December 8, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



795 



Professors W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., and E. 

 Eutherford, F.R.S., of the University of Man- 

 chester, have been elected corresponding mem- 

 bers of the Munich Academy of Sciences. 



At its last meeting the Eumford Committee 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences made the following appropriations: To 

 Professor John Trowbridge in aid of the re- 

 searches upon thermoelectricity of Mr. Harvey 

 C. Hayes, of Harvard University, $300 ; to Mr. 

 Frank W. Very, for his research on the in- 

 tensity of spectrum lines, additional to pre- 

 vious grant, $150; to Professor Eobert W. 

 Wood, in aid of his researches on the optical 

 properties of vapors and on long heat waves, 

 additional to previous grant, $225. 



The Australian Antarctic expedition, under 

 the leadership of Dr. Douglas Mawson, sailed 

 from Hobart for the south in the ship Aurora, 

 on December 2. 



Mr. E. a. Cockefair, professor of agricul- 

 ture in the State Normal School, Cape Girar- 

 deau, Mo.; Professor Arthur D. Cromwell, of 

 Humboldt, la., and Mr. S. K. White, of Ames, 

 la., have accepted positions to do extension 

 work in agriculture for the Agricultural Col- 

 lege in Porto Eico. 



Professor J. H. Norton, who has been in 

 charge of the Citrus Experiment Station, Uni- 

 versity of California, located at Eiverside, 

 Cal., for the past three years, has handed in 

 his resignation to take effect February 1, 1912. 

 Professor Norton wiU fill the position of hor- 

 ticulturist for the Fantana Development Com- 

 pany, Eialto, Cal. 



E. P. Cathcart, M.D., D.Sc, Grieve lec- 

 turer in chemical physiology. University of 

 Glasgow, has been appointed research associate 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 and is spending the present academic year in 

 research on metabolism in the Nutrition Labo- 

 ratory in Boston. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 has had for a visiting guest Senor Joao Fer- 

 lini, secretary of the College of Engineers, 

 Porto Alegre, Brazil. He has made the tour 

 of the technical institutions of Europe, it be- 



ing the intention of the government of Brazil 

 to send a number of the best of the students to 

 some foreign institutions to finish their 

 studies. 



The following announcements are made in 

 English journals by the British Meteorological 

 Office: Mr. G. I. Taylor, fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, Smith's prizeman, 1910, 

 has been appointed Schuster reader in dynam- 

 ical meteorology for three years from January 

 1, 1912; Mr. L. Southerns, of Emmanuel Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, has been appointed special 

 assistant at Eskdale Observatory; Mr. G. Dob- 

 son, research student of Gonville and Caius 

 College, Cambridge, has been appointed grad- 

 uate assistant for research in atmospheric elec- 

 tricity for one year from October 1, 1911. 

 Dr. Arthur Schuster, F.E.S., has presented to 

 the Eskdale Observatory an instrument, made 

 in St. Petersburg from designs by Prince 

 Boris Galitzin, for the registration of the ver- 

 tical component of seismic movements. Dr. 

 Schuster had previously presented correspond- 

 ing instruments for registering the horizontal 

 component, so that all three components are 

 now the subject of continuous registration. 



Professor W. T. Porter, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, gave the Weir Mitchell lecture 

 at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, 

 on November 3. His subject was " Surgical 

 Shock." 



Dr. L. A. Bauer gave an address before the 

 Kononklijke Natuurkundige Vereeninging of 

 Batavia, Java, on October 25, the subject 

 being, " The Non-magnetic Vessel, the Car- 

 negie, and Her Work." 



At a meeting of the Columbia Chapter of 

 Sigma Xi on November 28 an illustrated lec- 

 ture on the electric lighting of New York City 

 was given by Professor J. F. Sever, the presi- 

 dent of the chapter. 



Dr. C. p. Steinmetz recently delivered two 

 lectures before the engineering students of the 

 University of Illinois. The subjects were 

 " Unexplored Fields in Engineering " and 

 " The Nature of Electrical Energy." The 

 audience at each lecture crowded the lecture- 



