December 11, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



851 



The annual meeting of the American An- 

 thropological Association will be held in 

 Philadelphia from December 28 to 31, in 

 affiliation with Section H of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 and the American Folk-Lore Society. Titles 

 for the joint program should be sent immedi- 

 ately to Professor George Grant MacGurdy, 

 secretary, Yale University Museum, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



been appointed by the Italian government pro- 

 fessor of tropical medicine in the University 

 of Naples, and the director of the royal clinic 

 for tropical diseases in the same city. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Michigan has revised the faculty salary 

 schedule of the literary department and the 

 academic divisions of the engineering depart- 

 ment. The revised and the original scales fol- 

 low: Instructors, $1,000-$1,600, formerly $900- 

 $1,400; assistant professors, $l,700-$2,000, 

 formerly $1,600-$1,800 ; junior professors, 

 $2,100-$2,400, formerly $2,000-$2,200 ; pro- 

 fessors, $2,500-$4,000, formerly $2,500-$3,500. 

 The revised scale affects 200 teachers, and in- 

 creases the year's budget by approximately 

 $40,000. 



Contracts have been let for the construc- 

 tion of Ida ISToyes Hall, the building which is 

 to serve the women students of the University 

 of Chicago as Bartlett Gymnasium and the 

 Reynolds Club, provide for the physical cul- 

 ture and social needs of the men. This build- 

 ing, a gift of Mr. La Verne Noyes as a me- 

 morial to his wife, will be completed in Jan- 

 uary, 1916, at a cost of over $450,000. 



Dr. Egger I. Lee, of Boston, has been 

 elected to the chair of hygiene recently estab- 

 lished at Harvard University. 



Dr. Howard Thomas Karsner, assistant 

 professor of pathology in the Harvard Med- 

 ical School, has been appointed professor of 

 pathology in the school of medicine of West- 

 ern Reserve University. 



Dr. John Pentland Mahaffy, known for 

 his work on Greek history, literature and so- 

 cial life, has been appointed provost of Trin- 

 ity College, Dublin. 



Dr. Aldo Castellani, director of the clinic 

 for tropical diseases, Colombo, Ceylon, has 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



A PECULIAR behavior OF CUMULUS CLOUDS OVER 



THE ILLINOIS RIVER VALLEY 



At noon on a bright day in mid-August, 

 1914, the writer noticed over the valley of the 

 Illinois River in Schuyler County, Illinois, a 

 phenomenon which he deems worthy of record. 

 The day was hot, with a brisk breeze from the 

 west, and clear except for light cumulus 

 clouds, uniformly and fairly closely spaced, 



Fig. 1. Sketeii of the portion of the IHinoia 

 Eiver Valley along which the phenomenon here 

 described was observed. Clear sky lay over the 

 swampy and forested portion of the valley north- 

 east of Beardstown while over the uplands and the 

 reclaimed bottomlands cumulus clouds were ob- 

 served. From the point of observation it could 

 not be determined whether the clouds began again 

 at the edge of the dune sand or at the eastern 

 blufle. 



moving rather rapidly with the wind. Dur- 

 ing a stop for lunch on the crest of the western 

 blufE-border of the valley between Frederick 

 and Browning (Fig. 1) attention was drawn 

 to the movement of the cumulus clouds over- 

 head. As a matter of curiosity a particular 



