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THE announcement appears in Science of August 12 that Prof. R. A. Millikan, of the University of Chicago, has been appointed director of the new Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and chairman of the executive council of the institute. An income of 95,000 dollars for the new laboratory alone has been promised by the institute, and additional funds available comprise sums of 200,000 dollars and 50,000 dollars, which have been promised by Dr. Norman Bridge for the extension of the laboratory and its library respectively. With this generous provision it is hoped to create a large and effective laboratory for research in physics. In conjunction with the laboratory, the Southern California Edison Company is to erect an experimental station in the grounds of the institute for the investigation of the transmission of electric power at high potentials; Prof. Millikan will be partially responsible for the direction of this station. The main problem, however, which Prof. Millikan proposes to attack is the constitution of matter and its relation to the phenomena of radiation, a task for which the new laboratory will provide exceptional opportunities. It is also announced that Prof. H. A. Lorentz, of the University of Leyden, will be in residence at the institute during the winter term as lecturer and research associate in order to supplement the work of the mathematical physics department, and that Dr. C. G. Darwin, of Cambridge, has been appointed professor of this department for the academic year 1922–23.