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Minnesota. Except for West Virginia, Ken¬ 
tucky, Maryland, and Florida, the states of 
the south, east of the Mississippi River, are 
not represented. By far the greater number 
of the students come from states lying east 
of the Mississippi, and north of the Mason 
and Dixon line; but from the Pacific Coast 
come the papers of nineteen candidates. A 
university drawing students from thirty-one 
states would boast that it is a national uni¬ 
versity, and the Foundation feels a right to 
certain pride in the extension of its educa¬ 
tional influence over more than three fifths of 
the United States. 
In Science and Education 
From the laboratories of the Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research comes a little 
bulletin of human significance ponderously 
christened, after the fashion of science, “A 
Three Months Old Strain of Epithelium.” It 
is the report of experiments conducted by 
Dr. Albert Fischer, 1921-1922 Fellow of the 
Foundation from Denmark. Dr. Fischer has 
undertaken to prove by experiment that a cul¬ 
ture of the cellular tissue which covers all 
free surface of the animal body can be made 
to live and grow for an indefinite time. He 
has worked with pure epithelium from the lens 
of the eye. Such experimentation may lead 
to the artificial production of tissue for surgi¬ 
cal purposes. . . . The Scientific Acad¬ 
emy of the Nobel Institute has published a 
report of chemical research carried on by Dr. 
C. S. Leonard while a Fellow of the Founda¬ 
tion in Sweden, 1920-1921. . . . Haakon 
Styri, 1909-1910, read at the Fortieth General 
Meeting of the American Electrochemical 
Society, a paper on Rust Prevention by Slush¬ 
ing. Mr. Styri is now in charge of the S. K. 
F. research laboratory in Philadelphia. 
. . . Miss Irma C. Lonegren, 1919-1920, 
has been appointed Expert in Social Welfare 
in the Federal Children’s Bureau of the De¬ 
partment of Labor. 
I’rom the Frontiers of the World 
Just beyond the Arctic Circle, on the Baffin 
Bay side of Greenland lies the Island of 
Disko, ice covered now, but long ago, years 
without number, covered with tropical growth. 
The pre-history of Greenland is written in its 
fossils exposed by the alternate freezing and 
thawing of water in the rock crevices. In 
these treasure chests for botanists have been 
found fossilized leaves of the tulip tree, trop¬ 
ical breadfruit, and sequoias allied to the red¬ 
woods of California. In 1896 Dr. Morten P. 
Porsild, a graduate of the University of Co¬ 
penhagen, began his scientific research in 
Disko, and in 1906 the biological station which 
he founded was recognized by the Danish gov¬ 
ernment and he was appointed its director. 
During the months of February, March, 
and April, Dr. Porsild visited the United 
States to establish liaison with American scien¬ 
tists and to lecture on technical subjects be¬ 
fore academic and scientific audiences, and 
on the people and problems of Greenland 
before such other audiences as the New York 
Chapter of the Foundation. Following a 
schedule prepared for him by the Foundation, 
he visited Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, 
Ottawa, Chicago, Madison, and Minneapolis, 
delivering twelve lectures illustrated by his 
own stereopticon slides. At the Chapter meet¬ 
ing in New York on March 24, he spoke in 
Danish, and the Foundation accepts with cer¬ 
tain modest qualifications the phrase he ap¬ 
plied to it then—“a legation in science.” 
Sandzen at Jamestown 
About one hundred guests of the Jamestown 
Chapter were present at the opening of the 
Sandzen exhibition in the Norden Club on 
Monday evening, February 27. Dr. Leonard 
C. Van Noppen, one time exchange professor 
from Columbia University to the University 
of Leyden, delivered an address on Art and 
World Progress. On each afternoon of the 
week a committee of ladies took charge of the 
exhibit which was opened to the public and 
shown to the children of the schools. The 
Jamestown Chapter has arranged a series of 
Monday evening meetings which is attracting 
to it many new members. 
The Student Tour 
In Sweden Dr. Svante Arrhenius will ar¬ 
range for official recognition of the tour of 
American students to visit the Scandinavian 
countries under the auspices of the Founda¬ 
tion. The American Minister to Denmark, 
Dr. J. Dyneley Prince, has informed the man¬ 
agers of the tour that he will plan to be in 
Copenhagen when the party arrives. Enroll¬ 
ment for this tour can be made by immediate 
application to the director, Mr. Irwin Smith, 
30 East 42nd Street, New York. 
