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pathology and bacteriology, has accepted a posi- 

 tion as assistant professor in preventive medicine 

 at the Harvard Medical School. 



Dr. Eaymond G. Hussey, hitherto an associate 

 in bio-phj'sics, has accepted a position as assistant 

 professor in pathology in Cornell University Med- 

 ical College. 



Dr. Robert L. Levy, hitherto an associate in the 

 department of the hospital, has accepted a posi- 

 tion as associate in medicine at the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 

 and assistant visiting physician at the Presby- 

 terian Hospital. 



Dr. Edgar Stillman, hitherto an associate in the 

 department of the hospital, has accepted a posi- 

 tion as associate in medicine at the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 

 and assistant visiting physician at the Presby- 

 terian Hospital. 



Dr. Goronwy O. Broun, hitherto an assistant in 

 pathology and bacteriology, has accepted a posi- 

 tion as assistant in the Thorndyke Laboratory, 

 Boston, Mass., and assistant resident physician at 

 the Boston City Hospital. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Alpeed Goldsborough Mayor, director of 

 the department of marine biology of the Car- 

 negie Institution, died on June 25, at Key 

 West, Fla., aged fifty-four years. 



Prince Albert de Monaco, distinguished for 

 his oceanographie studies, died in Paris on 

 June 27, at the age of seventy-four years. 



Dr. p. G. Cottrell lias been appointed di- 

 rector of the Fixed Nitrogen Eesearoh Labora- 

 tory. He succeeds Dr. Richard C. Tolman, who 

 goes, as has been already announced, to the 

 California Institute of Technology. 



The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of 

 Arts for 1922 has been awarded by the council 

 to Sir Dugald Clerk, in recognition of his im- 

 portant contributions, both theoretical and 

 practical, to the development of the internal 

 combustion engine. 



The John Fritz medal has been presented by 

 the board representing the leading engineering 

 societies to Senator Guglielmo Marconi. The 

 medal is presented for achievement in applied 

 science as a memorial to John Fritz, who waa 

 the first recipient. Other recipients of the 



medal have been Lord Kelvin, George Westing, 

 house, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva 

 Edison, Charles T. Porter, Alfred Noble, Sir 

 William Henry White, Robert W. Hunt, John 

 Edison Sweet, James Douglas, Elihu Thomson, 

 Heni-y Marion Howe, J. Waldo Smith, George 

 W. Goethals and Orville Wright. 



John Ltle Harrington of Kansas City, 

 Mo., has been nominated as president of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 

 succeeding Dean Dexter S. Kimball, formerly 

 of the Cornell University College of Engineer- 

 ing. The newly nominated vice presidents of 

 the society are; W. S. Pinlay, vice president of 

 the American Water Works and Electric Com- 

 pany, New York; William H. Kenerson, 

 professor of mechanical engineering, Brown 

 University; Earl F. Scott, Atlanta, Ga.; H. H. 

 Vaughan, Montreal. 



On June 4, at the special invitation of the 

 governors and the medical school, Professor 

 Harvey Gushing took over the directorship of 

 the surgical unit of St. Bartholomew's Hospital 

 and replaced the director, Mr. Gask for ten 

 days. The compliment was, as it were, a retiu'n 

 for a like compliment paid to Mr. Gask last 

 year, when he acted as temporary chief of the 

 Peter Brigham Bent Hospital, Boston, to which 

 Dr. Harvey Gushing as professor of surgery at 

 Harvard is surgeon. 



The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was 

 conferred by Wesleyau University on June 19 

 on Dr. John Campbell Merriam, president of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Amherst College at the recent commence- 

 ment conferred the degree of doctor of science 

 on Dr. Walter W. Palmer, a graduate in the 

 class of 1905, professor of medicine in Colum- 

 bia University. 



Mr. George Rockwell Putnam, commis- 

 sioner of lighthouses, U. S. Lighthouse Service, 

 received the honorary degree of doctor of 

 science at the fiftieth commencement of Stevens 

 Institute of Technology. 



A LARGE meeting was held at the Sorbonne on 

 June 14 to do honor to M. Camille Flammar- 

 ion, the astronomer, who celebrated his eightieth 

 birthday. M. Paul Painleve, of the Institute, 



