June 26, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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granted a sabbatical year's leave of absence, and 

 will spend the larger part of his time in Eng- 

 land studying social conditions. Dr. L. L. 

 Bernard, professor of sociology in the Univer- 

 sity of Florida, will have charge of the work 

 in sociology in the University of Missouri dur- 

 ing Professor EUwood's absence. 



Peofessor L. E. Dickson, of the University 

 of Chicago, will be visiting professor of mathe- 

 matics in the University of California from 

 August to December, 1914. 



Dr. C. H. T. Townsend, director of the 

 entomological station at Lima, Peru, should 

 after July 1 be addressed at the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



On June 4 a number of plant pathologists 

 of the Pacific Coast, meeting at Davis, Cal., 

 formed a Western Branch of the American 

 Phytopathological Society. The following 

 officers were elected: President, Ealph E. 

 Smith, Berkeley, Cal.; Vice-president, H. S. 

 Jackson, Corvallis, Ore. ; Secretary, W. T. 

 Home, Berkeley, Cal. 



At the annual meeting of the Medical Re- 

 search Club of the University of Illinois, Dr. 

 Wm. H. Walker was elected president and Dr. 

 J. J. Moore, secretary, for the next academic 

 year. 



The annual address before the graduating 

 class of the School of Medicine of the Univer- 

 sity of Alabama, at Mobile, was delivered by 

 Surgeon General William C. Gorgas. 



Dr. John P. Anderson, director of the Hy- 

 gienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Serv- 

 ice, delivered the annual address, on June 9, 

 before the Alumni Association of the College 

 of Medicine, Syracuse University. The sub- 

 ject of his address, which was illustrated with 

 lantern slides, was " The United States Public 

 Health Service: its Organization, its Work 

 and its Acconaplishments." 



A MONUMENT to Captain Scott and the com- 

 panions who perished with him will be un- 

 veiled during the summer at Finse, Norway. 

 The memorial will be nearly 20 feet high, and 

 will bear the names of the explorers, with the 

 inscription, in Norwegian, " The South Pole, 

 January, 1913. Erected by Norwegians." 



The funds for the monument have been raised 

 by a newspaper, and donations have been con- 

 tributed by the Norwegian government, the 

 Geographical Society, and a number of promi- 

 nent men from aU parts of the country. 



The seventh centenary of the birth of Roger 

 Bacon was commemorated at Oxford on June 

 10 by the unveiling of a statue in the Univer- 

 sity Museum and by the delivery of a series of 

 addresses. The statue, which is the work of 

 Mr. Herbert Pinker, was unveiled by Sir 

 Archibald Geikie, and was accepted on behalf 

 of the university by the chancellor, Lord Cur- 

 zon, of Kedleston. It presents Bacon in the 

 habit of a Franciscan friar, holding in his 

 hands an astrolabe with a desk in front of him. 

 It is a fuU length figure in white marble. 



Dr. Rupert Norton, assistant superinten- 

 dent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, died on 

 June 19, of typhoid fever. 



Dr. Joseph Reynolds Green, F.R.S., known 

 for his important researches in plant physiol- 

 ogy, fellow and lecturer of Downing College, 

 Cambridge, and formerly professor to the 

 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, died 

 on June 3. 



The U. S. Civil Service ^Co mm ission an- 

 nounces an examination for metallurgical engi- 

 neer, for work in iron and steel, eligibles to fill 

 a vacancy in this position in the Bureau of 

 Mines, Department of the Interior, for service 

 at Pittsburgh, Pa., at a salary ranging from 

 $3,000 to $4,500 a year. 



The medical school of the University of 

 Minnesota has adopted the principle of teach- 

 ing fellowships in the clinical departments, 

 with the end in view of providing well-trained 

 full-time assistants and research workers and 

 at the same time giving a basis for graduate 

 instruction in the various specialties. It is ar- 

 ranged that the fellowships be in three grades ; 

 viz., first year, $500; second year, $750; third 

 year, $1,000. To be eligible to a first year 

 fellowship a candidate, as a general rule, must 

 have received his M.D. degree from an ac- 

 ceptable school and have served one year as 

 interne in a good hospital. The fellows ap- 



