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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1118 



Society of Washington, tiie Anthropological 

 Society of Washington, the American Or- 

 nithological Union, the Audubon Society, and 

 the Writers Club of Washington. 



Mr. Gronberger wrote an exhaustive mono- 

 graph on the " Palearctic Birds of Greenland," 

 the iirst thorough study attempted of the sub- 

 ject, being a review of the occurrence of Euro- 

 pean and Asiatic species in Greenland from 

 the middle of the eighteenth century to the 

 present time, publication of which is in charge 

 of the United States National Museum. He 

 published a study of " Birds near Washing- 

 ton," in Forest and Stream. A paper by him 

 on " The Origin of the Goths " deals with the 

 Gothic migration from Scandza, or Scandi- 

 navia, as described by Jordanes and the cor- 

 robating evidence of a celebrated runic in- 

 scription in Sweden; probably to be brought 

 out in Stockholm. Publication of a recent 

 study of the Batrachia Salientia or Anura of 

 the District of Columbia is in charge of the 

 National Museum. He left also a life of the 

 religious mystic, " Saint Bridget [Brigitt] of 

 Sweden," based on the best historical sources 

 available. An address by Mr. Gronberger on 

 " Modern Swedish Literature " will be pub- 

 lished by the Writers Club of Washington, 

 with a biographical sketch and portrait of 

 the author. 



F. E. FowLE 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Edwaed S. Morse has been reelected 

 president of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. 



Under the retiring clause in the facultj' 

 regulations of Stanford University, Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan has, as has already been noted 

 in Science, been made chancellor emeritus; 

 Dr. Oliver Peebles Jenkins has been made 

 professor emeritus of physiology and histology, 

 and Dr. Lillian Jane Martin, professor emer- 

 itus of psychology. 



Sir T. Clifford Allbutt, regius professor of 

 physics at the University of Cambridge, has 

 been nominated by the council to be president 

 of the British Medical Association. On ac- 

 count of the war the annual meeting at Cam- 



bridge will be postponed, but the statutory gen- 

 eral meeting will be held in London, on July 28. 



We regret to learn that Professor Elie 

 Metchnikoff, head of the Pasteur Institute at 

 Paris, Prance, who has been ill since January 

 with heart trouble has become worse. 



Professor Wm. Bullock Clark, head of 

 the department of geology at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has been appointed by the 

 Chamber of Commerce of the United States a 

 member of a committee of five to discuss with 

 the representatives of organized labor a modi- 

 fication of the anti-trust laws by which co- 

 operative agreements under the regulation of 

 the Federal Trade Commission might be 

 allowed in those industries dealing with the 

 primary natural resources. 



At the annual dinner of the Geological Jour- 

 nal Club, of Columbia University, on May 17, 

 the students and members of the departmental 

 faculty presented to Professor Amadous W. 

 Grabau a copy of Suess's " The Pace of the 

 Earth," in commemoration of the completion 

 of fifteen years of active service as a teacher in 

 Columbia University and as a philosophical 

 student of geology. Mr. S. H. Knight, fellow 

 in paleontology, made the presentation. Pro- 

 fessor Grabau also received an anonymous gift 

 of $150 from a former student for the further- 

 ance of his research in stratigraphy and 

 paleontology. 



Professor August von Wassermann, head 

 of the Eoyal Institute for Infectious Diseases 

 at Berlin, will become director of the Insti- 

 tute for Experimental Therapy at Frankfort, 

 in succession to the late Professor Paul 

 Ehrlich. 



Dr. F. F. Martinez, who has published sev- 

 eral works on tropical medicine, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the newly organized Insti- 

 tute of Tropical Medicine at Granada. 



Dr. William Palmer Lucas, San Francisco, 

 professor of pediatrics in the University of 

 California Medical School, has gone to Europe 

 to aid in the organization of children's work 

 for the American Commission for Eelief in 

 Belgium. 



