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rerdimand V. Hayden, one time director of the 

 United States Greologieal Survey, "as a re-waxd 

 for the 'best publication, exploration, discovery 

 or research in the sciences of geology and pale- 

 ontology." The award consists of a gold medal, 

 and is made every three years. Previous to 

 1900 the award conisisfced of a bronze medal and 

 was made annually. 



Pix)fessor Lacroix was 'born February 4, 

 1863, at Macon, province of Saone-et-LoirCj 

 Framee. Educated at the Lyeee of Maeon, at 

 the Sorbonne and at the College of France, he 

 received the degree of doctor of science in 1889. 

 In 1893 he was made professeur at tihe Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle, and in 1896, director of 

 the Laboratok-e de Mineralogie, Ecole des 

 Hautes Etiides. In 1904 he was elected a mem- 

 iber of the Aeademie des Sciences, and ten years 

 'later he became Secretaire perpetual of the 

 Section of Physics of the Aeademie. Pro- 

 fessor Lacroix's numerous and important pub- 

 lications and discoveries, as well as his ex- 

 haustive studies of Mont Pelee, of the phe- 

 noniena of contact metamorphism and endo- 

 morphic metamorphism are familiar to ail 

 geologists. 



The committee by whom the nominee for the 

 1923 award was selected consisted of Dr. Rich- 

 ard A. F. Penrose, Jr., chairman, Dr. John M. 

 Clarke, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Dr. 

 Chajrles D. Walcott and Dr. Edgar T. Wherry. 



Previous i-ecipients of the Hayden award 

 were: 1890, James Hall; 1891, Edward D. 

 Cope; 1892, Eduard Suess; 1893, Thomas H. 

 Huxley; 1894, Grabriel August Daubree; 1895, 

 Karl A. von Zittel; 1896, Giovanni Capellini; 

 1897, A. Karpinski; 1898, Otio Torrell; 1899, 

 Gilles Joseph Gustave Dewalque; 1902, Archi- 

 bald GeiMe; 1905, Charles D. Waloott; 1908, 

 John Mason Clarke; 1911, John C. Branner; 

 1904, Henry Fairfield Osborn; 1917, William 

 M. Davis; 1920, Thom'as Chrowder Chamberlin. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A PORTRAIT of Sir Joseph Thomson, by Mr. 

 Fiddes Watt, has been presented by a number 

 of subscribers to the Royal Society. 



Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who recenty received 

 the Nobel peace pi-ize, received a further award 



when it was announced by 'the Nobel Committee 

 that Christian Ei-ichsen, of Copenhagen, had 

 granted another award to Dr. Nansen equal in 

 value to the Nobel peace prize, in recognition 

 of his work on behalf of the starving millions 

 of Europe. Dr. Nansen proposes to use the 

 prizes for relief work. 



Dr. Irving Langmuie, research chemist of 

 the General Electric 'Company, has been elected 

 an honorary member of the Eoyal Institution, 

 London. 



Edvs'ard Longstreth medals were presented 

 by the Franklin Institute, PhU'adelphia, on De- 

 cemtier 20 to Dr. A. II. Pfund, of Baltknore, 

 for his cryptometer, paint film gauge, colori- 

 meter and rotating sector, and to Mi'. Edward 

 J. Brandt, of Watertown, Wis., for his auto- 

 matic cashier. 



We learn from the Bulletin of the American 

 M'athematical Society thait on the occasion of 

 the celebration of its seven hundredth anniver- 

 s'ary the University of Padua conferred its hon- 

 orary do'ctorate on Professors E. C. Archibald, 

 of Brown University, J. Lipka, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, and V. Sny- 

 der, of Cornell University. 



The University of Frankfort and the Zurich 

 Technical School have confeiTed honorary de- 

 grees on Dr. David Hilbert, professor of math- 

 ematics at Gottingen, on the occasion of his 

 sixtieth birthday. 



Dr. E. H. Starling, professor of physiology 

 in the University of London, has been ap- 

 pointed the fii-st Foulerton professor under the 

 foundation of the Royal Society created by 

 ■the will of the late Miss L. A. Foulei-ton. 



Sir George Greenhill has been awarded a 

 pension by the British government in recogni- 

 tion of his services to science and his ballistic 

 work. « 



On December 8 the members of the depart- 

 ment of 'botany of the Ohio State University 

 and friends celebrated with a dinner the com- 

 pletion of twenty-five years of service of Pro- 

 fessor John H. Schaffner in the department. 



Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of the 

 Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia Uni- 



