June 9, 1916] 



SCIENCE, 



815 



W. A. LiNTNER, assistant professor of agron- 

 omy at Delaware College and assistant agron- 

 omist of the Delaware Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, has resigned to go into commer- 

 cial work. 



PEOFEseoE W. P. Mason, of the Eensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute, delivered the address 

 at the annual meeting of the Sigma Xi Soci- 

 ety, Union College, on May 23. His subject 

 was " Water from the Ground." 



At the ninety-ninth convocation of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, held on June 6, in connec- 

 tion with the celebration of the quarter- 

 centennial of the university, the address on 

 behalf of the faculties was made by Dr. Thomas 

 Chrowder Chamberlin, head of the department 

 of geology and paleontology. 



The Bakerian Lecture of the Eoyal Society 

 was delivered on May 25 by Professor C. Q. 

 Barkla, on " X-rays and the Theory of Radia- 

 tion." 



A FUND of about $2,500, the income from 

 which will provide a prize to be known as the 

 Charles Lee Crandall prize, has been presented 

 to Cornell University by the Cornell Society of 

 Civil Engineers on behalf of the alumni of the 

 college. The prize will be awarded in accord- 

 ance with terms to be fixed by Professor Cran- 

 daU. 



Charles Sooysmith, known throughout the 

 United States as a civil engineer, especially 

 for his work on the pneumatic caisson and 

 freezing processes in excavations, died at his 

 home in E'ew York, on May 1, at the age of 

 sixty years. 



Miss Cora Huidekoper Clarke, of Boston, 

 a fellow of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, who had published 

 work on insect-cells and on the mosses of 'New 

 England, has died, at the age of sixty-five 

 years. 



We learn from Nature that a general meet- 

 ing of the British Chemical Society was held 

 at Btu-lington House on May 11, to consider 

 the question of the removal of the names of 

 nine alien enemies from the list of honorary 

 and foreign members of the society. No deci- 



sion was reached and the meeting was ad- 

 journed. 



There was installed in the department of 

 geology of the University of Oklahoma the 

 Gamma chapter of the Sigma Gamma Epsilon. 

 The Beta chapter of this fraternity is in the 

 school of mines of the University of Pittsburgh 

 and the Alpha chapter in the departments of 

 geology and mining in the University of Kan- 

 sas. Sigma Gamma Epsilon is a national col- 

 lege fraternity devoted to geology, mining and 

 metallurgy and holds a place parallel to that of 

 Alpha Chi Sigma, the national college frater- 

 nity devoted to chemistry. The fraternity has 

 just completed the first year of its existence; 

 but with its third chapter installed and peti- 

 tions from other institutions before its na- 

 tional council bespeak for it a promising fu- 

 ture. Communications intended for its na- 

 tional officers should be addressed to either 

 H. E. Crum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, or W. H. 

 Twenhofel, Lawrence, Kansas. 



The annual New England intercollegiate 

 excursion will be taken on October 14 in the 

 Blue Hills district of eastern Massachusetts. 

 It will be under the direction of Professors 

 W. 0. Crosby and C. H. Warren. 



Governor Whitman, of New York, on May 

 22, signed the appropriation bill passed by the 

 legislature, which included an item of $65,000 

 for the pirrchase of land and the erection of a 

 laboratory building in the city of Albany for 

 the State Department of Health. The site 

 chosen closely adjoins the Albany Hospital and 

 the new Albany Medical School. The labo- 

 ratory work of the Health Department is at 

 present carried on with great difficulty in an 

 old stable which has several times been con- 

 demned as unsanitary. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that Dr. Steele, M.P., 

 North Oxford, Ont., has introduced a reso- 

 lution in the Canadian House of Commons 

 expressing the greater need at the present time 

 for a national department of health than at 

 any previous time in the history of the 

 Dominion. He pointed out that while all the 

 provincial governments maintained well- 

 organized health boards, the Dominion had the 



