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ed in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. On 

 the same occasion the honorary degree of 

 doctor of laws was conferred on Dr. James 

 Harvey Robinson, director of the New School 

 for Social Research of New York. It is under- 

 stood that this degree had been conferred pre- 

 viously by the University of Utah on but six 

 persons in the seventy-three years' history of 

 the university. 



The degree of doctor of laws has been con- 

 ferred by Lafayette College on Dr. Alfred 

 Stengel, professor of medicine in the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. 



At the eighty-fifth annual commencement 

 exercises of Marietta College, Dr. Charles E. 

 Humiston, of Chicago, received the honorary 

 degree of doctor of science in "recognition of 

 his efforts to raise the standard of the medical 

 profession in all parts of the country." 



The Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa 

 has elected as honorary members Roland Bur- 

 rage Dixon, professor of anthropology, and 

 George Howard Parker, professor of zoology. 



Dr. William B. Owen, president of the 

 Chicago Normal College, was elected president 

 of the National Education Association at the 

 meeting held last week in Boston. 



The Jenner medal of the Royal Society of 

 Medicine was presented to Dr. J. C. McVail 

 at the annual dinner of the society on July 6. 



A PEESENTATION was made on June 6 by pro- 

 fessional and other friends to Sir John Mac- 

 pherson, M.D., in recognition of his long and 

 eminent services devoted to the interests of the 

 insane. He recently retired from the post of 

 commissioner of the General Board of Control, 

 and is about to proceed to Sydney as professor 

 of psychiatry. The ceremony took place in the 

 liall of the Royal College of Physicians of Edin- 

 burgh, with Professor Sir Robert Philip, presi- 

 dent of the college, in the chair. Lord Pol- 

 warth made the presentation of a piece of plate 

 and a check to Sir John Macpherson and a 

 diamond brooch to Lady Macpherson. 



Dr. Peyton Rous, member in patho'.oscv and 

 bacteriology of the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, has been appointed co- 



editor of the Journal of Experimental Medi- 

 cine. 



Appointments effective July 1, 1922, at the 

 New York State Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, at Geneva, include the following: Dr. 

 D. C. Carpenter, formerly assistant professor 

 of physical chemistry at the University of 

 Iowa, associate in research (chemistry) for 

 investigations of milk proteins; Dr. W. H. 

 Rankin, formerly officer-in-eharge of the Lab- 

 oratory of Plant Pathology of the Canadian 

 Dominion Experimental Farms at St. Cath- 

 arines, Ontario, associate in research (plant 

 pathology) for investigations of raspberry 

 diseases : ; Dr. E, E. Clayton, formerly exten- 

 sion plant pathologist of Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, and Mr. Hugh C. Huckett, a graduate 

 student at Cornell University, plant pathologist 

 and entomologist, respectively, for the newly 

 established laboratory for the study of insect 

 pests and plant diseases affecting vegetable 

 crops on Long Island; George L. Slate, assist- 

 ant in research (horticulture) ; "Walter F. Mor- 

 ton, assistant chemist. 



Dr. T. F. Aschman, of Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 chemist to the Pennsylvania Bureau of Foods, 

 has been elected chairman of the Board of 

 Chemists of the bureau, to succeed the late Dr. 

 William Frear. 



Mr. S. M. Kintner has been recently ap- 

 pointed manager of the research department of 

 the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing 

 Company to succeed Mr. C. E. Skinner, who is 

 now assistant director of engineering. 



Mr. C. H. KiDViTELL, formerly with the 

 Semet-Solvay Company, Syracuse, N. Y., is 

 now with Dr. Raymond F. Bacon, who has re- 

 cently opened a consulting chemical engineer- 

 ing practice in New York City. 



Dr. Aaron Arkin, professor of pathology 

 and bacteriology in the West Virginia Univer- 

 sity School of Medicine, has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence for study and research 

 abroad. He will spend the year in Vienna, 

 Berlin, Paris and London doing work in path- 

 ology and medicine. 



A Belgian scientific expedition, led by Pro- 

 fessor Massart, of Brussels University, wiU 



