November 17, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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Paul. The eastern lines of the Canadian Pas- 

 senger Association have granted this privilege 

 also. The railway fare for any one attending 

 the Boston meeting from authorized points 

 will be a fare and a half for the round trip, on 

 the certificate j)lan, as in the case of last year's 

 Toronto meeting. From unauthorized points 

 (all in the far west) attractive excursion rates 

 will be available. The 'preliminary announce- 

 ment for the Boston meeting will shortly be 

 mailed to all members of the association. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Announcement is made that the Nobel 

 prize in physics for ithe year 1921 has been 

 awarded to Professor Albert Einstein, of the 

 University of Berlin, and for the year 1922 to 

 Professor Neils Bohr, of the University of 

 Copenhagen. The Nobel prize in chemistry for 

 the year 1921 has been awarded to Professor 

 Frederick Soddy, of the University of Oxford, 

 and for the year 1922 to Professor F. W. 

 Ashton, of the Univei-sity of Cambridge. The 

 prizes for medicine have not been awarded. 



Dr. Royal S. Copeland has been elected 

 United States Senator from New York by a 

 very lairge majority. Dr. Copeland, who has 

 been commissioner of public health for New 

 York City, was professor of ophthalmology in 

 the University of Michigan from 1895 to 1908. 



Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, of the General 

 Electric Company, who was candidate for state 

 engineer an New York on the 'tickets of the 

 socialist and labor parties, received about three 

 times as many votes as the candidate for gov- 

 ernor. The vot« for Dr. Steinmetz in New 

 York City -was 207,138. 



Dr. "William H. Nichols, chairman of the 

 General Chemical Company, and Dr. John J. 

 Carty, vice-ipresident of the American Tele- 

 phone and Telegraph Company, have been 

 elected members of 'the council of New York 

 University. 



The Grasselli Medal, awarded every year by 

 the Grasselli ChemieaJ Company to the author 

 of the best paper presented before the Society 

 of Chemical Industry during the previous year, 

 was presented to W. H. Fulweiler, . chemical 



engineer of the United Gas Improvement Com- 

 pany, of Philadelphia, at the regular meeting 

 of the section at the Chemists' Club, New York, 

 on October 20. 



The Pharmaceutical Society, London, has 

 presented 'the Hanbury Medal, awarded every 

 two years for the 'promotion of research in 'the 

 chemistry and natural history of drugs, to 

 M. Emile Perrot, professor of materia medica 

 in the University of Paris. 



Des. Ramon y Cajal, of Madrid, and Ber- 

 nardo Houssay, of Buenos Aires, have been 

 elected honorary members of ihe Mexican Soci- 

 ety of Biology. Dr. E. B. Krumbhaar, of 

 Philadelphia, has been elected a corresponding 

 member. 



The Bavarian Academy of Sciences has 

 elected as corresponding members, Dr. R. 

 Tigerstedt, professor emeritus of physiology at 

 Helsingfors, and Dr. Ramon y Cajal, professor 

 emeritus of histology at Madrid. 



Or. Frank R. Lillie, of 'the University of 

 Chicago and chairman of the Division of 

 Biology and Agriculture of the National Re- 

 search Council for the year 1922-23, will be 

 in residence in "Washington from January 1 

 until about the end of March. During the 

 period before the expiration of his tenn on 

 June 30, 1923, he will make occasional visits 

 'to "Washington, but the major portion of his 

 time will be spent in Chicago. 



Dr. Philip S. Smith, administrative geolo- 

 gist of the United States Geological Survey, 

 has been appoin'ted acting director. 



De. Percy Longmuie, of Sheffield, has been 

 appointed director of research to the British 

 Cast-iron Research Association. 



Dr. a. Loewy, professor of physiology at 

 the University of Berlin, has accepted the 

 charge of the institute for study of the physi- 

 ology 'of altitudes recently founded at Davos 

 by the Swiss government. 



Me. R. E. Priestley, of Christ's College, 

 Cambridge University, has been elected a fellow 

 of Clare College. He was a member of Sir 

 Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition fif- 

 teen years" ago, and also of Captain Scott's 



