October 24, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



589 



of light of some interest on the great subject 

 of American collegiate education. 



Frederick C. Ferry 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The statue of Lord Kelvin, erected in Kelvin 

 Grove Park, Glasgow, was unveiled on October 

 8. Mr. Augustine Birrell, rector of Glasgow 

 University, made the address, and at the lunch- 

 eon which followed an address was made by 

 Mr. Arthur Balfour. The statue, which is of 

 bronze, is the work of A. McF. Shannan. 



Colonel Geo. W. Goethals, chairman of 

 the Isthmian Canal Commission and chief 

 engineer of the Panama Canal, has accepted 

 the honorary presidency of the International 

 Engineering Congress and will preside over the 

 general session to be held in San Francisco, 

 September 20-25, 1915. 



Professor Theobald Smith, of Harvard 

 University, has accepted membership on an 

 International Committee with Professor 

 Gaffky, of Berlin, and Professor Calmette, of 

 Lille, to award in 1914 the first Emil Chr. 

 Hansen Prize for researches in medical micro- 

 biology. 



The Warren triennial prize for 1913, 

 amounting to $500, has been awarded to Dr. 

 Arrigo Visentini, instructor in pathologic 

 anatomy in the Eoyal University, Pavia, Italy, 

 for his essay entitled, " Function of the Pan- 

 creas and its Relation to the Pathogenesis of 

 Diabetes." 



At its last meeting the Eumford Committee 

 of the American Academy made the following 

 appropriations: To Professor W. O. Sawtelle, 

 of Haverford College, $300, in addition to a 

 former appropriation, in aid of his research on 

 " The spectra of light from the spark of an 

 oscillatory discharge"; to Professor G. N. 

 Lewis, of the University of California, $300, 

 in addition to a former appropriation, in aid of 

 his researches on the " Free energy changes in 

 chemical reactions " ; to Professor H. N. Davis, 

 of Harvard University, $200, in aid of his 

 various thermodynamical researches. 



Dr. Carl Voegtlin, associate professor of 

 pharmacology in the Johns Hopkins Univer- 



sity, has been appointed professor of pharma- 

 cology in the hygienic laboratory, U. S. Public 

 Health Service, to succeed Professor Eeid 

 Hunt, now head of the department of pharma- 

 cology at Harvard University. 



Privatdozent Dr. Carl Tigerstedt, of the 

 physiological institute of the University of 

 Helsingfors, Finland, recently appointed as 

 research associate of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, is spending the winter in the 

 Nutrition Laboratory in Boston. 



Albert W. Whitney has resigned his posi- 

 tion of associate professor of insurance and 

 mathematices in the University of California 

 to become assistant actuary in the Insurance 

 Department of the State of New York. 



Professor Gaffky, director of the Institute 

 for Infectious Diseases, Berlin, retired from 

 his position on October 1. His successor will 

 probably be Professor Loeffler, of Greifswald. 



Professor A. Obrecht has been appointed 

 director of the Santiago Observatory in suc- 

 cession to the late Dr. Ristenpart. 



Dr. Roger Croissant, Paris, is visiting the 

 United States, to study the system of training 

 nurses with a view of organizing similar work 

 in France. 



Dr. Josef Schumpeter, professor of political 

 economy in the University of Graz, Austria, 

 has been named as the Austrian exchange pro- 

 fessor for the winter semester of 1913-14 at 

 Columbia University. He is a graduate of the 

 University of Vienna in 1906, and studied 

 later in Berlin and England, in which latter 

 country he remained until 1908. Dr. Schum- 

 peter writes and speaks the English language 

 perfectly. 



Dr. Rhoda Erdmann, of the department of 

 protozoology of the Berlin Institute for Infec- 

 tious Diseases, has been appointed Seesel re- 

 search fellow in zoology at Yale University, to 

 enable her to study Professor WoodrufF's pedi- 

 greed race of Paramwcium. 



Dr. Burt G. Wilder, emeritus professor of 

 neurology and vertebrate zoology in Cornell 

 University, will reside hereafter in Brookline, 

 Mass., the home of his bc^hood. His address 



