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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. L. No. 1279 



in organic cliemistry; first lieutenant, Sani- 

 tary Corps, F. S. A. 



In Physics 



Ernest F. Barker, of London, Canada. B.S. 

 Eochester, '08; M.A., Michigan, '13; Ph.D., 

 15. Professor of physics Western Univer- 

 sity, London, Canada, since 1915. 



Albert Edward Caswell, of Eugene, Oregon. 

 A.B. Stanford, '08; Ph.D., '11. Professor of 

 physics. University of Oregon, since 191Y. 



The members and acting members of the 

 research fellowship board are as follows : 

 "Wilder D. Bancroft, Henry A. Bumstead, 

 Simon Flexner, George E. Hale, Elmer P. 

 Kohler, A. C. Leuschner, Eobert A. Millikan. 

 Arthur A. Noyes, E. W. Washburn. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. George Elleey Hale, director of the 

 Mount Wilson Observatory and foreign secre- 

 tary of the National Academy of Sciences, who 

 has been for the last ten years a correspondent 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences, has been 

 elected a foreign associate, taking the place of 

 Adolph von Baeyer, declared vacant by the 

 academy. The foreign associates are limited to 

 twelve, and the distinction has been held by 

 only two Americans — Simon Newcomb and 

 Alexander Agassiz. The National Research 

 Council, upon the presentation and acceptance 

 of Dr. Hale's resignation as its chairman and 

 the election of Dr. James R. Angell as his suc- 

 cessor, "created and bestowed in perpetuity 

 upon Dr. Hale the title of honorary chairman 

 in recognition of his services to the National 

 Research Council and to science and research 

 by indefatigable efforts that have contributed 

 so largely to the organization of science for the 

 assistance of the government during the war, 

 and the augmentation of the resources of the 

 United States through the newly intensive cul- 

 tivation of research in the reconstruction and 

 peace periods that follow." 



A DISTINGUISHED service medal has been 

 awarded to Colonel William H. Walker, Chem- 

 ical Warfare Service, U. S. A., for exception- 

 ally meritorious and conspicuous service. 



" His extraordinary technical ability, untiring 

 industry and great zeal have enabled remark- 

 able results to be achieved in the production 

 division of the Chemical Warfare Service in 

 the face of many obstacles encountered." 

 Colonel Walker has been discharged from the 

 Army and has returned to his home in 

 Bridgton, Maine. 



The University of California has conferred 

 its doctorate of laws on President Ray Lyman 

 Wilbur and Professor Vernon Charles Kellogg, 

 of Stanford University. 



The degree of doctor of science has been 

 conferred by Dartmouth College on Dr. Ray- 

 mond Pearl, of the Johns Hopkins University. 



For scientific exhibits at the Atlantic City 

 meeting of the American Medical Association 

 the gold medal was awarded to Dr. H. S. 

 Warthin and the silver medal to Dr. Hideyo 

 Noguchi. 



Dr. R. F. Ruttan, of McGill University, 

 Montreal, president of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, has been deputed to represent Canada 

 at the International Research Coimcil which 

 meets in Brussels on July 18. He will also 

 attend the Inter-allied Federation of Chemists 

 to be held in London as the representative of 

 the chemists of Canada. 



De B. E. Feenow, dean of the faculty of 

 forestry. University of Toronto, Toronto, 

 Canada, since its inauguration in 1907, re- 

 tired at the close of the session just concluded. 

 He has been appointed professor emeritus. 

 Dr. C. D. Howe, a member of the faculty has 

 been appointed acting dean. 



Professor I. Bayley Balfour has been 

 awarded the Linnean gold medal of the Lin- 

 nean Society, London. 



At the seventy-first general meeting of the 

 Institution of Mining Engineers held in Lon- 

 don on June 19, medals were presented to Dr. 

 Auguste Rateau, of France and M. Victor 

 Watteyne, of Belgium. 



Dr. John Dewey has been invited by the 

 Chinese government to assist in the reorgani- 

 zation of its educational system and has for 

 this purpose received a second year's leave of 

 absence from Columbia University. 



