July 14, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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The program will be mailed to members 

 about October 1. Others desiring programs in 

 .advance may obtain them by applying to the 

 secretary. 



Iewin G. Priest, 



Secretary 



ADDITIONS TO THE SCIENTIFIC STAFF OF 



THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL 



HISTORY 



The following additions have been made to 

 the scientific staff of Field Museum of Natural 

 History : 



Mr. Ralph Linton has been attached to the 

 staff of the Department of Anthropology with 

 the rank of assistant curator of North Amer- 

 ican Ethnology. Mr. Linton received his M.A. 

 degree from the University of Pennsylvania 

 and continued his anthropological studies at 

 Columbia and Harvard Universities. He has 

 carried on extensive investigations, principally 

 archeologieal, in the eastern, central and south- 

 eastern United States, several reports of which 

 have been published, as well as in Central 

 America and Polynesia. Only recently he re- 

 turned from an expedition to the Marquesas 

 Islands for ethnological and archeologieal re- 

 searches, undertaken under the auspices of the 

 Bishop Museum of Honolulu, Hawaii, the 

 results of which will be published shortly by 

 that museum. 



A new division of taxonomy has been created 

 in the Department of Botany and Mr. J. Fran- 

 cis Macbride, now in Peru at the head of a 

 botanical expedition for Field Museum, has 

 been designated as assistant curator of tax- 

 onomy. Mr. Macbride is a graduate of the 

 University of Wyoming of the class of 1914. 

 Since graduation he has been connected with 

 the Grey Herbarium of Harvard University. 



In the Department of Zoology Dr. C. E. Hell- 

 mayi', known for his extensive work on neo- 

 tropical birds, has been appointed associate 

 curator of birds. Dr. Hellmayr was formerly 

 connected with the Rothschild Museum at Tring, 

 England, and more recently has been with the 

 Museum of the University of Munich. He will 

 arrive in this country early in September. Mr. 

 Edmund Heller, former associate of Theodore 

 Roosevelt, and Mr. John T. Zimmer have re- 



cently been appointed assistant curator of 

 mammals and assistant curator of birds, respec- 

 tively, and are now engaged in field work in 

 central Peru, where they will remain until 1923. 

 Mr. Karl P. Schmidt, formerly with the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 has been appointed to the zoological staff as 

 assistant curator of reptiles and batrachians. 



HONORARY DEGREES AT THE UNIVERSITY 

 OF PENNSYLVANIA 



Among five honorary degrees awarded by the 

 University of Pennsylvania at its recent com- 

 mencement two were doctorates of science. In 

 conferring the degree on Professor William 

 Duane Dr. Penniman, the acting provost, said: 



Graduate of Pennsylvania with the degree of 

 bachelor of arts in 1892 ; afterward a student at 

 Harvard and at Berlin; research worker in the 

 Radium Institute of the University of Paris; pro- 

 fessor of phj'sies at Colorado, and since 1913 at 

 Harvard ; member of the National Academy of 

 Sciences; John Scott medallist for scientific re- 

 search; author of numerous important scientitie 

 papers, particularly on radium and related topics. 



In conferring the degree of Professor George 

 A. Piersol Dr. Penniman said: 



Beloved by your colleagues and by your stu- 

 dents. You have recently laid aside the active 

 duties of the professorship of anatomy in our 

 School of Medicine, from which in 1877 you were 

 graduated, and in which for many years you have 

 been one of the outstanding members of a distin- 

 guished medical faculty. Learned in your own 

 field of research, lucid and eloquent as a teacher; 

 the author of many papers and volumes on anat- 

 omy, histology and kindred subjects containing 

 contributions to knowledge. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the annual meeting of the Pacific Division 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science held in conjunction with the 

 summer session of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, from June 22 

 to 24, the University of Utah conferred the 

 honorary degree of doctor of laws on Dr. 

 Barton Warren Evermann, president of the 

 Pacific Division, and director of the Museum 

 of the California Academy of Sciences and the 

 new Steinhart Aquarium, now being construct- 



