June 30, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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School; Dr. J. J. H. Teall, F.R.S., late di- 

 rector of the Geological Survey of Great Brit- 

 ain; Mr. R. F. Stupart, director of the Meteo- 

 rological Service of Canada, and Dr. N. Tirard, 

 medical editor of the " British Pharmacoposia." 

 Dr. W. Baldwin Spencer, F.E.S., professor of 

 biology in the University of Melbourne, was 

 made a K.C.M.G. and Dr. Christopher Addison, 

 parliamentary secretary to the ministry of 

 munitions, and late professor of anatomy in 

 the University of Sheffield, a privy councillor. 



Professor Arthur Schuster, honorary pro- 

 fessor of physics at Manchester, has been ap- 

 pointed Halley lecturer at Oxford. 



At the meeting of the British Association to 

 be held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, beginning on 

 September 5, evening lectures will be given by 

 Professor W. A. Bone, F.R.S., on " Recent Ad- 

 vances in Combustion," and by Dr. P. Chalm- 

 ers Mitchell, F.R.S., on " Evolution and the 

 War." 



Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, of Rochester, 

 Minn., was elected president of the American 

 Medical Association at the recent Detroit 

 meeting. Dr. William J. Mayo, his brother, 

 was president in 1906. 



The National Society for the Promotion of 

 Engineering Education held its annual meet- 

 ing at the University of Virginia from June 

 19 to 22, under the presidency of Professor 

 Henry S. Jacoby, of Cornell University. 



At the annual meeting of the Eugenics Re- 

 search Association held at Cold Spring Harbor 

 on June 22, Professor Adolf Meyer was 

 elected president in succession to Professor J. 

 McKeen Cattell. The association will join in 

 the Convocation Week meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association in New York at the end of the 

 present year. 



Frakcis C. Shenehon, for the past seven 

 years dean of the college of engineering and 

 professor of civil engineering in the University 

 of Minnesota, has tendered his resignation to 

 the board of regents. Mr. Shenehon will de- 

 vote his entire time to his practise as a con- 

 sulting hydraulic engineer. 



Professor Chas. H. Taylor, head of the de- 



partment of geology in the University of Okla- 

 homa for the past five years, has resigned, to 

 devote himself to his oil interests and to sci- 

 entific research. 



Dr. a. D. Emmett, assistant chief in ani- 

 mal nutrition, of the Illinois Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station at the University of Illinois, 

 has accepted the position of research biological 

 chemist in the research laboratory of Parke, 

 Davis and Company, Detroit, Michigan. 



Professor Calvin 0. Esterly, of Occidental 

 College, is to go to the Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Research of the University of Cali- 

 fornia at La Jolla, as zoologist. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz, of the American Mu- 

 seum, and Mr. J. A. G. Rehn, of the Philadel- 

 phia Academy of Natural Sciences, plan to 

 spend July and part of August making a field 

 study of the insect fauna of the isolated moun- 

 tains southwest of Tucson, Arizona. 



To study the return of plant life on an 

 Alaskan volcano. Professor Robert F. Griggs, 

 of the department of botany of the Ohio State 

 University, accompanied by his family, left re- 

 cently for Mt. Katmai, a volcano near the west- 

 ern coast of Alaska. The eruption of the vol- 

 cano four years ago destroyed every vestige of 

 plant life in the vicinity. 



Edward P. Van Duzee has resigned his in- 

 structorship in entomology at the University of 

 California, to accept the appointment of cu- 

 rator of the department of entomology of the 

 California Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Joseph A. Long, assistant professor of 

 embryology in the department of zoology. Uni- 

 versity of California, has been granted a year's 

 leave of absence. He plans to remain in resi- 

 dence in the laboratories of the department of 

 anatomy in order to continue certain researches 

 on the ovulation of mammals and the earliest 

 development of the mammalian ovum in eon- 

 junction with Professor Herbert M. Evans. 



In connection with the Quarter-centennial 

 Celebration, held at the University of Chicago, 

 June 2-6, 44 of the 82 doctors in botany re- 

 turned to the departmental conference. At 

 the formal conference, the papers representing 



