July 18, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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At the May meeting of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, Professors Joseph 

 Lipka, G. A. Miller, F. R. Monlton and Virgil 

 Snyder were elected fellows in the Section of 

 Mathematics and Astronomy. 



The University of Aberdeen has conferred 

 the honorary degree of LL.D. upon Emeritus 

 Professor Cash, recently retired from the chair 

 of materia medica in the university, and on 

 Emeritus Professor Japp, who retired from 

 the chair of chemistry five years ago. 



ViLHjALMUR Stefansson, the Arctic ex- 

 plorer, has been awarded the La Roquette gold 

 medal of the Geographical Society of Paris. 

 The award is in recognition of discoveries 

 made by the Canadian Arctic expedition, com- 

 manded by Mr. Sitefansson during the years 

 1913-18. 



Major-General William C. Gorgas, for- 

 merly Surgeon-General of the United States 

 Army, and, after his retirement, director of the 

 yellow fever work of the International Health 

 Board, has returned from a trip to South 

 America in an endeavor to determine the seed 

 beds of yellow fever, and institute systematic 

 measures to destroy the disease at its source. 



Professor William Alanson Bryan, of the 

 College of Hawaii, left Honolulu recently for 

 a two years' tour of the South Pacific Islands 

 to collect zoological data which might throw 

 light on the history of the great continental 

 land mass supposed to have existed there in 

 past ages. Professor Bryan is an authority 

 on mollusca and will devote most of his ener- 

 gies to collecting land shells. 



Dr. Frank E. Blaisdell, Sr., of Stanford 

 University, and Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, curator 

 of the entomological department of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, will spend their 

 summer vocation, studying the entomological 

 fauna of the Lake Huntington region, Fresno 

 county, California, at an elevation of Y,000 

 feet. 



Dr. Lynds Jones, head of the department 

 of animal ecology, at Oberlin College, left on 

 June 20 with a party of 22 for an ecological 

 expedition to the Pacific coast. The party 

 will return to Oberlin on September 1. 



Dean Hap.ry Hayward, who served as di- 

 rector of the college of agriculture in the 

 A. E. F. University at Beaime, France, has 

 returned to the United States and has as- 

 sumed his duties as dean and director of the 

 agricultural department of Delaware College. 



Dr. John K. Knox (Chicago, 1917), for- 

 merly geologist on the Canadian Geological 

 Survey and later for some years on the stafi 

 of the Roxana Petroleum Company, has been 

 appointed assistant state geologist of Kansas. 

 He will have special charge of the oil and gas 

 investigations of the survey. Several parties 

 are now engaged in field work. 



Dr. E. a. Baumgartner has resigned as as- 

 sociate in anatomy in the Was'hington Univer- 

 sity medical school, St. Louis, and accepted a 

 position with Dr. A. E. Hertzler at the Hals- 

 stead Hospital, Halstead, Kansas. 



The General Bakelite Co. has provided the 

 funds for an industrial fellowship in the de- 

 partment of chemical engineering of Colum- 

 bia University. This fellowship differs from 

 the general type of industrial fellowships in 

 that in addition to the amounts paid to the 

 fellow and for the chemicals and apparatus 

 used by the fellow, an additional sum is paid to 

 the university to compensate it for the use of 

 the laboratories and other facilities used iby the 

 worker. A further difference is that no time 

 or other limitation is put upon the publica- 

 tion of the results of the investigation. Mr. 

 Mortimer Harvey has been appointed to the 

 General Bakelite Co. fellowship for 1919-20. 



Mr. George Barsky has been appointed to 

 the Bridgham fellowship ($1,500) at Columbia 

 University for the year 1919-20. He will 

 work in the department of chemical engineer- 

 ing with Professor McKee on the utilization 

 of the waste liquor from sulphite pulp mills. 

 Mr. Barsky received the degree of chemical 

 engineer in 1918 from Columbia University. 



Mr. Henry M. Meloney, of Bordertown, iN". 

 J., who was graduated from the New York 

 State College of Forestry, at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, with the degree of B.S., in June, 1919, 

 has just accepted appointment to a technical 

 fellowship for the study of forestry, lumber- 



