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Bruce, wlio is herself a member of the com- 

 mission. 



Professor Paul S. Eeestsch, who resigned 

 the chair of political science in the University 

 of Wisconsin to become ambassador to China, 

 has sailed from San Francisco for Yokohama. 



Professor P. E. Pope, who held the chair of 

 general chemistry in the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, has retired under the 

 Carnegie Foundation. 



Cyril G. Hopkins, professor of agronomy. 

 University of Ulinois, has been granted a leave 

 of absence for one year, beginning November 1, 

 in order to accept the position of director of 

 agriculture for the Southern Settlement and 

 Development Organization. This is an organi- 

 zation affected chiefly by the governors of the 

 Southern States and the presidents of rail- 

 roads in those states, and supported principally 

 by state and railway appropriations. Its pri- 

 mary purpose is " to make a thorough and 

 scientiiic study of the resources and possibil- 

 ities [of the South] and the best practical 

 methods of developing the same." 



M. LuciEN Bull, sub-director of the Marey 

 Institute, Boulogne Sur Seine, has been 

 commissioned by the Societe d'Hygiene 

 Alimentaire et d' Alimentation Eationnelle de 

 I'Homme to spend several months in Boston at 

 the nutrition laboratory of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington, studying the construc- 

 tion and methods of testing and use of the 

 various respiration calorimeters there installed. 



We learn from Nature that in connection 

 with the work on animal nutrition which is 

 being conducted at the University of Leeds 

 under a grant from the development commis- 

 sioners. Dr. H. W. Dudley, of the Herter Re- 

 search Laboratory, New York, has been ap- 

 pointed lecturer in biochemistry. The experi- 

 mental station in flax growing, which is also 

 supported by the development commissioners, 

 has been placed under the direction of Mr. F. 

 K. Jackson, formerly of the agricultural de- 

 partments of the Universities of Leeds and 

 Cambridge. 



Dr. E. B. Phelps, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, known for his work 



in sanitary engineering, has accepted a posi- 

 tion in the U. S. Public Health Service, 

 Washington. 



Dr. Joseph A. Blake has resigned from the 

 chair of surgery at the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons of Columbia University. 



Professor Archibald Barr has resigned 

 from the chair of civil engineering and me- 

 chanics at the University of Glasgow. 



The officers of the British Mycological Soci- 

 ety elected for 1914 are : President, Professor 

 A. H. E. Buller; vice-president. Miss G. 

 Lister; honorary secretary and treasurer, Mr. 

 Carleton Eea. The localities for the spring 

 and autumn meetings are the Forest of Dean 

 and Doncaster. 



Dr. Lewis M. Tebman, associate professor of 

 education, Stanford University, has been 

 elected a member of the permanent Inter- 

 national Committee on School Hygiene and 

 has also been made the vice-president of the 

 Council of Thirty of the American School 

 Hygiene Association. 



Mr. James Birch Eoreb, mycologist and 

 pathologist to the board of agriculture of 

 Trinidad, British West Indies, is on a visit to 

 the United States. His address while in this 

 country is care of Dr. Erwin F. Smith, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. 



Before the Geographic Society of Chicago 

 on October 10 a lecture was given by Professor 

 Walter S. Tower, of the University of Chicago, 

 the title being " A Journey through Northern 

 and Central Chile." 



The twenty-first James Forrest lecture of 

 the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 

 will be delivered in the lecture theater of the 

 new building of the institution, on October 23, 

 by Mr. Alexander Gracie, on " Progress of 

 Marine Construction." 



We learn from the Bulletin of the American 

 Mathematical Society that owing to the mass 

 of new material which has been found at St. 

 Petersburg and at other places, the Euler com- 

 mission realizes that it must face a deficit in 

 the publication of Euler's works, unless fur- 

 ther funds are provided. The publication of 

 this new matter will necessitate several addi- 



