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physiological activity of sutistitutes of the choline 

 type. 



$400 to Pro-fessor H. I. Schlesinger, University 

 of Chicago. For an investigation of tlie absorp- 

 tion spectra of inorganic compounds, particularly 

 tfhe oxides of sulphur and tlio compounds ob- 

 tained by the interartion of certain salts with 

 nitric oxdde. 



Applications for grants will next be eonsid- 

 etred in Aprii, 1923, and siiould te filed, to- 

 gether with endorsements, with the ohairman 

 of the board, PiHsfessor Ross G. Harrison, Os- 

 lx»-n Zoological Laboratory, Yale University, 

 New Haven, Connecticut, on or before April 1. 

 Blank foiins of application wU'l tie sent on re- 

 quest. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of the California 

 Institute of Technology, Pasadena, has 'been 

 awarded the 1922 Edison medal of the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Eleotrical Engineere, for 

 "meritorious experimental achievement in elec- 

 trical science." 



Owing to a severe illness arising from a 

 wound received during the war in France, Sir 

 T. W. Edgeworth David has resigned his posi- 

 tion as president of the Australian National 

 Research Council. His place has been filled by 

 the election of Dr. Orme Masson, professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Melbourne. Pro- 

 fessor David continues to serve the council as 

 vice-president. 



Sir Humphrey Rolleston has been ap- 

 pointed representative of the Royal College of 

 Physicians on the British General Medical 

 Council in succession to Sir Norman Moore. 



The diploma of doctor honoris causa of the 

 University of Strasibourg has been conferred 

 upon Sir James Frazer, author of "The Golden 

 Bough." 



Isr recognition of bis contributions to resusci- 

 tation from mine gases, Dr. Yandell Hender- 

 S'on, professor of applied physiology at Yale 

 University, was elected an honoi^ary member of 

 the Coal Mining Institute of America at its 

 meeting in Pittsburgh on December 13. 



Mr. George H. Rhodes has resigned as as- 



sistant in the department of chemistry of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., to accept a position in the color 

 laboratory of Cheney Brothers, South Man- 

 chester, Conn. 



H. a. Notes has been appointed research 

 chemist for the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Lansing, Mieliigan, having severed his. 

 connection with the Mellon Institute. 



Profpessor S. Winogeadskt, at one time 

 director of the Imperial Institute for Experi- 

 mental Medicine in Petrograd, has been re- 

 cently appointed as chief of a newly organized 

 division of soil microbiology at the Pasteur 

 Institute. This divisiion is situated fit Brie- 

 Comte-Robert (Seine-et-Marne), France. Pro- 

 fessor Winograsky would appreeiaite literature 

 on soil microbiology. 



Dr. Louise W. Farnam, a daughter of Pro- 

 fessor Henry W. Farnam, of Yale University, 

 reached Changsha on September 21 and has 

 begun her work as head of the depaa-tment of 

 pediatrics in the Hunan- Yale Hospital and. 

 Medical School. 



Leave of absence has been grajited to Dr.. 

 A. B. Stout, of itihe New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, A\iho will spend the period in southern 

 California in studies of citrus fruits. He will 

 also lecture at Pomona College. 



Captain Roald Amundsen, head of a polar- 

 expedition that left Seattle in June, arrived by 

 dog-team at Nome, Alaska, on December 14. 

 He came from Waimvright, near Point Bar- 

 row, where he is wintering. 



Robert T. Aitken and John F. G. Stokes,, 

 of tbe Bishop Museum, have returned to Hono- 

 lulu after an absence of two years devoted to 

 anthropological studies in connection with the- 

 Baj'ard Dominick Expedition Their field of 

 work included the islands of Rapa, Rurutu,,, 

 Eavaivai and Tubuai of the Austral group. On 

 his return journey to Papeete, several islands 

 oif the Tuamotu group were -visited by Mr. 

 Stokes. 



At a meeting of the conrmittee on the C. M. 

 Warren Fund of the American Academy of" 

 Arts and Sciences held on December 8, a grant 



