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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1456 



Abbot, director of the Smithsoniam Astro- 

 physical Observatory and secretary of the 

 academy, a former recipient of ithe medal, made 

 the presentation address and Professor Rus- 

 sell replied. 



Friends of Professor Chandler presented in 

 1910 to Columbia Univei"sity a fund which con- 

 stitutes the Charles Frederick Chandler Foun- 

 dation. The income is used to provide a lec- 

 ture by an eminent chemist and for a medal 

 to be presented to the lecturer. Previous lec- 

 turers on this foundation have been Dr. L. H. 

 Baekeland, W. F. Hillebrand, W. R. Whitney, 

 F. Groivvland Hopkins and Edgar F. Smith. 

 The lecturer this winter will be Dr. Robert E. 

 Swain, professor and head of the department 

 of chemistry, Stanford University, whose sub- 

 ject will be "Atmospheric pollution by indus- 

 trial wastes." The leetui-e will be in Have- 

 meyer Hall, Columbia University, on Januai-y 

 9, 1923, at 8 :15 P.M. 



M. Aethus, professor of physiology at the 

 University of Louvain, has been elected cor- 

 respondent of the Royal Academy of Medicine 

 of Belgium. Dr. Depage has been chosen the 

 recipient of the quinquennial prize for the best 

 work published in the field of medical science 

 for the period 1916-1920. 



Peofessob de Casteo, dean of the Medical 

 School of Rio de Janeiro and delegate from 

 Brazil to the League of Nations, was given a.n 

 ovation recently at Paris, in the presence of 

 the ambassador from Brazil and many of the 

 professors and students of the tiniversitj'. De 

 Castix) delivered an address on monoglandnlar 

 and pluriglandular dystrophies. 



The following physical chemists have been 

 named as editors of the Journal of Physical 

 Chemistry: By the Chemical Society of Lon- 

 don, Professors T. M. Lowry, J. W. MeBain 

 and James C. Philip ; by the Faraday Society, 

 London, Professor F. G. Donnan; by the 

 American Chemical Society, Dr. A. L. Day, 

 Pi'ofessor G. A. Hulett, Dr. Irving Langmuir 

 and Pix)fessor W. Lash Miller. Through the 

 efforts last summer of Dr. Charles L. Parsons, 

 secretary of the American Chemical Society, 

 this publication, edited by Dr. Wilder D. Ban- 

 croflt, of Cornell Univereity, hitherto a strictly 



American journal, was brought under the 

 auspices of the two leading British societies 

 and the American group. 



Me. Kenneth M. Gould, formerly associate 

 editor of the American Journal of Public 

 Health, has severed his connection with the 

 American Public Health Association and the 

 American Social Hygiene Association, to be- 

 come editor of ithe publications for the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation. The Journal will be edited 

 in future by Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, commis- 

 sioner of health of Detroit, Michigan, assisted 

 by an editorial board composed of Dr. M. P. 

 Ravenel, of the University of Missoui-i, and 

 Mr. A. W. Hedilch, secretary of the associa- 

 tion. 



Me. Willis H. Rich, of California, has been 

 appointed assisltant in charge of the division of 

 scientific inquiry of the Bureau of Fisheries. 

 Mr. Rich has been connected with the bureau's 

 investigation work on the Pacific Coast salmon 

 since 1913, having been closely associated witjh 

 Dr. Charles H. Gilibert, of Stanford University. 



C. Robert Moulton is leaving the Univer- 

 sity of Missouri, department of agricuitural 

 chemistry, with which he has been associated 

 for the past fifteen years, ito become head of 

 the Bureau of Nutrition for the Institute of 

 American Meat Packers in Chicago. 



Me. Paul Ceoll, formerly research chemist 

 of the New Jersey Zinc Company, has been 

 engaged by the Patton-Pitcairn Division of the 

 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Professor Ramon y Cajal 

 was not able to be present at the recent unveil- 

 ing of the portrait statue at the medical school 

 of Zaragoza, but a letter from him was read in 

 his name, saying that he doubted whether he 

 would have had courage to witness the unveil- 

 ing of his statue even if his heailth had allowed 

 iit. He said he feared the statue \\'ould ask, 

 "What have you done to deserve this honor? 

 Are you not ashamed to be so distinguished 

 when no memorial has been erected to . . ." 

 and he named several Spaniards who had won 

 international recognition among the scientists 

 of theu- day. He added that the car of Spanish 



