The provisions of the law are rigorous. No one shall take or molest the birds, nests or eggs, nor carry a gun or other hunting gear within a mile of the sites indicated, either by land or water, under severe penalty of fine or imprisonment; and if a boat is used in violation of this law it is liable to confiscation. The law is made so broad as to include all migratory game, non-game and insectivorous birds as specified under the international treaty for the protection of such birds.

The extraordinary character of this law now in force is that it affords protection to a class of water-fowl which are commonly regarded as having little to do with the economic interests of mankind, and it specifically takes cognizance of the fact that these creatures are entitled to protection because of their natural beauty, their scientific interest and the part that they play in the scheme of nature. There could be no better indication of the liberal and high-minded sentiment of the Province of Quebec than this enactment which was initiated in the Parliament by the Honorable Honoré Mercier, Minister of Fisheries, in response to the labors and urgent representations of those who have had the interests of these colonies at heart. The Province of Quebec has thus created one of the largest bird reserves in the western continent and has erected a monument which is greatly to the credit of its own high-minded sentiment.

JOHN M. CLARKE

REORGANIZATION OF FARM MANAGEMENT OFFICE

REORGANIZATION and expansion of the Office of Farm Management of the United States Department of Agriculture is recommended by the committee of farm management leaders and others appointed some time ago by Secretary Houston to study the work of farm management and outline projects for more extensive studies.

The committee is made up of the following economists and students of farm crops: H. C. Taylor, agricultural economics, University of Wisconsin; George F. Warren, farm management, Cornell University; Andrew Boss, agron

omy and farm management, University of Minnesota; J. A. Foord, agriculture and farm management, Massachusetts Agricultural College; J. I. Falconer, rural economics, Ohio State University; R. L. Adams, farm management, University of California; G. I. Christie, assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and representatives of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, the Bureau of Markets and the Office of Farm Management of the Department of Agricul

ture.

The basic recommendation of the committee is that the office be expanded to include both farm management and farm economics and that it be established as a bureau under the name of Bureau of Farm Management and Farm Economics. This, the committee states, it recommends "in recognition of the work already accomplished in farm economics along with the investigational work in farm management and in view of the great need for still further studies of the farming business."

Practically all of the changes recommended are in the nature of expansion and improvement rather than of creation. The system recommended for studies in cost of production is much more comprehensive than that heretofore used. "We have reviewed the projects now under way," the committee says, "and wish to commend their continuance and development." Some projects, it is thought, should be continued under other names. Some that are related to agronomy and some to other subjects, says the committee, "should perhaps be transferred to some other bureau of the department, securing the information or data desired on these lines through cooperative relations rather than independent action." In the projects underway, a great deal of work has been found that, the committee thinks, could be more profitably included under the term Farm economics."

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The work of the bureau, in the opinion of the committee, should be grouped around the following projects: Cost of production, including financial records, enterprise records, complete cost records, price relations and basic unit factors; farm organization, including farm business analysis, farm practise, effective

use of labor and farm equipment; farm finance, including methods of financing, insurance and taxation; farm labor, including supply and movement, trend of population, living and housing problems, creating new productive enterprises for farm labor and standards of supervision and compensation for farm labor; agricultural history and geography, including trend of agricultural development, shifts of agricultural production, relation of American to foreign agriculture and supervision of the Atlas of Agriculture; land utilization, including land resources and utilization, land settlement and land ownership and tenancy; farm life studies, including cooperation and trend of cooperative movements as affecting the farmer's life and activities on the farm, agricultural relations to other industries, agriculture for industrial workers, conditions of farm life as affecting national welfare; extension work, including publications and illustrative material, farm management demonstrations, farm labor supply and other farm economics demonstrations.

CORPORATION CHEMISTRY

THE Newark Technical School has been elevated to the rank of a collegiate institution and the recently appointed director, D. R. Hodgdon, has made plans for special courses in theoretical and industrial chemistry. This has been recognized as a very desirable step because of the predominance of chemical corporations and chemical industry in the state of New Jersey.

The director announces that Frederic Dannerth, has consented to deliver a course of thirty lectures on corporation chemistry during the coming college year. Dr. Dannerth is well known as advisory chemist to many of the leading corporations in the country. He was one of the first to conceive the idea of a system of laboratory management, and is the inventor of numerous processes for industrial works using rubber, resins, oils and plastics.

This new course is probably the first of its kind offered to students of chemistry in America and is a direct outcome of the chemical development in the country during the past five years. The aim will be to show the

application of the principles of industrial chemistry to the problems of manufacturing corporations-both those which are now in operation and those which are contemplated by investors and banking corporations. The lectures and seminars will be conducted in such a manner as to be intelligible to heads of the departments for purchasing, manufacturing and selling, as well as by fourth-year men in chemistry. The course will cover: (1) a study of industrial surveys conducted by chemists for the purpose of developing sources of supply for raw materials (this includes animal, plant and mineral materials). (2) Surveys of the executive departments of purchasing, manufacturing and selling. (3) Surveys of the advisory departments of engineering, law and research. (4) Laboratory Management (design, equipment, organization and administration). (5) The Economic Office (organization of the information files, museum of materials and products, as well as the library). The purpose of the course is to prepare graduates in chemistry for the hard, practical problems which confront them when they take up industrial work and at the same time an opportunity will be afforded persons now in executive positions to study the translation of scientific knowledge into industrial development.

MEMORIAL PROFESSORSHIP TO DR. JAMES JACKSON PUTNAM, 1846-1918

It is hoped that there may be an endowment of the professorship of diseases of the nervous system in the Harvard Medical School in memory of Dr. James Jackson Putnam.

In the development of this increasingly important branch of medicine, Dr. Putnam was a pioneer in Boston and in the country at large, while he was widely recognized in Europe as a neurologist of distinction. He inaugurated the neurological clinic at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1872, and through forty years of service was devoted to its interests, and to teaching in the Harvard Medical School. In 1893 he was appointed the first professor of diseases of the nervous system; the professorship was then, and has remained, without endowment.

It is believed that those who have known Dr. Putnam may like to join in endowing this professorship which should always bear his name, and which would fulfill his hope that neurological work of a high order might be developed at the Harvard Medical School. To all of us who knew Dr. Putnam it would also commemorate the devotion and the self-sacrificing work of his lifetime.

President Lowell sends the following letter: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, February 8, 1919

My dear Dr. Walcott, The suggestion of founding a professorship of diseases of the nervous system in memory of Dr. James Jackson Putnam appeals to me deeply both on account of the value of such a professorship to the medical school, and on account of the deep affection I had for Dr. Putnam and of my reverent esteem for his character. The foundation ought to appeal strongly to all who recognize the everincreasing suffering caused to our over-sensitized community by nervous ailments, and to all who knew Dr. Putnam as patient or as friend. Very truly yours,

A. LAWRENCE LOWELL

It is hoped that $50,000 may be raised as endowment, of which more than half is already promised. A reply from any one who proposes to contribute is requested now, but payment, either by check or in Liberty Bonds, may be made any time before December 31, 1919. H. P. WALCOTT, CHARLES C. JACKSON, EDWARD W. EMERSON,

EDWARD H. BRADFORD, MOOREFIELD STOREY, Treasurer 735 EXCHANGE BUILDING, BOSTON

SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS

SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, the distinguished English chemist, died on April 4, in his eightyseventh year.

DR. S. F. HARMER, keeper of the department of zoology since 1907, has been appointed to succeed Sir Lazarus Fletcher as director of the British Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

Ar a meeting of the Société de Biologie held in Paris on January 25, Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, was elected an associate member of that society.

THE Royal Geographical Society has awarded the Founder's Medal to Colonel E. M. Jack for his geographical work on the Western Front; the Patron's Medal to Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard University, for his eminence in the development of physical geography; the Victoria Medal is awarded to Professor J. W. Gregory for his many and important contributions to geographical science; the Murchison grant to Dr. W. M. Strong, of the Northeastern District, Papua, for his journeys and surveys in New Guinea; the Cuthbert Peek grant to Professor Rudmose Brown for his geographical work in the Antarctic and in Spitsbergen; the Back grant to the Venerable Archdeacon Stuck, of Fort Yukon, for his travels in Alaska and ascent of Mount McKinley, and the Gill memorial to Mr. W. J. Harding King for his investigations of desert conditions in northern Africa.

THE Schwabacher prize of 20,000 marks was recently divided between Professors Rubner and Zuntz, both of Berlin, for their work on diet in war time.

DR. H. S. WASHINGTON, of the geophysical laboratory, Carnegie Institution, has been elected a foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

PROFESSOR J. C. MERRIAM, of the University of California, has returned to Washington to act as chairman of the National Research Council.

DR. HERMANN M. BIGGS, state commissioner of health of New York, has been granted six weeks leave of absence and is now en route to

France, where he will aid in the establishment of an international Red Cross society.

DR. T. WAYLAND VAUGHAN, accompanied by D. D. Condit, C. W. Cooke and C. P. Ross, have gone to the Dominican Republic, to make a preliminary inspection of the geology in preparation for a geological survey under the direction of the military government of the

republic. Lieutenant Colonel Glenn S. Smith is organizing a topographical survey.

C. K. LEITH, professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin, has returned from Paris, where he served as mineral adviser in the economic section of the American Peace Commission. Prior to the Paris work, Professor Leith took an active part in mineral advisory work for the Shipping, War Industries and War Trade Boards, in Washington, particularly in relation to restrictions and regulation of international trade. Professor Leith has now left government service to resume his work at Madison.

MAJOR WM. LLOYD EVANS, C.W.S., who was the head of the laboratory and infection division, Edgewood Arsenal, has resumed his duties with the department of chemistry of the Ohio State University, having been discharged from the U. S. Army. On March 6 Major Evans gave a public lecture under the auspices of the Ohio State University Chapter of Sigma Xi on "America's answer to German gas warfare."

CAPTAIN PAUL POPENOE, San. C., director of the section on vice and liquor control, Commission on Training Camp Activities, was discharged from military service on April 2. Mr. Popenoe, who was formerly editor of the Journal of Heredity, is organizing a department of law enforcement for the American Social Hygiene Association, New York City.

MR. ROBERT L. MOORE, of the Bureau of Standards, has been transferred to the rubber laboratory of the bureau at the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

DR. ALBERT M. REESE, professor of zoology in West Virginia University, will leave the last of April for British Guiana, where he will spend the summer at the Tropical Research Laboratory of the New York Zoological Society. During his absence the work of the department will be in charge of Dr. Harrison H. Hunt, assistant professor of zoology.

MR. W. M. SMART, of Trinity College, has been appointed chief assistant at the observatory of the University of Cambridge.

DR. T. A. HENRY, late superintendent of the laboratories at the Imperial Institute, London, has been appointed director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, London. Dr. F. L. Pyman, the former director of these laboratories, has accepted the professorship of technological chemistry in the Manchester Municipal College of Technology, and in the University of Manchester.

DR. ADDISON, president of the British local government board, has appointed Miss Janet Mary Campbell, M.D., M.S., to be a medical officer of the board in special charge of the work of the board in respect of maternity and child welfare.

MR. J. O. LEWIS, superintendent of the petroleum experiment station at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has been appointed chief petroleum technologist of the Bureau of Mines, to succeed Mr. Chester Naramore, who has resigned from the bureau to join the Union Petroleum Company, at Philadelphia, Pa.

THE United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board announces the following appropriations from the Scientific Research Fund of the board: Leland Stanford Junior University Medical School: (1) Investigation into more effective treatment in acute and chronic gonorrhea, under the direction of Dr. R. L. Rigdon, clinical professor of genitourinary surgery, and Dr. Alfred B. Spalding, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, San Francisco, $2,300. (2) The permeability of the meninges to antisyphilitic drugs-an attempt to increase their permeability, under the direction of Dr. Henry G. Mehrtens, clinical professor of neurology, San Francisco, $2,300. (3) Investigation into more effective methods of treating syphilis, under the direction of Dr. Harry E. Alderson, clinical professor of dermatology, $2,600; total, $7,200. University of Michigan, College of Medicine and Surgery: (1) A research for an improved method of demonstrating Spirochata pallida in human tissues, under the direction of Dr. Alfred S. Warthin, professor of pathology, Ann Arbor, $6,000.

DR. ALES HRDLIČKA will deliver during the months of April and May a series of four lectures at the medical college of the Georgetown University, on "The relations of anthropology to medicine."

THE reconstruction lectures given Saturday evenings at Yale University last term during January, February and March were resumed on April 5 and will continue through May 17. The complete schedule of the remaining lectures is as follows:

April 5. Dean Charles R. Brown, "Reconstruction and the churches."'

April 12. Professor Lester P. Breckenridge, "Reconstruction and engineering."

April 19. Dean George Blumer, "Reconstruction and the medical profession.

May 3.

Director Russell H. Chittenden, "Reconstruction and science."'

May 10. Dean Thomas W. Swan, "Reconstruction and the legal profession."

May 17. Professor Irving Fisher, "Reconstruction and the price level.'

THE Cutter lectures on preventive medicine given annually under the terms of a bequest from John Clarence Cutter, were given at the Harvard Medical School on March 17 by Harry E. Mock, M.D., Lientenant Colonel, M.C., U.S.A., Division of Reconstruction of Disabled Soldiers War Department, Washing ton, D. C., on 'Industrial medicine considered from an economic viewpoint," followed by "Reclaiming the disabled," illustrated by motion pictures, and on April 2, 3 and 4 by Alice Hamilton, M.D., special investigator of the U. S. Department of Labor, Chicago, Illinois,

on

"Industrial poisoning in the United States." The subjects of the three lectures were: (1) "Lead"; (2) "Other organic poisons"; (3) "Poisons of the aromatic series and of the fatty series."

UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL
NEWS

AN alumni memorial to honor Dr. C. R. Van Hise, late president of the University of

Wisconsin, has been proposed in the form of a Van Hise Memorial Geological Building to be erected on the campus to bring together under one roof the departments of geology and mining engineering, as well as the state and national geological surveys.

Two gifts to the Harvard Medical School have been received recently. One is an anonymous donation of $50,000 for the establishment of the James C. Melvin Fund for Tropical Medicine. The income is to be used for research in preventive medicine. The other is the residuary bequest of Horace Fletcher, who established a wide popular reputation as a dietitian. The income is to be used to "foster knowledge of healthful nutrition."

SCOVILL PARK, embracing several acres of land lying next to the property of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, has been donated to the university by the city. The land is given without condition except that it be made available to the city for playground purposes until the university is ready to build on it.

PROFESSOR CARLTON I. LAMBERT, F.R.A.S., an old scholar of the City of London School, has given £1,000 with which to found a scholarship for applied science at the school.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY and Bellevue Hos

pital Medical College will admit women on the same basis as men and with full privileges of the college, in September.

DR. HORACE D. ARNOLD has resigned as director of the graduate school of medicine of Harvard University.

DR. VICTOR ZIEGLER, professor of geology and mineralogy and head of the department at the Colorado School of Mines, has resigned this position.

DR. C. C. FORSAITH, who has been instructor in the department of wood technology at the New York State College of Forestry, at Syracuse University, for the past year and a half, has been appointed assistant professor of wood technology in the same institution.