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versitj', received an "honorary degree" from 

 the Eadiiologieal Sooietjf of North America, on 

 Deeeroiber 7, 1922, in recognition of his esrperi- 

 mental researches on X-ray and cancer. 



Feanklin Thomas, jjrofessor of civil engi- 

 neering at the Oalifomia Institute of Tech- 

 nology, -was recently elected a member and vice- 

 chairman of the Board of Directors of the City 

 of Pasadena, Calif. He is first vice-president 

 of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. 



Peofessor Edson S. Bastin, chairman of 

 the department of geology in the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed a member of the 

 State Board of Natural Resources and Conser- 

 vation by the governor of Illinois. Professor 

 John Merle Couler, head of the department of 

 botany, is already a member of the board. 



Professor Joseph Eugene Rowe, head of 

 the department of mathematics in the College 

 otf William and Mai-jf, vyas the official delegate 

 from the State of Virginia at the annual meet- 

 ing of the American Society of Mechanical 

 Engineers held in New York City during the 

 ■week of December 4. 



At the annual general meeting of the Fara- 

 day Society, London, held on November 20, Sir 

 Robert Robertson was elected president. Tilie 

 vice-ijresidents are : Professor C. H. Desch, 

 Professor F. G. Donnan, Dr. J. A. Harker, 

 Pix)fessor T. M. Ixrary, W. Murray Monison, 

 Professor J. R. Partington and Dr. G-. Senter. 



John Oliver La Gorge, associate editor of 

 the National Geographic Magazine and trustee 

 of the Na;tional Geographic Society was 

 elected a vice-president of the society on De- 

 cember 13. 



At a general meeting of the members of the 

 Royal Institution held on December 4, Sir 

 Arthur Keith was elected secretary in succes- 

 sion to the late Colonel E. H. Giiove-HiHs. 



De. I. P. ToLMACHOPF, formerly chief keeper 

 of the Geological Museimi at Petix)grad, has 

 been appointed curator of invertebrate paleon- 

 tology in the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, 

 Pa. Dr. ToLmachofi:, who has been in Vladi- 

 vostok for some time, has arrived in Pittsburgh 

 »fld assumed his new duties. 



Julius Matz, pathologist of the Insular Sta- 

 tion of Porto Rico, has been engaged to eon- 

 duet research in agriculture for Central Por- 

 venior, San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Re- 

 public. 



Professor L. Kahlenberg, of the chem- 

 istry department of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, leotui-ed at the University of Illinois on 

 December 7 on "The chemical replacement of 

 the metals by one another." 



The Academy of Sciences and the Philo- 

 sophical Society of Washington held a joint 

 meeting on December 21, when Dr. H. A. Clark, 

 physicist of the Taylor Instrument Companies, 

 Rochester, N. Y., delivered an address on "The 

 manufacture of thei-mometers." 



Dr. Ludwik Silberstein, mathematical 

 ishysieist, Eastman Kodak Company, Research 

 Laboratorj', gave the following lectures at 

 Harvard University on December 18, 19 and 

 20 : "Oriented quantum emission and the selec- 

 tive principle of spectroscopy"; "Perplexities 

 in the domain of non-hydrogenic spectra"; 

 ■'Rotational terrestrial optical experiment and 

 its bearing upon fundamental rphysioal ques- 

 tions." 



Dr. William T. Bovie, assistant professor 

 of biophysics at Harvard University, will de- 

 liver the fourth Harvey Society lecture at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine, on January 

 13. His subject will be "The physiological 

 effects of light rays." 



Professor R. G. Hoskins, head of the de- 

 partment of physiology of Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, will deliver the annual address before 

 the Portland, Oregon, Academy of Medicine on 

 Januai-y 11 and 12. 



Spencer Baird Newberry died on Novem- 

 ber 28 at the age of sisty-five yeaa-s. Dr. New- 

 terry, a son of John Strong Newberry, was at 

 one time professor of chemistry at Cornell 

 University and in 1893 founded the Sandusky 

 Cement Company. He made important con- 

 tributions to the scientific study of cement. 



Henry John Elwes, distinguished for his 

 eonbiiibutions to forestry and other sciences, 

 died on November 26, at the age of seventv-six 



