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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1461 



The headquarters of the society are at Co- 

 lum'bia University, New Yoiik City. 



PROFESSOR MAX WEBER 

 There is prioted in Nature 'the following 

 letter addressed on December 5 to Professor 

 Max Weber, of Amsterdam: 



You celebrate yoiir seventieth birthday to-day, 

 and we, who are your colleagues and are but a 

 few of your many friends in England, join to- 

 gether to congratulate you and to wish you many- 

 years to come of work and happiness. By your 

 long life of teaching aand research, by your lead- 

 ership of the Siboga Expedition, by your great 

 handbook of the Mammalia, and by innumerable 

 other important publications, you have come to be 

 the acknowledged leader of zoology in the Nether- 

 lands and to be recognized far and ivide as one of 

 the most distinguished naturalists of our time. 

 Your solid leaniijig has upheld the great scientific 

 traditions of your country, your investigations 

 have influenced and stimulated many of us, your 

 broad interests, your siugleness of purpose, the 

 simplicity of your life, and your genius for friend- 

 ship have set an example to us all. 



The letter is signed by the following leading 

 British naturalists : 



A. Aleoek, E. J. Allen, Chas. W. Andrews, J. H. 

 Ashworth, W. Bateson, Gilbert G. Bourne, W. T. 

 Caiman, Geo. H. Carpenter, Wm. J. Dakin, Arthur 

 Bendy, J. C. Ewart, F. W. Gamble, J. Stanley 

 Gardiner, Walter Garstang, James E. Gemmill, 

 Sidney P. Harmer, J. E. Henderson, W. A. Herd- 

 man, Sidney J. Hickson, Jas. P. Hill, Wm. Evans 

 Hoyle, J. Graham Kerr, E. W. MacBride, W. C. 

 Mcintosh, Doris L. Mackinnon, P. Chalmers 

 Mitchell, G. Lloyd Morgan, Edward B. Poulton, 

 B. C. Punnett, C. Tate Regan, G. Elliot Smith, 

 Oldfield Thomas, D'Arcy W. Thompson, D. M. S. 

 Watson, A. Smith Woodward. 



OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL 

 SOCIETY 



Dr. Edward C. jFeanklin, professor of or- 

 ganic chemistry of Lelamd Stanford Junior 

 University, has been elected, as already an- 

 nounced, president of the American 'Chemical 

 Soeietjr, succeeding Dr. Edgar F. Smith, for- 

 merly provost of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, was reelected a director of the society and 



William Hoskns, consulting chemist, of Chi- 

 cago, was made a new director of the society. 

 The following councilors-at-large for the period 

 from 1923 to 1925 also were elected: Drs. 

 Roger Adams, University of Illinois; G. N. 

 Lewis, University of California; Ralph H. Mc- 

 Kee, Columbia University, and William Mc- 

 Pherson, the Ohio State University. 



Dr. Franklin was born at Geary City, Kan- 

 sas, in 1862. He was graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Kansas in 1888 and received his 

 master's degree in 1890. He was a student at 

 the University of Berlin in 1890-91; he re- 

 ceived the degree of doctor of philosophy at 

 Johns Hopkins Univei-sity in 1894. He was a 

 member of the advisory board of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Mines in 1917-18; physical chemist 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and consult- 

 ing chemist of the Ordnance Bureau of the 

 Army during the wai'. Dr. Franklin's work on 

 liquid ammonia as an electrolitic solvent is 

 familiar to all chemists. In addition to his 

 university work, he also was in industrial work 

 for a number of years, serving in the sugar 

 industi'y and also in the gold mining industry. 

 In the latter work he was stationed at Miramar, 

 Costa Rica, in 1897. 



Dr. Franklin was chosen from among the 

 four nominees for president of the society who 

 received the largest number of votes from mem- 

 'bers of the society. The choice among these 

 four was detennined foj^ a vote of the coun- 

 cilors. The three other leading candidates were 

 Dr. James F. NoiTis, of Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Professor Samuel S. Parr, of 

 the University of Illinois, and Dr. Charles L. 

 Reece, chemical dii-ector of E. I. du Pont de 

 Nemours and Company, of Wilmington, Dela- 

 ware. 



THE HAYDEN AWARD OF THE PHILADEL- 

 PHIA ACADEMY 

 The Academy of Natm-al Sciences of Phil- 

 delphia announces the selection of Professor 

 Alfred Lacroix, president of the Geologica;! 

 Sooietjr of France, as the i-eeipient of the 

 "Hayden Memorial Geological Award" for 

 1923. This award was created by a deed of 

 trust made with the academy, on April 11, 

 1888, by Mrs. Emma W. Hayden, widow of Dr. 



