April 10, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



531 



To search the Arctic Circle for the lost 

 Canadian exploration ship Karluh the steam 

 whaler Herman has left San Francisco. The 

 Canadian government is sending the whaler 

 to the relief of the Karluk, which with the 

 greater part of her crew has been missing for 

 several months. It will be remembered that 

 Mr. Stefansson, commander of the expedition, 

 who with three of the crew left the Karluk 

 which was fast in the ice, to hunt caribou, 

 could find no trace of the vessel when they 

 returned. The ice had been broken up by a 

 gale and the ship, it is supposed, drifted east- 

 ward. Captain C. T. Pedersen, master of the 

 Herman, believes he wiU find the Karluh 

 somewhere between Point Barrow and Her- 

 schall Island, locked among icebergs. 



Nature states that while the various official 

 and private expeditions are making prepara- 

 tions for observing the total solar eclipse of 

 August 21 next, steamship companies are of- 

 fering pleasure cruises which include a stay 

 on the line of totality on the Norwegian coast. 

 The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's 

 ocean yachting steamer. Arcadian, twin screw, 

 and 8,939 gross tonnage, is timed to leave 

 Grimsby on August 15 and Leith, August 16, 

 and will take up a position near Alsten, north 

 of Torghatten Island, well on the central line. 

 The Norway Travel Bureau of the Great 

 Northern Railway Company has also arranged 

 a special cruise. Passengers leave Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne by the steamship Venus on August 

 15, and join the special steamer Mira at 

 Bergen on August 17, a position being taken 

 up at Stokka on eclipse day. It is stated that 

 if a party of seventy-five to eighty members 

 of the Royal Astronomical Society and the 

 British Astronomical Association would avail 

 themselves of this facility no other passengers 

 would be accepted, and the itinerary would be 

 varied to meet the requirements of the party, 

 and the stay at any place in the eclipse zone 

 prolonged. 



The Association of Dental Faculties of 

 American Universities met at the University 

 of Minnesota, March 20-21. Dean Owre, of 

 Minnesota, read a paper recommending the 

 adoption by this association of a four-year 



course in dentistry for all the colleges com- 

 posing the association. This recommendation 

 was adopted. The deans present at the meet- 

 ing were: Frank T. Breene, Iowa State Col- 

 lege; Edward C. Kirk, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania; James Sharp, University of California; 

 F. B. Moorehead, University of Illinois, and 

 W. S. C. Hoff, University of Michigan. In 

 addition there were present several members 

 of the faculties of the institutions represented. 

 The dental college of Washington University, 

 St. Louis, Dr. J. H. Kemmerly, delegate, was 

 admitted to membership. 



Work is now in progress at the University 

 of Chicago on a building for the Departments 

 of Geology and Geography to be knovm as the 

 Julius Rosenwald Hall. It will be made of 

 stone, steel and cement and be fireproof in the 

 best sense of the term. The cost will be about 

 $260,000, exclusive of the furniture and equip- 

 ment. It adjoins "Walker Museum and will be 

 connected with it by corridors on each floor. 

 Both buildings will be served by an elevator 

 in the corridor connection. As the plans have 

 been carefully drawn on the basis of large 

 experience, the following list of the appoint- 

 ments may be of interest to geologists and 

 geographers : A museum room, an assembly 

 hall, six class rooms, a seminar room, labora- 

 tories for mineralogy, petrology, economic 

 geology, geo-chemistry, macroscopic determina- 

 tion, ore genesis, high temperature and high 

 pressure experiments (outside the main walls 

 of the building), physiographic modeling, 

 dynamical and structural experimentation, 

 lathe and section work, and miscellaneous 

 work, a laboratory-conference room, a seis- 

 mograph room (with pier carried down to 

 solid rock by caisson), a vault for documents 

 and rare material, three map laboratories with 

 three associated map-conference rooms, a gen- 

 eral departmental reading room with accom- 

 modations for eighty, a stack room for de- 

 partmental library with capacity for 66,000 

 books, with book-lift, and a library work room ; 

 a research reading room, five research study- 

 rooms for staii, a staff research room each for 

 geology and for geography, ten research rooms 

 for candidates for Ph.D., a council room, nine 



