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urer, Mr. Bedford HdSTeill. In addition 

 to these oifieers the members of the new cotin- 

 cil are: Mr. H. Bury, Professor J. Cadman, 

 Professor C. G. Cullis, Mr. E. M. Deeley, Pro- 

 fessor W. G. Fearnsides, Dr. W. Gibson, Dr. 

 P. L. Kitchin, Dr. J. E. Marr, Mr. E. D. Old- 

 ham, Mr. E. H. Eastall, Professor T. P. 

 Sibly, Professor "W. J. Sollas, Dr. J. J. H. 

 Teall and Mr. W. Whitaker. 



The Vienna School of Technology has con- 

 ferred its honorary doctorate of engineering on 

 Professor Alexander Bauer, formerly pro- 

 fessor of chemistiy there, who recently cele- 

 brated his eightieth birthday. 



Dr. E. Willstatter, professor of chemistry 

 at Berlin, has been elected a foreign member 

 of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. 



At the conclusion of the present semester 

 Dr. Hasse, professor of anatomy in Breslau 

 since 1873, will retire from active service. 



Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, Eush professor of 

 physiological chemistry at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, sailed on March 11 for Ger- 

 many where he will engage in Eed Gross work 

 as an attache of the American embassy at Ber- 

 lin. 



Dr. Joseph A. Blake, formerly professor of 

 surgery in Columbia University, has been 

 made chief of the surgical center in the De- 

 partment of the Seine and Oise, placing him 

 in direct control of six military hospitals. 



Professor Arthur G. McCall, of the Ohio 

 State University department of agronomy, 

 has resigned to take charge of the soil investi- 

 gation work at the Maryland Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, effective at the close of the 

 academic year. 



Dr. H. E. Ehlers, professor of experimental 

 engineering, in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, has been appointed assistant chief of 

 the bureau of engineering of the Pennsylvania 

 Public Service Commission. During the re- 

 mainder of this semester Dr. Ehlers will spend 

 two days of each week at the university. 



Dr. Leonard T. Troland, who received ap- 

 pointment at Harvard University to the 

 Sheldon (non-resident) fellowship for the 



year 1915-16, is spending the year in Ifela 

 Eesearch Laboratory. Mr. George P. Luckey, 

 who has spent the past two years in graduate 

 work at Gottingen University, has been ap- 

 pointed Charles P. Brush fellow in physics in 

 !N'ela Eesearch Laboratory for the year 1915- 

 1916. 



Dr. J. D. Palconer, lecturer in geography 

 in Glasgow University and Swiney lecturer in 

 geology at the British Museum, has been ap- 

 pointed temporary assistant district officer in 

 the northern provinces of Nigeria. 



President Charles E. Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, lectured under the 

 auspices of the Sigma Xi Society at the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota on March 17. The sub- 

 ject of the lecture was " The Panama Canal, 

 with Especial Eeference to the Slides." Presi- 

 dent Van Hise is chairman of the commission 

 appointed at the request of President Wilson 

 by the National Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences to investigate the slides, and has re- 

 cently returned from a trip to Panama. 



A meeting of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences was held in the auditorium of the 

 New National Museum on March 23, when Dr. 

 L. H. Baekeland delivered an illustrated ad- 

 dress entitled " Chemistry in Eelation to the 

 War." 



At the meeting of the Michigan Academy 

 of Sciences this week. Professor Ernst A. 

 Bessey, professor of botany at the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, and president of the 

 academy, gives an address on " The Sexual 

 Cycle in Plants." Dr. Charles D. Davenport, 

 director of the Station for Experimental Evo- 

 lution of the Carnegie Institution, lectures on 

 " The Eelation of Juvenile Promise to Adult 

 Performance." 



A COURSE of eight lectures on " Problems 

 and Methods in Dynamic Psychology," by Pro- 

 fessor Eaymond Dodge, is being given at 

 Columbia University on Mondays and Tues- 

 days from March 27 to April 18. 



Before the department of geology of Colum- 

 bia University a series of lectures on the " Na- 

 ture and Bearings of Isostasy " is being de- 



