February 6, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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Floods and the Factors that Influence Their 

 Intensity." 



MoNTYON prizes, each of the value of $500, 

 have been given by the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences to Mme. Lina Negri Luzzani, for her 

 studies on the corpuscles discovered in the 

 nervous system of rabid animals, to L. Am- 

 bard, for his memoir on renal secretion, and 

 to MM. A. EaiUet, G. Moussu and A. Henry, 

 for their researches on distomatosis in rumi- 

 nants. Awards of $300 each have been made 

 to M. Marquis, for his memoir on mercuric 

 chloride in surgery, to M. Legrange, for his 

 work on the treatment of chronic glaucoma, 

 and to Fernand Bezangon and S. L. de Jong, 

 for their treatise on the examination of sputa. 



Professor W. E. Castle, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been reappointed a research asso- 

 ciate of the Carnegie Institution for a period 

 of five years with an annual grant of $2,500 

 in support of his researches in heredity. This 

 is the third five-year appointment as research 

 associate received by Professor Castle from 

 the Carnegie Institution. 



The American Microscopical Society held 

 only business meetings at Atlanta. Professor 

 Charles Brookover, Little Rock, Arkansas, of 

 the University of Arkansas Medical School, 

 was elected president; Miss Margaret Fergu- 

 son, Wellesley College, first vice-president, and 

 Dr. H. L. Shantz, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 Washington, D. C, second vice-president. 

 T. W. Galloway, of Millikin University, was 

 reelected secretary and editor of the Tran- 

 sactions. Mr. Magnus Pflaum, of Meadville, 

 Pa., who has served the society so faithfully 

 for years as its custodian and has built up 

 the research fund to nearly $5,000 was elected 

 to honorary membership. 



Propessor Carlos E. Porter, director of the 

 Revista Ghilena de Historia Natural and pro- 

 fessor of zoology and entomology at the Agri- 

 cultural Institut of Chile, has been made vice- 

 president, for 1914, of the Sociedad Cientifica 

 de Chile and honorary professor of zoology at 

 the Agricultural CoUege of the University of 

 Manaos (Brazil). 



Dr. T. a. Jagoar, director of the observa- 

 tion station at Kilauea, Hawaii, has gone to 

 Japan, to study the phenomena of the volcanic 

 eruption on Sakura. 



Dr. J. B. Johnston, professor of anatomy in 

 the University of Minnesota, has sailed for 

 Europe, on leave of absence for the second 

 semester. He will return about September 1. 



Dr. Otis "William Caldwell, associate pro- 

 fessor of botany in the School of Education 

 and dean of University CoUege at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has been granted leave of 

 absence during the next two months for a 

 visit of inspection to the high schools and 

 colleges of the south with reference to the 

 teaching of science. 



Lloyd W. Stephenson, of the United States 

 Geologial Survey, is to be at the University of 

 California from January to June, 1914, as 

 acting professor of paleontology, during the 

 half year's absence of Professor J. C. Merriam, 

 who is spending this semester preparing for 

 the publication of some of the results of his 

 collections from the pleistocene asphalt beds 

 of Rancho LaBrea, near Los Angeles. 



Mrs. Huntington Wilson has established 

 for the year 1914 a lectureship in eugenics, 

 and has placed a fund of $2,500 for the pur- 

 pose in the care of the Eugenics Record Office 

 of Cold Spring Harbor, N. T. Mr. A. E. 

 Hamilton, of Clark University, has been ap- 

 pointed to this lectureship and will be avail- 

 able for colleges, societies and clubs. 



Professor George 0. Whipple, of Harvard 

 University, delivered a lecture on " Relative 

 Values in Sanitation " before the Science 

 Club of the University of Wisconsin on 

 January 22, 1914. 



Professor Arthur H. Blanchard, in charge 

 of the graduate course in highway engineer- 

 ing at Columbia University, on January 26 

 delivered illustrated lectures at the University 

 of niinois on the subjects : " Bituminous Sur- 

 faces and Bituminous Pavements " and 

 " Modern Developments in Highway Engi- 

 neering in Europe." 



Professor Geo. Grant MacCurdy, of Tale, 

 delivered the fourth of the winter series of 



