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experiments in physics and have published to- 

 gether over one hundred and twenty papers, 

 have received honorary doctorates from the 

 University of Gottingen. 



Dr. PmCHER has been made acting director 

 of the Austrian Meteorological Bureau in suc- 

 cession of Professor Trabert, who has retired 

 on account of his health. 



Dr. Wilbur A. Sawyer, director of the State 

 Hygienic Laboratory and lecturer in hygiene 

 and preventive medicine in the University of 

 California, has been appointed a member of 

 the California State Board of Health and sec- 

 retary of the board. As executive officer of 

 the board he wiU have under his direction 

 seven bureaus — Administration, Vital Statis- 

 tics, Tuberculosis, and Registration of Nurses, 

 with headquarters at the capitol, Sacramento; 

 and the State Hygienic Laboratory and the 

 Bureaus of Sanitary Engineering and of Food 

 and Drugs, maintained by the state at the 

 University of California. 



Associate Professor Charles Riborg Mann, 

 of the department of physics in the University 

 of Chicago, has been granted by the univer- 

 sity board of trustees an extension of his leave 

 of absence for one year from October 1, in 

 order that he may complete his survey of tech- 

 nical instruction in the United States, which 

 he has undertaken under the auspices of the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. 



Mr. M. T. Dawe, lately director of agricul- 

 ture, British East Africa, has been appointed 

 agricultural adviser to the government of Co- 

 lombia. 



Professor Haendel, director of the Hy- 

 gienic Listitute in Saarbriicken, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Imperial Health Bu- 

 reau, Berlin, succeeding Professor Lentz. 



Professor W. Morgan, who fills the chair of 

 automobile engineering in the faculty of engi- 

 neering of the University of Bristol, has been 

 released from his duties for the period of the 

 war to engage in work in connection with the 

 production of munitions. 



Surgeon Victor G. Heiser, U. S. Public 

 Health Service, formerly commissioner of 



health, Philippine Islands, has arrived in New 

 York. He has returned to the United States 

 to make a report to the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion of his investigations in the Philippines 

 and India of hookworm and other diseases. 



Professor F. Cajori has resumed work at 

 Colorado College after spending the past year 

 abroad. He attended the Napier Tercentenary 

 in Edinburgh and later traveled in France, 

 Italy, Switzerland and Germany. The larger 

 part of the year was spent in Oxford, Cam- 

 bridge and London, where he was engaged in 

 researches on the history of certain branches 

 of mathematics in Great Britain during the 

 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 



Dr. E. S. Moore, professor of geology and 

 mineralogy of Pennylvania State College, has 

 returned from a year's leave of absence after 

 attending the meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science in Aus- 

 tralia and visiting several countries on geolog- 

 ical excursions. The countries visited in- 

 cluded New Zealand, India, Egypt and France, 

 the last six months being spent chiefly in study 

 with Professor Lacroix at Paris. 



News has reached England of the Easter 

 Island expedition of Mr. and Mrs. Scoresby 

 Routledge up to June 8, at which date the 

 expedition had been fourteen months in resi- 

 dence, during which time a careful survey had 

 been made of the existing antiquities and such 

 ethnographical information collected as is still 



The twenty-fourth annual session of the 

 Association of Military Surgeons of the United 

 States was held in Washington on September 

 13 to 15, under the presidency of Col. J. R. 

 Kean. 



We learn from Nature that in addition to 

 his name being expunged from the list of 

 honorary members of the laryngological soci- 

 eties of Vienna and Berlin, in consequence of 

 his having protested in a letter to the Times 

 against the alleged barbarities of Germany in 

 the war, the name of Sir Felix Semon has been 

 removed from the Internationales Oentralblatt 

 fur Laryngologie, which journal he founded 

 twenty-five years ago. In consequence of this 

 action, all the British editorial contributors to 



