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University. He was made a Chevalier of the 

 Legion of Honor in 1909. 



The New York Times reports that Secretary 

 Hoover, commenting on the resignation of Dr. 

 Stratton, said : 



The loss of Dr. Stratton as head of the Bureau 

 of Standards is a real national loss. He has built 

 up that service from a bureau devoted to scientific 

 determination of weights and measurements to a 

 great physical laboratory cooperaiting with Amer- 

 ican industry and commerce in the solution of 

 many problems of enormous value in industry 

 which the commercial laboratories of the country, 

 from lack of equipment and personnel, have been 

 unable to undertake. 



While the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology is to be congratulated on securing Dr. 

 Stratton, one can not overlook the fact that the 

 desperately poor pay which our government gives 

 to great experts makes it impossible for us to 

 retain men capable of performing the great 

 responsibilities which are placed upon them. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an 

 educational institution, finds no difficulty in pay- 

 ing a mair of Dr. Stratton 's calibre three times 

 the salary the government is able to pay him. 



Dr. Stratton has repeatedly refused large offers 

 before, but the inability of the scientific men in 

 the government to properly support themselves 

 and their families under the living conditions in 

 Washington, and to make any provision tor old 

 age, makes it impossible for any responsible de- 

 partment head to secure such men for public 

 service ait government salaries. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



On October 5 the new biological building of 

 McGill University, erected at a cost of over 

 $500,000, was formally opened. Tlie exercises 

 were presided over by the principal. Sir Arthur 

 Currie. Sir Charles Sherrington, P.R.S., 

 Waynfleet professor of physiology at Oxford 

 University, gave the opening address. He was 

 followed by Dr. Harvey Cushing, of Harvard 

 University. Lectures were also given by Dr. 

 H. J. Hamburger, professor of physiology, 

 University of Groningen, Netherlands, who 

 spoke on "A new form of correlation between 

 organs," and by Dr. John M. Coulter, pro- 

 fessor of botany of the University of Chicago, 

 whose subject was "The botanical perspective." 



The Faraday Medal of the British Institu- 

 tion of Electrical Engineers, the first award of 

 which was made by the council in the early 

 part of the year to Mr. Oliver Heaviside, was 

 personally presented to him by Mr. J. S. High- 

 field, president of the institution, at Torquay, 

 on September 9. 



The University of Leeds has conferred the 

 honorary degree of doctor of science on Sir 

 Charles Scott Sherrington, the Due de Broglie, 

 Paris; Dr. C. G. Joh. Petersen, director of the 

 Danish Biological Station, Copenhagen, and 

 Professor P. Weiss, director of the Physical 

 Laboratory, University of Strasbourg. 



Me. Gano Dunn, president of the J. G. 

 White Engineering Corporation of New York 

 City, and second vice-chairman of the National 

 Eesearch Council, has been a'ppointed a dele- 

 gate from the Eesearch Council to the Pan- 

 Pacifie Commercial Conference meeting in 

 Honolulu from October 25 to November 7. 



Dr. Martin H. Fischer, professor of physi- 

 ology in the University of Cincinnati, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the Leopold- 

 inisch Carolinische Akademie of Halle, in the 

 Division of Scientific Medicine. 



Dr. Oliver Bowles, of the United States 

 Bureau of Mines, has been admitted as an hon- 

 orary mem'ber of the Institution of Quarry 

 Managers of Great Britain. 



At a recent meeting of the Committee on 

 Science and the Arts of the Franklin Institute, 

 an award of the Howard N. Potts Medal was 

 granted to Dr. Charles Raymond Downs and 

 Mr. John Morris Weiss of New York "in con- 

 sideration of their notable achievement in the 

 scientific and commercial development of the 

 catalytic vapor-pliase oxidation of benzene to 

 maleic acid and tlieir pioneer work in develop- 

 ing a commercial process for changing aromatic 

 to aliphatic compounds." 



Professor Huppb, who was for many years 

 director of the Hygienic Institute in Prague, 

 celebrated, on Aug. 24, his seventieth birthday. 



A Meyricke Scholarship at Jesus College, 

 Oxford, open to graduates of the University of 

 Wales and of St. Davids College, Lampeter, 

 has been awarded to Leon Rubinstein, of Uni- 



