Decembek 8, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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members of Sigma Xi, whether delegates from 

 chapters or not, are invited and urged to take 

 this occasion to get acquainted with the new 

 spirit in the organization. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Lalande Medal of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences has ibeen awarded to Dr. Henry 

 Norris Eussell, director of the Princeton Ob- 

 ■servatory. The Janssen Medal goes to Dr. 

 Carl S former, professor of pure mathematics 

 at the University of Christiana, for his work 

 on the aurora borealis. 



De. Simon Plexner, director of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, New 

 York, was elec'ted an honorary member of the 

 Copenhagen Medical Society at a recent meet- 

 ing celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth 

 anniversary of that hodj. 



At a general meeting of the Royal Scottish 

 Geographical Society, held on November 7, the 

 society's gold medal was awarded to Professor 

 J. W. Gregory, University of Glasgow, in 

 recognition of the s'cientdfle importance of re- 

 sults o'btained iby him through explorations in 

 Spitsbergen, Austraiia, East Africa and south- 

 west China. 



Dr. J. BoRDET, professor of bacteriology at 

 Brussels, has been given an honorary degree 

 (by the University of Paris. 



Dr. H. J. Kammerlingh Onnes, of the 

 University of Leiden, celebrated on November 

 li the completion of his fortieth year of 

 service as pix)fessor of physics. 



A EAXQUET was tendered Dr. Calleja, pro- 

 fessor of histology at the Univer.sity of Madrid, 

 on the occasion of his fiftieth professional 

 anniversary. 



Dr. John W. Harshberger, professor of 

 botany. at the University of Pennsylvania, has 

 been made a member of the Swedish Linnsean 

 Society and of the Finnish Forestry Society. 



Dr. F. W. Peabody, of Boston, professor of 

 medicine at the Medical School of Harvaa-d 

 University, and physician-in-chief of the Bos- 

 ton City Hospital, has 'been dected a member 



of the Council on Phai'macy and Chemistry to 

 fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 

 Dr. C. L. Alsberg, formerly chief of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and now director of the Food Research 

 Institute of Stanford University. 



Dr. Kenyon L. Butterpield, president of, 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has 

 been reelected president of the American 

 Country Life Association for 1922-23. C. J. 

 Galpin, of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, is first vice-president. 



The British Institution of Civil Engineers 

 has made the following awards for papers 

 printed in the Proceedings for the session 

 1921-1922: A George Stephenson gold medal 

 to Dr. B. C. Laws (London); Telford pre- 

 miums to Professor L. Bairstow (London), Dr. 

 A. J. Sutton Pippard (London), Mr. E. A. 

 CuUen (Brisbane), Mr. H. H. Dare (Rose- 

 ville, N. S. W.), and Mr, F. W. Stephen (Aber- 

 deen). For papers read before meetings of 

 students in London and the provinces the fol- 

 lowing awards have been made : A Miller prize 

 and the James Forrest medal to Mr. F. H. 

 Bullock (Cardiff); and Miller prizes to Mr. 

 J. G. Mitchell (London), Mr. A. G. M'Donald 

 (London) and Mr. Harry Wolf (Manchester). 



Professor E. W. Brown, of Yale University, 

 will be absent from New Haven until April, 

 1923. His address w-iU be care of the Bishop 

 Museum, Honolulu, H. I. 



Dr. R. S. Breed, chief in research (bacteri- 

 ology) at the New York State Agricultural 

 Station, has been granted six months' leave of 

 absence beginning on March 1, 1923, for the 

 purpose of special study of bacteriological 

 problems at the Pasteur Institute and of dairy 

 sanitation in France, Denmark and Holland. 



Dr. Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the 

 Metropolitan Life- Insurance Coanpany, will 

 deliver the third Harvey Society Lecture at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine, on Saturday 

 evening, December 16, 1922. His subject will 

 be "The Possibilities of Human Life." 



At the Novem'ber meeting of the Society 

 of the Sigma Xi of the Universitv of Wiscon- 



