290 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



Prof. H. A. Bumstead, professor of physics at Yale, has been elected 

 Chairman of the National Research Council of the United States. Dr. J. R. 

 Angell, the retiring chairman, has been made President of the Carnegie 

 Corporation of New York. 



SirW. J.Pope, F.R.S., whohas just been elected an Associate of the section 

 for mathematical and physical sciences of the Acad6mie Royale de Belgique, 

 will be President of the Society of Chemical Industry for the year 1920-21. 

 The gold medal of the society has been presented to M. Paul Kestner, Pre- 

 sident of the Society of Chemical Industry of France. 



The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for 1920 has been awarded 

 to Prof. A. A. Michelson, For. Mem. R.S., professor of physics in the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago. Mr. Alan A. Campbell Swinton has been elected Chairman 

 of the Council of the Society for the session 1920-21. 



Sir Ray Lankester was awarded the Linnean Medal by the Linnean 

 Society this year, and Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan the Trail award and 

 medal. Dr. A. Smith-Woodward will be President of the Society next 

 session. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research, has had the Hon. LL.D. degree conferred on him by the 

 University of Cambridge. 



Sir J. Cadman, Mr. W. B. Hardy, and Prof. S. Young have been appointed 

 members of the Advisory Council to the Committee of the Privy Council 

 for Scientific and Industrial Research. 



Dr. G. C. Simpson, F.R.S., Meteorologist to the Government of India, has 

 been appointed to succeed Sir Napier Shaw as Director of the Meteorological 

 Ofiice. Dr. Simpson was meteorologist and physicist to the British 

 Antarctic Expedition 1910-13. 



Dr. J. S. Flett succeeds Sir Aubrey Strahan as Director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey and Museum. 



Prof. G. H. Carpenter has been appointed to succeed the late Prof. 

 J. A. McClelland as secretary of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Prof. K. Rontgen has retired from the chair of Experimental Physics 

 at the University of Munich and from the control of the Physikalisches 

 Institut. 



Dr. T. M. Lowry, C.B.E., has been appointed first occupant of the new 

 chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. 



Dr. L. V. King has been appointed Macdonald Professor of Physics at 

 McGill University; Prof. J. Wemyss Anderson to the John WilUam Hughes 

 Chair of Refrigerating Engineering at Liverpool University; and Dr. W. J. 

 Dakin, professor of biology in the University of Western Australia, to the 

 Derby Chair of Zoology in succession to the late Prof. Leonard Doncaster. 



The following appointments have been made by the Council of University 

 College, Swansea : — Professor of Metallurgy, Prof. C. A. Edwards ; of Chem- 

 istry, Dr. J. E. Coates ; of Physics, Dr. E. A. Evans ; of Mathematics, 

 Lt.-Col. A. R. Richardson, D.S.O. ; Lecturer in Geology, Dr. A. E. Trueman. 



The Council of the University of Leeds has appointed Mr. G. C. Steward, 

 M.Sc, B.A., of Caius College, Cambridge, and the University of London, 

 assistant lecturer in applied mathematics, and Mr. W. B. Grist, B.Sc, secretary 

 of the newly formed Appointments Board. 



The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has now established 

 four Sub-Committees to assist the Radio Research Board in the investigation 

 of certain problems which have arisen in the course of its work. The first 

 Sub-Committee is to deal with the propagation of wireless waves ; it consists 

 of Dr. E. H. Rayner (Chairman), Prof. Barton, Major Erskine-Murray, 

 Prof. H. M. MacDonald, and Prof. Nicholson. Sub-Committee B, on Atmo- 

 spherics, has Col. H. G. Lyons as Chairman, the other members being Mr. A. A. 

 Campbell Swinton, Prof. S. Chapman, Major H. P. T. Lefroy, Mr. G. I. 



