January 14, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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partments interested primarily in teaching. 

 To emphasize some of these possibilities 

 and opportunities, as exemplified in our de- 

 partment at Pennsylvania during the last 

 five years, in the hope that our experience 

 may be of benefit to other universities, is 

 the principal object of this exposition. 



Richard M. Peakce 



Univeesity of Pennsylvania 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Eugene Woldemar Hilgaed, professor 

 of agriculture in the University of California 

 from 1875 until his retirement in 1904, dis- 

 tinguished for his contributions to agricul- 

 tural chemistry and geology, died on January 

 8, in his eighty-fourth year. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science held a special meeting in 

 Washington on January 3 and 4, in honor of 

 the Pan-American Congress. On the evening 

 of January 3 Dr. R. S. Woodward, president of 

 the Carnegie Institution, presided, and Dr. W. 

 W. Campbell, president of the American As- 

 sociation, delivered an illustrated address on 

 the " Evolution of the Stars." On January 4 

 two sessions were held at the new Ifational 

 Museum when programs were presented re- 

 lating mainly to the natural history of South 

 America. 



The Italian government has placed the 

 zoological station at Naples under the control 

 of a royal commission, of which F. Sav. 

 Monticelli, professor of zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of Naples, is president. The commis- 

 sion announces that it will furnish means to 

 continue the work of the station, and engage- 

 ments entered into in regard to tables for re- 

 search. 



Dr. EEro Hunt, of the Harvard Medical 

 School, has been elected president of the Amer- 

 ican Society for Pharmacology and Experi- 

 mental Therapeutics. 



Dr. Samuel G. Dixon has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, for the twenty-first time and 

 executive curator for the twenty-fifth time. 



Robert Bradford Marshall, chief geog- 

 rapher of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, has been appointed superintendent of na- 

 tional parks. 



Dr. John S. Billings, Jr., has been ap- 

 pointed deputy health commissioner of New 

 York. 



Mr. Bueian, the Austrian premier, is re- 

 ported to have suggested through a neutral 

 ambassador that Dr. Robert Barany, the 

 Viennese aurist and winner of the Nobel prize 

 in medicine, now a prisoner in Russia, be ex- 

 changed for a Russian prisoner held in Aus- 

 tria. 



Dr. Alfred Irving Ludlow, professor of 

 surgery and surgical pathology, Seoul Medical 

 College, Korea, will sail for the Orient to re- 

 sume his duties on January 8, 1916. 



Professor George Nell Stewart, director 

 of the H. K. Cushing Laboratory of Experi- 

 mental Medicine, Western Reserve University, 

 has returned from abroad. 



The magnetic survey vessel, the Carnegie, 

 at present under the command of J. P. Ault, 

 of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 

 arrived at Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, on 

 November 3, after a successful continuous 

 trip of ninety days from Dutch Harbor, 

 Alaska. Leaving Port Lyttelton on Decem- 

 ber 5, the Carnegie is now engaged on the ac- 

 complishment of the circumnavigation of the 

 region between the parallels 30° and 60° south, 

 where almost no magnetic data have been se- 

 cured during the past 75 years. 



A biological expedition to the island of 

 Santo Domingo will be undertaken next fall 

 by Professor J. G. Needham, of the depart- 

 ment of entomology in the college of agricul- 

 ture, Cornell University. He will be accom- 

 panied by his son, J. T. Needham, '18, and by 

 Ludlow Griscom and K. P. Schmidt, both as- 

 sistants in his department. 



Professor C. P. Berkey, of the department 

 of geology of Columbia University, has just 

 completed a series of investigations of the 

 geology of New York City. He has mapped 

 out a scheme to save borings or explorations 

 for any project in the city, such as aqueducts. 



