NOVEMBEK 4, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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and to the history of the clay industries in 

 Great Britain, celebrated on September 1 his 

 hundredth birthday. 



Dr. Dudley P. Allen has retired from the 

 chair of surgery in Western Reserve Univer- 

 sity and will leave Cleveland for an extended 

 trip abroad. The trustees have passed a reso- 

 lution in which they say : " Upon the medical 

 school of the university, to which his father 

 and his grandfather gave their labor, he con- 

 ferred distinction, as well as giving profes- 

 sional and personal devotion." Dr. Allen has 

 been appointed professor emeritus. 



Dr. Kendrio Charles Babcock, president 

 of the University of Arizona, has been ap- 

 pointed specialist in higher education in the 

 United States Bureau of Education, to fill 

 the new position created by the present con- 

 gress at its recent session. 



Dr. David H. Ray, who has had charge of 

 the engineering courses in the College of the 

 City of New York, has been appointed chief 

 engineer of the Bureau of Buildings of the 

 Borough of Manhattan, New York City. 



Professor A. N. Talbot, of the College of 

 Engineering of the University of Ulinois, is 

 serving as a member of an expert commission 

 which is engaged in inspecting and reviewing 

 the work of construction of the new City 

 Hall of Chicago. 



Dr. C. a. Crampton, after serving twenty 

 years as chief chemist of the Internal Rev- 

 enue Bureau of the Treasury Department and 

 prior to that time seven years in the Bureau 

 of Chemistry of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has retired from the government service 

 for the purpose of engaging in private prac- 

 tise. 



Dr. K. Miyake, Ph.D., Cornell, 1902. is 

 spending a couple of months at the laboratory 

 of the department of plant pathology of the 

 New York State College of Agriculture, 

 studying the diseases of ginseng. Dr. Miyake 

 is a lecturer in the department of botany in 

 the Imperial University of Tokyo. He has 

 been sent here by the Korean government 

 along with Mr. M. Tomiiye to investigate the 

 cultivation and particularly the diseases of 



ginseng. Ginseng is under a government 

 monopoly in Korea and during the past few 

 years there has been a remarkable reduction 

 in the out-put, due to the diseases of the roots. 

 Similar diseases affect the crop in this coun- 

 try. There is an export annually from the 

 United States of about a million dollars worth 

 of ginseng. A large portion of this is culti- 

 vated, a considerable part of it being grown 

 in the state of New York. 



Professor David Eugene Smith's " History 

 of Decimal Fractions," published by Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, in March, has 

 been translated into Japanese. 



On October 15 and 16, Professor D. W. 

 Johnson, of Harvard University, conducted a 

 geological excursion to Truro and Province- 

 town, to study the shore lines and sand dunes 

 of Cape Cod. 



Sir Francis Lovell, dean of the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine, intends to make 

 a tour on behalf of that institution during 

 the winter, visiting the Bahamas, Bermuda 

 and British Honduras. 



Dr. George Kerschensteiner, superintend- 

 ent of schools of Munich, will make an ad- 

 dress at the meeting of the Society for the 

 Promotion of Industrial Education, to be held 

 at Boston beginning on November 17. 



President Ernest Fox Nichols, of Dart- 

 mouth College, was announced to read a paper 

 on "Modern Physics" before the American 

 Philosophical Society on the evening of No- 

 vember 4. 



Professor Eugen Oberhummer, of the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna, is giving a series of about 

 twenty-four lectures at the University of Chi- 

 cago, on " The Political Geography of Eu- 

 rope." He addressed the Geographic Society 

 of Chicago at its regular October meeting, on 

 the subject, "The Political Geography of 

 Austria-Hungary." 



Mr. Frederick A. Delano, president of the 

 Wabash Railroad Company, addressed the stu- 

 dents and faculty of the College of Engineer- 

 ing of the University of Illinois on Tuesday, 

 October 25. His subject was " The Railway 

 as a Profession." 



