October 1, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



449 



The Detroit board of healtli has been au- 

 thorized to employ a laboratory expert as head 

 of the Pasteur Institute and J. B. Kelly, Ann 

 Arbor, has been elected to the position. 



Mr. F. a. Fenton, a graduate student of the 

 University of Wisconsin and for a time deputy 

 nursery inspector in the same state, has joined 

 the Federal Bureau of Entomology and will 

 be engaged in work with Mr. J. J. Davis at 

 Lafayette, Indiana. 



Dr. N, Annandalb, superintendent of the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, is to spend the 

 greater part of a six months' leave of absence 

 in Siam and Japan, studying the fauna of the 

 lake regions. 



We learn from Nature that in commemora- 

 tion of Captain Cook, a tablet has been placed 

 on the school at Great Ayton, Cleveland, where 

 the navigator received his education ; a scholar- 

 ship has also been established at Marton, in 

 the same neighborhood, which was Captain 

 Cook's birthplace. The cost of both has been 

 provided out of the surplus of the fund raised 

 for the erection of the Cook memorial in 

 London. 



Dr. Austin Flint, a distinguished physician 

 and alienist of New York City, long professor 

 of physiology in the Bellevue Hospital Med- 

 ical College and the Medical College of Cor- 

 nell University, died on September 22, at the 

 age of seventy-nine years. 



Dr. H. H. McGregor, formerly instructor 

 in chemistry, Adelbert College, and recently 

 appointed instructor in biochemistry at the 

 medical school. Western Reserve University, 

 has died of tjrphoid fever in Toronto, Canada. 



Besides the biological expedition to British 

 Honduras, mentioned in these columns, the 

 St. Louis University had a geological expedi- 

 tion in the field during the summer months. 

 The personnel of the latter was Professors W. 

 H. Agnew, J. Knipscher, H. F. Sloctemyer, 

 J. A. Krance, A. H. Poetker, J. B. Macelwane, 

 of the St. Louis University; Professors P. J. 

 Troy and T. J. Motherway, of St. Mary's Col- 

 lege, St. Marys, Kan.; Professor J. A. Kilian, 

 of St. John's University, Toledo, Ohio, and 

 Professor E. E. Connolly, of Campion College, 



Prairie du Chien, Wis. The task assigned to 

 the party was a threefold one. They were to 

 undertake a preliminary study of the petrified 

 forests of eastern Arizona; to investigate a 

 number of structural and stratigraphic details 

 in the Bright Angel Quadrangle of the Grand 

 Canyon of the Colorado; and, after visiting 

 several points of geologic interest on the Pa- 

 cific coast, to make a general reconnaissance 

 of the Pre-Cambrian, Cambrian and Pleisto- 

 cene geology of parts of the Cordillera along 

 the Canadian Pacific Eailway. The members 

 of the party secured a considerable quantity of 

 valuable material from each of these regions, 

 including a collection of Middle Cambrian 

 trilobites and brachiopods from Mts. Stephen 

 and Field. They also obtained a larger number 

 of excellent photographs for laboratory audi 

 class-room illustration. 



Mr. W. J. Wintemberg, of the Geological 

 Survey, Ottawa, has returned from a success- 

 ful archeological exploration at the prehistoric 

 Iroquoian site near Roebuck, Ontario. He 

 succeeded in mapping the traces of a palisade 

 across the farm of Nathaniel White which, 

 because it was under crop, was not excavated 

 by Mr. Wintemberg in 1912 when he explored 

 the greater part of the Roebuck site. This 

 season's exploration also resulted in securing 

 thirty-three human skeletons and eleven boxes 

 of objects made by the prehistoric people of the 

 place. Many of the skeletons were photo- 

 graphed in situ. Several of these skeletons 

 show conclusively that the people suffered 

 from terrible diseases which caused growths 

 upon the bones, and the abnormal union of 

 certain bones. Their teeth also gave them 

 great trouble. Among the important speci- 

 mens found were an unfinished comb made of 

 antler and two barbed fish hooks made of 

 bone. Many fragments of pottery and of 

 pipes made of pottery were also found. Some 

 of the latter are sculptured to represent the 

 human face and are of artistic merit. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The board of trustees of the Ohio State 

 University, Columbus, has authorized the 

 establishment of a department of public health 



