Decembee 17, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



867 



Illinois, on ' ' The Problem of Meat Production on 

 tlie High-priced Lands of the Middle "West." 



Dr. A. E. Ward, Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, on "Disease 

 Control as a Factor in Meat Production. ' ' 



The kite photography expedition which has 

 been making aerial views over the crater of 

 Kilauea Volcano for the past six months under 

 the expert direction of C. F. Haworth, O.E., 

 has returned with a series of views from lofty 

 positions, showing the volcano as it has never 

 before been viewed. This difficult feat, under 

 most trying conditions of winds, calms and 

 volcanic emanations, has been done to add 

 necessary data to the photographic survey 

 made for the large naturalistic model of 

 Kilauea which has now been under constant 

 construction for nearly three years for the 

 Harvard Geological Department, the first work 

 of this class yet supported by American geol- 

 ogists. Only one other comparable work has 

 been constructed in this country, the model of 

 the coral island " Bora Bora," for the Agassiz 

 Museum. These naturalistic land reliefs by 

 the geologist land sculptor, Curtis, belong to 

 a new field of geology, which is bringing a 

 fresh and wider interest into the earth sci- 

 ences. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the damage suit against 

 Eockefeller Institute for $200,000, brought by 

 two of the former employees of the institute, 

 was dismissed in the United States District 

 Court on ISTovember 4. The plaintiffs in the 

 case alleged that the doctors had persuaded 

 them to submit to the injection of seriun from 

 which they had become infected with an in- 

 curable disease. The court held that the facts 

 were insufficient to constitute a cause of action. 



The ~Nevr School of Tropical Medicine and 

 Research Laboratories in Calcutta are, accord- 

 ing to the Pioneer Mail, as quoted by Nature, 

 now ready for occupation. They will be asso- 

 ciated with the Calcutta Medical College, so 

 that a constant supply of tropical material 

 will be available for study. A subject to which 

 study will be devoted will be the pharmacology 

 of Indian drugs. The number of research 

 workers at present arranged for is eight. 



Dr. L. H. Pennington, forest pathologist of 

 the New York State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse, has just found the chestnut tree 

 blight in a chestnut grove at Sand Ridge not 

 far from Phoenix. This is the first report of 

 an occurrence of the blight in this section of 

 New York state. The presence of the blight in 

 Oswego County indicates that the chestnut 

 trees in all parts of the state will sooner or 

 later be attacked. The occurrence of the 

 blight at Sand Ridge is in the form of a spot 

 infection where but a single tree is found to 

 be infected. The tree in this instance was al- 

 ready completely girdled and killed and the 

 fiiugi in fruiting condition. Other trees may 

 therefore have been infected before this one 

 was discovered and removed. If these spot 

 infections can be discovered in time and the 

 diseased trees removed and destroyed at once, 

 the general spread of the disease may be re- 

 tarded and the life of chestnut groves pro- 

 longed several years in this part of the state. 



A GIFT of $1,000, unusual in the conditions 

 under which it was offered, has been accepted 

 by the trustees of Cornell University from an 

 anonymous donor. The money was placed 

 under the control of Professor G. D. Harris, 

 of the department of geology, with the stipu- 

 lation that " payments shall be made from the 

 fund to Professor Harris as and when he re- 

 quests and no accounts shall be required be- 

 yond simple receipts from Professor Harris 

 saying that the sum or sums he may request 

 from time to time have been received and that 

 they are to be expended for purposes which in 

 his opinion will be of assistance to a student 

 or students of geology as the case may be." 

 Following the stipulation concerning the use 

 of the money the anonymous donor explained 

 his position with a tribute to Professor Har- 

 ris's work as geologist and teacher. " I may 

 perhaps explain," writes the donor, " that it 

 has been my privilege to attend courses at 

 three universities, the University of Indiana, 

 Cornell University and the University of Wis- 

 consin, and at none of these have I known of 

 any man who so fully as Professor Harris had 

 the real training and development of his stu- 

 dents at heart or who in so extreme a degree 



