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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1116 



by Dr. Ira Eemsen on " Chemistry and the 

 Present War." 



At the Case School of Applied Science, Dr. 

 L. A. Bauer, of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, will, on May 23, give the lecture 

 at the open meeting of the Society of Sigma 

 Si, his subject being " The Earth a Great 

 Magnet and the Work of the ISTon-magnetic 

 yacht Carnegie." 



Professor Raymond Dodge, of Wesleyan 

 University, spent the time from May 6 to 8 

 in consultation with the bureau of applied psy- 

 chology at the Carnegie Institute of Technol- 

 ogy, and delivered a lecture on " Some Psy- 

 chological Effects of Alcohol." 



Professor E. M. Ereeman, assistant dean 

 of the college of agriculture of the University 

 of Minnesota, gave the Sigma Xi address at 

 the University of Wisconsin on April 26. His 

 subject was " Wheat Rust Investigations." 



The Philadelphia Academy of Surgery an- 

 nounces that essays in competition for the 

 Samuel D. Gross prize of $1,500 will be re- 

 ceived until January 21, 1920. EuU informa- 

 tion may be obtained by writing to the trustees, 

 19 South Twenty-second Street, Philadelphia. 



Sm Alexander E. Simpson, for many years 

 professor of midwifery in the University of 

 Edinburgh, bequeaths the museum formed by 

 his uncle, the late Sir James Toung Simpson, 

 the discoverer of chloroform as an anesthetic, 

 to the University of Edinburgh. He had 

 previously given his uncle's and his own li- 

 braries to the Royal College of Physicians, 

 Edinburgh. 



The bronze tablet placed in St. Paul's 

 Cathedral to the memory of Captain Scott 

 and his companions was unveiled on May 5. 



Professor I. P. B. Menschutkin, of the 

 Polytechnic Institute, Petrograd, writing on 

 March 20, informs Nature that Professor Paw- 

 low is alive and well. The obituary notices 

 which appeared in scientific and medical jour- 

 nals were, as has been suggested in Science, 

 due to confusion with E. W. Pawlow, a Petro- 

 grad surgeon, who died in February. 



John Edson Sweet, who was professor of 

 practical mechanics at Cornell University 



from 1873 to 1879, died in Syracuse, N. T., 

 on May 8, aged eighty-four years. 



William Stanley, known for his work in 

 electrical engineering, died at Great Barring- 

 ton, on May 14, in his forty-ninth year. 



Dr. S. M. Brickner, known as a gynecol- 

 ogist and for his work in anatomy, physician 

 at the Sloane Maternity Hospital and at the 

 Mt. Sinai Hospital, until his retirement to 

 Saranac Lake three years ago, died on May 5, 

 at the age of forty-eight years. 



Dk. Edward Teaming, formerly instructor in 

 photomicrography in Columbia University, 

 known for his contributions to this subject and 

 the X-rays, died on May 11, aged fifty-four 

 years. 



Major W. L. Hawksley, health oflicer at 

 Liverpool and loiown for his work on tubercu- 

 losis, has been killed while on active service in 

 France. 



The death is announced of Professor O. 

 Maass, of the University of Munich, known 

 for his experimental work on sponges. 



Dr. Richard Braungaet, professor of agri- 

 culture in the Bavarian Academy of Agricul- 

 ture, lias died at the age of seventy-seven 

 years. 



Mrs. Frances Thome, widow of the late 

 director of the Argentine National Observa- 

 tory at Cordoba, died recently in Buenos Aires. 

 During over twenty years' residence at the 

 observatory she took part in recording for the 

 Durchmusterung, observing, and in various 

 details of copying and preparation for the 

 press of this work, and of the meridian 

 results. 



The London Daily Chronicle for April 24 

 as quoted in Nature gives the substance of a 

 letter sent to Professor Lorentz, of Haarlem, 

 by Dr. Max Planck, professor of mathematical 

 physics in the University of Berlin, and per- 

 manent secretary of the Royal Prussian Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. In this letter Professor 

 Planck recalls the letter addressed to the civil- 

 ized world in August, 1914, by ninety-three 

 German scholars and artists, in which they 

 defended the conduct of their own govern- 

 ment, and denounced in extravagant language 



