resumed with the coming of peace. Little did any one think that the renewal of publication would be in the hands of other than Jacques Danne. Indeed, the war being finally over Danne himself was busy with the preparation of the first new number when a sudden and rapid illness culminated in his death on March 8, leaving the science of radio-activity and electronics sadly weakened.

Jacques Danne was born in Paris in 1882. After excellent schooling he entered the Ecole de Physique et Chemie de Paris in 1897, where he distinguished himself as the first in a remarkable class of scientific students. He was invited by Curie to become his assistant in 1902, and at once added the power of his knowledge to Curie's work. Curie, working entirely as a physicist, had met innumerable problems which were leading up to the disintegration theory. The chaotic condition of the science of radioactivity in the years 18981902 was due chiefly to the fact that it was carried on by physicists without aid of chemical methods. These latter Soddy supplied in Montreal and Danne in Paris, and within a year the fact of atomic disintegration was established, and radio-activity became a science.

In 1904 M. Danne founded Le Radium, the first number of which appeared on July 15. He gathered about him an impressive scientific committee" to insure an adequate treatment of all phases of the sciences of radioactivity and electronics, radiation and ionization; in short, of subatomic phenomena. For ten years he gave the greater part of his time to this journal, and in 1914 it was the sole representative of this very vital field of knowledge.

Six numbers of Volume 11 appeared in 1914, and now Number 7, Volume 11, appears in May, 1919, under the direction of Gaston Danne, the younger brother of Jacques, who for many years has been the chief spirit in the admirable Laboratoire d'Essais des Substances Radioactives, which Danne established at Gif in the Vallée de la Chevreuse.

The loss of Jacques Danne is irreparable, but under the direction of M. Gaston Danne

SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

EXPEDITIONS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

JUST returning from a four month's expedition through southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia, a party of scientific men under the leadership of Dr. Joseph Grinnell from the University of California has brought about 1,200 specimens of birds and mammals representing nearly all of the birds and smaller species of mammals inhabiting the country, as well as a few examples of the larger mammals, such as mountain goat, grizzly bear, wolf and beaver. Some amphibians, plants, and a large number of photographs also were brought back.

H. S. Swarth, curator of birds, and Joseph Dixon, economic mammalogist, assisted at times by local guides and hunters, comprised a party which started from Wrangell, Alaska, and went to Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, a distance of 170 miles from the coast and at the head of navigation on the Stikine River, traveling by the river boat which runs on the stream during the five months of the year when it is free of ice. On the return trip down stream camps were established at various points and explorations were pursued.

Reports from the party indicate that the coast of southeastern Alaska is characterized by extremely heavy rainfall while the interior toward the source of the Stikine River is relatively arid.

The country about the upper Stikine River for a long time has been a mecca for big game hunters, this region being one of the few remaining places in North America where a variety of such game may be pursued with a fair assurance of success. But this year's expedition of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California is said to be the first party of naturalists to visit and care

fully study the smaller animal life along certain routes of the Stikine River region. Extensive collections are said to have been made at points heretofore not visited by any naturalist.

It is planned later to publish a report based on this material with the field notes written during the summer months. Such a publication will be in the nature of a continuation of other reports based on previous explorations of the museum some years ago covering investigation of the animal life of the northwest coast of North America. Previous trips have covered much of the mainland and most of the islands off the coast of southeastern Alaska.

Miss Annie M. Alexander, founder of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California, made possible this year's work as well as past years' investigations. JOINT MEETING OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY WITH THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS

A JOINT meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, arranged by the Committee on Technical Physics, will be held in Philadelphia, at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, on Friday and Saturday, October 10 and 11, 1919.

The Technical sessions on Friday will be held in the Clover Room of the BellevueStratford and the subscription dinner Friday evening in the Stratford Room. The technical sessions on Saturday will be held at the works of the Leeds and Northrup Company, where a complimentary luncheon will be served by the company.

The program is as follows:

FRIDAY, 9:00 A.M.

Session of the Physical Society

Atomic structure, papers by P. W. Bridgeman, of Harvard University, and by Irving Langmuir, of the Research Laboratory of the General Electric Company. There will be a formal discussion by Saul Dushman and others.

FRIDAY, 2:30 P.M.

Session of the A. I. E. E.

1. The arrangement of atoms in metals, by A. W. Hull, of the General Electric Research Labor

atory. An X-ray study of crystal structures, illustrated with models of crystals.

2. The oscillating vacuum tube as a generator of electrical power, by J. H. Morecroft and H. T. Friis, both of Columbia University. Lantern slides of oscillograph records.

3. Electromagnetic induction, by J. S. Barnett, of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution.

4. Piezo-electrical effect, by A. M. Nichols, of the Western Electric Company. (Demonstration.)

FRIDAY, 6:00 P.M. Subscription Dinner

Five minute talks by the presidents of the two societies.

FRIDAY, 8:00 P.M.

Technical papers by H. A. Bumstead, of Yale University, and J. J. Carty, Vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

SATURDAY MORNING

Session of the Physical Society Inspection of the Leeds and Northrup labora

tories.

Several semi-technical papers will be presented by the physicists of the Research Laboratories of the Leeds and Northrup Company.

SATURDAY NOON

Complimentary luncheon by the Leeds and Northrup Company.

Automobile ride around Germantown.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

A regular session of the Physical Society will be held on Saturday afternoon in the auditorium of the Leeds and Northrup Company, for the reading of miscellaneous papers. Members wishing to present papers should send abstracts, ready for publication, to the secretary at once. Probably the program for this session will not be ready for distribution in advance of the meeting.

There will probably be opportunity for technical excursions to the Welsbach factory or a steamer ride on the Delaware River to Chester at 10:30 Friday morning. The steamer ride will be available Saturday morning also.

Other meetings of the American Physical Society will be held in Chicago on November 28 and 29, and in St. Louis in the week of December 29 to January 3. Members are urged

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DAYTON C. MILLER,
Secretary

CASE SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE,
CLEVELAND, OHIO

THE RED CROSS AND PROFESSOR RICHARD P.

STRONG

DR. RICHARD P. STRONG, professor of tropical medicine at the Harvard Medical School, sailed on October 2 for Europe, where he is to be general medical director of the League of Red Cross Societies, with headquarters in Geneva. He has been granted leave of absence for a year by Harvard University.

The league is a new international association of the Red Cross planned to act as a central agency for the improvement of public health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world. It will also serve in cases of national or international disaster. Another of its purposes is to promote the welfare of mankind by furnishing a medium for bringing within the reach of all the peoples the benefits to be derived from present known facts, new contributions and medical knowledge and their application.

Henry P. Davison is chairman of the board of governors of the league, and the directorgeneral of the league is Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson, of Great Britain. The public health work and general medical activities of the league will be under the direction of Dr. Strong. In this position he will be the executive at Geneva responsible for stimulating the medical work of the various Red Cross societies and putting the latest medical information at the disposal of each of them. His office will be the general headquarters of the fight against epidemic diseases, such as that of influenza, which recently swept across the world, and particularly against the terrible typhus and other tropical epidemics.

Dr. Strong is fitted for this task by knowledge and experience. He went to the Harvard Medical School in 1913 with a distinguished record as a student of tropical diseases in the Philippine Islands, where he had begun as an

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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS

THE autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences will be held on November 10, 11 and 12, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Announcement of the arrangements for the meeting will be made later by the local committee.

DR. R. W. WOOD, professor of physics in the Johns Hopkins University, has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Society, London.

THE nomination of Mr. James R. Riggs, as assistant secretary of agriculture, has been confirmed by the Senate.

DR. D. G. BYERS, of the University of Washington, recently a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service in Washington, has been appointed chief of the division of chemistry of

the Bureau of Soils.

MAJOR DOUGLAS JOHNSON, professor of physiography at Columbia University, has returned from Paris where he served as chief of the Division of Boundary Geography on the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, and as a member of different international territorial commissions.

RUSSELL L. CECIL, M.D., lately major, M. C., U. S. Army, William A. Perlzweig, Ph.D., lately lieutenant, Sanitary Corps, U. S. Army, and Mr. G. I. Steffen, lately lieutenant, Sanitary Corps, U. S. Army, have been engaged by the U. S. Public Health Service to carry out experimental investigations on influenza and pneumonia. The work will be conducted

in the research laboratories of the Department of Health of New York City under the direction of Dr. Cecil.

MAJOR R. G. HOSKINS, who has been for the past four months in charge of the Section of Food and Nutrition of the Surgeon-General's Office, has received his discharge from the service. He will spend the current academic year studying at the Johns Hopkins Medical School.

PROFESSOR F. K. RICHTMYER is on sabbatic leave for a year from Cornell, devoting a part of his time to research in the Research Laboratory of the General Electric Company, at Schenectady.

MR. JOSEPH MAILLIARD, honorary curator of ornithology, of the California Academy of Sciences, left San Francisco on September 15 with his assistant, Mr. Luther Little, to collect birds in Mendocino county, California. Mr. Mailliard secured a representative collection from this territory in June and now is covering the same ground to note seasonal changes and variations.

DR. J. A. LECLERC has resigned from the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and is now with the MinerHillard Milling Company of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

WE learn from the Journal of the American Medical Association that the University of Pisa recently organized a festal meeting to honor the fiftieth professional anniversary of Professor G. Romiti of the chair of anatomy. A marble portrait bust was unveiled, and Professor Romiti presented the university with his valuable library on anatomy

THE first lecture of the series of the Harvey Society will be given at the New York Academy of Medicine on October 18, by Lieutenant-Colonel George Dreyer, M.D., professor of general pathology, Oxford University, on "Biological Standards and their Application to Medicine." The second lecture of the series will be given on October 25 by Dr. H. H. Dale, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, on Shock."

DR. AUGUST HOCH, who was for seven years the director of the Psychiatric Institute on

Ward's Island, died on September 23, in San Francisco.

A LEGACY of $60,000 has been made by the late Dr. Rizzi, physician in chief of the Ospedale Maggiore at Milan, to found an institute for the research and practise of biochemistry.

1 THE legislature of Alabama has passed the Alabama Mental Deficiency bill which appropriates $200,000 for the establishment of the Alabama Home for Mental Inferiors at Tuscaloosa in connection with the Bryce Hospital. As a part of the campaign for securing the passage of this measure, Dr. W. D. Partlow, superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospitals, and Dr. Thomas H. Haines, field agent for the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, made a careful mental survey of the four industrial schools of the state last May. This was a cooperative piece of work of the Alabama State Board of Health and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. One hundred and twenty-nine of the six hundred and fifty-four juvenile delinquents in the schools were found to be so defective in mental ability as to demand institution care of a custodial sort for their proper management. These facts proved a potent argument in securing the appropriation.

THE Fédération française des sociétés de sciences naturelles has been formed consisting of thirteen society units: les Sociétés Zoologique, Entomologique, d'Acclimatation, de Pisciculture; l'Association des Anatomistes; les Société de Botanique, de Mycologie, de Pathologie végétale; la Société philomatique; la Société géologique; la Société des Naturalistes parisiens; la Société de Chimie biologique. It is proposed to establish five categories for the purpose of bibliographic documentation: (1) botany; (2) anatomy and embryology; (3) zoology; (4) general biology, and (5) physiol

ogy.

UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS

A NEW Mechanical engineering building and a new physics building are nearing completion

at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. The Texas Legislature has recently provided $250,000 for an agricultural building also. Plans and specifications are now being drawn for this building which will be started next summer.

THE Georgia Legislature, at its recent session, increased its appropriation for the medical department of the State University from $30,000 to $55,000. Of the new funds, the sum of $20,000 is to be used to establish a course in Public Health and Hygiene, and the sum of $5,000 is to be added to the general income of the school.

IN the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania Dr. William H. F. Addison has been made a full professor of histology and embryology; Dr. Oscar H. Plant has been promoted to a full professorship in pharmacology; Dr. Byron M. Hendricks and Raymond Stehle have been promoted to assistant professorships of physiologic chemistry.

DR. HERBERT S. LANGFELD has been appointed director of the psychological laboratory of Harvard University and Dr. L. T. Troland and Dr. Floyd H. Allport, have been appointed instructors in psychology. Dr. William McDougall, whose appointment as professor of psychology was reported in a recent issue of SCIENCE, will take up his work at the beginning of the next academic year.

THE department of botany of Kansas State Agricultural College has been reorganized and is now carrying on its work in the college and experiment station under the name of the department of botany and plant pathology. L. E. Melchers, for two years acting head of the department, has been made professor of plant pathology and head of the department. E. C. Miller, formerly associate professor, has been promoted to be professor of plant physiology. The other members of the department are Assistant Professors W. E. Davis and F. C. Gates, Instructors H. H. Haymaker and Nora E. Dalbey, and Assistant Dorothy Cashen.

THE new chair of physical education at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas

has been filled by Dr. W. J. Young, who held the rank of captain in the National Army during the war. Previously he was director of physical education in the University of Maine. Professor D. Scoates has been appointed head of the department of agricultural engineering to succeed Professor R. A. Andree, who has resigned.

GEORGE P. BACON, of Simmons College, has been appointed to succeed Dr. H. H. Marvin, of Tufts College, who is going to the University of Nebraska, as head of the department of physics. Professor Bacon is to be chairman of the department of physics at Tufts College.

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DR. R. E. LOVING, head of the department of physics in Richmond College, has been granted leave of absence for the current session, which he will spend doing special work in Cornell University. C. H. Willis, late of the Signal Corps, A. E. F., and V. E. Ayre, from the Bureau of Standards, have recently been appointed, respectively, acting professor and asistant professor in the department.

LIEUTENANT HORACE A. HOLADAY, Sanitary Corps, nutrition officer at the port of embarkation at New Port News, Va., formerly assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Idaho, has been appointed professor of physiological chemistry and head of the division of food and physiological chemistry at North Dakota Agricultural College.

RALPH J. GILMORE, Ph.D. (Cornell), of Huron College, has been appointed head of the department of biology of Colorado College, succeeding Dr.. E. C. Schneider, who becomes head of the department of biology at Connecticut Wesleyan College.

DR. JOHN L. SHELDON, who has had charge of the work in botany and bacteriology in the West Virginia University for the past sixteen years, has resigned. The university has also lost recently the heads of the departments of animal husbandry, agronomy, horticulture, public speaking and philosophy.

DR. J. G. FITZGERALD, associate professor of hygiene, University of Toronto, and director of the Connaught Antitoxin Laboratories in the