May 19, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



709 



Dr. E. BLa-MLYn-Harris, director of the 

 Queensland Museum, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal Society of Queensland. 



Professor E. M. Lehnerts, of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, has succeeded D. Lange as 

 president of the Minnesota Forestry Associa- 

 tion. 



Dr. E. Willstatter^ professor of chemistry 

 at Berlin, has been elected a foreign member of 

 the Swedish Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Frederick Taylor has been reelected 

 president of the Eoyal College of Physicians, 

 London. 



Dr. Arthur D. Little, of Boston, has been 

 placed in charge of the bureau, which was or- 

 ganized recently in Montreal for the purpose 

 of coordinating the work of scientific men and 

 experts engaged in scientific research in all 

 parts of the Dominion of Canada. 



Dr. Ealph H. McKee has resigned his posi- 

 tion as professor of chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Maine, to become head of the research 

 department of the Tennessee Copper Company 

 with laboratory headquarters at Eidgefield 

 Park, ]Sr. J. 



S. B. Haskell has resigned as professor of 

 agronomy in the Massachusetts College, to en- 

 gage in commercial work. 



Continuing the policy which has been in 

 effect in Nela Eesearch Laboratory for the 

 past two summers, the following three men 

 have accepted invitations to pursue research 

 work in the laboratory during the coming 

 summer: Professor Ulric Dahlgren, professor 

 of biology, Princeton University; Dr. W. E. 

 Burge, acting head of the department of physi- 

 ology. University of Illinois, and Dr. Jakob 

 Kunz, associate professor of physics. Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. Dr. Edward O. Hulburt, of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, has been ap- 

 pointed Charles F. Brush fellow in physics in 

 the laboratory for the summer of 1916. 



According to a press dispatch the British 

 government has decided to organize an ex- 

 pedition for the relief of Sir Ernest Shackle- 

 ton's Antarctic expedition. 



Professor Eichaed P. Strong, of Harvard 

 University, who is a member of the Serbian 



Distress Fund Committee, is returning to Eu- 

 rope in a few days for the purpose of making 

 arrangements for relieving the distress of na- 

 tive civilians, who have been unable to leave 

 Serbia. A fund will be raised for this relief 

 and also for that of the Serbians who have left. 



The third medical unit to be sent by Har- 

 vard to relieve the present university con- 

 tingent in Europe will be composed of twenty- 

 three surgeons, nearly all graduates of the 

 Harvard Medical School. The unit, led by 

 Dr. Hugh Cabot, '94, will sail for England on 

 the Cunard liner, Andania, on May 20. 



Messrs. Alfred H. Brooks, Sidney Paige, 

 H. G. Ferguson and J. Fred Hunter, Jr., of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, have joined the 

 military training camp to be held at Dodge, 

 Ga., from May 3 to June 1. 



Professor Theobald Smith, of the Eoeke- 

 feller Foundation for Medical Eesearch, 

 Princeton, New Jersey, will deliver the second 

 Mellon lecture under the auspices of the Bio- 

 logical Society for Medical Eesearch of the 

 University of Pittsburgh, in the Mellon Insti- 

 tute for Industrial Eesearch on May 17. The 

 subject of the address will be " Certain As- 

 pects of Natural and Acquired Eesistance to 

 Tuberculosis and their Bearing on Preventive 

 Measures." 



The following addresses dealing with vari- 

 ous phases of human and animal nutrition 

 have recently been given before the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences: 



Dr. C. L. Alsberg, ' ' The Biochemical Analysis of 

 Nutrition. ' ' 



Dr. Eugene F. Du Bois, "The Basal Pood Re- 

 quirement of Man. ' ' 



Dr. Graham Lusk, "Nutrition and Food Eco- 

 nomics. ' ' 



Dr. B. B. Forbes, "Investigations on the Min- 

 eral Metabolism of Animals. ' ' 



Dr. Carl Voegtlin, "The Relation of the Vita- 

 mines to Nutrition in Health and Disease." 



The addresses will be published in the Journal 

 of the Washington Academy of Sciences and 

 reprinted in a collected form. 



The Scientific Association of the Johns 

 Hopkins University was addressed on May 11 



