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bandry; H. S. Marks, Cornell, instructor in 

 mechanical engineering; J. F. Meister, Cor- 

 nell, instructor in electrical engineering; G. 

 F. Sykes, Brown, instructor in zoology and 

 physiology; S. M. Dolan, ISTotre Dame, instruc- 

 tor in civil engineering, and Grace Camp- 

 bell, Iowa State College, instructor in mathe- 

 matics. 



Dr. Martin H. Fischer has been appointed 

 professor of physiology in the medical depart- 

 ment of the University of Cincinnati. 



KoY Graham Hoskins, Ph.D., formerly 

 teaching fellow in physiology at Harvard 

 Medical School, has been appointed professor 

 of physiology in the Starling Ohio Medical 

 College. He will be assisted by Dr. Clayton 

 C. McPeek. 



Dr. a. J. Goldfarb (C. C. N. T., 1900, Ph.D. 

 Columbia, 1910) has been appointed a tutor 

 in biology in the College of the City of New 

 York. 



F. M. Handy, M.A., has been appointed in- 

 structor in geology in the University of Col- 

 orado to take the place of Assistant Professor 

 Ealph D. Crawford, who has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence. 



Professor Guy West Wilson, of Upper 

 Iowa University, has accepted the position of 

 assistant in vegetable pathology in the North 

 Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 



George D. Hubbard, Ph.D. (Cornell), for 

 the past five years assistant professor of geol- 

 ogy at the Ohio State University, has resigned 

 to accept the professorship at Oberlin College 

 inade vacant by the resignation of Dr. E. B. 

 Branson. 



DISCUSSION AND C0REE8P0NDENGE 



^ THE SPECTRUM OF MAES 



To THE Editor of Science: In the article 

 by Messrs. Campbell and Albrecht, published 

 in your issue of June 24, and read before the 

 National Academy of Sciences at its April 

 meeting, one is led to infer, though it is not 

 expressly so stated, that the application of the 

 Doppler-Fizeau principle to the study of the 

 Martian atmosphere originated with Dr. 

 Campbell. 



Would it not have been more courteous to 

 have mentioned the previous work by the same 

 method by Dr. Slipher, along lines suggested 

 by Dr. Lowell, and published in Bulletin No. 

 17 of the Lowell Observatory? 



There is, moreover, such a striking sim- 

 ilarity in the reasoning in the two articles, as 

 to suggest that, though Dr. Campbell omitted 

 to mention the bulletin, he had not neglected 

 to read it. 



G. E. Agassiz 



■* To the Editor of Science : The last para- 

 graph of Mr. Agassiz's note suggests a charge, 

 but thinly veiled, which no responsible man 

 should make, certainly until after using all 

 reasonable means for obtaining the other 

 man's point of view. A basis for such a 

 charge is to me unthinkable; overlooking the 

 moral question involved, and commenting 

 upon only a minor aspect, it is always the 

 writer failing to give credit who suffers the 

 consequence. 



I am indebted to Mr. Agassiz's manuscript, 

 which the editor has kindly forwarded to me, 

 for my first information concerning an article 

 on this subject by Professor Lowell. Looking 

 up the reference, I find that Professor Lowell's 

 article is stamped as received at the Lick Ob- 

 servatory on August 22, 1905. I was then in 

 Spain observing the eclipse of August 30, 

 1905, and did not return to Mount Hamilton 

 until November 22, 1906. I did not then, 

 nor later, see Professor Lowell's article. None 

 of my colleagues called my attention to it, 

 and my first knowledge of it came to-day. 

 The article was undoubtedly overlooked by and 

 unknown to my colleague, Albrecht, also, or he 

 certainly would have mentioned the subject 

 when we were observing the spectrum of Mars, 

 and especially when we were preparing our 

 paper on the subject. I regret the oversight. 



Professor Lowell's and Dr. Slipher's articles 

 referred to form a four-page Bulletin of the 

 Lowell Observatory. We have received neither 

 index nor table of contents to the Lowell Bul- 

 letins, and probably none exists. The articles 

 in question appear not to have been published 



