September 25, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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The Paris Academy of Medicine has de- 

 cided unanimously that all its members will 

 place themselves at the disposal of the gOTern- 

 ment for any purpose for which they may be 

 useful to the country. It has asked to be 

 given the necessary animals and apparatus for 

 manufacturing and applying small-pox and 

 antityphoid vaccines. 



The British pharmaceutical committee, 

 which is advising the government on the ques- 

 tion of the rise in price of various drugs, is 

 said to be holding frequent meetings. It con- 

 sists of Messrs. Edmund White, E. T. Nether- 

 coat, 0. A. Hill, John 0. Umney and W. J. U. 

 Woolcock. Information is in the hands of the 

 committee to the effect that the prices of cer- 

 tain drugs are inflated by reason of the action 

 of particular dealers. 



De. Aug. Agneur, formerly professor of 

 medicine at Lyons, and recently minister of 

 education in the French government, has be- 

 come minister of marine. 



Mr. Adolph Rollopf, director of the State 

 Botanical Garden in Tiflis, Russia, is visiting 

 the botanical gardens of the United States. 



Ajsr Institute of Oceanography has been 

 established in Spain under the direction of 

 Professor Odon de Buen. 



The Ohio State Board of Administration 

 has established a psychological bureau to study 

 and care for juvenile delinquents. In addi- 

 tion to the chief of the bureau, whose salary 

 is $3,500 a year, a staff of eight assistants is 

 planned, including three psychologists, a diag- 

 nostician and a bacteriologist. Dr. Thomas 

 H. Haines, professor of psychology in the Ohio 

 State University, has been appointed chief 

 of the bureau. 



The Thirteenth Intercollegiate Geological 

 Excursion will be held in the vicinity of 

 Daltin on October 16 and 17, under the direc- 

 tion of Professor B. K. Emerson. A prelimin- 

 ary meeting will be held at the Wendell in 

 Pittsfield on October 16 at 7:30. 



The home of Mr. Wallace Craig, at Orono, 

 Me., was ruined by fire on August 16. The 

 pigeons whose social behavior was under in- 

 vestigation were destroyed. However, the ex- 



periments on these individual birds were prac- 

 tically finished, and after rebuilding and buy- 

 ing a new flock of pigeons for observation, 

 Mr. Craig will write up the results of his 

 investigation. 



Professor Oliver C. Lester, of the Univer- 

 sity of Colorado, has been in charge of a geo- 

 logical survey party studying the radium 

 deposits in the southern part of the state. 



Dr. J. J. Tauberhaus, previously assistant 

 pathologist of the Delaware College Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, has been promoted 

 to be associate research plant pathologist. 



Dr. Harold C. Bryant, assistant curator of 

 birds in the University of California museum 

 of vertebrate zoology, who for the past year 

 has engaged in studying the game birds of 

 California, has accepted a position with the 

 California State Eish and Game Commission. 

 Although research work on the game birds 

 and mammals of the state will be carried on, 

 his work will be largely educational, as the 

 commission believes that the protection and 

 preservation of game is more effectually fur- 

 thered by an appreciation of the value of this 

 resource than through the maintenance of a 

 large police force. Dr. Bryant's work on 

 game birds in the museum of vertebrate zool- 

 ogy will be assumed by Tracy I. Storer, M.S., 

 of the department of zoology of the Univer- 

 sity of California. 



Dk. Adolf Remele, professor in the forest 

 school at Eberswald, has celebrated his seventy- 

 fifth birthday and the fiftieth anniversary of 

 his doctorate. 



Dr. Eugene Koeschel, professor of zoology 

 at Marburg, has been elected rector of the 

 university for the coming year. 



Dr. August Gartner, professor of hygiene 

 at Jena, has retired from active service. 



" The Nature and Control of Hunger " was 

 the subject of two lectures at the University of 

 Chicago on August 19 and 20, by Associate 

 Professor Anton Julius Carlson, of the de- 

 partment of physiology. On August 21 As- 

 sociate Professor Henry Chandler Cowles, of 

 the department of botany, concluded his series 



