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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Dr. W. "h. Keex, of Philadelphia, 

 has been elected president of the Fifth 

 International Congress of Surgeons to 

 be held in Paris in 1917. — The Willard 

 Gibbs medal of the Chicago section of 

 the American Chemical Society lias been 

 presented to Dr. Ira Remsen, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University. — Former 

 students of Professor John Eenry Pom- 

 stock have raised a fund, to lie known 

 as the Conistock Memorial Library 

 Fund, which is to be presented to Cor- 

 nell L T niversity for a permanent memor- 

 ial of Professor Conistock 's forty years 

 of distinguished service as instructor 

 and professor of entomology. 



The National Academy of Sciences 

 at its annual meeting on April 22 pre 

 sented its ''medals for eminence in the 

 application of science to the public wel- 

 fare," to Colonel George Washington 

 Groethals and Brigadier General William 

 Crawford Gorgas. The presentation 

 was made by Dr. William H. Welch, 

 president of the academy, at a dinner 

 held in honor of the retiring president. 

 Dr. Ira Remsen, and the retiring home 

 secretary. Dr. Arnold Hague. 



Members of the National Academy of 

 Si-icnces were elected at the annual 

 meeting as follows: Ernest Merritt, 

 physicist, Cornell University; Moses 

 Gomberg, chemist, University of Michi- 

 gan; Edward Curtis Franklin, chemist, 



Stanford University; Frederick Leslie 

 Ransome, geologist, U. S. Geological 

 Survey; Nathaniel Lord Britton; botan- 

 ist, Xew York Botanical Garden; Henry 

 Berbert Donaldson, neurologist, Wistar 

 Institute of Anatomy; Herbert Spencer 

 Jennings, zoologist. The Johns Hopkins 

 University; Francis Gano Benedict. 

 chemist, nutrition laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution; Walter Bradford 

 Cannon, physiologist, Harvard Univer- 

 sity; .(esse Walter Fewkes, ethnologist, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology. 



At its annual meeting in Philadel- 

 phia the American Philosophical Society 

 elected to membership the following 

 residents of the United States: Charles 

 Greeley Abbot, Washington; .lames Wil- 

 son Bright, Baltimore; Bradley Moore 

 Davis, Philadelphia; Thomas McCrae, 

 Philadelphia; William Diller Matthew, 

 Xew York; Alfred (ioldsliorough Mayer. 

 Washington; Samuel Jones Meltzer, 

 New York; John Campbell Merriam, 

 Berkeley; Robert Andrews Millikan, 

 Chicago; William All ert Noyes, Ur- 

 1 ana ; Stewart Paton. Princeton; Rich- 

 ard Mills Pearce, Philadelphia; Palmer 

 Chamberlaine Ricketts. Troy; Harold 

 A. Wilson, Houston; Frederick Eugene 

 Wright, Washington. Foreign residents 

 were elected as follows: Shibasaburo 

 Kitasato, Tokyo; Heike Kamerlingh 

 Onnes, Leyden; Vito Volterra, Rome. 



