April 17, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



573 



The annual John Lewis Eussell lecture of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society was 

 delivered on March 21, by Dr. Perley Spauld- 

 ing, pathological inspector of the Horticul- 

 tural Board of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. The subject was " Undesirable For- 

 eign Plant Diseases." 



Dr. M. W. Twitchell, the assistant geolo- 

 gist of New Jersey, lectured before the de- 

 partment of geology of Princeton University 

 on March 16, 20, 23, 27 and 30, the general 

 subject of the series being " The Geology of 

 New Jersey." 



Professor George Grant MacCcedy, of 

 Tale University, gave two lectures at Eutgers 

 College on March 25 and 26, one before the 

 New Jersey State Microscopical Society on 

 "Primeval Man," the other before the Phi 

 Beta Kappa Society on " The Dawn of Art." 

 Professor Samuel W. Williston addressed 

 the Chicago chapter of the Sigma Xi at its 

 regular winter quarter meeting, on March 11, 

 on the topic : " Recent Discoveries Relative to 

 the Early Land Life of North America." 



On March 28, Professor C. H. Shattuck, of 

 the Forestry Department of the University of 

 Idaho, delivered a lecture before the Puget 

 Sound Branch of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety on "Wood Processing." 



Dr. Alexander F. Chamberlain^ professor 

 of anthropology at Clark University, died on 

 April 8, at the age of forty-eight years. 



Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, professor of surgery 

 in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medi- 

 cal College, died in New York on April 8, 

 aged sixty-nine years. 



Dr. Alfred Conor, vice director of the Pas- 

 teur Institute at Tunis, has died from infec- 

 tion contracted in his experimental work. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for mining engineer 

 in the Bureau of Mines, Department of the 

 Interior, for service in the field, in relation to 

 coal mining or metal mining, at salaries rang- 

 ing from $2,400 to $4,000 a year. For the 

 same bureau there will be held examinations 

 for mine statistician and for assistant-engineer 



of mine tests at Pittsburgh at salaries ranging 

 from $1,800 to $2,400. 



Me. Andrew Carnegie has given $100,000 to 

 the New York Zoological Society to provide a 

 pension fund for the New York Zoological 

 Park and the Aquarium. The scientific staff 

 and the employees will contribute annually 

 2 per cent, of their salaries, and any sum that 

 may be lacking will be made up by the Zoologi- 

 cal Society. 



The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, New York, announces that it has re- 

 ceived from Mr. John D. Rockefeller an addi- 

 tional endowment of $1,000,000 for the pur- 

 pose of organizing a department for the study 

 of animal diseases. A gift of $50,000 has also 

 been received from Mr. James J. Hill, for the 

 study of hog cholera. The announcement 

 says : " It is the expectation of the trustees of 

 the institute that the new department by 

 making possible a very thorough and ex- 

 haustive study of animal diseases by trained 

 experts will prove a great boon to raisers of 

 cattle, hogs, sheep, and other animals, as the 

 opinion has been expressed that many of the 

 diseases could be held in check and perhaps 

 practically stamped out if the breeders had 

 practical knowledge on which to act. With 

 the present facilities at hand, the income from 

 the $1,000,000 endowment will make it possi- 

 ble to carry on the work on a broad scope at 

 once." 



The department of terrestrial magnetism 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 founded on April 1, 1904, is now occupying 

 its new building, which has been especially 

 erected, at 36th Street and Broad Branch 

 Road, Washington, D. C, to provide the re- 

 quisite facilities for the varied research work 

 of the department, both along experimental 

 and observational lines. 



Sir Ernest Shackleton has bought the ship 

 Polaris, now at Sandef jord, to be his " flag- 

 ship " on his forthcoming Antarctic expedi- 

 tion. 



The Swedish government has appropri- 

 ated $13,500 for traveling expenses to be dis- 



