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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1454 



The stonfe, itself, bearing tlie date "1922" and 

 the initials "N. A. S." 'and "N. E. C," ooeupies 

 a position ihigh in &e wall of .tihe first story at 

 the sou'thwestei:n corner of the building. 

 Within a copper box in ithe stone were placed 

 signifioant documents oonneoted with the 

 founding of ithe National Academy and of the 

 Research Council and lisits of the members of 

 both organizations. It is expected (that the 

 building will be ready for occupancy in the 

 fall of 1923. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The National Academy of Sciences will hold 

 its autumn meeting in New York on Tuesday, 

 Wednesday and Thursday, November 14-16, 

 1922. The meetings on Tuesday will be at 

 Columbia University, and, so far as possible, 

 papers from the sections of astronomy, chem- 

 istry, geology and paleontology will be as- 

 signed to this day. On Wednesday the meet- 

 ings will be at the Rockefeller Institute, with 

 papers from the sections of boitany, zoology and 

 animal morphology, physioilogy and pathology, 

 and anthropology and psychology. On Thurs- 

 day the meetings will be in the auditorium of 

 the United Engineering Societies Building with 

 papers from the sections of mathemiatics, 

 physics 'and engineering. The local committee 

 for the meeting consists of J. P. Kemp, chair- 

 man, T. H. Morgan, Simon Flexner, J. J. 

 Carty, F. B. Jewett and F. M. Chapman. 



The Henry Jacob Bigelow medal of the 

 Boston Surgical Society ivas presented to Dr. 

 William W. Keen, of Philadelphia "for con- 

 spicuous contributions to the advancement of 

 surgery," on the evening of October 25, when 

 Dr. Keen addressed the society on "Sixty years 

 of sui-gery, 1862-1922." 



Members of the faculty and alumni of the 

 University of Chicago recently contributed a 

 fund for a portrait of Professor A. A. Michel- 

 son, who for thirty years has been head of the 

 department of physics in the university. The 

 portrait has been completed by Ralph Clarkson. 



On the occasion of ithe celelbration of (the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the Dutch Zoological 

 Society there were admitted as honorary mem- 



bers : Professor 0. Abel, Vienna ; Professor M. 

 Caullery, Paris; Professor L. Dollo, Brussels; 

 Professor B. Grassi, Rome; Professor V. 

 Hacker, Halle; Professor S. J. Hickson, Man- 

 chester; Professor N. Holmgren, Stockholm; 

 Professor T. H. Morgan, New York; Dr. F. 

 Sarasin, Basle, and Dr. J. Sclimidt, Copen- 

 hagen. 



The British Institution of Mining and 

 Metallurgy has awarded its gold medal to Sir 

 Alfred Keogh, "on the occasion of his retire- 

 ment from the rectorship of the Imperial Col- 

 lege of Science and Technology, in recognition 

 of his great services in the advancement of 

 technological education." 



De. Geoegb Otis Smith has resigned the 

 directorship of the United States Geological 

 Survey, in order that he may qualify legally 

 as a member of the United States Coal Com- 

 mission. It is undei-stood tihat ithe President 

 hopes that Dr. Smith will be willing to resume 

 his work as director of the sui'vey when his 

 service as member of the coal commission comes 

 to an end. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. E. Leonard 

 G-fll has been appointed to fill the vaeanit as- 

 gistantship in the Natural History Departm.ent 

 of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinibungh. Mr. 

 Gill has already had museum e:sperience in 

 Leicester and Maneheater, and for almost 

 itweuty years has been in charge of the Han- 

 cock Museum at Neweastle^n-Tyne. 



Mr. T. Russell Goddard, assistant curator 

 at the Sunderland Museum, has been appointed 

 curator of the Hancock Museum, Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne. 



Dr. C. R. Orton, plant pathologist at the 

 Pennsylvania State College, has been appoint- 

 ed a member of the division of biology and 

 agriculture of 'the National Research Council. 



The board of managers of the Wistar Insti- 

 tute has eilected Dr. J. A. Detlefsen to a pro- 

 fessorship for the duration of his salbbatical 

 year as a courtesy and to make possible the 

 continuation of investigaitions canied on at the 

 College of Agriculture of Ithe Univereity of 

 Illinois. 



