184 March 27. "The home-coming of our birds.'' By Thos. S. Roberts, director of the zoological museum, University of Minnesota. THE MARSH Fund of the National AcAD- AT his death in 1899 Professor O. C. Marsh That in general the income be used for important pieces of constructive, scholarly work within the field of science to which Professor O. C. Marsh gave his principal effort. It seems appropriate that grants in the first instance should be used for the support of paleontological and geological research, and that beyond this field the committee should next consider research in aspects of biology related especially to paleontology. The interest on the Marsh Fund available for the coming year will make possible grants totalThe committee ing approximately $1,500. deesires to make the allotments in such a manner as to contribute most definitely to the advance of constructive work in the subject to which Professor Marsh dedicated this gift. Suggestions as to the best utilization of funds will be appreciated. Proposals made may take the form of recommendations regarding problems to be solved, or may concern individuals or organizations guaranteeing through their work the type of constructive effort to which the support of this fund might well be given. Applications or recommendations should be JOHN C. MERRIAM, Chairman, THE ELECTION OF DR. ANGEL DENT OF YALE UNIVER THE Yale Corporation at i meeting on February 20 by un elected James Rowland Angell a the university to succeed Art Hadley at the close of the pres year. While the decision was week, no formal action was take ascertained that Dr. Angell The Corporation has endeavored its head the ablest educational available in the United States, the college of his graduation o his residence. Dr. Angell is a son of the Angell of the University of graduate of that university of 1890, and as professor at the Minnesota, professor, dean and dent of the University of Chic of the National Research Cour Ident of the Carnegie Corpor shown ability as an administra educational leader. Dr. Ange guished psychologist, having be the American Psychological A being a member of the Nation Sciences. Dr. Angell gave the ture to freshmen at Yale this sought for by Yale several y chair in the Department of Psychology. The election of Dr. Angell dency of Yale comes as a resul of study on the part of the decide on the strongest man the position. President Hadle resignation April 10, 1920, an was appointed to receive nar candidates for the office of p transmit them to the Corpor way some eighty names have b ful consideration. The Corp in America "that no one breadth of educational experi nes ability, high public servic ideals more completely than I has also shown during his service at the Universities of Minnesota and Chicago a rare capacity for sympathetic understanding of undergraduate life." President-elect Angell is now in the south. It is expected that he will later make regular visits to confer with members of the faculty and familiarize himself with the Yale situation. SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS Ar the annual meeting of the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History changes in the scientific staff were announced as follows: Dr. J. A. Allen, former curator of mammals, was made honorary curator of mammals; Dr. Henry E. Crampton, former curator of invertebrate zoology, was made honorary curator, and Dr. Willard G. Van Name was made assistant curator of lower invertebrates; Dr. F. E. Lutz, former associate curator of invertebrates, was made curator of entomology; Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, former curator of the department of natural science at the Brooklyn Museum, was made associate curator of marine birds; Mr. Carl E. Akeley was made associate in mammalogy; Dr. J. Howard McGregor, of Columbia University, was made research associate in human anatomy; Mr. E. W. Gudger was made an associate in ichthyology. A new department was formed, to be known as the department of comparative anatomy, of which Dr. William E. Gregory and Mr. S. H. Chubb, both previously of the museum's staff, were made curator and assistant in osteology, respectively. AT the Charter Day Exercises of the University of Pittsburgh on February 18, the honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon Mr. William Boyce Thompson, the copper industrialist of New York, N. Y. On the same occasion the honorary degree of doctor of science was conferred upon Mr. C. H. MacDowell, president of the Armour Fertilizer Company and director of the chemicals division of the War Industries Board during 1918. These honors were given upon the recommendation of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. ་ DR. A. F. BLAKESLEE, of the department genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Wasl ington, has been elected an associate membe of the Royal Botanical Society of Belgiun THE American Genetic Association ha awarded the Frank N. Meyer medal on Di Trabut, a botanist who is a member of the fac ulty of the University of Algiers. MR. LLEWELLYN TREACHER has been selecte for the Foulerton award of the Geologists Association. Ar the annual general meeting of the Fara day Society, London, the following officers were elected to serve for the coming year: President, Professor A. W. Porter; Vice-presidents, W. R. Cooper, Professor C. H. Desch, Dr. J. A. Harker, Emil Hatschek, Professor T. M. Lowry, Dr. E. H. Rayner and Dr. G. Senter. LAWRENCE WILKERSON WALLACE was elected secretary of American Engineering Council at the meeting of the executive board in Syracuse, N. Y., on February 14, succeeding L. P. Alford, of New York, who has been acting secretary since the formation of the council on November 19, 1920. AT the meeting of the board of trustees of the American Medical Association held on February 5, the following fellows were reelected for terms of six years to positions on the editorial boards of the special journals published by the association as indicated: Richard C. Cabot, Boston, Archives of Internal Medicine; John Howland, Baltimore, American Journal of Diseases of Children; Samuel T. Orton, Iowa City, Iowa, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry; Martin E. Engman, St. Louis, Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology. E. S. Judd, Rochester Minn., was elected to the editorial board of the Archives of Surgery, succeeding Dr. William Mayo, who had resigned. Ar the "Utility Corn Show" held at Galesburg, Ill., January 5 and 6, Mr. J. R. Holbert, agronomist, Office of Cereal Investigations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, was presented with a silver loving cup inscribed: 186 "Awarded to J. R. Holbert in recognition of unselfish devotion to study of corn diseases." DR. J. D. MORGAN, Ph.D. (Columbia '16) has been appointed clinical psychologist in charge of the psychology clinic in the department of philosophy and psychology, and psychologist at the psychopathic hospital of the University of Iowa. Dr. Morgan is at present stationed in the Hawaiian Islands engaged in army hospital reconstruction work. CHARLES F. FARMER, assistant professor in the school of forestry at the Montana State University at Missoula, has resigned to take a position with a Tacoma wood pipe company. DR. MARGARET C. FERGUSON, professor of botany at Wellesley College, and chairman of the department, has leave of absence during the present year and sailed for Australia and New Zealand on January 25 after spending the last six months in California, devoting most of her time to research work. DR. WILDER G. PENFIELD, of Princeton, has received a Beit fellowship. He will make researches in the pathological development of medical science in England during the coming year. DR. RAYMOND F. BACON, director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research of the University of Pittsburgh, has returned from Europe where he spent the holidays in France and Italy in the investigation of nitrogen-fixation processes. SIR FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND, president of the Royal Geographical Society, announced at the meeting of the society on January 24 that the chief of this year's expedition to Mount Everest will be Colonel Howard Bury, while the actual reconnaissance of the mountain will be in the charge of Mr. Harold Raeburn, who will leave England for India in March, WE learn from Nature that in cooperation with the Anglo-Batavian Society, the University of London has made arrangements for an interchange of lectures on medical subjects between London and the Netherlands. The first lecture of the series to be given by Dutch professors was delivered by Professor Wertheim-Salamonson, of Amsterdam, on January 17 at the Royal Societ 66 on Tonus and reflexes." AT the meeting of the Roy March 3 a discussion on is opened by Sir J. J. Thomson. PROFESSOR W. F. G. SWANN, sity of Minnesota, gave to the students of Northwestern Univ ruary 16, "A popular account theory of relativity." In the same day he lectured before the of Northwestern University up solved problems in cosmical phy THE Galton anniversary me T in London on February 16. ture, preceded by a dinner, wa W. Bateson, on "Common sense lems." MRS. FREDONIA JOHNSTON Louis, Mo., widow of the late Pratt, assistant director of the tute of Industrial Research of of Pittsburgh, has established i tion an industrial fellowship as Dr. Pratt. The incumbent of fellowship will conduct researc of organic chemistry in which especially interested. PROFESSOR IRVING ANGELL FI department of biology at Cl since 1918, died on February in Worcester. WE learn from Nature t Beattie Crozier, author of wor tual and social development, d on January 8. He was born 1849. FRÉDÉRIC HOUSSAY, professor the Sorbonne and dean of science, has died at the age years. CARL TOLDT, professor of Vienna, has died at the age o WE learn from the Journal o Association that as a memor ! 1 FEBRUARY 25, 1921] SCIENCE General W. C. Gorgas and in recognition of his achievements in preventive medicine, Dr. Belisario Porras, president of the Republic of Panama, has proposed the foundation of an institute of tropical and preventive medicine in connection with the Santo Tomás Hospital at Panama. Pending the erection of a permanent building it is planned that the institute shall comprise a well-organized laboratory for research in tropical diseases in the Santo Tomás Hospital. After the laboratory has been established it is contemplated to organize a school of tropical medicine. As it is the wish of President Porras that the institute be a contribution of the Republic of Panama to the memory of General Gorgas, the project will be financed by the Panamanian government. Although the work of the institute will be largely in the interests of the countries of Central and South America, it is hoped that its activities will give it an international scope and that it will have the active cooperation of leaders in tropical and preventive medicine. At a meeting held in Washington, January 31, a provisional board of directors for the United States was appointed, including Admiral William C. Braisted, M. C., U. S. Navy, chairman; Dr.. Leo S. Rowe, director of the Pan-American Union; Surgeon-Generals Ireland, Stitt, and Cumming of the Army, Navy and Public Health Service, respectively; Hon. J. E. Lefevre, chargé d'affaires of the Republic of Panama, in Washington, and Hon. John Bassett Moore, legal representative. A similar board will be named to represent the countries of Central and South America. UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS THE Smith-Towner bill, creating a Department of Education and providing federal aid to the states for the promotion of education, has been favorably reported by the House Committee on Education. THE first Congress of the Universities of the British Empire was held in London in 1912 when all, to the number of fifty-three, were represented. It was decided to hold the 18 congresses every five years, but the war ma it impossible to do so in 1917. The secor congress will accordingly be held in the sun mer of 1921. The number of British unive sities has in the meantime increased to fifty eight. From July 5 to 8, the representative will be entertained by Oxford University. PROFESSOR C. E. HORNE, of the Universit of Porto Rico, has been appointed dean of th college of agriculture and mechanical arts a the University of Mayagüez, P. R. RICHARD HAMER, M.A. (Toronto), formerl assistant professor of physics at the Carnegi Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, has ac cepted a Whiting fellowship at the University of California where he is now engaged in research on the "Photo-electric effect." PROFESSOR FRANK LINCOLN STEVENS, of the University of Illinois, has been appointed Bishop Museum fellow at Yale University for the next university year. Dr. Oskar Baudisch, formerly of the University of Zurich, has been appointed research associate in the university for next year on the recommendation of the department of chemistry, approved by the board of permanent officers of the graduate school. Dr. Baudisch's publications include "The assimilation of inorganic nitrogenous compounds by plants," 66 The theory of color lakes" and "Complex iron salts." DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE ON A BOTTLE WHICH DRIFTED FROM THE GULF OF MAINE TO. THE AZORES In a previous note1 the writer has referred to certain drift-bottles set out in the Bay of Fundy for the purpose of investigating the movements of the water there. Some of these bottles were found on the shores of the Gulf of Maine and indicated by their drift a superficial circulation of the water in the Gulf. Since writing the note one of the bottles set out last year off the coast of New-Brunswick has been returned from the Azores. The bottle was set out on August 29, 1919, one mile southeast of Point Lepreaux on the New 1 SCIENCE, N. S., Vol. LII., No. 1349, November 5, 1920, page 442. 188 Brunswick coast (Lat. 45° 3′ N., Long. 66° 28′ W.) and was found on August 8, 1920, on the shore at "Ponta Delgada, Flores, Azores' (apparently Delgada Point of the Hydrographic chart, Lat. 39° 31' N. Long., 31° 13' W., and not Ponta Delgada, San Miguel). Flores is one of the northwestern islands of the Azores and Delgada Pt. is its northmost point. It would therefore seem from the position in which the bottle was found that it had approached the Azores from the north or northwest. The bottle was of heavy glass and closed with a paraffined cork. It contained a Canadian postcard, offering a reward to the finder who wrote on it the time and place of finding. Set out at the same time were 99 other similar bottles and they were set out in a line from Point Lepreaux to Gulliver Hole, on the Nova Scotia Coast. A bottle set out about a mile away from the one found in the Azores was picked up on Cape Cod. From the known drift of other bottles in the Gulf of Maine it seems probable that the bottle which was returned from the Azores passed southwestward in the Gulf of Maine and passed Cape Cod into the Atlantic and further that the bottle took about two and one half months to reach the water near Cape Cod. Without doubt the bottle encountered the "Gulf Stream" and was carried across it to its eastern and southern side as the "Gulf Stream swings round the North Atlantic. The time taken by the bottle to go from the American coast to the Azores was probably not more than nine and one half months. It is interesting to compare the drift of this bottle with that of one recorded in the Toronto Daily Star, November 1, 1920.2 A bottle cast into the Atlantic Ocean near Newfoundland by Sergeant D. McInnes, of Edmonton, when returning to Halifax, September, 1919, after shooting at Bisley, reached Nieuport, Belgium, last August. This bottle undoubtedly traveled in the western and northern edge of the "Gulf 2 For this citation the writer is indebted to Miss Rigby of the staff of the Atlantic Biological Station. Stream and took about the cross as the other bottle. The drift of these bottles ma compared with the drift of der North Atlantic and especially known drift of the schooner Fo ston which was adrift for at le half years and was observed over She was observed at sea in Lat. 74° W. (northeast of Cape Hat cember 15, 1891, and four times her way across the Atlantic in a rection until she reached Lat. 35° 39° W. on June 13, 1892, having six months about four fifths of the American coast to the A reaching this point she circled gasso Sea and returned by a sou the American coast. UNION COLLEGE, SCHENECTADY, N. Y. JAM AN ADJUSTABLE EMBOU TO THE EDITOR OF SCIENCE: 1 terested in Professor Barus's a Adjustable Embouchure" (wh have made "embouchuer ") SCIENCE for January 14, which to hand. I think he did not s ment, exhibited at the meeting o Academy of Sciences and at t the American Physical Society I less modestly called "an art brass instrument," and which I exactly upon the principle of th except that it lacked their soft light piston, like a safety valve, the lips, was lifted from its s pressure, letting a puff of air instrument, while the potential ticity of the lips) was furnish under adjustable tension. The flected at the mouth of the paper in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sc comes back, and if it arrives in 3Wrecks and Derelicts in the Ocean," 1894, U. S. Hydrographic |