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now in control of that place to " clean up " 

 the city. 



Peevost Hubbard, in charge division of 

 roads and pavements, The Institute of Indus- 

 trial Research, Washington, and Arthur H. 

 Blanchard, professor of highway engineering 

 at Columbia University, have been elected by 

 the council of the International Association 

 for Testing Materials the American members 

 of a commission on " Standardization of 

 Methods of Testing and Nomenclature of 

 Eoad and Paving Materials." 



Selskar M. Gunn, professor of biology in 

 the department of sanitary biology and public 

 health at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, has been made managing editor 

 of the American Journal of Public Health 

 succeeding Dr. Livingston Farrand, formerly 

 professor of anthropology at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, now president of the University of 

 Colorado. 



Professor David Eugene Smith will repre- 

 sent Columbia University and the Bureau of 

 Education at Washington at the Bacon Sep- 

 tenary celebration at Oxford on June 10, and 

 at the Tercentenary Napier celebration at 

 Edinburgh on July 22. He will spend the 

 academic year 1914-1915 in travel abroad. 



Dr. J. P. Iddings, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, will lecture at the University of 

 London from June 4 to 9 on " Problems of 

 Petrology." Mr. Iddings is on his way to the 

 Netherlands, Indies and the islands of the 

 South Pacific to study igneous rocks, traveling 

 under the auspices of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution of Washington. 



President R. C. Maclaurin, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, is making a 

 visit to the Pacific coast. 



Messrs. Frederick G. Clapp and Myron L. 

 Fuller, of the Associated Geological Engi- 

 neers, Pittsburgh, are engaged in the examina- 

 tion of the northern parts of Chili and Shensi 

 provinces in China for petroleum for the 

 Standard Oil Company. 



Dr. Elwood S. Moore, professor of geology 

 and mineralogy at the Pennsylvania State 



College, has been granted a year's leave of 

 absence for 1914-15, and plans to spend it 

 traveling abroad. He will sail from San 

 Francisco on June 23, for Australia, in order 

 to attend the annual meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 After six months spent in Hawaii, New Zea- 

 land, and the East Indies he will study the 

 balance of the time, until the fall of 1915, at 

 the University of Berlin with Professor 

 Krusch, of the department of economic 

 geology. 



The annual stated meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Medico-Psychological Association is being 

 held in Baltimore this week. A symposium on 

 " Paresis " was announced for May 26. On 

 the following day the annual address was de- 

 livered by Dr. Lewellys F. Barker on " The 

 Relation of Internal Medicine to Psychiatry," 

 and on the fourth day there was a symposium 

 on " Eugenics." 



Mr. W. F. Hillebrand, chief chemist of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Standards, lectured recently 

 before the Cornell section of the American 

 Chemical Society on " Chemistry at the 

 Bureau of Standards." 



The Page-May memorial lectures of Uni- 

 versity College, London, for the current ses- 

 sion will be delivered by Dr. Keith Lucas, 

 whose subject will be " The Conduction of the 

 Nervous Impulse." The course is given on 

 Fridays, beginning on May 15. 



Professor V. Karapetoff, of the depart- 

 ment of electrical engineering, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has completed an extended lecturing 

 tour. His itinerary and topics were as follows : 

 May 9, Springfield, Mass., an address before 

 the Eastern Association of Physics Teachers 

 on the subject of " Some Calculations in the 

 Magnetic Circuit." May 11. Cleveland, Ohio, 

 an address before the engineering students of 

 the Case School of Applied Science on " The 

 Production of a Revolving Magnetic Field." 

 On the same day, a lecture before the Case 

 School chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi on 

 " The Dielectric Circuit." On Tuesday, May 

 12, an address before the engineering students 

 of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 



