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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Edmund B. Wilson, Da Costa professor 

 of zoology, gave the annual address at the open- 

 ing exercises of Columbia University on Sep- 

 tember 29, his subject being " Science and Edu- 

 •cation." 



Dean Frederick J. Wulling, of the College 

 of Pharmacy of the University of Minnesota, 

 was chosen president of the American Pharma- 

 ceutical Association, which held a session in 

 San Erancisco in August. 



Dr. Theobold Smith, director, and other 

 members of the stafF of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for the Study of Animal Diseases which 

 is being built near Princeton at a cost in the 

 neighborhood of a million dollars, have started 

 their work in a suite of four rooms loaned by 

 'the biology and geology departments of Prince- 

 ton University. The buildings of the institu- 

 i;ute will be on a tract of 480 acres, lying near 

 tthe Walker-Gordon farms and are expected to 

 'fee completed within a year. 



Dr. a. E. Blakeslee, professor of botany 

 and genetics, has taken up his work as plant 

 geneticist at the Carnegie Institution Station 

 for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, where he succeeds Dr. George H. 

 Shull, who has become professor of botany at 

 Princeton University. 



The Field Museum of Natural History an- 

 nounces the appointment of Dr. Berthold 

 Laufer as curator of anthropology to succeed 

 Dr. George A. Dorsey, resigned. 



Mr. W. G. Craib, assistant for India in the 

 Kew Herbarium, has been appointed assistant 

 to the professor of botany in the University 

 of Edinburgh. Mr. J. Hutchinson succeeds 

 Mr. Craib at the Eoyal Gardens. 



E. A. Jehle has been appointed plant pa- 

 ■thologist of the Florida Plant Board. His 

 work will be investigation of citrus canker, a 

 iSerious disease of citrus fruits, which was 



probably introduced into the United States 

 from Japan a few years ago. His address will 

 be Homestead, Florida. 



Professor W. S. Franklin will make a tour 

 of the universities and technical schools of the 

 south and west during the coming fall and 

 winter; and he offers to give, in connection 

 with this trip, a number of theoretical and 

 experimental lectures. Professor Franklin may 

 be addressed during October and November at 

 Columbia University, New York City. 



At the forty-third annual meeting of the 

 American Public Health Association, held in 

 Eochester, N. Y., September 6 to 10, under 

 the presidency of Professor William T. Sedg- 

 wick, of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, the following officers were elected: 

 President, Dr. John F. Anderson, director of 

 the hygienic laboratory of the United States 

 Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. ; 

 first vice-president. Dr. George W. Goler, 

 health officer of Eochester, N. Y. ; second vice- 

 president, Dr. Charles J. Hastings, medical 

 officer of health, Toronto, Canada; third vice- 

 president. Dr. Omar Gillette, of Colorado 

 Springs, Colo.; treasurer, Dr. Lee K. Frankel, 

 of New York (reelected) ; secretary, Professor 

 Selskar M. Gunn, of Boston (reelected). The 

 following were elected to honorary membership 

 in the association: Surgeon-General William 

 C. Gorgas, United States Army; Dr. Stephen 

 Smith, of New York, a member of the State 

 Board of Charities; Dr. Frederick Montizam- 

 bert, of Ottawa, director general of public 

 health of the Dominion of Canada; and Dr. 

 Henry D. Holton, of Brattleboro, Vt. 



Professor Henry E. Francis, of the Land- 

 scape Extension Service of the College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse, is completing a field 

 study of the 300-mile highway which is being 

 planned by the Massachusetts Forestry Asso- 

 ciation and which will run from Boston west- 

 ward nearly to the New York line and then 

 turn back eastward to Cambridge. 



Nelson C. Brown, professor of forest utili- 

 zation in the State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse, has returned from a 6,000-mile trip 



