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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1439 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Peopessoe Edward Sylvester Morse, of 

 the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts, 

 and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, aai 

 authority on Japan and the Nipponese people, 

 their habits, customs and arts, was in 1898 

 decorated by the Japanese government with 

 the Order of the Rising Sun. He has now 

 received through the Imperial University of 

 Tokio, from the department of foreign affairs, 

 Japan, the second class of the Order of the 

 Sacred Treasure, "in recognition of merito- 

 rious services rendered to the cause of learning 

 and culture" in Japan. 



A COMPLIMENTAET dinner was tendered to 

 Professor and Mrs. G. F. Hull, of Dartmouth 

 College, on July 15, by the departments of 

 physics, astronomy and physiological optics, 

 in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary 

 of Professor Hull's doctorate. Professor Hull 

 received the degi-ee of Ph.D. from the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago on July 1, 1897. Later the 

 party was entertained at the home of Professor 

 and Mrs. A. B. Meservey. Congratulatory 

 letters were read from Dr. E. F. Nichols, for- 

 merly of the department of physics of Dart- 

 mouth, from Sir J. J. Thomson, of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, with whom Professor Hull 

 has studied, and from others with whom he has 

 been associated. 



■ A complimentary dinner was recently given 

 to Dr. Henry Head, F.R.S., on his retirement, 

 in recognition of his services as editor of Brain 

 for seventeen years. The chair was taken 

 by Sir Charles Sherrington, F.R.S., professor 

 of physiology at the University of Oxford and 

 president of the Royal Society and of the 

 British Association. 



The James Scott Prize of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh, established in 1918 for a lecture 

 or essay on the fundamental concepts of nat- 

 ural philosophy, was presented on June 5 to 

 Professor A. N. Whitehead for his lecture enti- 

 tled "The Relatedness of Nature." 



HoNOEAEY degi'ees have been conferred by 

 the University of Sheffield on Sir Charles Par- 

 sons for his work on the turbine engine, and 

 on Mr. T. W. Hall for researches in paleogra- 

 phy and archeology. 



M. Ame Pictet, professor of chemistry at 

 the University of Geneva, has been elected a 

 corresponding member by the French Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Propessoe George H. F. Nuttall, of the 

 University of Cambridge, has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the Societe de 

 Biologie, Paris, and of the Society of American 

 Bacteriologists. 



The Swedish Medical Association at a recent 

 meeting voted to commemorate the sixtieth 

 birthday of Professor A. Gullsfarand, in June, 

 with a special gold medal and the foundation of 

 a fund in his honor. He was given the Nobel 

 prize in medicine in 1911 for his contributions 

 to the science of ophthalmology. 



Peopessoe T. Petrina, of Prague, professor 

 emeritus of internal diseases and president of 

 the German section of the Bohemian Medical 

 Society, retired from this and other positions 

 on reaching his eightieth birthday recently. 

 The German-Bohemian members of the society 

 have founded the Petrina Endowment in his 

 honor. 



Me. V. H. GoTTSCHAiK, of the technical 

 branch of the Western Electric Company, at 

 Hawthorne, 111., has joined the research staff 

 of the Society of Automotive Engineers, New 

 York City. 



The following men have accepted temporary 

 appointments at the Japanese Beetle Labora- 

 tory, Riverton, N. J., for this summer and 

 have reported for duty : Professor W. A. Price, 

 of Purdue University; Dr. Henry Fox, of 

 Mercer University; H. H. Pratt, a gi-aduate of 

 Rutgers College, and J. H. Painter, a graduate 

 of the Univei'sity of Maryland. There was re- 

 ceived at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory 

 earlier in the spring what is believed to have 

 been one of the largest shipments of imported 

 parasite material ever brought into this country 

 from abroad. Something over a hundred thou- 

 sand cocoons of a tachinid known to be para- 

 sitic on the Japanese beetle in Japan were 

 sent to the laboratory by C. P. Clausen and 

 J. L. King, who are stationed in Japan and 

 working upon Japanese beetle parasites there. 

 A fairly large proportion of these cocoons 



