190 Biocltemical News, Notes and Comment [Sept. 



O. von Leube, the distinguished clinician, celebrated his seventieth 

 birthday. Professor Leubc has been living at Stuttgart since last 

 year, when he resigned his directorship of the Würzburg medical 

 clinic. 



Honors. 'Awards of prizes. Dr. Alexis Carrel has been 

 awarded the Nobel prine in medicine, in recognition of his achieve- 

 ments in the suture of blood-vessels and the transplantation of 

 Organs. — The Vienna Academy of Sciences has conferred its Liehen 

 prise for 191 2 on Dr. Oswald Richter for his work on the food of 

 algse. 



Honorary degree. The University of St. Andrews, Dundee, 

 Scotland, has conferred the degree of LL.D. on Dr. S. J. Meltzer. 



Foreign associates. Sir William Ramsay and J. Reverdin have 

 recently been elected foreign associates of the Paris Academie de 

 Medecine. 



Retirements, resignations and appointments. Retirements. 

 Col. Martin V. Calvin, for the past six years director of the Georgia 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. — Prof. H. J. Wheeler, former act- 

 ing-president of the Rhode Island State College, at Kingston, R. I., 

 and, during the past eleven years, director of the government agri- 

 cultural experiment Station at that Institution. 



Leave of ahsence. Dr. W. P. Bradley, professor of chemistry at 

 Wesleyan University, has been granted leave of absence for the year 

 1912-13, to organize a department of research for the United States 

 Rubber Goods Company. — Dr. A. F. Blakeslee has a year's leave of 

 absence from the Connecticut Agricultural College. He has a tem- 

 porary appointment on the staff of the Carnegie Station for Experi- 

 mental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, L. L, where he will study 

 lower fungi. 



Appointments have lately been announced, as follows '} 



Bryn Mawr College: Dr. Don R. Joseph (associate in physiology 

 and pharmacology at the Rockef eller Institute), associate professor of 

 physiology. 



Carnegie Institution, Boston Nutrition Laboratory: Mr. Joseph C. 

 Bock (instructor in chemistry at Michigan Agricultural College), 

 chemist. 



^In the appended summary, institutions from which resignations occurred 

 are named in parenthesis. 



