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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1039 



Dr. John L. Heffron, dean of the College 

 of Medicine of Syracuse University, has been 

 appointed a member of the advisory medical 

 council of the state university for a term of 

 five years. 



Karl F. Kellerman has been recently pro- 

 moted from the position of physiologist in 

 charge of soil bacteriology investigations to 

 be physiologist and assistant chief of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. 



Dr. F. B. Powers is about to retire from 

 the directorship of the Wellcome Chemical Ee- 

 search Laboratories, London, on December 1, 

 in order to return to the United States. His 

 period of service dates from the foundation 

 of these laboratories by Mr. H. S. "Wellcome 

 in 1896. Dr. Power will be succeeded by Dr. 

 F. L. Pyman. The character and policy of 

 the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories 

 will continue as in the past. 



We learn from Nature that by the will of 

 W. Erasmus Darwin, eldest son of Charles 

 Darwin, the Royal Society of London is be- 

 queathed the sum of £1,650; his nephew, Mr. 

 C. Galton Darwin, receives the portraits of 

 Charles Darwin by Lawrence and Ouless, as 

 well as Darwin's medals. Royal Society's 

 candlesticks, snuff-box, christening mug, auto- 

 biography, notebook on children, two early 

 sketches of " The Origin of Species," two 

 volumes of " Hooker's Correspondence," the 

 family Bible, the old Dutch brass-bound box 

 containing the family papers, the letters 

 written home from the BeagUj and pictures 

 and miniatures. The desire is expressed that 

 these relics should always be kept in the 

 family. 



Professor Herman J. Klein, director of the 

 Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory 

 of Cologne, editor of Sirius, has died at the 

 age of seventy-two years. 



Mr. C. F. Adams, head of the department of 

 physics of the Detroit Central High School, 

 died on October 29, in his sixtieth year. 



The American Physical Society holds a 

 meeting in Chicago on November 27 and 28. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the 

 American Philosophical Association will be 



held at Chicago, 111., on December 28, 29 and 

 30, in acceptance of the invitation of the philo- 

 sophical department of the University of Chi- 

 cago. The Western Philosophical Association 

 will meet in Chicago at the same time, and 

 all sessions will be participated in by both 

 associations. The Political Science Associa- 

 tion also convenes at Chicago, and on Decem- 

 ber 29, in the afternoon, this association will 

 join the two philosophical associations in a 

 discussion of the subject of Democracy and 

 Responsibility. In addition to this joint dis- 

 cussion there wiU be a discussion by the two 

 philosophical associations of the subject se- 

 lected by the executive committee of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Association as the main 

 topic at this meeting. This subject is " The 

 Interpretation of Justice, with Special Refer- 

 ence to Problems forced to the Front by Pres- 

 ent Economic, Social and Political Condi- 

 tions." 



It is announced that the award of the 

 Nobel prizes for medicine, literature, chemis- 

 try and physics will be postponed till next 

 year. It is proposed in future, as we have al- 

 ready noted, to make the formal distribution 

 of the prizes every year in June instead of 

 December 10, the anniversary of M. Nobel's 

 death, when the awards will merely be an- 

 nounced. 



Applications for the Sarah Berliner fellow- 

 ship for women of the value of one thousand 

 dollars, available for study and research in 

 physics, chemistry and biology, should be in 

 the hands of the chairman of the committee, 

 Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, 527 Cathedral 

 Parkway, New York, by January 1. 



Last summer the government of New Zea- 

 land took advantage of the meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in Australia to invite a number of 

 guests, including fifteen Americans and Cana- 

 dians, whose names were given in Science at 

 the time, to join in supplementary meetings 

 in New Zealand. The plan was to hold a two- 

 days' session in Wellington and in Christ 

 Church. The war interfered with the carry- 

 ing out of the program which had been 

 planned by the New Zealand committee. When 



