DR. ROBERT S. McEwEN, on leave of absence from the department of zoology in Oberlin College is in government service at the Army Medical School at Washington, as instructor in parasitology.

PROFESSOR M. F. COOLBOUGH, of the department of chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, is in Washington on leave of absence and is engaged in war work at the Bureau of Mines. DR. H. M. LOOMIS, formerly of the Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, has been made chief inspector of the sardine canneries of Maine and Massachusetts, for the Food Administration.

MR. H. M. FREEBURN has resigned as assistant engineer of the Pennsylvania State Department of Health to become associate with the engineering staff of Wallace and Tiernan Co., New York City, manufacturers of chlorine control apparatus and sanitary engineering specialties.

PROFESSOR R. E. CALDWELL has left his work as chief of the department of dairy husbandry at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, to take charge of the research and educational department recently organized by the Blatchford Calf Meal Company of Waukegan, Illinois. His work will consist mainly in the conducting of feeding experiments in an effort to discover the ingredients necessary to produce the best milk substitute feed for immature animals.

THE last number of the Journal of Industrial Chemistry among its personal notes records the following changes from educational to industrial work: Professor Benton Dales, formerly head of the chemistry department of the University of Nebraska, research chemist for the B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio; Mr. F. W. Bruckmiller, formerly assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, chemist for the Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), at Sugar Creek Mo.; Professor J. B. Rather, head of the department of agricultural chemistry in the University of Arkansas, chemist with the Standard Oil Company, New York; Dr. M. L. Crossley, acting

head of the department of chemistry at Wesleyan University, chief chemist for the Calco Chemical Co., Bound Brook, N. J.; Miss Jessie E. Minor, associate professor of chemistry at Goucher College, chief chemist for the Hammerschlag Paper Mills, Garfield, N. J.; Mr. Carleton B. Edwards, head of the chemistry department at Guilford College, chemical engineer in smokeless powder with E. I. de Pont de Nemours and Co. Similar changes are reported in SCIENCE almost every week. would be in the interest of higher education to record the salaries received in the educational and in the industrial positions, and the time and facilities allowed for research work.

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CHEMISTRY and the war" was the subject of an illustrated lecture delivered to the students at Lafayette College on October 23 by Colonel Wilder D. Bancroft, professor of physical chemistry at Cornell University, now of the Chemical Gas Warfare Service.

THE Ingleby Lectures for 1918 before the University of Birmingham were given by Dr. Peter Thompson, professor of anatomy in the university, on October 17 and 24. The subject was "Some problems in embryology."

THE Geographical Association has founded a memorial lectureship in memory of the late Professor Herbertson, and M. Schrader delivered the first lecture in Oxford on November 5. M. Schrader is well known by his Atlas de géographie historique, and his continuation of the Atlas universelle of Vivien de S. Martin, and for his more recent work in the re-afforestation of French mountain slopes.

THE Prince of Wales has accepted the position of patron of the Ramsay Memorial Fund, founded in November, 1916, to raise £100,000 as a memorial to the late Sir William Ramsay. The committee has already raised £37,000, and subscriptions from oversea committees will probably bring the total to £50,000. It is proposed to raise the remaining £50,000 by a million shilling fund, now opened with a donation of 1,000 shillings from the Prince of Wales. Already over 10,500 shillings have been privately subscribed. The fund will provide Ramsay Research Fellowships and a Ramsay Me

morial Laboratory of Engineering Chemistry in connection with University College, London. Donations from one shilling upwards should be sent to the honorable treasurer, Lord Glenconner, at University College, London, W.C.1.

THE faculty of the medical school of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, has adopted a memorial to its former dean, Frank Fairchild Wesbrook, M.A., C.N., M.D., president of the University of British Columbia, bearing testimony to his qualities as a scientific man, as a leader and administrative officer, and as a councillor and friend.

LIEUTENANT ADMONT HALSEY CLARK, M. C., U. S. Army, assistant professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins University; resident pathoiogist to Johns Hopkins Hospital; who had done brilliant experimental work in pneumonia and diabetes, died in Johns Hopkins Hospital on October 13, from pneumonia, following influenza, aged thirty years.

MAJOR ALFRED REGINALD ALLEN, instructor in neurology in the University of Pennsylvania, has been killed in France, aged fortytwo years. Major Allen was a leading neurologist but preferred to enter active infantry service.

LIEUTENANT GILBERT DOOLITTLE, U. S. Engineers, son of Dr. Charles L. Doolittle, professor emeritus of astronomy in the University of Pennsylvania, was killed in action on September 25, aged forty-five years.

CHARLES S. CAVERLY, M.D., professor of hygiene in the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and president of the State board of Health since 1891, died, on October 16, in Rutland, Vt., Dr. Caverly was widely known. as a specialist in infantile paralysis.

DR. ERNEST G. GENOUD, a specialist on fermentation processes and a member of the staff of A. D. Little, Inc., died at his home in Dorchester, Mass., on October 12, of pneumonia following influenza, aged thirty-eight

years.

WILLARD E. CASE, known for his contributions to electrical science, died at Auburn,

N. Y., on October 30, of Spanish influenza, at the age of sixty-one years.

WILLIAM MAIN, formerly professor of chemistry in the University of South Carolina and one of the pioneers of the electrical industry, died at his home in Piermont, N. Y., on October 18, in his seventy-fourth year.

HOWARD SHELDON COE, agronomist in the United States Department of Agriculture, died from pneumonia following influenza at Beaumont, Texas, early on the morning of October 25, while absent from Washington on a field trip. Mr. Coe was born at Orrville, Ohio, in 1888, and graduated from the Iowa State College of Agriculture, in which institution he was for a time assistant instructor of botany. In 1913 he was appointed consulting botanist and plant pathologist at the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, which position he held until he entered the service of the United States Department of Agriculture, in July, 1914. He was the author of numerous botanical and agricultural papers.

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DR. WILLIAM G. MALLORY, associate professor of physics, in Oberlin College, died of pneumonia on October 19. He received the degree of A.B., from Oberlin in 1905, followed by the master's degree two years later. this time he was serving as a laboratory assistant. From 1907 to 1909 he was instructor in physics at Oberlin. Then followed a year of study at Cornell University, after which he accepted the professorship of physics and astronomy at Randolph-Macon College. During the winter of 1912-13 Dr. Mallory was a fellow in physics at the University of Chicago, and the next year became acting head of the physics department at Miami University. In 1914 he was called to Cornell as instructor in physics, holding this position until spring of the present year. He received the degree of doctor of philosophy from Cornell in June, 1918, and was chosen to aid in the Carnegie Research work at Ithaca. He went to Oberlin in September, taking the work of Dr. Samuel R. Williams, head of the Oberlin de

partment of physics, who is at present engaged in war work for the Council of National Defense.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL EDGAR WILLIAM COX, head of the Intelligence Staff of the British Army in France, was accidentally drowned on His adAugust 26, aged thirty-six years. vancement in the army had been rapid. To scientific men he was known for topographical surveys and publications.

SIXTEEN platinum dishes and crucibles were stolen from the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington, Kentucky, during the week following October 17. The police department of Lexington offers $100 for their recovery or for information leading to the conviction of the thief. The urgent need for this material at this time deserves earnest effort and cooperation in its recovery.

THE Field Museum of Natural History in Grant Park, Chicago, which is nearing completion, and has cost $7,000,000, has been turned over to the government for use as a hospital. The interior will be rearranged so that 4,300 patients can be accommodated and a number of smaller buildings will be erected around the main structure for the accommodation of 1,000 nurses. The museum building covers six acres and has more than twenty-five acres floor space.

OVER 30,000 persons paid for admission to the British Scientific Products Exhibition at King's College. Professor R. A. Gregory, chairman of the organizing committee, states that it is proposed to arrange for an annual exhibition of British science and invention.

ALFRED I. DU PONT, the owner of the Grand Central Palace, N. Y., has announced that, notwithstanding the fact that the government is to take over the building for the period of the war as a base hospital for the Army and Navy, he intends to proceed with his plans for creating there a center for world commerce after the war in an Allied Industries Corporation.

The Sibley Journal of Engineering, published at Cornell University, announces that with the November issue it will cease to appear

until the resumption of normal university conditions.

WE learn from The Auk that at the annual meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, Dr. W. Eagle Clarke was elected president to succeed Colonel R. Wardlaw Ramsey who had served for the last five years. The membership of the Union stands as follows: Ordinary 423, Extraordinary 1, Honorary 8, Honorary Lady (the only lady members) 8, Colonial 9 and Foreign 19. The Honorary and Foreign (equivalent to the Corresponding Class of the A. O. U.) it will be noticed are much more restricted than in the A. O. U. The American ornithologists represented in these classes are as follows: Honorary, Dr. J. A. Allen, Dr. Frank M. Chapman, Dr. Harry C. Oberholser, Dr. Chas. W. Richmond and Mr. Robert Ridgway. Foreign, Dr. Leonhard Stejneger and Dr. Witmer Stone.

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ADDITIONS to the teaching staff of the college of medicine, University of Cincinnati. are Professor Dennis E. Jackson, of Washington University, Professor Albert Prescott Mathews, of the University of Chicago, and Dr. Shiro Tashiro, of the University of Chicago. They have been appointed, respectively, to the chairs of pharmacology, biochemistry and physiological chemistry.

DEAN MORTIMER E. COOLEY, of the department of engineering of the University of Michigan, has been made regional director in the Student Army Training Corps for the district comprising Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.

PROFESSOR J. W. YOUNG, of Dartmouth College, has accepted the position of director of the mathematical instruction given under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., to serve for three months, beginning November 1.

DR. EARL F. FARNAU, assistant professor of chemistry at New York University, has been appointed associate professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cincinnati.

DR. ARTHUR M. PARDEE, professor of chemistry at Tarkio College, has been appointed professor of chemistry at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa.

THE following appointments have been made in the engineering departments at Lafayette College: H. S. Rogers, of the faculty of the University of Washington, has been appointed assistant professor of civil engineering; Ralph S. Wilbur, a graduate of Tufts College and a former member of the faculty at Iowa State University, more recently employed by the Ford Instrument Company, has been appointed assistant professor of mechanical engineering; H. M. Spandau, of Whitman College, Washington, has been made assistant professor in engineering drawing. Charles A. Aey, professor in physics at Allegheny College last year, has been appointed instructor in physics; Landon A. Sarver, a private in the Chemical Gas Warfare Service, and former instructor in chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed instructor in the department of chemistry; Walter G. Kleinspehn, a graduate of Lafayette, '18, is also an instructor in chemistry.

DR. H. H. HODGSON has been appointed head of the department of coal-tar color chemistry instituted two years ago at the Huddersfield Technical College to provide specialized chemical teaching with research facilities for the sudden influx of chemists caused by the great development of the color industry in Huddersfield. Dr. Hodgson has for nearly three years been chief chemist to one of the largest firms of chemical manufacturers in England. He was previously head of the chemical department at the Northern Polytechnic Institute in London.

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE SHALL WRITERS UPON THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AGREE TO IGNORE SYSTEMATIC PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE SINCE 1914?

IN a footnote appended to one of his latest papers, which appeared in the Proceedings of

the Zoological Society of London, April, 1918, p. 55, Sir George F. Hampson says: "No quotations from German authors published since 1914 are included. 'Hostes humani generis.'"

In the columns of Nature, issued September 5, 1918, Lord Walsingham, using the above footnote as his text, suggests that "for the next twenty years, at least, all Germans will be relegated to the category of persons with whom honest men will decline to have any dealings," and proposes that scientific men throughout the world shall by common consent agree to ignore all papers published in the German language, not as a measure of vengeance," but as a measure of "justice." He adds that the truly scientific German, whose labors are worthy of consideration, and who is actuated by sincere love of truth, ought to feel it no hardship to publish the results of his researches in English or French periodicals, especially in the view of the fact that educated Germans are all more or less familiar with these languages.

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In justification of his position Lord Walsingham points out the fact, which he, as one of the foremost entomologists of the world, is better able to aver than those less erudite, that in the "Catalogue of the Palearctic Lepidoptera," published in 1871 by Staudinger & Wocke, "precedence is improperly but deliberately assigned to German names in preference to earlier ones given by French authors"; and he also recalls the persistent manner in which the representatives of German scientific societies at the meeting of the International Zoological Congress at Monaco in 1913 attempted to dominate the discussions, and to insist that German usage in matters of nomenclature should receive universal sanction "to the exclusion of all attempts to trace out the literary history of each species and to preserve for it the name bestowed by the first author who described or figured it." The writer of these lines, who was a member of the First International Entomological Congress which met in Brussels in 1910, recalls quite vividly that the same pushing tendencies and arrogance were also displayed on that occasion by certain of the German delegates.

To the searcher for truth for truth's sake it has been for many years both amusing and irritating to observe the manner in which even in scientific circles Teutonic megalomania has been growing by leaps and bounds. German conceit, originally engendered by the easy victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War, and fostered by subsequent German commercial success and prosperity, spread rapidly from political and military circles into the ranks of scientific investigators. A gullible world, easily duped, accepted the pretensions of these alleged "supermen," not only in the fields of war and mercantile industry, but also in the fields of science. The uninformed and unreflecting attributed to German sitzfleisch the honors which belong to esprit, mistaking assiduity for genius. Perhaps the most wofully deceived person was the German himself, who, contemplating the results of his compilatory labors, exclaimed after the manner of little Jack Horner "What a Big Boy am I!"

The writer of this note is to a certain extent in sympathy with his two learned friends, Hampson and Walsingham, and at future international congresses is prepared to vote heartily, should they make the motion, for the exclusion of the "Berliner Geck" from gatherings in which said "Geck" may rise and attempt to air himself and his opinions. He has, however, a conviction that in future assemblages of this sort there will be less manifestation of the Prussian spirit than there has been in the recent past. Events are so shaping themselves that our friends, "the supermen," will be inclined to take a position more nearly in accord with the facts of the universe in which they and we live.

The writer, however, can not unqualifiedly give in his adhesion to the proposal to ignore the work of Teuton naturalists unless published in English or French. While it is true that the value of the work done by Germans in many fields has been ridiculously overestimated, nevertheless there is a certain body of men in Germany-unless they have been shot off in recent battles-whose work is worthy of respect. These men naturally write in GerIt is their mother tongue, and there are,

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or used to be, a host of periodicals open to them. If by chance some of them should erect a genus, or describe a species having validity, according to the inexorable "law of priority" the names given by them will have to stand in the future literature of science, and it will not mend matters to pass resolutions declaring that only papers published in English and French shall be taken into consideration by systematic workers. This war is not going to last forever. We hope that Prussian militarism and despotism will vanish from the world, as other nightmares have vanished in the past. We trust that a full atonement for political and military crimes will be exacted. We expect that sanity will return after a while to German crania, and that megacephalic symptoms (they call the disease "big-head" in Kentucky) will abate, and that peace will return to this war-worn world. When that time comes, we will have, to quote Lord Walsingham himself, "to trace out the literary history of each species, and to preserve for it the name bestowed by the first author who described or figured it." It will then not matter whether he was English, French, American, Japanese, or German. It will be, just as it has been in the past, a matter of purely historicoscientific interest. English men of science recognize to-day the scientific names given by Frenchmen who applied them at a time when England was at war with France. English men of science and American men of science will do the same thing in the case of names given by Germans with whose despotic and autocratic powers we are now at war.

The writer loathes despotism and conceit and ignorance and cruelty. The loathing he feels for these things, however, does not blind him to the eternal verities. The essence of science is truth. He can not conceive how scientific truth can be advanced by a resolution that its utterance shall be confined to the English and French languages, though he prefers these languages to German and Choctaw. The adoption of the proposal made by Lord Walsingham would conduce to that state of affairs which he reprobates in the case of Staudinger & Wocke's "Catalogue." Science