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University of California for four months, from 

 January first. 



Ernest Dunbar Clark, Ph.D. (Columbia, 

 '10) has resigned the position of instructor in 

 chemistry in the Cornell Medical School to 

 accept the position of soil biochemist in the 

 Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. Bruno Oetteking, who has received 

 training in Germany and Switzerland, is 

 working over the skull collection made in the 

 course of the Jesup expedition of the A m erican 

 Museum of Natural History. The data are to 

 be used in the final report on the physical 

 anthropology of the expedition. 



The Salt Lake City office of the mineral re- 

 sources division of the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey was recently moved to new 

 quarters. The addresses of the three local 

 offices of this division in the west and the 

 geologists in charge of them are as follows : 

 Charles W. Henderson, 311 Chamber of Com- 

 merce, Denver Colo. Victor C. Heikes, 312 

 U. S. Post Office Building, Salt Lake City, 

 TTtah. Charles G. Yale, 305 U. S. Custom 

 House, San Francisco, Cal. 



Sir Aurel Stein, superintendent of the 

 frontier circle of the archeological survey of 

 India, has been deputed by the government of 

 India to resume his archeological and geo- 

 graphical explorations in Central Asia and 

 westernmost China, in continuation of the 

 work he carried out between 1906 and 1908. 

 For his journey to the border of Chinese 

 Turkestan on the Pamirs he is taking on this 

 occasion the route which leads through the 

 Darel and Tangir territories, which have not 

 been previously visited by a European. 



On Friday evening, NoTember 21, there was 

 a public meeting in the large auditorium of 

 the American Museum of Natural History 

 under the joint auspices of the museum, the 

 American Scenic and Historic Preservation 

 Society and the National Committee for the 

 Preservation of the Yosemite National Park, 

 with the cooperation of many civic organiza- 

 tions throughout the United States to protest 

 against the act pending in congress proposing 



to grant the Hetch-Hetchy Valley in the 

 Yosemite National Park for water-storage 

 purposes. Addresses by Professor Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn, president of the museum; Dr. 

 George F. Kunz, president of the Scenic 

 Society; Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson, 

 chairman of the National Commitee; Dr. 

 Douglas W. Johnson, of Columbia University, 

 and others discussed the economic, geological 

 and scenic features of the question. 



Professor Joseph Baerell, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, gave a lecture on " Some Physical Condi- 

 tions which have Guided Evolution " before 

 the Columbia Chapter of the Sigma Xi on 

 November 25. 



Professor Axel L. Melander, head of the 

 entomological department of the State College 

 at Pullman, Washington, spoke on " The Con- 

 trol of Insect Pests," before the Brown Uni- 

 versity Chapter of the Sigma Xi on Novem- 

 ber 24. 



Dr. a. S. Pearse, of the University of Wis- 

 consin lectured before the students of the de- 

 partment of biology at Lawrence College on 

 November 21, his subject being " Tropical Life 

 in Colombia." The lecture, which was an 

 account of a recent zoological expedition of 

 which Dr. Pearse was a member, was illus- 

 trated by lantern slides. 



The Faraday Society of London devoted 

 the meeting of November 12, 1913, to a general 

 discussion on " The Passivity of Metals," to 

 which it invited the following investigators to 

 contribute papers: from England, Dr. G. 

 Senter and Mr. H. S. Allen; from Germany, 

 Professor Max LeBlanc (Leipzig), Professor 

 G. Schmidt (Miinster), Professor Giinther 

 Schulze (Eeichsanstalt, Charlottenburg), Dr. 

 G. Grube (Dresden) ; from Switzerland, Dr. D. 

 Reiehinstein (Ziirich) ; from the United States, 

 Professor E. P. Schoch (Austin, Texas). The 

 papers and discussions will be printed under 

 separate cover and also in the Transactions of 

 the Faraday Society. 



A lecture in memory of the late Professor 

 Edwin Goldman was recently delivered at 

 Freiburg University, Baden, by Professor 

 Ashoff, who drew attention to his eminence 



