Apbil 28, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



599 



that point to examine old ruins and make 

 archeological studies. 



Dr. Frank A. Herald has recently returned 

 to America from China, where he has been 

 making geological investigations of the pos- 

 sibilities of oil and gas fields for the Standard 

 Oil Company of New York. 



The staff of the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory 

 of the University of Iowa, on Lake Okoboji, 

 Iowa, will be as follows for 1916: Director, 

 B. Shimek, University of Iowa ; zoology, T. C. 

 Stephens, Morningside College; geology, J. L. 

 Tilton, Simpson College ; botany, A. F. Ewers, 

 McKinley High School, St. Louis; zoology 

 during August, F. A. Stromsten, University 

 of Iowa. Assistants, D. H. Boot, Zoe Frazier, 

 Eva Cresswell, W. J. Himmel. The regular 

 summer session, during which courses will be 

 offered, will run from June 19 to July 31. 

 The usual research session wiU be held during 

 August. 



The annual address of the Pathological So- 

 ciety of Philadelphia was delivered by Dr. 

 William H. Park, ISTew York, at the College of 

 Physicians and Siirgeons, on April 27. 



The annual Cutter lecture, on "Preventive 

 Medicine and Hygiene," was delivered at the 

 Harvard Medical School on Monday, April 3, 

 by Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the 

 Hygienic Laboratory of the United States 

 Public Health Service. Dr. McCoy, formerly 

 superintendent of the leper colony on the Is- 

 land of Molokai, Hawaii, selected as his topic, 

 "The Public Health Aspects of Leprosy." 



The tenth Harvey lecture was given at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine, on April 8, 

 by Professor Stanley E. Benedict, of Cornell 

 University, his subject being: "Uric Acid in 

 its relation to Metabolism." 



Provost Edgar F. Smith, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, was the guest of honor on 

 Founder's Day at Juniata College on April 17, 

 when they dedicated their new science hall. 

 Dr. Smith delivered the principal address, his 

 subject being " A Tribute to the Sciences." 



The seventh of the exchange lectures be- 

 tween the University of Wisconsin medical 

 department and the Marquette University 



medical school was given by Dr. W. J. Meek 

 at Milwaukee on April 19, on " The Physiology 

 of Adrenelin." The previous lecture was 

 given by Dr. C. E. Bardeen on " The Physical 

 Basis of Heredity." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The state of New Jersey has recently ap- 

 propriated the sum of $4,000 to aid in estab- 

 lishing a course in sanitary science to be affili- 

 ated with the course in biology at Eutgers 

 College. 



New York University has concluded an ar- 

 rangement with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 whereby research courses in botany wiU be 

 conducted at the garden and credited in the 

 biology department of the university's gradu- 

 ate school. Plant-breeding and plant-pathol- 

 ogy will be the principal fields of investiga- 

 tion. The Botanic Garden is a department of 

 the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 

 Its agreement with the university, entered into 

 " for the purpose of encouraging botanical in- 

 vestigation," provides that the instructors in 

 this research work will have the rank of " lec- 

 turer" in New York University and the stu- 

 dents' work will count for an advanced degree. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 late Mr. Stanley Boyd left an estate valued at 

 £32,646. After providing for certain legacies 

 he left the residue of his property in trust for 

 his mother and sister and the survivor of 

 them, and subject thereto he gave £2,100 to 

 Epsom College for one foundation scholarship, 

 and the ultimate residue to the University of 

 London for the endowment of a professorship 

 of pathology in the Medical School of Charing 

 Cross Hospital. Out of the property be- 

 queathed to him by his wife he gives a num- 

 ber of legacies to her relatives, £1,000 each to 

 the London School of Medicine for Women, 

 the New Hospital for Women and the Patho- 

 logical Department of the New Hospital for 

 Women, and any residue to the New Hospital 

 for Women. 



The board of governors of the Western Uni- 

 versity, London, Ont., has purchased a large 



