December 22, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



711 



Professoa-s Frank Morley (clminnaii), T. S. 

 Fiske, and H. S. AVhite, which was appointed 

 at 'that meeting to make recommendations to 

 the council as to the use of the income of this 

 fund, has presented a report recommending 

 that this fund sQiall be used to endow a prize, 

 to be called the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 

 Algebra. The recommeindations of this commit- 

 tee, which were accepted by the council at its 

 meeting in Ootoiber, 1922, follow below: 



1. The fund shall accumulate until by inter- 

 est and contributions it reaches the amount of 

 one thousand dollars. 



2. At the end of every five years thereafter the 

 Council shall award from the available income not 

 more than two hundred dollars as a prize for the 

 best memoir offered in competition upon some 

 question in the theory of Galois groups, or the 

 theory of numbers, or some other part of algebra. 



3. The question or subject for competitive 

 memoirs shall be announced by the Council at 

 least two years in advance of the date for their 

 submission ; and the details of the mode of award 

 shall be published at the same time. 



4. The prize shall be designated as the Frajik 

 Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra. At the time of 

 each award the names of all previous recipients 

 of the prize shaill be putoliahed in the Bulletin of 

 the Society, togetlier with the name of the suc- 

 cessful competitor and an abstract of his memoir. 



5. The prize may be witldield at the end of any 

 quinquennium if no sufficiently meritorious 

 memoir be submitted; and in such case a double 

 prize may be awarded in the next foUoAving quin- 

 quennium. 



6. These conditions may be altered at any time 

 by a two-thirds vote, in writing, of all members 

 of tJie Coimoil. 



R. G. D. RiCHARDSOX, 



Secretary. 



COLLOID SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY 

 OF WISCONSIN 



The most importaint colloid sjauposium yet 

 held in America -will take place at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin nest June fiiom the twelfth 

 to the fift«en,th. On this occasion the univer- 

 sity will be host to a group of the leading col- 

 loid chemists of the country, who will present 

 papers on their specialties and indulge in un- 

 usually fuU discussion. The univei-sity will 

 publish the proceedings in adequate form. The 



whole symposium is in honor of Dr. The Sved- 

 berg, of the University of Upsala, who will 

 give colloid instruction at Madison during the 

 entk-e second semester and during the summei'. 

 Among those who bave already lannounced their 

 intention of presenting jjapers are Drs. 

 Jacques Loeb, S. E. Sheppard, R. E. Wilson, 

 Jerome Alexander, Martin H. Fiscber, J. H. 

 Matthews, Wilder D. Bancroft, HaiTy N. 

 Holmes, F. E. Bartell, Gartner, Bogue, E. B. 

 Spear, Hugh Taylor, Weaser, Burton and J. A. 

 Wilson. Every one interested in colloids is 

 cordially invited to come. Time will be 

 allowed for spor'ts and social recreation. This 

 symposium is stiongly endorsed iby )the Colloid 

 Committee of the National Research Coiincil. 



Haeey N. Holmes, 

 Chairman Committee on Colloids 

 Oberlin, Ohio 



GRANTS FROM THE BACHE FUND 

 Grants from the Bache Fimd of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences have been made 

 as follows : 



$200 to Professor N. E. Wheeler, Colby Col- 

 lege. For a study of the relationship of electrical 

 conduction in concentrated solutions. 



$300 *o Professor Gregory P. Baxter, Harvard 

 University. For the determination of the atomic 

 weights of arsenic, titanium and german.ium. 



$600 to Dr. W. H. Taliaferro, Johns Hopkins 

 University. For the study of the variability and 

 iidieritanee of size in different species of Trypa- 

 nosoma. 



$500 to Professor L. L. Woodruff, Yale Uni- 

 versity. For a study of the significance of en- 

 domixis and of fertilization in the life history of 

 Infusoria. 



$250 to Professor Boger Adams, University of 

 Illinois. For the study of tlie oxides of platinum, 

 palladium and iridium as catalj-sts. 



$400 to Dr. Keivin Burns, Allegheny Observa- 

 torj'. For the determination of wave lengths of 

 standard lines in the solar speatrum in reference 

 to the cadmium and neon standards. 



$100 to Professor Otto F. Kampmeier, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. For a mionograph on the evolu- 

 tion and comparative morphology of the lymphatic 

 system of vertebrates. 



$G50 to Professor E. K. Renshaw, New York 

 University. For a stud}- of the basis for the 



