October 23, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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quarters of the foundation will be in special 

 laboratories at tbe University of California 

 Medical School buildings on Parnassus 

 Avenue, San Francisco. 



Dr. Benjamin White, formerly director of 

 the department of bacteriology of the Hoag- 

 land Laboratory, Brooklyn, is now assistant 

 director of bacteriological laboratories of the 

 department of health, New York City, and is 

 in charge of the research and antitoxin labora- 

 tories at Otisville, and Dr. Harold Lyall, 

 formerly associate director of the department 

 of bacteriology of the Hoagland Laboratory, is 

 now bacteriologist at the OtisviUe laboratories. 



Dr. S. Moruulis has been placed in charge 

 of an investigation of the metabolism of fish 

 by the Bureau of Fisheries of Washington, 

 D. C. The investigation is being conducted in 

 the New York Aquarium and in the bio- 

 chemical laboratory of the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, Columbia University. 



Dr. W. J. DiLLiNG, of Aberdeen, has been 

 appointed to the newly established " Robert 

 Pollok " lectureship, for research in materia 

 medica and pharmacology, at the University 

 of Glasgow. 



Professor Albert Perry Brigham has re- 

 turned to Colgate University after spending 

 the past year in Europe. In August he gave 

 a course of seven lectures before the Oxford 

 University school of geography, on " Eegional 

 development and conservation problems in the 

 United States." 



Mr. Leo E. Miller, of the Eoosevelt expedi- 

 tion to South America, has completed plans 

 for another expedition. He will leave New 

 York within a few days for Porto Columbia, 

 where he will begin his trip of exploration in 

 the interest of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. The expedition is supported 

 by a gift of $5,000 from Mr. Eoosevelt. 



News has been received from Professor Wil- 

 liam M. Davis, formerly head of the Harvard 

 geological department, who after the meeting of 

 the British Association visited in late August 

 and early September the Great Barrier reefs 

 of the Queensland coast of northeastern Au- 

 stralia, and on September 11 sailed from 



Sydney via New 2fealand to the Society 

 Islands, where he expected to spend a month 

 examining Tahiti and other members of that 

 group. He expects to return to Cambridge 

 early in November. 



President Harry Pratt Judson, who has 

 been absent for six months from the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago in the prosecution of his 

 duties as chairman of the China Medical Com- 

 mission of the Eockefeller Foundation, sailed 

 from Yokohama, Japan, September 29 on the 

 Pacific Mail Steamship Mongolia. 



Professor Horatio H. Newman, of the de- 

 partment of zoology in the University of 

 Chicago, will give before the College Endow- 

 ment Association of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a 

 series of four lectures on the general subject 

 of " The Social Life of Animal Communities." 

 He will discuss in the opening lecture parental 

 care, mutual aid, and social life among ani- 

 mals. In the second lecture will be considered 

 community life among bees and wasps, and 

 recent discoveries concerning their habits and 

 intelligence. In the third lecture he wiU dis- 

 cuss ant communities, their agriculture, 

 armies, battles, and slavery; and in the last, 

 the most complex insect communities — ^term- 

 ites or white ants. 



Miss Ellen B. Scripps has made a gift of 

 $35,000 (in addition to $60,000 previously sub- 

 scribed by herself) for a pier, pumping plant 

 and additional equipment for the Scripps In- 

 stitution for Biological Eesearch, at La JoUa, 

 near San Diego, California. For its mainten- 

 ance she gives yearly to the University of Cali- 

 fornia $10,000. 



The annual meeting of the Association of 

 American Universities will be held at Prince- 

 ton on November 6 and 7. 



The annual meeting of the Society of 

 American Bacteriologists will be held in 

 Philadelphia, December 29, 30 and 31, 1914, 

 under the presidency of Professor Charles E. 

 Marshall. The session programs will be ar- 

 ranged as follows : 

 Tuesday, A.M. Systematic Bacteriology, H. A. 



Harding, Urbana, 111. 

 Tuesday, p.m. Technique, G. F. Euediger, La 



Salle, 111. 



