June 5, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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He addressed the members of the Chicago 

 Chapter of the Sigma Xi at their Spring 

 Quarter dinner on May 19 upon " Remin- 

 iscences of Rowland and Sylvester." 



At the graduate school of agriculture, to be 

 held at the University of Missouri, Columbia, 

 Mo., June 29-July 24, a course of forty lec- 

 tures on genetics will be given by Professor A. 

 D. Daxbishire, of the University of Edin- 

 burgh; Professor E. M. East, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity; Professor M. F. Guyer, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, and Dr. J. A. Harris, of 

 the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Otto Appel, of 

 the Imperial Biological Institute at Dahlem, 

 Berlin, will lecture at this school on the dis- 

 eases of potatoes and cereals. 



At the 329th meeting of the New York Elec- 

 trical Society, held at Columbia University, on 

 May 25, Dr. L. A. Bauer gave an illustrated 

 lecture on " The Non-magnetic Yacht Car- 

 negie, Her Work and Her Cruises." This was 

 followed by a brief informal talk on " Aerial 

 Navigation," by Lieut. John Cyril Porte, R. 

 N., with especial reference to the proposed 

 Rodman Wanamaker transatlantic flight. 



The University of Pennsylvania library has 

 received through Dr. John K. Mitchell and 

 Mr. Langdon Mitchell about 500 volumes, 

 forming a portion of the library of their 

 father, the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. 



The class of 1910, general science course, 

 has presented to the Cooper Union, New York 

 City, a memorial tablet for the late Professor 

 William A. Anthony. Mr. John F. Hanbury, 

 a graduate of the class, said that Professor 

 Anthony had established at Cornell Univer- 

 sity the first electrical course either in Europe 

 or America. Professor Edward L. Nichols, of 

 Cornell, and President John W. Lieb, of the 

 New York Edison Company, gave tributes to 

 the genius of Professor Anthony. 



The University of Birmingham council has 

 passed the following resolution : " Tha,t the 

 council desires to record its deep sorrow at the 

 death of Professor Poynting, who so faith- 

 fully served the Mason College and the uni- 

 versity for thirty-four years. During his dis- 

 tinguished career as professor of physics he 



was not only an inspiring teacher and investi- 

 gator, but bore a considerable part in the 

 development of the college and of the univer- 

 sity. His keen interest in all that concerned 

 the university, its staff, and its students, his 

 genial and attractive personality, will be long 

 and affectionately remembered; his death 

 leaves a gap which it will be most difficult to 

 fill." 



Dr. Alfred E. Barlow, of Montreal, dis- 

 tinguished for his work in Archean and min- 

 ing geology, a former member of the Geolog- 

 ical Survey of Canada and former president 

 of the Canadian Mining Institute, was 

 drowned in the wreck of the " Empress of Ire- 

 land " on May 29. Dr. and Mrs. Barlow 

 were together on a vacation trip to England 

 and both were lost in this terrible catastrophe. 



We regret also to announce the untimely 

 death, at the age of thirty-eight years, of 

 Jesse J. Myers, assistant professor of physiol- 

 ogy and zoology at the Michigan Agricultural 

 College, East Lansing, Michigan. Professor 

 Myers was born in Ulinois and graduated at 

 the University of Illinois with the degree of 

 B.S. in 1901. Since then he has been on the 

 staff of the Michigan institution, having spent 

 some of his vacation months in study at the 

 Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin. Early 

 in April he went to New Haven to enter the 

 Sheffield laboratory of physiological chemistry 

 of Yale University; and he died after a very 

 brief illness from tjrphoid fever in that city 

 on May 28. 



Dr. Paul von Mauser, inventor of the 

 Mauser rifle, has died at Berlin, aged seventy- 

 six years. 



The U. S. Senate has passed the Agricul- 

 tural Appropriation bill, with a provision 

 prohibiting the acceptance by government em- 

 ployees of funds from the General Education 

 Board or similar institutions. 



The Army appropriation bill that passed 

 the U. S. Senate some weeks ago provides that 

 the appropriation for the library of the Sur- 

 geon-General's Ofiice shall be conditional on 

 the merging of this library with the Congres- 

 sional Library. Neither the surgeon-general 



