November 13, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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involved in the Use of the Bone Graft in 

 Surgery." 



Sir Almroth Wright has been appointed 

 consulting physician to the British army in 

 the field. 



Mr. Herbert K. Job, who for the past four 

 years has been state ornithologist of Con- 

 necticut and lecturer on ornithology at the 

 Connecticut Agricultural College, has resigned 

 to take up work along similar lines for the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies. 



Dr. Grace L. Meigs has been appointed by 

 Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the children's 

 bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, as 

 expert on sanitation on the staff of that 

 bureau. Dr. Meigs has recently been attend- 

 ing physician in children's diseases in Cook 

 County Hospital, and will act in a general 

 advisory capacity to the bureau in matters of 

 child health and hygiene. 



Professor W. K. Hatt, of Purdue Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed by the county com- 

 missioners of Marion County, to report on the 

 design of the West Washington Street bridge 

 over White River at Indianapolis. 



Dr. M. a. Rosanofp, professor of research 

 chemistry in the Mellon Institute of Industrial 

 Eesearch, University of Pittsburgh, will give 

 a series of about twenty-five lectures on the 

 general subject " Equilibria in Heterogeneous 

 Systems " beginning Tuesday evening, Novem- 

 ber 3, 1914. 



Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, of Stanford 

 University, is giving in November a series of 

 four lectures on " Heredity " before the Asso- 

 ciated Charities of San Francisco. 



Professor William E. Eitter, of the depart- 

 ment of zoology of the University of Cali- 

 fornia and director of the Scripp's Institute 

 for Biological Eesearch, addressed on Novem- 

 ber 4 members of the zoological department, 

 graduate students and faculty members at the 

 University of Hlinois on the work of the 

 institute. 



Mr. G. E. Mines, fellow of Sidney Sussex 

 College, Cambridge, and professor of physiol- 

 ogy in McGill University, died on November 

 Y, at the age of twenty-nine years. Professor 

 Mines died while making experiments in his 



laboratory on the action of the heart, appar- 

 ently as the result of some failure in the 

 apparatus. 



Dr. Henry Gannett, geographer of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey since 1882, president of the 

 National Geographic Society, the author of 

 contributions to typographical surveying, 

 statistics and geography, died in Washington 

 on November 5, aged sixty-eight years. 



Dr. Friedrich von Graner, director of the 

 Forestry Bureau in Stuttgart, has died at the 

 age of sixty-eight years. 



At the meeting of the Association of Amer- 

 ican Universities, held at Princeton Univer- 

 sity last week, papers were presented by Presi- 

 dent George E. Vincent, of the University of 

 Minnesota, on " The Granting of Honorary 

 Degrees " ; by Mr. George Parmly Day, treas- 

 urer of Tale University, on " The Function 

 and Organization of University Presses," on 

 " State Agencies of University Publication,'' 

 prepared by Professor John C. Merriam, Uni- 

 versity of California, and presented by Dean 

 Armin O. Leuschner, and on " Economy of 

 Time in Education," by President A. Law- 

 rence Lowell, of Harvard University. 



The seventh annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Chemical Engineers will be 

 held in Philadelphia, Pa., from December 

 2 to 5. A program of excursions to a number 

 of the large chemical manufacturing plants in 

 and around Philadelphia is being arranged. 

 A number of addresses and papers on " The 

 Present Opportunities for American Chem- 

 ical Industries " will be delivered by promi- 

 nent chemical engineers and business men. 



The New England Geological Excursion, 

 which was announced for October 16-17, was 

 given up on account of rain. 



Governor Eberhart, of Minnesota, has is- 

 sued a proclamation setting aside the week of 

 November 29 to December 5 for the study of 

 general health problems. 



In accord with the unanimous vote of the 

 first Pennsylvania Industrial Welfare and Effi- 

 ciency Conference held in Harrisburg last 

 year, John Price Jackson, commissioner of 

 labor and industry, has issued a caU for a sec- 



