SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, held in Wash- 

 ington on April 22-24, 1918, the following fifteen persons were elected 

 to membership : Robert Grant Aitken, astronomer, Lick Observatory, 

 California; George Francis Atkinson, botanist, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y.; George David Birkhoff, mathematician, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass. ; Percy Williams Bridgman, physicist. 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Stephen Alfred Forbes, zo- 

 ologist, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111.; John Ripley Freeman, 

 engineer, Providence, Rhode Island; Ludvig Hektoen, pathologist, 

 University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. ; Charles Judson Herrick, neu- 

 rologist, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111.; Frank Baldwin Jew- 

 ett, engineer. Western Electric Company, New York, N. Y.; Walter 

 Jones, physiologist, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Ir- 

 ving Langmuir, chemist, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. 

 Y. ; Charles Elwood Mendenhall, physicist, University of Wiscon- 

 sin, Madison, Wis.; John Campbell Merriam, paleontologist. Uni- 

 versity of California, Berkeley, Cal. ; Henry Norris Russell, astrono- 

 mer, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. ; David Watson Taylor, 

 engineer, rear-admiral and chief of the bureau of construction and 

 repair, United States Navy. 



Prizes and medals were awarded as follows: The Comstock prize of 

 $1500, for discoveries in magnetism and electricity, awarded to Sam- 

 uel Jackson Barnett, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



The Draper medal, for discoveries in astronomical physics, awarded 

 to Walter Sydney Adams, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasadena, 

 California. 



The Daniel Giraud Elliot medal and honorarium for work in paleontol- 

 ogy and zoology, awarded to Frank M. Chapman, American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York. 



A special train left Washington on Monday evening, April 29, carry- 

 ing members of the American Electrochemical Society on a six days' 

 trip through the Appalachian South, to visit some of the more impor- 

 tant electrochemical, electro-thermal, and power developments in that 

 part of the country. 



Dr. W. L. Argo, of the University of Cahfornia, has been engaged in 

 researches on gas masks at the Geophysical Laboratory and the Catho- 

 lic University. 



Dr. Louis A. Bauer has been elected Foreign Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the Royal Society of Natural Sciences of Netherlands India. 



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