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SCIENCE 



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was preparing a translation of Saceheri's 

 Logica Demonstrativa from a copy which he 

 believed to be the only one extant. 



He married Margaret Swearingen, who, with 

 three sons, survives him. 



Arthur M. Humphreys 



IjNrvEssiTY OP Virginia 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE FOULERTON PROFESSORSHIP AND 



STUDENTSHIPS OF THE ROYAL 



SOCIETYi 



The Council of the Royal Society gives no- 

 tice that it has created the Foulerton research 

 professorship, and that the appointment of a 

 professor will be made on the advice of a com- 

 mittee of fellows called "The Foulerton Re- 

 search Fund Managing Committee." The 

 stipend will be £1,400 a year, and the duty of 

 the holder of the professorship will be to con- 

 duct, in a place approved by the committee, 

 such original researches in medicine or the 

 contributory sciences, on lines approved by 

 the committee, as shall be calculated to pro- 

 mote the discovery of the causes of disease and 

 the relief of human suffering. The appoint- 

 ment will be in the fii'st place for five years, 

 but may be renewed for further periods of not 

 more than five years at a time. The normal 

 retiring age will be 60, but a professor may be 

 continued in exceptional cases for a further 

 specified period. Arrangements are being 

 made for superannuation under the federated 

 superannuation system for universities, and 

 the professor will be required to devote the 

 whole of his time to research. The holder of a 

 paid academic or other scientific appointment 

 may, however, be nominated, provided the 

 eormnittee is satisfied that the duties of such 

 other appointment occupy only a subsidiary 

 portion of the applicant's time and that its 

 retention would not interfere with the dis- 

 charge of the duties of the professorship as 

 essentially a whole-time research appointment. 

 In such case the committee would recommend a 

 reduction of the stipend, of such amount, how- 

 ever, as shall not reduce the total annual 



1 From the British Medical Journal. 



income of the professor from his paid appoint- 

 ment and from the fund below £1,400. The 

 appointment will only be made if candidates 

 of sufficient distinction present themselves. 

 The Royal Society also gives notice that it is 

 prepared to appoint one or more Foulerton 

 research students. The duties of a Foulerton 

 research student will be to conduct researches 

 in medicine or the conti-ibutory sciences under 

 the supervision and control of the committee, 

 to whom the student will be required to report 

 from time to time on the progress of his work. 

 The studentship will be for three years, but 

 may be renewed from year to year until it has 

 been held for a maximumi period of six years 

 from the first award. In recommending a 

 person for appointment as student, the com- 

 mittee will have in view the expressed wish of 

 the donor that awards should be made espe- 

 cially to young workers. The stipend is £700 

 a year, and a studentship will normally be re- 

 garded as a whole-time appointment, but in 

 exceptional cases the holder may be allowed 

 to retain a paid teaching post; in that ease 

 the committee may recommend the payment of 

 such stipend as it may think fit. A candidate 

 may be called upon to show that he or she is 

 and that his or her father and paternal grand- 

 father are, or were at the date of the respective 

 deaths, of British nationality. Applications 

 for the professorship or studentship, for both 

 of which members of either sex will be eligible, 

 must reach the Royal Society not later than 

 October 31 next. 



APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS AT THE 

 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 



IN THE FACULTY OP PHILOSOPHY 



Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., Ph.D., associate pro- 

 fessor, to be professor of economic geology. 



IN THE FACULTY OP ENGINEERING 



Frederick W. Lee, Ph.D., associate, to be asso- 

 ciate professor of electrical engineering. 



J. Trueman Thompson, B.S. in Eng., associate, to 

 be associate professor of civil engineering. 



IN THE FACULTY OP HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH 



William W. Ford, M.D., associate professor, to 



be professor of bacteriology. 

 Carroll G. Bull, M.D., associate professor, to be 



professor of immunology. 



