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London Times, recently elected to fellowships 

 the following: Mr. William Burgess Haines, 

 B.Sc, of Leytonstone; Mr. Christopher K. 

 Ingold, B.Sc, of Chiswick, and Mr. Henry N. 

 Walsh, B.E., of Cork. Mr. Haines studied at 

 University College, London, from 1907 to 1913; 

 at the University of Gottingen, 1913-14; and 

 has since been at the Imperial College. Mr. 

 Ingold was an exhibitioner of the University 

 of London in 1912, and a royal scholar in 

 1913; from 1911 to 1913 he was at the Hartley 

 University College, Southampton. Mr. Walsh 

 received his education in Ireland. He was a 

 scholar, medallist and prizeman at University 

 College, Cork, and is now assistant to Professor 

 Alexander. The three fellows will carry on 

 their respective researches in the Imperial Col- 

 lege of Science and Technology. 



Mr. Charles F. Brooks, of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has visited the Weather 

 Bureau and Agricultural Experiment Stations 

 throughout the southern, western and central 

 states to study the geographical distribution of 

 farm enterprises, the distribution of farm labor 

 throughout the year and the climatic element 

 involved. 



Nelson C. Brown, professor of forest utili- 

 zation in the New York State College of For- 

 estry, is spending the summer in a study of 

 forest utilization and management in the na- 

 tional forests which are maintained by the 

 government in the Rockies and Cascades. He 

 will secure material for class and laboratory 

 work and for the Forestry Museum of the 

 college. 



Professor G. N. Stewart, director of the 

 H. K. Cushing Laboratory of Experimental 

 Medicine, Western Eeserve University, is 

 spending the summer in England. Dr. David 

 Marine, associate professor of experimental 

 medicine, has also gone abroad. He will be 

 associated with Dr. Alexis Carrel in the study 

 of wound infections at Compiegne, France. 



Mr. Henry G. Bryant, of Philadelphia, has 

 returned from a journey which led him through 

 the Panama Canal, down the west coast of 

 South America with visits to Cuzco and La 

 Paz, across the Andes and home via Buenos 

 Aires and Eio de Janeiro. 



At the meeting of the Society for the Study 

 of Inebriety held in the rooms of the Medical 

 Society of London, on July 13, Major Leonard 

 Darwin, president of the Eugenics Education 

 Society, opened a discussion on alcoholism and 

 eugenics. 



The annual meeting of the Society of Chem- 

 ical Industry will be held at the Municipal 

 School of Technology, London, on July 14^16, 

 when Professor G. G. Henderson, will deliver 

 the presidential address. 



Joseph Tarrigan Monell, the St. Louis ento- 

 mologist and mining engineer, has died at the 

 age of fifty-eight years. The death has al- 

 ready been recorded in Science, but the name 

 was incorrectly given. 



CoAt operators and miners in western Penn- 

 sylvania and West Virginia paid on July 15 

 tribute to the memory of Dr. Joseph A. 

 Holmes, late chief of the United States Bu- 

 reau of Mines, whose funeral was held in 

 Washington on that day. Many mines sus- 

 pended for an hour their work. The Pitts- 

 burgh experiment station of the bureau was 

 closed. 



Mr. G. F. Chambers, known for his numer- 

 ous popular astronomical works, died on May 

 24, at the age of seventy-four years. Mr. 

 Chambers was for a time one of the vice- 

 presidents of the British Astronomical So- 

 ciety. 



The entomological collection of the Bureau 

 of Science at Manila has been transferred to 

 the University of the Philippines, and is now 

 located in ample quarters at the College of 

 Agriculture, Los Banos, Laguna, P. I., 65 

 kilometers from Manila by railroad. This col- 

 lection, which contains most of the types of 

 Philippine insects, described by European and 

 American specialists during the past twelve 

 or thirteen years, and containing, at present, 

 more than 300,000 pinned specimens, together 

 with alcoholic and biological material, will be 

 materially increased in value by the collecting 

 of faculty and students in the exceedingly rich 

 faunal regions of Los Banos, Mt. Maquiling 

 and Mt. Banahao. Mr. Charles S. Banks, as- 



