Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-16


,jety of London.
rrof j. II. Comstock of Cornell Uni
Nsrsity has received one of the twelve
honorary memberships of the Society
r.utomologioue of Belgium.
Prof 4. J.. Dean of the Yale Scientific
school has accepted the call to the
presidency of the college. of Hawaii
With the cooperation Of fifty diff
tc~ent orga nizati"ns devoted to social
progress and civic welfare, Reed Col
l@ge will hold a conference May Is. Is
and II a. clearing house for well
fare workers and stimulation for the
activities of the city for the year 1915.
This Portland 1915 conference will be
similar in scope and method 10 the
Reed College conference on the con-
s"rvation of human life held last May.
The College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts of North Carolina will
Celebrate. in October. the twenty-ffth
anniversary of its opening.
The forty-ninth meeting of the Amer
lc@n Chemical Society will be held in
cincinnati, ohio. Tuesday. April 10
H. inclusive.
Tho Cutter lectures on preventive
medicine and hygiene are to be given
~ the Harvard Medical School this year
by Dr. Charles V. Chaplin, superintend-
br. Greasy l.. Wilbur. chief statistician,
nited States bureau of the census,
Mr.. and Mrs Paul !. Sachs have es-
tsblishcd fund for the American Mu-
scum of Natural History. TO be known
officially as the Angelo Heilprin ex
riorinG fund. The money is given in
memory Of Angelo Heilprin and is to be
applied each year to any exploring
purpose the museum authorities deem
hitting.
Arrangements have been made for
the establishment. as II memorial to
Lord Lister in Edinburgh. of a Lister
institute.
Or. Hans ReIck of the Geological and
archaeological Institute of Berlin
University announces the discovery in
German East Africa, of a fossil of a per
feet human skeleton. which. lie says.
proves that thousands of years ago a
highly developed race of men inhab-
tied the African continent The skele-
ton Is ascribed TO the diluviaI epoch
aud is regarded as n very valuable
anthropological discovery.
The Automobile Club of France, To-
.gted in Paris. will hold n series of
tests of kerosene engines commencing
october | next, with prizes to aggre-
gate $1,000. The test is designed to
demonstrate the usefulness. fuel con-
sumption, etc. of four-cylinder engines
EstlDS between twenty ana tnlTty
horsepower Of the automobile type.
The United States Geological Survey
has issued Interesting report on
Titled The Mud Jumps at the Mouth
"f the Mississippi" The territory within
a. mile or two of each of the mouths of
the Mississippi is characterized by large
Swelllngs or upheavals of tough, blush
clay. to which has been applied the
name mud Jumps To an observer at
the mouth of the river the idea that
the region is a great dumping ground
Of the United States is most impress
sive. The land is being built out into
the sea at an estiIrated average rate of
500 feet a year.
The fourth annual award of the
Willard Gibbs medal. founded by Will
liam A. Converse, will be made by the
chicago section of the American Chem
ical Society to DIR. Ira Remsen of Johns
Hopkins University.
Canada has established a forest prod
uct laboratory in connection with Nc
GIN University at Montreal on the lines
of the United States institution of the
same sort at the University of Wiscon-
sin.
The annual meeting of the American
Philosophical Society will be held April
-. "A and IS, 1914
Dr. Martin Strell has been appointed
assistant in the biological experiment
station for fisheries at Munich