tion and Transmission Engineering" and "Physical Laboratory Experiments." He had also written a number of monographs and papers on special topics. Dr. Sheldon was an honorary fellow of the American Electrotherapeutic Association, fellow and past-president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, member of the American Physical Society, member and pastpresident of the New York Electrical Society, member of the American Electrochemical Society, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, member, past-vice-president and assistant treasurer of the United Engineering Society and chairman of its library committee, member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and president of its department of electricity, and member of the Engineers' Club. ERICH HAUSMANN SCIENTIFIC EVENTS THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY THE California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, opened the work of the new year on September 27. The name of this institution was changed from Throop College of Technology to its present name by order of court, on petition of the board of trustees, on April 7, 1920. From the fall enrollment, the total attendance for the year is estimated at 400 students, a substantial increase over the enrollment of last year, which marked the largest attendance up to that time. The institute has just received from Dr. Norman Bridge an additional gift of $100,000, for the Norman Bridge Physical Laboratory. His original gift for this purpose was $150,000, this addition making a total of $250,000. The construction of the building will be commenced immediately, and the building will be completed for the opening of the college year 1921-1922. The resignation of Dr. James A. B. Scherer as president of the institute was accepted by the board of trustees on September 11. Dr. Scherer was president of the institute for twelve years. His resignation was occasioned by the condition of his health. When Dr. Scherer assumed the presidency the institute occupied old buildings, its work was almost wholly that of a preparatory school, its endowment very small, and its staff little known in the educational world. To-day it is a scientific institution of recognized standing, it occupies a physical plant consisting of a beautiful campus of twenty-two acres and four modern, reinforced concrete buildings, beautiful in architecture and equipment with the most modern scientific equipment. It has a substantial and constantly growing endowment, and has drawn into its staff men of the highest standing in science and engineering, including such outstanding figures as Dr. Arthur A. Noyes, who has recently become a full-time member of the faculty, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, who, under a cooperative arrangement with the University of Chicago, spends a portion of each year at the institute, and Dr. A. A. Michelson, who as research associate of the institute has recently installed on its campus apparatus for the measurement of earth tides, and has recently spent several months at the institute in connection with this investigation. Pending the appointment of a new president a faculty administrative committee has been appointed, composed of Franklin Thomas, professor of civil engineering, chairman, Dr. Arthur A. Noyes, director of chemical re search, Clinton K. Judy, professor of English and chairman of the faculty, Harry C. Van Buskirk, professor of mathematics and recorder, and Edward C. Barrett secretary of the institute. New appointments to the staff of the institution are: John R. Macarthur, B.A., University of Manitoba, 1892; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1903; associate professor of English. Captain Frederic W. Hinrichs, U. S. A. Retd., Point, 1918; professor of military science and tactics. Samuel A. Tenison, H.S., James Millikan University, 1914; assistant professor of physical education. Roscoe G. Dickinson, S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1915; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1920; National Research Council Fellow; research associate in chemistry. Clyde L. E. Wolfe, B.S., Occidental College, 1906; M.S., Occidental College, 1907; A.M., Harvard University, 1908; Ph.D., University of California, 1919; instructor in mathematics. Ernest H. Swift, B.S., in chemistry, University of Virginia, 1918; M.S., California Institute of Technology, 1920; instructor in analytical chemistry. Fred L. Poole, B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1918; M.S., Union College, 1919; instructor in electrical engineering. Fred K. Converse, B.S., in mechanical engineering, University of Rochester, 1914; instructor in civil engineering. Glen G. H. Bowlus, B.S., Purdue University, 1912; instructor in mechanical drawing. James B. Friauf, A.B., University of Montana, 1918; instructor in physics. THE HECKSCHER FOUNDATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY THE Committee on general administration of the Cornell University board of trustees, on October 2, adopted a plan for the administration of the income from the Heckscher Foundation for the Promotion of Research in Cornell. August Heckscher gave Cornell University $500,000 last summer as an endowment to promote research. The plan of administration is described in the following resolutions which the committee adopted: That the income shall be used only for the promotion of research, including the publication of the results thereof. That for the present the income shall not be used for permanent research professorships. That the income shall not be used to increase the emoluments of any member of the teaching staff. That the income shall not be used intentionally to promote investigation leading to patent rights or to the pecuniary benefit of the investigators through patent rights, or in any similar manner. That for the administration of the foundation there be established a council to be known as the Heckscher Research Council. This council shall consist of the president of the university, ex officio, as chairman; two trustees to be elected by the board of trustees whose respective terms as members of the council shall continue until the expiration of their then respective terms as trustees; the dean of the graduate school, ex officio; four members of the university faculty, two from each of the two groups known as the group of sciences and the group of letters as specified in Section 2 of Article XII. of the university statutes and relating to the university library; and two emeritus professors to be selected annually by the council. The terms of the four faculty members to be elected by the groups of the faculty shall, at the first election, be for one, two, three and four years, respectively, and thereafter the term of each shall be four years. All members of the council shall continue to hold office until their successors are elected. This council shall, subject to the approval of the board of trustees, have general supervision of research under the Heckscher Foundation, the expenditure of the income of the fund, and all other matters pertaining thereto. The council shall report its recommendations from time to time to the board of trustees and upon the approval of the same the expenditure of appropriations shall follow the usual practise of the university. The council shall call annually for requests for grants from individual investigators, or groups of investigators proposing to collaborate, but not from departments of the university as such, nor from colleges. The council shall have power to establish and from time to time modify the rules and regulations governing its meetings and the details of appropriations. The annual report of progress shall be made to the council by each investigator or group receiving a grant. An annual report to the board of trustees shall be made by the council and a copy thereof sent to the founder of the fund. A minimum of one hundred copies of all publications of the results of the investigations shall be delivered to the council for preservation in the university library and distribution under the direction of the council. A bound copy of such publications shall from time to time be transmitted to the founder. AUSTRIAN METEOROLOGISTS APPEAL FOR AID SEVERAL pathetic appeals from Austrian meteorologists or their families have been received recently by a number of American meteorologists. The following one came to the editor of the Monthly Weather Review on October 6: ZENTRALANSTALT FÜR METEOROLOGIE UND GEODYNAMIK. Wien XIX Hohe Warte 38. 20 September, 1920. In view of our calamities in Austria, I beg you to help my colleagues, the members of the staff of the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie in Vienna, in their great need of food. The American Relief Administration Warehouse has published the following circular. For several weeks the American Relief Administration Warehouses in Austria have been delivering food parcels to holders of food drafts. You can buy at any bank in the United States American Relief Warehouse Drafts and send them to us in Vienna. On presentation of these food drafts at the warehouse in Vienna, we can also draw American food. We are in great need of food in Austria. Individual food parcels sent from America usually do not reach us. Money does us no good when there is no food to buy. Help us in our distress by sending an American Relief Warehouse Food Draftquickly! For further information apply to American Relief Administration, 115 [present address, 42] Broadway, New York City, or to your own or the nearest bank. Allow me to draw your attention to it. We are, the families included, 67 persons. We all would thank you very heartily for your kindness. I am, dear Sir yours very respectfully, DR. MORIZ TOPOLANSKY, Secretary Contributions whether to a general fund or for any specific class or individual may be sent direct to the American Relief Administration 42 Broadway, New York City. If any further information as to the general situation among the intellectual classes in central and eastern Europe is desired, it may be had from Dr. Vernon Kellogg, National Research Council, Washington, D. C. A fund for the purchase of food drafts for Austrian meteorologists in the name of the American Meteorological Society has been started by some members of the society. Contributions toward this fund may be sent to Charles F. Brooks, Secretary, Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C. THE GILMAN MEMORIAL LECTURES ON THE Johns Hopkins University announces the inauguration of a course of lectures to be known as The Gilman Memorial Lectures on Geography. These lectures are made possible through the generosity of the family of Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Gilman began his teaching career at Yale (1863-72) as professor of physical and political geography and was a member of the U. S. Commission on the boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana in 1896-97. The first series of lectures will begin October 18, and will continue weekly, throughout the academic year. They will be given by Major Lawrence Martin, of the General Staff Corps, who as the chief of the Geographic Section, Military Intelligence Division, U. S. Army, attached to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, had unusual opportunities for studying at first hand the geographical factors affecting trade in the reorganized states of Europe, Asia Minor and the Caucasus. SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS AT the sixth International Congress of Mathematicians, held at Strasbourg at the end of September, addresses were given by Sir Joseph Larmor, Professor L. E. Dickson, M. de la Vallée-Poussin, M. Volterra and M. Nörlund. THE Botanical Society of Washington has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Charles E. Chambliss; Vicepresident, P. L. Ricker; Recording Secretary, Roy G. Pierce; Corresponding Secretary, R. Kent Beattie; Treasurer, L. L. Harter. THE Italian government has conferred upon Dr. Leonard Hill, F.R.S., the Italian silver medal "Ai Benemeriti della Salute Publica." THE Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Canada has awarded $5,000 to as sist Professor J. C. McLennan, of Toronto University, in investigations on helium to determine the uses for lamps, amplifying values, high resistances, etc. THE Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded the L. Lacaze prize (10,000 francs) to Dr. Maurice Arthus, professor of physiology at Lausanne. DR. CHARLES F. CHANDLER, formerly professor of chemistry and dean of the school of mines at Columbia University, received the honorary degree of doctor of science from Union College last June. In conferring the degree, Dr. Charles A. Richmond, chancellor of the university, referred to Professor Chandler in the following language: "Author of many chemical papers; member of many scientific and learned societies both here and abroad. The recipient of distinguished academic honors from universities in America and England. Esteemed by your profession, beloved by generations of grateful students to whom you have imparted both knowledge and wisdom. We delight also to do you honor." DR. ROBERT M. YERKES, chairman of the Research Information Service of the National Research Council, and Dr. Leonard C. Gunnell, of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the Regional Bureau for the United States of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, have gone to London to represent these organizations at a conference upon the future of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature which was held on September 28. Dr. L. E. Dickson, professor of mathematics in the University of Chicago, and Dr. Luther P. Eisenhart, professor of mathematics in Princeton University, who have been in attendance at the organization meeting of the International Mathematical Union at Strasbourg and Dr. S. I. Franz, who has been in Europe this summer, will also attend the conference in London, Dr. Dickson representing the National Academy of Sciences and Dr. Eisenhart and Dr. Franz as additional representatives from the National Research Council. DR. JOHN J. R. MACLEOD, Toronto, professor of physiology in the University of Toronto, and vice dean of the medical faculty, is chairman of the Committee on Industrial Hygiene in Canada. With him are associated Professor Archibald B. Macallum, members of departments of physiology and psychology in various universities in Canada, and one representative each of the department of labor, Ottawa, of industry, and women's organizations. A secretary of the committee is established in the medical department of the University of Toronto. PROFESSOR JOHN BRETLAND FARMER, F.R.S., of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, has been appointed a member of the advisory council to the Committee of the British Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. PROFESSOR VLADIMER KARAPETOFF, of Cornell University, has been nominated for state engineer and surveyor on the socialist ticket. MR. B. L. JOHNSON, geologist, has been appointed acting chief of the Foreign Section of the Mineral Resources Branch of the U. S. Geological Survey, in the absence of Mr. Eugene Stebinger. DR. WILLIAM L. TOWER, captain, U. S. A., formerly associate professor of zoology in the University of Chicago, after his return from the army of occupation in Germany and discharge in the summer of 1920, sailed on September 25 for Tampico, Mexico, to assume the directorship of the pathological, bacteriological and x-ray laboratories of the American Hospital, Tampico. THE resignation of Professor Ernest Blaker, of the department of physics, Cornell University, has been accepted. Professor Blaker has been on leave of absence since the closing of the Aviation School two years ago, when he went to Akron, Ohio, to accept a position with the Goodrich Tire and Rubber Company. WILLIAM A. BEVAN, formerly assistant professor of physics at the Oregon State Agricultural College, who has been a first lieutenant in the air service since February, 1918, has been appointed a captain in the air service 1 of the regular army. He is now chief inspector of airplanes and motors in the Aviation Repair and Supply Depot at Rockwell Feld, Coronado, California. DR. HENRI M. AMI, who has been in Washington at the British Embassy for the last four years, is leaving that post to resume his work at Ottawa, Canada, in connection with the Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Mines. During his stay at the capitol Dr. Ami was asked to take charge of war metals and minerals and derivatives, and is now returning to Canada to devote his time to paleontology and chronological geology in which he was formerly engaged. NEIL M. JUDD, curator of American archeology, U. S. National Museum, returned to Washington on October 1 after having spent the preceding five months in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, engaged in archeological investigations for the Bureau of American Ethnology and the National Geographic Society. DR. JACQUES LOEB, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, delivered the first of the Harvey Society Lectures at the New York Academy of Medicine, on Saturday evening, October 6. His subject was "The proteins and colloidal chemistry." THE Cutter lectures on Preventive Medicine and Hygiene will be given on October 19 and 20 in the Harvard Medical School from five to six P.M. by Dr. Theobald Smith, director of the department of animal pathology of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. J., on " Medical research and the conservation of food-producing animals." AT a special meeting of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, October 8, Dr. Harvey Cushing, Moseley professor of surgery at Harvard University, surgeon in chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, delivered an address on "The Special Field of Neurological Surgery." THE Harveian Oration before the Royal College of Physicians of London will be delivered by Sir Frederick Andrewes, M.D., F.R.S., professor of pathology in the Univer sity of London and pathologist to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on October 18. THE first Murphy Memorial Oration of the American College of Surgeons was delivered by Sir Berkeley Moynihan on October 11 during a meeting of the College in Montreal. The oration has been founded in honor of the late Dr. J. B. Murphy, of Chicago. On the same occasion Sir Berkeley Moynihan presented to the college a mace, the gift of the surgical consultants of the British Army during the war. By the will of Mrs. Jones an oil portrait of the late Professor George W. Jones, for years a teacher of mathematics at Cornell University, has been bequeathed to the university. THE New York Academy of Medicine has received a cash bequest of $5,000 and a library valued at $4,567 in accordance with the conditions of the will of the late Abraham Jacobi. FREDERICK HENRY GERRISH, emeritus professor of surgery in the Medical School of the University of Maine, died on September 9, aged seventy-five years. After serving as lecturer and professor of therapeutics, materia medica and physiology at the University of Michigan, Dr. Gerrish returned to his alma mater in 1875 as professor of materia medica and therapeutics. He became professor of anatomy in 1882. ADOLPH GEHRMANN, emeritus professor of bacteriology and hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, died on October 3, at the age of fifty-two years. A CORRESPONDENT writes that Dr. F. Hasenöhel, professor of physics at the University of Vienna, successor to the well-known physicist Boltzmann, was killed in action in the autumn of 1915. THE United States Civil Service Commission announces that the Coast and Geodetic Survey is in need of junior engineers and deck officers and that an examination will be held on December 8 and 9. The entrance sal |