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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1452 



Southeastern California," 'by L. F. Noble, G. R. 

 Mansfield and others. 



THE DEDICATION OF THE STERLING LABO- 

 RATORY OF YALE UNIVERSITY 



The dedication of the new Sterling Chemical 

 Laboratory of Yale University will occur on 

 April 4, 1923, during the spring meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society at New Haven. 

 This arrangement has just been completed by 

 national officers of the society and officials of 

 the Yale Corporation. 



The scientific meeting will be under the 

 auspices of the New Haven and Connecticut 

 Valley sections of the society. Professor Treat 

 B. Johnson, of Yale University, is chairman 

 of the executive committee in charge, chosen 

 from members of the two sections. 



The dedication ceremony, with probably 

 1,500 or 2,000 members of the American 

 Chemical Society in attendance, as well as the 

 Yale faculty and student body, will be impres- 

 sive. The new building is one of the finest in 

 the world and is built on an entirely new 

 architectural principle. The main building is 

 constructed on three sides of a square, three 

 stories high and is in hannony with other 

 buildings on the campus. In this building are 

 class and lecture rooms, private laboratories 

 and offices. 



Inclosed in the square is a one-story, saw- 

 tooth roof type of factory building, with mova- 

 ble partitions. This structure can be varied to 

 suit the various needs of the teaching staff. It 

 is constructed to give the maximum of light 

 and air and is equipped so that it can be eon- 

 verted into several small workshops or one 

 large shop, equal in size to a small commercial 

 chemical plant. 



The following are chairmen of the several 

 committees for the meeting: Program, T. B. 

 Johnson; Finance, J. S. Gravely; Dedication, 

 John Johnston; Registration, Blair Saxton; 

 Arrangement, A. J. Hill; Hotels and Trans- 

 portation, Ralph Langley; Smoker, P. T. 

 Walden; Reception and Entei-tainment, C. H. 

 Matthewson; Publicity, W. T. Read; Ladies' 

 Entertainment, Mrs. John Johnson. The Chi 

 chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma is to have charge 

 of the information service of the meeting. 



THE JOSEPH SULLIVANT MEDAL 



Me. Benjamin Gaeveb Lamme, chief engi- 

 neer of the Westinghouse Electric and Manu- 

 facturing Company, has been nominated to be 

 the fii-st recipient of the Joseph Sullivant 

 Medal of the Ohio State University. In Octo- 

 ber, 1920, on the occasion of the celebration of 

 the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the 

 university. Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, a trustee and 

 emeritus professor of phj'sics of the univer- 

 sity, presented a sum of money, the income of 

 which is to be used for a gold medal to be 

 known as the Joseph Sullivant Medal of the 

 Ohio State University. 



The conditions of the gift provide that this 

 medal shall serve as a memorial of the eminent 

 services in behalf of the university of Mr. 

 Joseph Sullivant who, as a member of the first 

 board of trustees, was infiuential in determin- 

 ing the character and future of the university. 

 The medal is to be awarded once in five years 

 in recognition of an admittedly notable achieve- 

 ment on the part of a son or daughter of the 

 university, "whether that achievement be in the 

 form of an important invention, discovery or 

 contribution to science, the practical solution 

 of a significant engineering, economic or agri- 

 cultural problem; or the production of a valu- 

 able, literary, artistic, historical, philosophical 

 or other work. 



Persons eligible to receive the medal shall 

 be, in the order of preference, as follows: 

 graduates of the university; non-graduates who 

 have studied at the university not less than two 

 years; members of the faculty who are not 

 graduates of the university, who have served as 

 such for at least ten years, when the work 

 offered as entitling them to the award has been 

 done during their connection with the institu- 

 tion. 



From the list of nominations made by the 

 faculties of the different colleges of the uni- 

 versity, the graduate council selected three, viz., 

 George Wesley Bellows, artist; Benjamin 

 Garver Lamme, chief engineer, Westinghouse 

 Electric and Manufacturing Company ; Herbert 

 Osborn, research professor in the department 

 of zoology and entomology, the Ohio State 

 University. 



The names of these three candidates were 



