4 RESEARCH NEWS Personal Mention Reprinted from the Romanic Review, February, 1939, is a Dante note by Herbert D. Austin, professor of Italian and French, on “Storpio” (Purg., XXV, 1). In a recent issue of the Science of Mind, Hans Nordewin von Koerber, professor of Asiatic studies and director of the Foundation of Asiatic Studies, has an article on “Lao Tzu and China.” Olga Hartman, research zoologist of the Allan Hancock Founda- tion for Scientific Research, has been awarded the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship by the American Association of University Women. Charles F. Lindsley, Ph.D. 1932, head of the department of speech at Occidental College, has been appointed to honorary mem-. bership on the Advisory Council of the Association of Teachers of Speech of Southern California. Thomas Clements, head of the department of geology, who is at present on sabbatical leave, has been commissioned by the Colom- bian government to make geological surveys in the eastern range of the Andes. At a meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, held at Whittier College, March 4, 1939, Franklin R. Butter, Jr., instruc- tor in mathematics, presented a paper on “A Note on a Certain Exponential Equation.” George B. Mangold, professor of social work, has been appointed chairman of the Los Angeles County Probation Commission, which has charge of Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a home for delinquent boys, and El Retiro, San Fernando, a similar institution for girls. Alastair M. Taylor, teaching assistant in general studies, has an article on “The Historical Novel as a Source of History,” in a recent number of the Sewanee Review. Mr. Taylor is president of the Associated Graduate Students of the University. George R. Johnstone, professor of botany, has an article on “Sodium Hypochlorite for Poison Oak, Poison Ivy, or Poison Sumac,” in The American Biology Teacher, Vol. I (1939), No. 4, pp. 77-8. Doctor Johnstone has recently been appointed to the board of directors of The Southern California Botanists. Gregory Mason, Ph.D. 1938, a member of the faculty of New York University, is the author of Remember the Maine, a new his- tory of the Spanish-American War. An earlier book by Doctor Mason, dealing largely with archaeological materials, is entitled Columbus Came Late. J. Eugene Harley, head of the department of political science, is co-author of Contemporary World Problems, a textbook for use in the field of international relations and related subjects. This volume of some 800 pages is edited by Francis J. Brown, Charles Hodges, and Joseph S. Roucek of New York University. Southern California Business Review for February, 1939, is de- voted to a study of “Governmental Taxation of Business,” pre- pared by Rex Ragan, assistant professor of accounting and taxa- tion. The study offers a number of constructive criticisms against the Federal Revenue System and its actual administration. Karl Olsen, A.M. 1936, who has held a fellowship in political science at Yale University for the past two years, has been awarded one of the seven fellowships given by the Lady Julia Henry Fund for advanced study in England, which includes a year’s study at Cambridge University. Samuel E. Gates, A.M. 1929, Law ’33, has been appointed acting chief of the new international division of the Civil Aeronautics Authority at Washington, D.C. Mr. Gates was awarded the Car- negie Foundation fellowship for international law in 1930, and received a degree in international law from the University of Paris. Four advanced students of botany under the direction of George R. Johnstone presented the program for the February, 1939, meet- ing of the Metropolitan Aquarium Society. Earl D. Gowin, 1939, spoke on the culture of blue-green algae in filtered light; Fenton Feeney, A.B. 1938, on red algae and their uses; Francis Elmore, M.S. 1936, and Charles Herbst, M.S. 1933, on the difficulties en- countered in maintaining a balanced water aquarium. On the comprehensive program of the International Association of Microbiologists, whose third congress will be held in New York City, September, 1939, the University will be represented by John F. Kessel, Anson P. S. Hoyt, and Carl Lindegren of the department of bacteriology. Doctor Kessel is a corresponding member of the sections on Viruses and Viral Diseases, Medical and Veterinary Bacteriology, and Fungi and Fungous Diseases. Carl Sumner Knopf, dean of the School of Religion, addressed groups in Bishop and Bakersfield, March 2 and 3, on “Democracy and Religion.” From March 28 to April 4, Doctor Knopf conducted a community series of lectures and discussions in Tucson, Arizona, before representative groups in the University of Arizona, local service clubs, and churches, with the purpose of promoting the religious factor in varied community interests. Ernest W. Tiegs, dean of University College and professor of education, is serving as consultant to the College of Medical Evangelists in the study of diagnostic and comprehensive exami- nations and marking practices. This progressive medical college is investigating the desirability of establishing a unified examination system for all departments in order to improve the validity and comparability of final course marks. Clinton H. Thienes, professor of pharmacology in the School of Medicine, has just published 4 Field Manual in Toxicology at the request of the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commission. This volume, which is the result of two years’ research, is intended as an aid to persons subjected to sprays and other poisons in agri- cultural pursuits. The manual is now in use by the California State Department of Agriculture and by experts in the Federal Service. Rockwell D. Hunt, dean of the Graduate School, and Emory S. Bogardus, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, are making a three months’ goodwill tour to South America, where they will visit universities and major points of interest in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and the Canal Zone. Dean Hunt is collecting data on economic and political problems in Latin-American coun- tries, and Doctor Bogardus is making a special study of racial problems. “Co-operative Research Within the Faculty” is the title of a paper presented by Reid L. McClung, dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, before the twentieth annual meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, held at the University of Illinois. In this paper, which appears in the Proceedings of the Association, Dean McClung pleads for “thorough co-operative research for the study of specific human and business problems.” With Ira L. Wiggins of the Botanical Society of America, Dr. Howard de Forest is engaged in arranging a joint symposium of this organization and the Ecological Society of America, to be held at the June, 1939, meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Stanford University. The subject of this symposium will be “Recent Contributions of Botany and Ecology to Society.” Dr. de Forest is chairman of the executive committee of the western section of the Ecological Society. Reprinted from Food Research, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1938), is an article on “Bactericidal Activity of Crotonaldehyde” by Robert L. Inger- soll, Bernard Scott, and Carl C. Lindegren of the department of bacteriology and Richard E. Vollrath of the department of physics. Other publications from this department include ‘Physiological Effects of Garlic and Derived Substances” by Maxwell Carl, Robert McKnight, Bernard Scott, and Carl C. Lindegren in The American Journal of Hygiene, Vol. 29, No. 1, Sec. B, pp. 32-35 (1939) ; and “Non-Random Crossing Over in the Second Chromo- some of Neurospora Crassa’ by Carl C. Lindegren and Gertrude Lindegren in Genetics, Vol. XXIV (1939), pp. 1-7.