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of $250 was made to Professor James B. 

 Conant, of Harvard University, to be used in 

 furthering his research in eonneetdon with the 

 electix)-'ehemieal study of the reversible reduc- 

 tion of organic compounds. The next meeting 

 of the committee for the awarding of grants 

 "will be held on March 1, 1923. Applications 

 for these grants must be in the hands of the 

 chaii-man of the commiLttee, Professor James 

 P. Nori-is, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy, Cambridge, Mass., before this date. 



The Indian Botanical Society 'took over 

 ownership and eontiX)l of the Journal of Indian 

 Botany iu Octol>er. Professor P. F. Fyson, 

 who started the journal in 1919 as a private 

 enterprise, will continue as editor. 



Professor Wielaxd has been appointed to 

 the editorial board of Liebig's Annalen in place 

 of the late Professor Wiislicenus. The board 

 consists, in addition, of Professors Wallaeh, 

 Graebe, Zincke and Willstatter. 



At the College of Physicians in Philadelphia 

 Dr. James Ewing, of the Cornell Medical 

 School, recently delivered (the Muetter Lecture 

 for 1922 on "The principles of the radiataon 

 treatment of catneer." 



Dr. K. P. Wenckebach, foimier professor 

 of surgery at the Universiity of Strasbourg, 

 win deliver the twelfth course of Herter lec- 

 tures in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity Medical School. Dr. Wenckebach will 

 aiTive in this country in April. 



The French committee of organization for 

 the commemoration of the 'centenary of Pasteur 

 recently held its first meeting under the presi- 

 dency of M. Strauss, minister of marine. The 

 sum of two million francs has teen voted by 

 the French parliament and an exposition has 

 been organized at Strasbourg, where a monu- 

 ment will be erected by public subscription 

 facing the university buiklings. Conferences 

 for the popularization of the work of Pasteur 

 will be held throughout Prance. The celebra- 

 tions at Paris will take place fi'om May 22 to 

 June 3. The exposition at Strasbourg, which 

 is under the direction of Professor Bon-el, will 

 open on June 1. 



The hundredth anniversary of Pasteur's 

 birth will be celebrated on December 27 by 

 Chicago physicians, chemists and bacteriolo- 

 gists at a dinner and meeting under the 

 auspices of the Chicago Medical Society and 

 the Chicago section of the American Chemical 

 Society. Dr. Ludvig Hefctoen mil preside. 

 The address on Pasteur Avill be delivered by 

 Professor Victor C. Vaughan, and the response 

 in behalf of France will be made by M. Antonin 

 Bartihelemy, consul for France. 



Sir Isaac Batley Balfour, for thirty-four 

 years professor of botany at the University of 

 Eidiniburgh, has died at the age of sixty-nine 

 years. 



The death is announced of Henry John 

 Elwes, past president of the Royal English 

 Arborieultural Society and of the Royal Ento- 

 mological Society of London. 



Harry J. Powell, a leader in the scientific 

 development of the manufacture of glass in 

 England, died on November 26 at the age of 

 sixty-nine years. 



Dr. Jolyet, formerly professor of physi- 

 ology of the Bordeaux Medical -School, has died 

 at the age of eighty-two years. 



Professor Erasmus Majewski, the Polish 

 anthropologist, died in Warsaw on Novem- 

 ber 15. 



The program committee of the Pennsylvania 

 State College Branch of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science ar- 

 ranged to have Dr. W. A. Onton, from the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, 

 address the meeting which followed the annual 

 dinner at the University Club on December 12. 

 Dr. Orton discussed the newer knowledge of 

 the propenties of plants important in special 

 diet and the necessity of imtroduoing and dis- 

 seminating additions t« our list of vegetables 

 and of providing an all-the-year supply." 



Sigma Delta Epsilon, graduate women's sci- 

 entific fraternity, will hold its national conven- 

 tion in Boston at the time of the meetings of 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. There will be an informal luncheon 

 for all scientific women interested in the need 



