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Professor Eichard Elwood Dodge, after 

 twenty years' service as teacher of geography 

 in Teachers College, Columbia University, has 

 resigned his professorship, to devote himself 

 uninterruptedly to those aspects of geography 

 that interest him most, applied geography in 

 the field of rural and especially agricultural 

 education. 



The department of anthropology in the 

 A merican Museum of ISTatural History, New 

 York City, has strengthened its division of 

 physical anthropology by two appointments: 

 Professor J. H. McGregor, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, research associate, and Mr. Louis R. 

 Sullivan, of Brown University, research assist- 

 ant. In addition. Dr. Bruno Oetteking will 

 spend another year at the museum preparing 

 a report on the physical anthropology of the 

 Jesup expedition. 



The Franklin Institute has awarded its 

 Elliott Cresson Gold Medal to Dr. Eobert 

 Gans, of Pankow, near Berlin, Germany, for 

 permutit, a sodium-alumino-silicate used for 

 softening water. 



Professor Henri Lecomte, Professor Ed- 

 mond Perrier and Professor Pier' Andrea Sac- 

 cardo have been elected foreign members of 

 the Linnean Society. 



Upon request of the Bureau of Mines, a com- 

 mittee of the American Chemical Society has 

 been appointed as an advisory committee to 

 the Bureau of Mines on chemical problems in 

 connection with its investigations. The com- 

 mittee consists of Drs. C. H. Herty, L. H. 

 Baekeland and W. R. Whitney. 



The Standing Committee on Metallurgy ap- 

 pointed by the British Advisory Council for 

 Scientific and Industrial Research consists of 

 the following members : Professor J. 0. Arnold, 

 Mr. Arthur Balfom-, Professor H. C. H. Car- 

 penter, Dr. C. H. Desch, Sir Robert Hadfield, 

 Mr. P. W. Harbord, Mr. J. Eossiter Hoyle, 

 Professor Huntington, Mr. W. Murray Morri- 

 son, Sir Gerard Muntz, Bt., Mr. G. Ritchie, 

 Dr. J. E. Stead, Mr. H. L. Sulman and Mr. 

 F. Tomlinson. 



Professor Ralph H. Curtiss has been 

 granted a leave of absence by the board of 



regents of the University of Michigan for two 

 or three years. He will go to Argentina to 

 inaugurate stellar spectroscopic work at the 

 observatory of the University of LaPlata. 

 Leave of absence was also granted to Mr. H. J. 

 Colliau, who will accompany Professor Curtiss 

 and assist in installing the spectrograph and 

 other apparatus. Mr. Bernhard H. Dawson, 

 who has been studying at the University of 

 Michigan, will leave some time in July to re- 

 sume his position as astronomer in the observa- 

 tory of LaPlata. 



The first representatives of the Maury expe- 

 dition to the Tertiaries of San Domingo, A. 

 Olsson and K. P. Schmidt, left the paleonto- 

 logical laboratory at Cornell University on the 

 twenty-ninth of April. Dr. Carlotta J. Maury, 

 holder of the Sarah-Berliner fellowship in 

 paleontology this year and lecturer in the uni- 

 versity proceeded to the same field on May 26. 



By a recent gift of $2,500 from an unnamed 

 donor, the department of geography at the 

 University of Chicago is enabled to imdertake 

 a scientific study in Asia, and Assistant Pro- 

 fessor Wellington D. Jones will sail from Van- 

 couver for Yokohama on June 15, to be gone 

 for six months. His work will cover a wide 

 range, including Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and 

 ISTorthern and Central China. If political con- 

 ditions in China permit. Professor Jones hopes 

 to work back into Shansi and Shensi, and into 

 the Red Basin of the upper Yangtze. His 

 chief interest is in the relation between man 

 and the physical environment of the region in 

 which he lives. 



Dr. R. Tait McKJENZiE, head of the depart- 

 ment of physical education at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, who has been in the British 

 service during the past year, will return and 

 resume his duties at the university next Sep- 

 tember on the conclusion of his year's con- 

 tract in England. 



Dr. Howard A. Kjelly has been granted 

 leave of absence from the Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital for a year, in order to devote all his time 

 to further research work in radium. Dr. 

 Thomas S. Cullen will be in charge of Dr. 

 Kelly's classes in gynecology. 



