Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
SCIENCE NOTES.

| Dean Frederick J. Willing of the
College of Pharmacy fof the Univer-
sity of Minnesota has been elected :
president of the American Pharmaceu- :
teal Association. :
The minister of public instruction OF :
the French government has selected :
DIR. Wallace c. Sabin Hollis. professor :
of mathematics and natural philosophy :
at Harvard University, as exchange :
professor with France for 1S16-l9lI. .
Dr. Lysander P. Holmes of the health
department of New York city has been
appointed third assistant superinten- :
dent in the Johns Hopkins Hospital
The Dominion Observatory at OF =
tawa. Canada. has just published co.. :
lection of twenty star maps. 10 ne used .
in observing meteors and plating their :
paths. The track of a meteor is nearly =
an arc of great circle. The Meteor /.
Star Atlas shows all stars down to the
fifth magnitude.
Dean Haskell of the College of Civil
Engineering of Cornell University has :
been appointed "A member of 4 board Of
consulting engineers which is to adj
wise state Engineer Williams about the :
work of completing the New York :
barge canal.
Or. H Debus. F. r. S. formerly pro-
lessor of chemistry at the Royal Naval
College of Greenwich. and lecturer on
chemistry at Guys Hospital mas uieo
in his ninety-second year. -
The Perkins medal of the Society OF =
Chemical Industry has been present ed
to Dr. L. H. Baekeland at a meeting
held at Rumford hall of the chemists
club New York city. The address OF
presentation was made by DIR. Charles
F. Chandbe, senior American past
president of the Society of Chemical
Industry.
which is modelled after the Royal COL
lege of Surgeons of England. begins
the new year with the announcement
that it has obtained from ITS fellows
AN endowment fund of 100000. to be
held in perpetuity, the income OF
which only is to be used in ADVANCING
the purposes of the college. -
The director. Or. Bowman. says
now lists about 3.4o0 fellows IN tho
United States and Canada.
DIR. Irving e. Melhus. formerly pa
biologist, office of cotton and truck
diseases Of the United States bureau OF
plant industry, has assumed charge or
the work in plant pathology IN me
Iowa State College.
1t is reported that the commonwealth
of Australia is prepared to eNpehd
whatever sum is necessary TO estap-
lish and administer an institution Tor
the development of scientific and IN
dustrial research. even If the cost
amounts to a million pounds.
NJ. Z. Skinner, member OF the
American Museum, has presented 10
the institution some valuable notion
picture films and photographs of AMI
mails of the Yellowstone Park OBJ
tanned during his twenty years eX-
perience in that region.
In addition to the collection of 10000
vertebra and 10000 invertebra speci-
mems brought from Africa by the
expedition. which has
lust returned, the evidence in the shape
of photographs by Mr.. Lang and col
ored drawings by Mr.. Chopin is un-
usually varied and complete. Seven
thousand photographs help to set forth
the animal life of the Kongo, as well
as the industries, customs, art cere-
monies amusements and mode of life
of the natives, while the chronological
value of the work Is supplemented by
some seventy casts of heads, which Mr..
Lang was able to make through the
consent of a tribe of pygmies
Barnard College, Columbia Univer-
sity. has received 100000 from Mr..
James Talcott for religious instruction.