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plated are investigation, publication, fellowships, lectureships, etc. 

 The selection of permanent trustees was considered and plans out- 

 lined for an active campaign for soliciting funds vvhich is now 

 linder füll headway. Mrs. William H. Barrett, 108 Johnson St., 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., is chairman of the committee, and Dr. Benjamin 

 R. Andrews, Teachers College, New York City, is its secretary- 

 treasurer. (See page 346.) 



Honors. Newly elected members of national sociefies. Sir 

 J. J. Thomson has been appointed by King George V a member of 

 the Order of Merit. The other scientific men who are members of 

 the Order are Lord Rayleigh, Dr. A. R. Wallace and Sir William 

 Crookes. The order has recently lost throtigh death Sir Joseph 

 Dalton Hooker and Lord Lister. 



Prof. Benjamin 'Moore is one of fifteen candidates officially 

 nominated recently for membership in the Royal Society. 



Among the newly elected members of the National Academy 

 of Sciences are Prof. John J. Abel, Dr. Charles B. Davenport and 

 Dr. S. J. Meltzer. 



Newly elected members of foreign societies. Professor Ehrlich 

 has been elected an honorary member of the Belgium Academy of 

 Medicine. 



Professor Hermann, the physiologist of Königsberg, and Prof. 

 A. Kossei, of Heidelberg, have been elected to honorary member- 

 ship in the Belgium Academy of Sciences. 



Prof. E. Metchnikoff, assistant director of the Pasteur Institute 

 at Paris, has been elected foreign associate of the French Academy 

 of Sciences, in succession to Sir Joseph Hooker. At the anniver- 

 sary meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, he was elected an 

 honorary member of the academy in the section of science. 



Sir J. J. Thomson has been elected a foreign member of the 

 Naples Academy of Sciences. 



Awards of medals. At the meeting of the Perkin Medal Com- 

 mittee (consisting of representatives of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry, the American Chemical Society and the American Elec- 

 trochemical Society), held on December 15, the Perkin medal for 

 191 2 was unanimously awarded to Mr. Herman Frasch for his 

 chemical engineering work in the sulphur and oil refining industries. 



