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scientific explorer by nature, a skilled interpreter 

 and critic of scientific facts, and he has much 

 facility in writing. Most of his recent work is 

 published in English. About his personality there 

 is a quiet humility wliich strongly attracts ad- 

 vanced students and begets confidence in Dr. 

 Krogh's scientific results. His mental attitude 

 can well be illustrated by a sentence from a re- 

 cent letter to an American colleague : ' ' The 

 Nobel award came as a perfect surprise to me and 

 when it was first told me by a journalist, I de- 

 clined to believe it because, in my opinion, my 

 work on the capillaries was so far only a prom- 

 ising beginning. ' ' 



APPOINTMENTS AT THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 announces a number of additions to its faculty 

 and instructing staff. Chief among these are 

 the appointments of W. Spencer Hutchinson 

 to the professorship of mining, Dr. G. B. 

 Waterhouse to the professorship of metallurgy 

 and Dr. Frederick G. Keyes to he acting head 

 of the department of chemistry. 



Professor Hutchinson graduated from the 

 institute in 1892, after having studied in the 

 civil engineering and mining departments. 

 During his career he has examined and man- 

 aged a number of mining properties in the 

 United States. He is known as an authority 

 on mine valuation and taxation, and has done 

 much professional work in Mexico, South 

 America and Australia. For several years he 

 has been consulting engineer for the Vanadium 

 Corporation of America, "which has extensive 

 mines in Peru. He has been a consultant 

 mining engineer in Boston. 



Professor Waterhouse was born in England 

 forty years ago, and educated at Sheffield, 

 where he received the degi-ee of bachelor of 

 metallurgy. He came to the United States in 

 1900, and later studied at Columbia University, 

 where he obtained the degree of doctor of 

 philosophy in 1906. He is the author of 

 numerous original scientific papers and the 

 translator of a great number of French and 

 German works on metallurgy. His specialty is 

 the metallurgy of iron and steel. From 1908 

 until the present time he has been technical 

 director of the Lackawanna Steel Company in 

 Buffalo. 



Professor Keyes, the acting head of the de- 

 partment of chemistry, is a graduate of Rhode 

 Island State College and of Brown University. 

 During the war he was stationed at Puteaux as 

 director of the Research and Control Labora- 

 tory, with the rank of major in the A. E. F. 

 In 1920 he was made director of the Research 

 Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at the 

 institute, following the resignation of Professor 

 A. A. Noyes. A short time ago Professor H. P. 

 Talbot resigned as head of the department of 

 chemistry to become dean of students on the 

 retirement of Professor Burton, and Pi-ofessor 

 Keyes was appointed as acting head of the de- 

 partment until Professor Talbot's permanent 

 successor is chosen. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the Hull meeting of the British Associa 

 tion, Mr. P. E. Smith, director of scientific re- 

 search at the Admiralty, and secretary of the 

 Physical Society, was elected one of the gen- 

 eral secretaries, to succeed Professor H. H. 

 Turner, of the University of Oxford. Pro- 

 fessor J. C. Shields and Professor J. C. Mc- 

 Lennan presented the invitation to meet in 

 Toronto in 1924, v/hich was accepted. It was 

 announced that a grant of about $50,000 would 

 be available for the meeting and for defraying 

 the expenses of \'isiting members. 



Professor J. H. Jeans, secretary of the 

 Royal Society, who was professor of applied 

 mathematics at Princeton University from 1905 

 to 1909, received the doctorate of science from 

 Oxford University on the occasion of his de- 

 livei'y of the Halley lecture. 



Professor E. T. Whittakee, formerly royal 

 astronomer for Ireland and secretary of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society, has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Reale Accademia dei 

 Lincei. 



The honorary degree of doctor of science has 

 been awarded by the University of Leeds to 

 Professor A. F. HoUeman, of the University 

 of Amsterdam. 



In recognition of the notable services ren- 

 dered by Dr. Bernhard E. Fernow to forestry 

 in America, the trustees of Cornell University 

 have given the name Fernow Hall to the uni- 



