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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLUI. No. 1112 



A. W. RiCHTER, dean of engineering at the 

 Montana State College, was elected president 

 of the Montana Society of Engineers at the 

 annual meeting which took place at Helena on 

 April 7 and 8. 



The 722d meeting of the Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Washington will be held at the Cosmos 

 Club, on April 20, when the address of the 

 evening will be by Dr. R. A. Millikan, of the 

 University of Chicago, on " Some Recent As- 

 pects of the Radiation Problem." Members of 

 the American Physical Society are invited to 

 attend this meeting, which will be followed by 

 a social hour. 



At the regular monthly meeting of the Cos- 

 mos Club, Washington, held on April 10, Dr. 

 W. T. Swingle delivered an address on " Im- 

 pressions of a Visit to Japan." 



Dr. Frederick H. Getman delivered a lec- 

 ture on the " ITature of the Chemical Ele- 

 ments " before the Science Club of Wellesley 

 College on April 11. 



Professor W. S. Franklin delivered a lec- 

 ture on " Electric Waves " before the depart- 

 ment of Electrical Engineering of the Uni- 

 versity of niinois on April 6. He also spoke 

 before the Physics Club on " Some Mechan- 

 ical Analogies in Electricity and Magnetism." 

 Two other lectures were given by Professor 

 Franklin, one on the " Curved Flight of a 

 Baseball " and the other on " Bill's School and 

 Mine." 



Professor Liberty H. Bailey, of Ithaca; 

 Dr. Ernest Burnham, of Kalamazoo; Presi- 

 dent Kenyon L. Butterfield, of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, and Professor E. 

 R. Groves, of the New Hampshire College, will 

 deliver courses of lectures at the summer grad- 

 uate school of the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions which will be held this year at Amherst, 

 Mass., at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



The anniversary meeting of the British 

 Chemical Society was held on March 30, when 

 Dr. Alexander Scott delivered his presidential 

 address, entitled " Our Seventy-fifth Anniver- 

 sary." 



Dr. William Palmer Bolles died at Santa 

 Barbara, Cal., on March 18. He was pro- 

 fessor of materia medica and botany in the 

 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy from 1874 

 to 1884, and instructor in materia medica and 

 therapeutics in the Harvard Medical School 

 from 1880 to 1884. He was until his retire- 

 ment in 1908 surgeon at the Boston City Hos- 

 pital. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



With the exception of chemistry, all the de- 

 partments of the Johns Hopkins University 

 will be transferred to Homewood by October, 

 1916. The Johns Hopkins Club has contracted 

 to take over the Carroll House on the Home- 

 wood campus. 



By the will of the late Colonel E. A. Knox 

 the New York Medical College and Hospital 

 for Women receives a bequest of $5,000. 



Dr. E. D. Ball, director of the experiment 

 station and school of agriculture of the Utah 

 Agricultural College has resigned to take effect 

 at the end of the present year. Dr. Ball plans 

 to go back into entomological work. Dr. F. S. 

 Harris, professor of agronomy, has been elected 

 director of the e.xperiment station, and Dr. 

 G. R. Hill, professor of botany and plant 

 pathology, director of the school of agricul- 

 ture. 



Dr. ISTellis B. Foster, assistant professor of 

 medicine at Cornell University Medical 

 School, has accepted the appointment of pro- 

 fessor of medicine at the University of Mich- 

 igan, Ann Arbor. 



Dr. Frank Worthington Lynch, formerly 

 associate professor of obstetrics at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has been made full pro- 

 fessor of obstetrics at the University of Cali- 

 fornia, succeeding J. Morris Siemens, 1900, 

 who has accepted a similar chair at Tale. 



Dr. Ernest Laplace, who has been professor 

 of surgery and clinical surgery in the Medico- 

 Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, for the last 

 twenty years, has accepted also the duties of 

 professor of principles of surgery and clinical 

 surgery held by the late Dr. Rodman. 



