July 17, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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charge of the bubonic plague extermination 

 measures at New Orleans. 



George Chandler Whipple, Gordon McKay- 

 professor of sanitary engineering at Harvard 

 University, has been appointed by the Board 

 of Estimate and Apportionment of the City 

 of New York a member of the committee on 

 building districts and restrictions. 



Dr. John H. Finlet, New York state com- 

 missioner of education, has sailed for Europe 

 to represent the United States at the Inter- 

 national Conference on Education to be held 

 at The Hague. Dr. Einley will spend some 

 time in Germany investigating educational 

 administration in Berlin and other large cities. 



Messrs. Allen, Brewster, Chapman, Dwight, 

 Jos. Grinnell, Merriam, Nelson, Oberholser, 

 Palmer, Eichmond, Ridgway and Stone 

 have been appointed a " committee on classi- 

 fication and nomenclature of North American 

 birds " by the American Ornithologist's Union. 



Mr. W. O. Redman King, lecturer in zool- 

 ogy at the University of Leeds, has been ap- 

 pointed Ray Lankester investigator at the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory in Plymouth, 

 in succession to Professor E. L. Bouvier, of 

 Paris. The investigator is required to under- 

 take research work of his own choosing at the 

 laboratory for a period of five months, the 

 emolument being £Y0. 



During the third and fourth weeks of June 

 Professor C. J. Keyser, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, delivered a series of three lectures on 

 science and religion at the University of Mon- 

 tana. 



Dr. Walther Nernst, professor of physical 

 chemistry at the University of Berlin, has 

 spent six weeks giving lectures at the Univer- 

 sity of La Plata. Plans are being made for 

 an exchange of professors between the Prus- 

 sian and Argentine governments. 



In memory of their father. Sir W. Lawrence, 

 E.R.S., and of their brother. Sir Trevor Law- 

 rence, the Misses L. E. and M. W. Lawrence 

 have presented £4,000 to the Royal Society in 

 trust to devote the interest to the furtherance 

 of research into the cause and cure of disease 



in man and animals in such manner as the 

 president and council may from time to time 

 determine. 



Professor Seth Eugene Meek, assistant 

 curator of zoology at the Field Museum of 

 Natural History, Chicago, died on June 6 of 

 illness brought on by exi>osure during an ex- 

 pedition in Mexico. Professor Meek, who was 

 fifty-five years of age, was an authority on 

 fishes and reptUes. 



Mr. Thomas Thorp, of Manchester, known 

 in connection with his transparent celluloid 

 replicas of Rowland's and other difEraction 

 gratings, died on June 13. 



The death is announced of Professor Karl 

 Dammann, until recently president of the 

 veterinary school of Hanover. 



The archeologist, M. Georges Perrot, perma- 

 nent secretary of the Paris Academy of In- 

 scriptions and Belles Lettres, died on June 30. 



The U. S. CivU Service Commission an- 

 nounces an open competitive examination for 

 positions in the Children's Bureau, Depart- 

 ment of Labor, Washington, D. C, as follows : 

 Expert on sanitation at a salary of $2,800; so- 

 cial science expert at a salary of $2,000, and 

 statistical expert at a salary of $2,000. These 

 positions are open to both men and women. 



The New York Civil Service Commission 

 announces an open competitive examination 

 on July 28 for analytical chemist for the State 

 Reservation Conmiission, Saratoga Springs, 

 with a salary of $1,200, and an examination 

 for an assistant chemist in the state depart- 

 ment of agriculture at a salary of from $800 

 to $1,200. 



The laboratory for ship and tropical dis- 

 eases at Hamburg, erected and equipped at a 

 cost of about $600,000, of which Professor 

 Nocht is director, was recently formally 

 opened. 



An institute for the history of medicine has 

 been established at the University of Vienna. 

 It has acquired within a year a library of 

 3,000 volumes and a large collection of manu- 

 scripts, letters and instruments. 



