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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 106& 



author of " The Effect of Tropical Light on 

 White Men " and " Expansion of the Races." 



Dk. Hugo Muller, E.RS., past-president of 

 the British Chemical Society, died on May 23, 

 aged eighty-one years. 



Sir a. H. Church, F.E.S., formerly pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the Royal Academy of 

 Arts, London, died on May 31, at the age of 

 eighty years. 



The death is announced of M. Pierre Martin, 

 known for his work on the metallurgy of steel. 



Dr. Oswald Lohse, head astronomer in the 

 Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory, has died 

 at the age of seventy-one years. 



Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovitch, 

 who died on June 15 at the age of fifty-seven 

 years, was actively interested in science and 

 letters. He was at the time of his death presi- 

 dent of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Johannes Schlunck and Dr. Erich 

 Meyer, geologists, of the German survey, have 

 been killed in the war. 



Lead is one of the first metals that would 

 naturally be associated with an increased con- 

 sumption in time of war, and yet the exports 

 of lead from the United States to Europe since 

 the war began have not increased in propor- 

 tion to the increase in exports of zinc and 

 some other metals, and the price of lead in- 

 stead of being enhanced by the war actually 

 slumped in October to the lowest point 

 reached in the last fifteen years. These and 

 other facts are graphically presented in the 

 advance statement of the production of lead 

 in the United States in 1914, just issued by 

 the United States Geological Survey. The 

 total production of refined lead from both do- 

 mestic and foreign ores was 542,122 short 

 tons, compared with 462,460 tons in 1913. 

 The production of refined lead from domestic 

 ores was 512,794 tons, an increase of 100,916 

 tons over the record figures reached in 1913. 

 This increase was due chiefly to gains in 

 Missouri, about 42,000 tons; in Idaho, 40,000 

 tons, and in Utah, 18,000 tons. The exports of 

 lead smelted from foreign ores were 30,944 

 tons and from domestic lead ores 58,722 tons, 

 a total of 89,666 tons, larger than in any other 



year since 1911, when the exports of lead ag- 

 gregated 113,307 tons. No domestic pig lead 

 had ever been exported from the United States 

 prior to 1914. Generally the price of lead in 

 this country, owing to the tariff, exceeds the 

 price abroad. Lead smelted in bond from for- 

 eign ores is therefore exported instead of do- 

 mestic lead. Owing to the civil war in Mex- 

 ico the imports of Mexican ore for the last 

 few years have been much smaller than hereto- 

 fore, and there was not enough foreign lead 

 in the United States to supply the demand- 

 Lead was consistently higher in London in 

 1914 than in New York, and this, together 

 with the scarcity of Mexican lead, caused the 

 large exports of domestic lead. 



UNIFEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Dr. Arthur A. Noyes, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, is to become a mem- 

 ber of the faculty of the Throop College of 

 Technology, Pasadena, Cal., for a portion of 

 the coming academic year, and for one half of 

 the time in succeeding years, beginning with 

 1916-17, this arrangement having been made 

 possible by a gift of $10,000 for the equipment 

 of a physical chemistry laboratory, and the en- 

 dowment of this laboratory in a sum yielding^ 

 $10,000 annually for its support. This labo- 

 ratory is to be located in a new chemistry 

 building, which is expected to be built during 

 the coming academic year. 



Professor Robert L. Sackett, formerly of 

 the civil engineering school of Purdue Uni- 

 versity, Lafayette, Ind., has been appointed 

 dean of the engineering school of Pennsyl- 

 vania State College. Professor Sackettt suc- 

 ceeds Professor John Price Jackson, who is 

 now commissioner of labor for the state of 

 Pennsylvania. 



At the laboratories of the New York Post- 

 graduate Medical School and Hospital, Dr. 

 Ward J. MacNeal has been appointed director 

 to succeed Dr. Jonathan Wright, resigned. 

 The following promotions have been mader 

 Dr. Morris S. Fine to be adjunct professor of 

 pathological chemistry; Dr. Richard M. 

 Taylor to be adjunct professor of pathology; 



