June 23, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



893 



The Carnegie Institution expedition to To- 

 bago, British West Indies, was exceptionally- 

 successful. The southwestern end of Tobago 

 consists of elevated coral-bearing limestones 

 and the coast from Milford Bay northward is 

 flanked by a modern coral reef. Dr. Herbert 

 Lyman Clark, of Harvard University, collected 

 73 species of echinoderms in this region, and 

 of these Dr. Th. Mortensen, of Copenhagen 

 University, reared 10 throughout their larval 

 stages; among them a crinoid Tropiometra 

 which was abundant over the shallow reef -flats. 

 Dr. A. G. Mayer studied the Siphonophores, 

 the pelagic life being abundant, due to the 

 fact that the water of the great equatorial drift 

 of the Atlantic strikes immediately upon the 

 coast of Tobago. The coastal waters of To- 

 bago are those of the clear blue tropical ocean, 

 for the island lies to the northward of the 

 muddy shores of Trinidad. 



]Sr. S. Amstutz, of Valparaiso, Indiana, re- 

 cently gave an illustrated lecture on the " Mar- 

 vels of Illustration " during an afternoon 

 meeting at the Bureau of Standards, "Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and in the evening before the 

 Association of Federal Photographers in the 

 new National Museum. 



Two Harvard graduates and a member of 

 the junior class in Harvard College will leave 

 this month on an expedition to South America 

 for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy. The party, consisting of Dr. L. S. Moss, 

 of Baltimore, a graduate of the medical school ; 

 Dr. C. Tello, a Harvard graduate who is now 

 living in Lima, Peru, and G. K. Noble, '17, of 

 Yonkers, IST. Y., will sail from New York for 

 Paita, Peru. From this point they will cross 

 the Andes and into the Amazon Valley. 

 The purpose of the expedition is to collect 

 zoological specimens and to study the native 

 tribe of Guarani Indians. 



Six physicians and six nurses, comprising 

 the sixth medical relief expedition to be sent 

 from the United States to the Central Powers 

 under the auspices of the American Physician's 

 Expeditions Committee, have left New York on 

 board the Holland-American line steamship 

 Byndam for Rotterdam, whence they will pro- 

 ceed to Austria. The party is headed by Dr. 



Joseph Irilus Eastman, of Indianapolis, pro- 

 fessor of surgery in the University of Indiana. 

 The Royal Society has awarded to Miss 

 Dorothy Dufton, of Girton College, Cambridge, 

 the first year's income of their Lawrence Fund, 

 for an investigation of pneumonia produced by 

 poisonous gases. The income of the Lawrence 

 Fund, about £160 a year, is devoted to research 

 in the relief of human suilering. Miss Dufton 

 is the daughter of Dr. S. F. Dufton, inspector 

 of schools in Leeds, and is doing research work 

 in Cambridge University Physiological Labora- 

 tory. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The magnificent new buildings of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Institute of Technology, on the 

 Cambridge side of the Charles River, were 

 dedicated last week with imposing ceremonies. 

 At the formal dedicatory exercises on June 14, 

 addresses were made by President Richard C. 

 Maclaurin, by President A. Lawrence Lowell, 

 of Harvard University, now allied with the 

 institute, by Governor Samuel W. MeCall, 

 and by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. 



The tenth annual report of the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing, published on June 19, shows that the in- 

 come from general endowment was $697,892, 

 and the expenditures $712,852. The income 

 from the endowment of the Division of Edu- 

 cational Enquiry was $50,300, and the expen- 

 ditures $54,633. 



At the commencement exercises of Wesleyan 

 University the Van Vleck Astronomical Ob- 

 servatory, the gift of the late Joseph Van 

 Vleck, of Montclair, N. J., was dedicated. 



To represent the faculty of Cornell Univer- 

 sity as delegates at the meeting of the board 

 of trustees, the following have been elected: 

 Dexter S. Kimball, professor of machine de- 

 sign and industrial engineering; Walter F. 

 Willcox, professor of economics and statistics, 

 and John Henry Comstock, emeritus professor 

 of entomology and general invertebrate zool- 

 ogy. 



Mr. Ernest Martin Hopkins, until 1910 

 secretary of Dartmouth College and since en- 



