December 19, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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that these members of the board have resigned 

 and that Mrs. Young may accept the election. 



Dr. Livingston Farrand, professor of an- 

 thropology in Columbia University, has been 

 elected president of the University of Colorado. 



President Thomas F. Kane, of the Univer- 

 sity of Washington, was removed from office 

 on December 12 by the board of regents, who 

 unanimously adopted a resolution declaring 

 the office vacant. The action was the climax 

 of an agitation that has lasted three years, in 

 which a majority of the faculty and students 

 are said to have aligned themselves against 

 President Kane. 



Among new appointments at the University 

 of Montana are: N. J. Lennes, Ph.D. (Chi- 

 cago), instructor in Columbia University for 

 the past three years, to be head of the depart- 

 ment of mathematics, and A. George Heil- 

 man, M.D. (Pennsylvania), to be instructor in 

 biology and physiology. 



Dr. W. T. Gordon has been appointed lec- 

 turer and head of the geological department 

 at King's College. London, in succession to 

 Dr. T. F. Sibly, appointed professor of geol- 

 ogy at the University of South Wales, Cardiff. 



Dr. G. Owen, lecturer in physios at Liver- 

 pool University, has been appointed professor 

 of physics at Auckland University College, 

 New Zealand. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESFONDENCE 



MORE PALEOLITHIC ART 



By degrees paleolithic stations are being re- 

 discovered. The large rock shelter of La 

 Colombiere, valley of the Ain, some thirty 

 miles southwest of Geneva, is an example. 

 Known since 1875 it had been only superfi- 

 cially explored. The important discoveries of 

 Dr. Lucien Mayet, of the University of Lyons, 

 and M. Jean Pissot, of Poncin, date from 

 October, 1913; and were first announced 

 through the Paris Academy of Sciences on 

 October 20. The trench they dug revealed in 

 section: (1) neolithic at the top; (2) a Magda- 

 lenian horizon, the upper section of which with 

 the neolithic had been disturbed by earlier in- 



vestigators; (3) a layer of fine sand with 

 debris from the overhanging rock, one meter 

 thick, in which no relics were found, represent- 

 ing a long period of non-habitation by man; 

 (4) Aurignacian layer with fossil remains of 

 the mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, reindeer and 

 horse. Here also was a workshop left by 

 Aurignacian man, flint tools and rare engrav- 

 ings characteristic of the epoch. 



The principal find is a large fragment of 

 mammoth bone on which are engraved human 

 figures; a head and upper part of the body 

 including an out-stretched arm and hand; 

 likewise a figure with head and feet missing, 

 probably a female. Both these engravings are 

 in profile, the view easiest to master by a 

 primitive artist working in outline. Fairly 

 good examples of the human form in the round 

 and in relief dating back to the Aurignacian 

 epoch are already known. Engraved figures 

 are rare and so far as the head is concerned 

 are little more than caricatures. The exam- 

 ple from La Colombiere is no exception in this 

 respect and curiously enough resembles cer- 

 tain engraved human heads previously re- 

 ported, one from the cavern of Font-de-Gaume 

 (Dordogne), one from the Grotte des Fees 

 (Gironde), and others from Les Combarelles 

 (Dordogne) and Marsoulas (Haute-Garonne). 

 In the Aurignacian layer were also found 

 pebbles with engraved figures of the bison, 

 Fells, horse, and wild sheep. When it is re- 

 called that four fifths of all Quaternary en- 

 gravings are animal figures, the bison and 

 horse predominating, the importance of these 

 two human figures from La Colombiere at 

 once becomes evident. 



George Grant MacCuedy 



Yale University 



on interference colors in clouds 

 The writer has, for some time, noticed cer- 

 tain colors in clouds as they pass near the 

 sun, and more careful observation indicates 

 that an interesting effect is present which 

 may not hitherto have been described. If 

 the clouds within an angle of 15°, or so, 

 from the sun are examined carefully, the 

 sun, itself, being hidden by the corner of a 



