April 14, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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Barrett, Michigan Geological and ISTatural 

 History Survey; Economics, F. A. Carlton, 

 Albion College; Sanitary and Medical Science, 

 H. "W. Emerson, Pasteiir Institute; Secretary 

 and Treasurer, Eichard de Zeeuw, Michigan 

 Agricultural College; Editor, E. A. Smith, 

 Michigan Geological and ITatural History 

 Survey; Librarian, Crystal Thompson, Mu- 

 seum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 



We learn from Nature that Second Lieu- 

 tenant G. I. Taylor has been appointed to the 

 temporary rank of major in the British Eoyal 

 Flying Corps, while performing the duties of 

 professor of meteorology. Major Taylor is a 

 fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to whom 

 the Adams prize was recently awarded. Up to 

 the outbreak of war he held the Schuster read- 

 ership of the Meteorological Office at the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge. The professorship of 

 meteorology to which Major Taylor is ap- 

 pointed is a new establishment, for which the 

 meteorological office is responsible, for in- 

 struction and special researches in the struc- 

 ture of the atmosphere in the interest of the 

 Eoyal Flying Corps. 



Sir Thomas H. Holland, F.E.S., professor 

 of geology and mineralogy in the University 

 of Manchester, has been appointed chairman of 

 a commission which the British government 

 is forming to survey the economic resources 

 and industrial possibilities of India. 



Dr. Eaymond F. Bacon, director of the 

 Mellon Institute for Industrial Eesearch of 

 the University of Pittsburgh, has been ap- 

 pointed by the secretary of the navy as an 

 associate member of the ITaval Consulting 

 Board and a director on the board of organi- 

 zation for industrial preparedness in Penn- 

 sylvania. 



E. 0. Bingham, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, '05), 

 who for the past few years has been professor 

 of chemistry in Eichmond College, Eichmond, 

 Virginia, is spending the year 1915-16 in the 

 Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. 0. 



Chester W. Washbuene, formerly with the 

 United States Geological Survey, has returned 

 to the United States after two years in the 



Belgian Congo where he went to prospect for 

 oil. 



The scientific staff of the biological station 

 of the University of Michigan, at Douglas 

 Lake, Michigan, has been completed as fol- 

 lows: Director, 0. C. Glaser; ornithology, E. 

 M. Strong ; vertebrate zoology and entomology, 

 M. M. Ellis; parasitology, W. W. Cort; plant 

 ecology, F. C. Gates; systematic botany, J. H. 

 Ehlers; field and forest botany, E. M. Holman; 

 assistants, E. M. Hall, M. Eeynolds and C. B. 

 Cotner. 



The Mellon Institute of the University of 

 Pittsburgh will exchange services between its 

 department of research in pure chemistry and 

 the graduate departments of chemistry in other 

 universities. Professor M. A. EosanofE will 

 lecture for a week at each of the other uni- 

 versities while a representative from that insti- 

 tution lectures at the Mellon Institute. Pro- 

 fessor Harkins, of the University of Chicago, 

 and Professor Washburn, of the University of 

 Illinois, have arranged to go to Mellon Insti- 

 tute, and Professor Bogert, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, will probably lecture at the institute 

 later in the year. 



Dr. William H. Welch, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, delivered a lecture before the 

 Book and Journal Club of the Medical and 

 Chirurgical Faculty of Medicine, March 22, 

 on " The Development of Medicine in the 

 Orient." 



Professor Joseph Jastrow, of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, addressed the Sigma Xi 

 Society of the University of Indiana on 

 March 28 on "The Expression of the Emo- 

 tions," and delivered the Convocation address 

 at that university on March 29 on "Theory 

 and Practise." On March 29, he gave the 

 Sigma Xi address at Purdue University on 

 " The Sources of Human E'ature." 



Professor A. W. Goodspeed, director of the 

 Eandal Morgan Laboratory of Physics, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, gave a series of three 

 illustrated lectures at the Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences on the X-rays on the 

 evenings of February 25, March 3 and 10. 



