Januabt 21, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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Mechanical College; Vice-president, Professor 

 A. F. Woods, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. C. L. Shear, 

 TJ. S. Department Agriculture; Councillors, 

 Dr. L. R. Jones, University of Vermont, Pro- 

 fessor A. D. Selby, Ohio Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, and Professor H. H. Whetzel, 

 •Cornell University. 



Owing to friction with some of the trustees. 

 Professor E. Dwight Sanderson has been com- 

 pelled to retire from the directorship of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of the K"ew 

 Hampshire College. 



Dr. V. M. Spaldikg, having retired from the 

 staff of the Desert Laboratory, has removed 

 from Tucson, Arizona, to Loma Linda, Cali- 

 fornia, which will be his address for the pres- 

 ent. 



Mayor Gaynor has announced the appoint- 

 ment of Dr. Ernst J. Lederle as health com- 

 missioner of New York City to succeed Dr. 

 Darlington. Dr. Lederle was health commis- 

 sioner during the term of Mayor Low. 



The British Local Government Board has 

 appointed Dr. Eastwood, one of the patholo- 

 gists of the royal commission on tuberculosis, 

 an additional medical inspector of the board, 

 with a special view to his undertaking patho- 

 logical investigations. Provision also has 

 been made for the necessary assistance and 

 laboratories. The immediate object will be to 

 apply to public health work the results ob- 

 tained by the royal commission on tubercu- 

 losis, and to ensure the freedom of important 

 foods from infection. 



We learn from Nature that the following 

 appointments have been made to the Indian 

 Agricultural Service : Imperial agricultural 

 bacteriologist, Mr. C. M. Hutchinson; super- 

 numerary mycologist, Mr. F. J. E. Shaw; 

 supernumerary agriculturist, Mr. G. E. Hil- 

 son. The two posts of assistant superinten- 

 dent recently vacant in the natural history 

 section of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, have 

 been filled by the selection of Mr. Stanley W. 

 Kemp and Mr. F. H. Gravely. 



The Swiss government will send a scientific 

 expedition into the unexplored parts of Bolivia 



under the leadership of Professor 0. Fuhr- 

 mann, of the University of Neuchatel. 



Dr. G. C. Bourne, M.A., D.Sc, Linacre 

 professor of comparative anatomy, Oxford, de- 

 livered the Herbert Spencer Lecture at Oxford 

 University on December 2. His subject was 

 " Herbert Spencer and Animal Evolution." 



A MONUMENT is to be erected to the mem- 

 ory of Laplace at Beaumont, in Auge (Cal- 

 vados), where he was born in 1Y46. 



The Joseph Eichberg chair of physiology 

 in the Ohio-Miami Medical College of the 

 University of Cincinnati was formally estab- 

 lished on December 11, at a meeting of the 

 trustees of the Academy of Medicine. An en- 

 dowment of $45,000 was raised for this chair 

 by the academy and a few friends of the late 

 Dr. Eichberg. 



Dr. Louis Krauter, assistant professor of 

 botany in the University of Pennsylvania, and 

 Mr. E. J. W. Macfarlane, son of Professor 

 John M. Macfarlane, professor of botany 

 in the university, were frozen to death when 

 hunting near Wildwood, JST. J. 



Dr. Shelford Bidwell, F.E.S., known for 

 his researches in electricity and optics, died 

 on December 18, at .the age of seventy-one 

 years. 



Sir Edward L. Williams, the British engi- 

 neer, designer of the Manchester ship canal, 

 died on January 1, at the age of eighty-one 

 years. 



M. Bouquet de la Grye, the eminent French 

 hydrographic engineer and astronomer, has 

 died at the age of eighty-two years. 



Professor Lortet, honorary dean of the 

 medical faculty in the University of Lyons, 

 known for his work in archeology, has died 

 at the age of seventy-three years. 



Dr. Ludwig Mond, the eminent industrial 

 chemist, has bequeathed £50,000 to the Eoyal 

 Society and the same amount to the Univer- 

 sity of Heidelberg for the endowment of re- 

 search in natural science, more particularly in 

 chemistry and physics. The bequests take 

 effect on the death of Mrs. Mond. 



