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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXSIV. No. 878 



Mr. Gang Dunn has returned from abroad, 

 where, as a representative of the United States 

 government and as president of the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers, he has been 

 attending- the International Electrical Con- 

 gress at Turin and the meeting of the Inter- 

 national Electrotechnical Commission, the 

 body that has been organized to bring about 

 international uniformity of standards and 

 practise in the electrical industry. 



We learn from the Electrical World that 

 Dr. Adolf Eranke, director of Siemens & 

 Halske Actien Gesellschaft, Berlin, arrived at 

 New York on October 13, and will represent 

 the Verband Deutscher Electrotechniker at a 

 Helmholtz celebration which will take place 

 under the auspices of the American Institute 

 of Electrical Engineers. Dr. Eranke is ac- 

 companied by Dr. A. Ebeling, chief of the 

 Pupin depai'tment of the Siemens & Halske 

 Company, known for his researches in connec- 

 tion with the Pupin system and the design of 

 telephone lines. Later these gentlemen will 

 be joined by Dr. Paul Easehorn, chief of the 

 electrical measuring department of the Sie- 

 mens & Halske Company. These gentlemen 

 will, in company with Dr. K. G. Erank, Amer- 

 ican representative of their company, visit a 

 number of the more important telephone in- 

 stallations in this country and also make a 

 study of the effect of high-tension transmis- 

 sion lines on neighboring telephone and tele- 

 graph lines. 



We learn from the Yale Alumni WeeMy 

 that Professor Harry W. Eoote, the naturalist 

 on the Yale Peruvian expedition, has returned 

 from South America with a valuable collection 

 of zoological specimens including a large num- 

 ber of insects. He reports that the other 

 members of the expedition. Professors Bing- 

 ham and Bowman, are in good health and are 

 having a successful field season. The party 

 will be engaged until January studying a sec- 

 tion of the seventy-third meridian from the 

 base of the Andes to the Pacific Ocean. 



Dr. M. P. Eavenel, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has left for New York City, where 

 he will attend the second meeting of the 



National Commission on Standards of Milk. 

 While in New York Dr. Eavenel will call a 

 meeting of the board of directors of the Na- 

 tional Association for the Study and Preven- 

 tion of Tuberculosis of which he was elected 

 president at the recent annual meeting in 

 Denver. 



Dr. Gilbert Ames Bliss, associate professor 

 of mathematics at the University of Chicago, 

 is giving a course in advanced mathematics 

 at Harvard University for the current quarter. 



Dr. Paul Lindner, of the Institute for Fer- 

 mentation Industries at Berlin, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on " New Views on Eermenta- 

 tion and the Eermentation Organisms " at the 

 College of the City of New York on Tuesday, 

 October 24, at 4 p.m., and at Columbia Univer- 

 sity on Wednesday, October 25, at 8:30 p.m. 



Dr. Max Verworn, professor of physiology 

 in the University of Bonn, lectured at Colum- 

 bia University on October 26, on " Life and 

 Death." 



Dr. Thomas L. Watson, professor of geol- 

 ogy, has been elected chairman, and Dr. E. M. 

 Bird, collegiate professor of chemistry, secre- 

 tary, of the scientific section of the Philosoph- 

 ical Society of the University of Virginia. 

 The editorial committee, which will supervise 

 the publications, consist of Dr. William H. 

 Echols (mathematics), Dr. William A. Kepner 

 (biology) and Professor L. G. Hoxton 

 (physics). 



Dr. J. Hughlings-Jackson, E.E.S., the 

 eminent English neurologist, died on October 

 7, aged seventy-six years. 



Professor August Michel-Levy, the dis- 

 tinguished Erench geologist, died on Sep- 

 tember 25. 



The death is also announced of M. Alfred 

 Binet, director of the psychological laboratory 

 of the University of Paris. 



The directors of the Journal of Biological 

 Chemistry announce that the following 

 friends and associates of the late Christian A. . 

 Herter have contributed to a Memorial Fund 

 in recognition of his labors in promoting 

 medical science: Mr. and Mrs. George F. 



