Apbil 7, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



491 



Dr. William E. Faulkner, of Harvard Med- 

 ical School, has left for France where he -will 

 take charge of the second Harvard medical 

 Tinit. 



At its meeting held March 8, 1916, the 

 Eumford Committee of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences made the follow- 

 ing appropriations: Two hundred and fifty 

 dollars to Louis Y. King, of McGill Univer- 

 sity, in aid of his research on the determina- 

 tion of the molecular constants of gases over 

 the range of temperatures from 25° K. to 

 1273° K. One hundred and seventy -five dol- 

 lars in addition to a previous appropriation 

 for the purchase of a comparator to be loaned 

 to Eaymond T. Birge, of Syracuse University. 

 Dr. Th. Hesselberg has become director of 

 the Norwegian Bureau of Meteorology. 



TTarry S. Swaeth, formerly of the Field 

 Museum of Chicago, has been appointed cura- 

 tor of birds in the California Museum of Ver- 

 tebrate Zoology, supported by gift of Miss 

 Annie M. Alexander to the University of Cali- 

 fornia, the budget for this year being $12,000. 

 Dr. Stanley H. Osborn has been appointed 

 district health officer by the Massachusetts 

 State Department of Health. 



The board of health of Tuscaloosa, Ala., has 

 appointed A. F. Allen as assistant health 

 officer. Since his graduation from Harvard- 

 Technology School for Health Officers, Mr. 

 Allen has been connected with the health work 

 of Waltham, Mass., and with the epidemiolog- 

 ical work in Fitchburg, Mass. 



Alfred W. Bosworth, S.B., associate chem- 

 ist at the E"ew York Agricultm-al Experiment 

 Station, has been appointed biological chem- 

 ist for the Boston Floating Hospital. 



At a meeting of the board of government of 

 The National Association of Cotton Manu- 

 facturers, held on March 24, Mr. Charles H. 

 Fish was elected acting secretary to fill tem- 

 porarily the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Dr. Charles J. H. Woodbury. 



Professor E. M. Strong will conduct the 

 courses and investigations in ornithology at 

 the biological station of the University of 

 Michigan, located at Douglas Lake, Michigan. 



Commissioner George D. Pratt, of the New 

 York Conservation Commission, has secured 

 the services of Mr. Francis Harper, of New 

 York City, to make a detailed study of the 

 fishing waters of Oneida County, New York, 

 as a basis for scientific working plans for fish 

 stocking and protection. 



According to a cablegram received by the 

 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism the Car- 

 negie, under the command of Mr. J. P. Atdt, 

 arrived at Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, on 

 April 1, having successfully completed the cir- 

 cumnavigation of the globe between the paral- 

 lels 55 degrees south and 60 degrees south. 

 Errors in the existing magnetic charts to the 

 extent of 12 to 16 degrees were foimd. 



The fifteenth Eush Society lecture was 

 given on April 6, at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, by Professor John M. T. Finney, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, his subject being 

 " What Constitutes a Surgeon." This lecture 

 was also the annual address before the Under- 

 graduate Medical Society of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Dr. E. G. Aitken, astronomer of Lick Ob- 

 servatory, gave the regular monthly lecture 

 before the Stanford University Faculty Sci- 

 ence Association on March 22, 1916, on the 

 subject of "Binary Stars." 



Mr. George K. Oherrie lectured at the 

 American Musemn of Natural History on 

 March 17, to the adult blind of Greater New 

 York on "With Colonel Eoosevelt on the 

 Eiver of Doubt." Mr. Cherrie was the nat- 

 uralist detailed by the American Museum to 

 accompany Colonel Eoosevelt on the South 

 American trip which resulted in the discovery 

 of the Eiver "Duvida," now named Eiver 

 Roosevelt. 



At the meeting of the Eoyal Microscopical 

 Society on March 15, Professor J. Arthur 

 Thomson spoke on original factors in evolu- 

 tion, and Sir E. Eay Lankester on the sup- 

 posed exhibition of purpose and intelligence 

 by the foraminifera. 



At a meeting of the board of government of 

 The National Association of Cotton Manu- 



