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cipient to be seleeted by ihe council of the 

 Boyal Society of Tropical Medicine and 

 Hygiene. 



King Haakon of Norway bas bestowed the 

 Medal of Merit in gold on Dr. Ingeborg Ras- 

 mussen of Chicago, in recognition of 'her work 

 among the Norwegians in this counti-y. 



Professor P. J. van Ehijn has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Astronomical Labora- 

 tory at Grroningen. 



Dr. M. Dorset, chief of the Bioehemie Divi- 

 sion, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department 

 of Agriculture, has been appointed by the 

 United States government to cooperate in an 

 unofficial and consultative capacity with the 

 advisory committee on anthrax set up by the 

 International Labor Organization. 



It is announced in Nature that at a meeting 

 of the Chemical Society on October 5 Professor 

 J. F. Thorpe had been nominated to fill, until 

 the next annual meeting, the offtee of treasurer, 

 rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. M. 0. 

 Forster, recently appointed director of the 

 Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. Dr. 

 J. T. Hewitt was nominated to fill the vacancy 

 in the list of vice-presidents caused by Pro- 

 fessor Thorpe's appointment. 



At a meeting of medical women held re- 

 cently in Toronto preliminary steps were taken 

 to form a Canadian Medical Women's Asso- 

 ciation. Dr. Sproule-Mason was appointed 

 acting president and Dr. Isabel Ayre, of 

 Toronto, Avas appointed acting secretary. Dr. 

 Jennie Smillie attended .the recent Interna- 

 tional Conference of Medical Women at 

 Geneva as a delegate from this Canadian asso- 

 ciation. 



At the Cleveland meeting of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association, the following 

 grants were made from the Research Fund: 

 To D. I. Malaht, of the Johns Hopkias Uni- 

 versity, for pharmacological woiik on benzyl 

 compounds, $200; to Albert Schneider, Port- 

 land, Oregon, for chemical and pharmacological 

 work on chapanxD amargosa and on sodiiun 

 cinnamate, $200. 



Francis Maidl, of the National Museum of 

 Vienna, has been appointed curator of the 



department of entomology at Cornell Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. Benjamin C. Geuenberg has resigned 

 from the United States Public Health Service, 

 Washington, where he has for the past two 

 years worked on the government's program of 

 sex education in high schools and colleges, to 

 study the problems of the educational use of 

 motion pictures with the Urban Institute, 

 Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. 



Professor William Trelease, head of the 

 department of botany of the University of 

 Illinois, spent the past summer in a study of 

 types of American peppers at the botanical 

 centers of Kew, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Berlin 

 and Copenhagen. 



Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, director of 

 the California Academy of Sciences and the 

 Steinhart Aquarium, sailed from San Francisco 

 on the S. S. Maui, on October 18, to attend the 

 Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference held in 

 Honolulu from October 25 to November 8. Dr. 

 Evermann was appointed the official delegate to 

 represent the following institutions: National 

 Research Council, National Academy of Sci- 

 ences, California Academy of Sciences, Pacific 

 Diwsion of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and the San Francisco 

 Chamber of Commerce. A paper was pre- 

 sented by bim at the conference entitled "Con- 

 servation of the marine life of the Pacific." 



Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice 

 are planning another expedition to South 

 America during the coming winter, to continue 

 their explorations. 



Professor Emmanuel De Margerie, direc- 

 tor of the Geological Survey of Alsace and 

 Lorraine, who has just arrived in the United 

 States, will deliver a Ifeeture on "Fi-ance's con- 

 tribution to geology and geogi'aphy in the last 

 'hundred years," before the Section of Geology 

 and Mineralogy of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences on the eveidng of November 6, at the 

 American Museum of Natui-al History. At the 

 last meeting of the section on October 2, Pro- 

 fessor E. W. Berry, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, lectured on "The geological histoi-y 

 of South America." 



Dr. Augustus Trowbridge, of Princeton 



