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fessor C. A. Euekmick, of Wellesley College, 

 Massaelmsetts, to whom the proposal is due, calls 

 attention to the progress whidi has followed com- 

 bined intensive research in the photographic and 

 lighting industries, and thinks that the time has 

 come when equal advantages might be gained for 

 acoustics. Already there exist more than a dozen 

 American laboratories where investigations into 

 different branches of the subject are in progress, 

 but these could be encouraged and expanded by 

 cooperation and concerted attacks on special 

 problems. There is no doubt as to the scope of 

 the work that might be undertaken. The acoustic 

 qualities of confined areas, such as halls and 

 chambers, improvements in telephone and phono- 

 graph reproducers, sound localization, consonance 

 and dissonance are the mere headings of sections 

 covering many subjects of scientific interest and 

 practical value. We wish well to the American 

 scheme, and would give a still more hearty wel- 

 come to a similar British scheme. 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS 



The American Society of Zoologists, in con- 

 junction witli Section F of the American Asso- 

 ciation and in association with other biological 

 societies, will hold its twentieth annual meeting 

 under the auspices of tJie Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology on Wednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday, December 27, 28 and 29, 1922. 



Zoological papei-s by persons not members 

 of the society may be placed on the program 

 on recommendation of 'a member of the organ- 

 ization. All titles should be in the hands of 

 the secretary by November 22, accompanied by 

 an abstract of not more than 250 words. Titles 

 and abstracts for the genetics program should 

 be sent to Professor L. J. Cole, Madison, Wis- 

 consin, secretary of the genetics section of the 

 society. 



Abstracts of papers to be presented will be 

 published for distribuition before the meeting 

 and will appear in The Anatomical Record for 

 Januai-y, 1923. Non-members of the society 

 wiho desire copies of the preliminary progi-am 

 and abstracts should notify the secretary imme- 

 diately. 



The 'biologists' smoker will be held on 

 Wednesday evening in the Walker Memorial 

 Building of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. All biologists are invited. The 

 zoologists' dinner v.-ill occur at the Parker 



House on Thursday evening. Professor Kofoid 

 will give the address. All zoologists are 

 invited. 



The Parker House will be the hotel head- 

 quarters of the society. Fifty rooms are avail- 

 able at rates from $2.50 up. Reservations 

 should be made directly with the hotel man- 

 agement. 



W. C. Allee, 

 „ Secretary 



ZOOLOey BtriLDING, 



The University of Chicago 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Jacques Loeb, member of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Societe 

 Royale des Sciences Medieale et Naturelles of 

 Brussels. 



Dr. Casimir Fdnk, associate in biological 

 chemistry at the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Columbia University, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the Halle Academy 

 of Science in the division of scientific medicine. 

 De. Frederick Belding Power, of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Chemistry, has been awarded the 

 Flueckinger gold medal by the Society of Swiss 

 Chemists for "invaluable work on alkaloids 

 and etheral oil." 



The fii-st Warren Triennial Prize of $500 

 has been awarded for an essay on "The Circu- 

 lation in the Mammalian Bone-Man-ow," by 

 Drs. Cecil K. Drinker, Katherine M. Drinker 

 and Charles C. Lund, of Boston. A second 

 prize was awarded to an essay on "The Effect 

 of Roentgen Rays on the Nuclear Division," 

 'by Dr. James Mott Mavor, Union College. A 

 second prize of $250 was awarded this year 

 because of the difficulty in detei-mining the 

 relative merits of the first two papers. 



Lady Manson was the recipient on Septem- 

 ber 26 of the first presentation of the medal 

 struck in memoi-y of Sir Patrick Manson, from 

 funds collected by the Manson Memorial Fund. 

 This medal, which is in bronze, bears on the 

 obverse a profile of Sir Patrick, and the device 

 "Tropical Medicine and Hygiene." It wiU be 

 presented triennially to any specially distin- 

 guished worked in tropical medicine, the re- 



