Decembek 15, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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J. H. Jeans ; ■ foreign secretary, Sir Arthur 

 Schuster; other members, Professor V. H. 

 Bkckman, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, Pro- 

 fessor T. R. Elliott, Professor A. Harden, Sir 

 Sidney Harmer, Professor W. M. Hicks, Pro- 

 fessor H. F. kewall. Professor G. H. F. Nut- 

 tall, Professor D. Noel Paton, Lord Bayleigh, 

 Professor 0. W. Riebardson, Sir Ernest 

 Rutherford, Dr. Alexander Scott, Mr. F. E. 

 Smith, Sir Aubrey Strahan and Professor J. T. 

 Wilson. 



Dh. Walter B. Cannon, pirofessor of physi- 

 ology in the Harvard Medical School, colonel 

 of the Meddoal Offleers' Reserve Corps, has 

 been awarded a distinguished service medal 

 citation by the War Department. The citation 

 reads : "For exceptionally meritorious and dis- 

 tinguished services as director of physiological 

 research for the American Expeditionary 

 Forces in France. His activities in connection 

 ■wii-bh the development of a standard method for 

 the resuscitation of the wounded and in organ- 

 izing, instructing and diirecting the work of 

 shock teams in hospitals at the front reflected 

 professional skUl and judgment of the highest 

 order, and resulted in saving many lives." 



Ernst G. Fisher, chief mechanical engineer 

 in the U. S. Coast and Gfeodetic Survey, has 

 retired from the service, after over thirty-five 

 yeai-s of active work for the government. 



Miss Eleanor Philbrook Gushing has been 

 appointed professor emeritus of mathematics 

 of Smith College. 



Joseph W. Geieg, recently assistant in the 

 department of mineralogy at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been added to the staff of the Geo- 

 physical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, as a petrologist. 



Dr. J. S. JoFFE has been appointed associate 

 in research (bacteriology) in the New York 

 State Agricultural Station, beginning January 

 1, 1923, vice G. J. Hucker, who has been grant- 

 ed leave of absence for the academic year 

 1922-23. 



The official canvass of tlie vote in New York 

 State shows that Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, of 



the General Electric Company, who was a can- 

 didate for stat« engineer on the socialist and 

 labor tickets, received 291,763 votes. 



Dr. Jan Sranek has been appointed minis- 

 ter of health of Czechoslovakia, to succeed Dr. 

 Bohumil Vrbensky. 



Dr. Rupert Blue, former surgeon-general 

 of the U. S. Public Health Service, is attending 

 the Near East Confei-ence at Lausanne, 

 Switzerland, as iteAnioal adviser to the Amer- 

 ican observers on ihe question of "the eontrcl 

 of maritime quarantine in the Near East. 



C. P. Lounsburt, entomologist of the Union 

 of South Africa, who has been in official ento- 

 mological work for twenty-six yeare at Cape 

 Town, is visiting the United Stajtes. 



Dr. Louis Cantor, chief sanitary officer to 

 the British administration in Palestine, is in 

 the United Stales, studying sanitation methods 

 in the larger cities for use in Palestine. He 

 states that modern sanitary ' systems are rap- 

 idly eliminating malaria and trachoma in that 

 country. 



Dr. W. J. Humphreys, meteorological phys- 

 icist of the U. S. Weather Bureau, lectured on 

 "Fogs and clouds" to the Pibtsfield, Mass., sec- 

 tion of the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers on November 9. During the follow- 

 ing vKek he gave four lectures on the proper- 

 ties and movements of the atmosphere to the 

 aviation officers at Langley Field, and on De- 

 cember 13 he spoke on "Fogs and clouds" to 

 the department of physics of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, director of ithe 

 research laboratories of the Eastman Kodak 

 Company, lectured before the Franklin Insti- 

 tute of Philadelphia on December 7 on "Re- 

 cent advances in photographic theory." 



Professor Victor Lenhbr, of the Univer- 

 sdty of Wisconsin, addressed the state branch 

 of the American Chemical Society during the 

 last week of November on the subject of 

 "Selenium oxychloride," the new solvent which 

 he has discovered. 



A series of lectures by John Dewej' will be 



