, who is 

 professor of hygiene at Harvard. 



Frederick G. Clapp, of Pittsburgh, has re- 

 cently returned from a year and a half spent 

 in geological explorations in China. 



The University of Pennsylvania Museum 

 has heard from its expedition to Siberia, under 

 the leadership of H. U. Hall. A letter has 

 been received from him at Monastir, on the 

 Yenisei Eiver, the first civilized place reached 

 after a long winter within the Arctic Circle, 

 between the Yenisei and the Lena Rivers. 

 The letter was dated April 1, and announced 

 that the river would be open in two months, 

 after which time he would start for the 

 United States. 



Professor Robert F. Griggs, of the depart- 

 ment of botany of the Ohio State University, 

 has left for Kadiak, Alaska, to make investi- 

 gations for the National Geographic Society 

 on the vegetation of volcanic ash deposited by 

 eruptions of Mount Katmai. His study will 

 be a continuation of similar observations 

 which he made during a trip to Alaska two 

 years ago. 



The commencement address at Case School 

 of Applied Science was delivered by Mr. Wil- 

 liam C. Redfield, secretary of commerce. The 

 address before the Case Chapter of the Sigma 

 Xi during commencement week was delivered 

 by Mr. Charles F. Brush, on " Early Recollec- 

 tions of the Electric Light Industry." 



At the April meeting of the Virginia Chem- 

 ists Club a telegram was read from Secretary 



Chas. L. Parsons, of the American Chemical 

 Society, announcing that the club had been 

 made a section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, to be known as the " Virginia Section." 

 Dr. Alexander Smith, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, wa,s the guest of honor at this meeting 

 and addressed the club on " The Teaching of 

 Live Chemistry." Dr. Smith was elected an 

 honorary member of the new section. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the med- 

 ical faculty of the University of Michigan, 

 and president of the American Medical As- 

 sociation, delivered the address at the annual 

 commencement of JefEerson Medical College, 

 Philadelphia, on June 15, his subject being 

 " A Doctor's Ideals." 



On the evening of June 12 Professor 

 Cassius J. Keyser, of Columbia University, 

 made the annual address before the local chap- 

 ter of the Society of Sigma Xi at the Univer- 

 sity of Washington. The subject of the ad- 

 dress was " Science and Religion, or the Ra- 

 tional and the Superrational." On June 16, 

 he delivered the commencement address at the 

 University of Oregon, speaking on university 

 ideals as the light of life. 



It was stated in a recent issue of Science 

 in accordance with information sent us that 

 Professor A. G. Webster had given a lecture 

 at Oberlin College on " Business and Kultur." 

 We are now informed that the title was " Phys- 

 ics and Kultur." 



Dr. John H. McCollom, seventy-two years 

 old, professor emeritus of contagious diseases 

 at the Harvard Medical School, died on June 14. 



LiEUT.-CoL. Charles E. Woodruff, U. S. A., 

 retired, died on June 13, aged sixty-five years, 

 at his home at New Rochelle, N. Y. In 1886 

 he entered the United States navy as a sur- 

 geon. A year later he resigned and entered 

 the army with the same grade. He was chief 

 surgeon of brigade on General Merritt's stafE 

 in the Philippines. He went round the world 

 inspecting the sanitation of foreign army posts 

 and later the sanitary conditions of Germany 

 and several other European countries for the 

 United States government. He was tjie 



