May 6, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



697 



Mr. H. C. Graham, B.A., Toronto, '08, and 

 fellow in chemistry, has been appointed chem- 

 ist assistant in the Provincial Laboratory at 

 Edmonton, Alberta. 



Mr. J. E. Sears has been appointed to take 

 charge of the work of the metrology division 

 of the British National Physical Laboratory 

 in the place of Mr. H. Homan JefEcott, who 

 has been nominated recently to the professor- 

 ship of engineering in the Royal College of 

 Science, Dublin. 



Mrs. Zelia Nuttall has handed in her 

 resignation as member of the Organizing 

 Committee of the Seventeenth International 

 Congress of Americanists, to be held in Mex- 

 ico City next September, and has also re- 

 nounced the title of honorary professor of 

 Mexican Archeology at the National Museum, 

 as a protest against the treatment she received 

 from the ministry of public instruction and 

 the inspector of monuments in connection 

 with her recent discovery and proposed ex- 

 ploration of the ruin of an ancient temple on 

 the island of Sacrificios, off Vera Cruz. 



The American Philosophical Society in 

 response to invitations received has appointed 

 the following delegates to represent it at the 

 International Congresses to be held during 

 the current year. At the International Bo- 

 tanical Congress to be held at Brussels, May 

 14-21, 1910, Professor George Lincoln Good- 

 ale, of Harvard University. At the Interna- 

 tional Scientific Congress to be held at Buenos 

 Aires, July 10-25, 1910, Dr. Louis A. Bauer, 

 director of the department of Terrestrial 

 Magnetism, Carnegie Institution, Washing- 

 ton. At the International Geological Con- 

 gress to be held in Stockholm, August 18-25, 

 1910, Professor Harry C. Jones, of Johns 

 Hopkins University. At the Congress of 

 Americanists to be held in the City of Mexico, 

 in September, 1910, Professor Frederick W. 

 Putnam, of Harvard University. 



Director L. H. Bailey, of the College of 

 Agriculture of Cornell University, is at pres- 

 ent in Great Britain. 



The American Electrochemical Society is 



holding this week its seventeenth general 

 meeting at Pittsburgh. The address of the 

 president. Dr. Leo H. Baekeland, is on " Sci- 

 ence and Industry." 



At the annual meeting of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute, May 4 and 5, Sir Hugh Bell 

 resigned the chair to the Duke of Devonshire. 

 The Bessemer gold medal for 1910 was pre- 

 sented to Mr. E. H. Saniter, and the president 

 delivered his inaugural address. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave the following lectures 

 on terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric elec- 

 tricity at the Johns Hopkins University from 

 April 25 to 29: 



"The Chief Facts of the Earth's Magnetic 

 Changes (Regular Variations and Magnetic- 

 Storms)." 



" The Ionic Theory of the Earth's Magnetic- 

 Disturbances." 



" The Earth's Magnetic Permeability and Gen- 

 eral Theory of Magnetic Variations." 



" Relation between Terrestrial Magnetism, Solar 

 Activity, Atmospheric Electricity, Radioactivity, 

 Meteorology and Geology." 



Nature quoting from the Daily Chronicle 

 states that a monument in memory of Pro- 

 fessor Tyndall will be erected on the summit 

 of the Bel Alp, 6,735 feet high, a little above 

 the place where for many years Tyndall re- 

 sided during the summer months. Mrs. Tyn- 

 dall has engaged M. F. Correvon, of Geneva, 

 to design the monument, which is a large 

 conical block of granite. It will be erected 

 by the Swiss Alpine Club in July on Bel Alp, 

 overlooking the Aletsch Glacier. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that at Jefferson, Ga., on 

 April 21, a monument to Dr. Crawford W. 

 Long was unveiled in the presence of members 

 of the Medical Association of Georgia, which 

 was in session at Athens. The monument is 

 in commemoration of the fact that Dr. Long 

 was one of the first to use ether as a general 

 anesthetic. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of New 

 York, was the principal speaker. 



The death is announced of Dr. George Car- 

 penter, editor of the British journal of chil- 



