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ation of Ms studies on the phenomena of molecular 

 transposition in organic chemistry. 



In conformity with authorization by the 

 minister of justice and public instruction a 

 small expedition was despatched from the 

 Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba to 

 Venezuela to observe the total eclipse of the 

 sun on February 3. The expedition is in 

 charge of Astronomer Chaudet and is equipped 

 with two cameras for photographing the 

 corona, two prismatic cameras for the flash and 

 coronal spectrum, a small slit spectrograph and 

 a photometer. It was expected to occupy a 

 station in or near Tucacas. 



The post of mining geologist in the ministry 

 of agriculture and commerce of China has 

 been offered to Dr. Warren D. Smith, pro- 

 fessor of geology in the University of Oregon. 

 Dr. Smith went to the university in Septem- 

 ber, 1913, from the Philippines, where he was 

 chief of the division of mines in the bureau of 

 science. He had been in government service 

 in the Philippines nine and a half years. 



Dr. Otto Schoebl has resigned as assistant 

 director of the quarantine laboratory, port of 

 l^ew York, health officers' department, to ac- 

 cept a position in the Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



Dr. William J. Means, one of the organ- 

 izers of the Ohio State University and dean of 

 the Starling- Ohio Medical University since 

 the merger in 1907, has resigned, to take effect 

 June 30, on account of impaired health and 

 age. 



Professor J. H. Faull, of Toronto Univer- 

 sity, recently spent nearly two weeks at the 

 New York Botanical Garden in a study of 

 herbarium material of the Polyporacese, with 

 special reference to collections made in On- 

 tario. 



Professor H. V. Tartar, whose publications 

 on the results of his research investigations 

 with arsenical sprays have materially modified 

 certain spraying practises, has been granted a 

 two-year leave of absence as head of the 

 Oregon Experiment Station Department of 

 Chemistry, to pursue research work at some 

 of the leading eastern universities. 

 Professor J. E. Kraus, research specialist 



in horticulture at the Oregon Agricultural 

 College, has been given a two-year leave of 

 absence to continue studies in eastern uni- 

 versities. He will first spend some time with 

 the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry investi- 

 gating certain pollination problems at Miami, 

 Florida, after which he will begin his investi- 

 gational studies at Chicago. 



Dr. Charles S. Pancoast, Philadelphia, 

 who went to Vienna in December, 1914, is 

 now in charge of a 4,000-bed hospital at 

 Munkacz in the Carpathians. 



Dr. Aylmer May, principal medical officer 

 of northern Rhodesia, has been selected by the 

 British war office to undertake research work 

 on the western front in connection with wound 

 infection. 



Dr. H. M. Woodcock, assistant to the late 

 Professor E. A. Minchin, has been appointed 

 acting head of the department of protozoology 

 at the Lister Institute, London. 



The Minnesota and Wisconsin Chapters of 

 the Society of Sigma Xi have established an 

 annual exchange lectureship. For the present 

 year President Charles R. Van Hise will rep- 

 resent Wisconsin in a lecture at the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota on March 17. Professor 

 E. M. Freeman will be the Minnesota repre- 

 sentative in a lecture at the University of 

 Wisconsin at some date during the second 

 semester. 



Professor Willum T. Councilman, of Har- 

 vard University, will lecture before the Ex- 

 perimental Medicine Section of the Cleveland 

 Academy of Medicine on February 11. His 

 subject is " Glioma." 



The sixth lecture of the Harvey Society 

 series delivered at the New York Academy of 

 Medicine, on February 5, was by Dr. Hideyo 

 ISToguchi, of the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, on " Spirochetes." 



The Guthrie lecture of the Physical Society 

 was delivered at the Imperial College of Sci- 

 ence on January 28, by Mr. W. B. Hardy, on 

 the subject " Some Problems of Living 

 Matter." 



The Prussian ministry of public instruction 

 has ordered the erection of a bust of von 



