Apeil 21, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



607 



Mr. Robert Cushman Murphy has been ap- 

 pointed curator of the division of mammals 

 and birds in the Museum of the Brooklyn In- 

 stitute of Arts and Sciences in place of 

 George K. Cherrie, who recently resigned. 

 Mr. Eobert H. Rockwell has been appointed 

 chief taxidermist of the same institution to 

 fill the position left vacant by the death of Mr. 

 Critchley. 



J. W. TuRRENTiNE, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1908), 

 instructor in physical and electrochemistry in 

 Wesleyan University, has been appointed 

 scientist in Soil Laboratory Investigation, 

 Bureau of Soils, Washington, D. 0. 



Mr. J. B. Hill, who joined the staff of the 

 British Geological Survey in 1884, has just 

 been appointed to the newly-created post of 

 geological adviser to the local government 

 board. 



The, services which Dr. Lazarus Fletcher, 

 F.R.S., has rendered to the Mineralogical So- 

 ciety during his twenty-one years' tenure of 

 the office of general secretary have been recog- 

 nized by the presentation to him of his portrait 

 painted by Mr. Gerald Festus Kelly. 



The Tiedeman prize of the Senckenberg 

 Natural History Society of Frankfort has 

 been awarded to Dr. Richard Willstatter for 

 his researches on chlorophil. 



Dr. R. Hamlyn-Harris has been appointed 

 director of the Queensland Museum. 



Dr. Edmund B. Huey has resigned his posi- 

 tion as clinical psychologist to the Illinois 

 state institution for the feebleminded at Lin- 

 coln, Illinois, to continue clinical research at 

 the Johns Hopkins Hospital and in the city of 

 Baltimore. 



Professor Wm. B. Alwood, enological chem- 

 ist, in the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, 

 D. C, sailed on April 13 for Gibraltar and will 

 investigate viticultural conditions in Spain, 

 Italy, France and Germany. He will also 

 participate as a delegate in the International 

 Agricultural Congress at Madrid and in the 

 International Viticultural Congress at Mont- 

 pellier. Professor Alwood is on the program 

 for papers on the discovery of " Sucrose in 



American Grapes " and " On the Chemical 

 Composition of American Grapes." 



The Laysan Island Expedition from the 

 State University of Iowa sailed on April 5 

 from San Francisco on the U. S. Army Trans- 

 port Sherman. The party consists of professor 

 Homer R. Dill, in charge of the expedition, 

 Mr. Charles A. Corwin, of Chicago, artist, and 

 Messrs. Horace Young and Clarence Albright 

 assistants. These men are to be stationed on 

 the Island of Laysan in mid Pacific for a 

 period of about two months, and are to furnish 

 a detailed report to the U. S. Biological Sur- 

 vey, Department of Agriculture, regarding ttie 

 famous bird rookeries of Laysan, with special 

 reference to the effects of the raid made on 

 them by Japanese feather hunters about two 

 years ago. The island is a part of a " Bird 

 Preserve " by proclamation of President Roose- 

 velt, and the members of the expedition are 

 appointed as game wardens during the period 

 of their stay. The expedition is financed by 

 friends of the State University of Iowa, and 

 the party has permission to secure material for 

 a cycloramic exhibition of the bird rookeries 

 which is to be installed in the museum of 

 natural history of the university. 



Mr. Mauritz Sahlberg, of Sweden, is on an 

 extended visit to this country to study hydro- 

 electric developments for the department of 

 commerce of the Swedish government. 



On the evening of April 5, Professor G. W. 

 Eitchey, astronomer of the Solar Observatory 

 of the Carnegie Institution, delivered an il- 

 lustrated lecture before the Indiana Univei^ 

 sity chapter of Sigma Xi, on " Stellar Photog- 

 raphy." 



Dr. Elihu Thompson, of the General Elec- 

 tric Company, lectured on March 31 to the 

 students of Throop Polytechnic Institute, 

 Pasadena, Cal. 



We learn from Nature that it is proposed, 

 in memory of the late Dr. Louis Olivier, 

 founder of the Revue ginerale des sciences, 

 to publish a book containing contributions 

 from men of science and letters who knew M. 

 Olivier. The volume is to appear next August 

 for the anniversary of the death of M. Olivier, 



