SCIENCE 



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tion which is to sail next June, and will be 

 absent about six years, is shortly leaving Eng- 

 land for Canada to make arrangements for the 

 bringing to this country for the necessary 

 fitting up of the Terra Nova, which has been 

 secured for the venture. 



Mr. Cope is at present engaged in appoint- 

 ing the personnel of the expedition. Professor 

 E. C. Mossman, who has been appointed chief 

 of the scientific staff, was meteorologist to the 

 Scott Antarctic Expedition; Mr. A. H. Lark- 

 man, who sailed in the Terra Nova as chief 

 engineer with the Shackleton Expedition, has 

 signed on with the British Imperial in the 

 same capacity; and Mr. T. H. E. Hooke, 

 E.A.F., who was also with the Shackleton Ex- 

 pedition, has been appointed chief of the wire- 

 less staii. Captain Hurley, who during the 

 war was one of the official photographers to 

 the Australian forces and who accompanied 

 the Mawson Expedition as photographer, will 

 go with Mr. Cope as photographer. A cable 

 has been received by Mr. Cope from Mr. Ernest 

 Joyce, who was a member of the Scott and 

 Shackleton expeditions. It is probable that 

 Mr. Joyce will accompany the present expedi- 

 tion, and in the meanwhile he is in charge of 

 the organization in Australia. Lieutenant E. 

 Healy, late Dublin Fusiliers, has been ap- 

 pointed a member of the shore party, which 

 will leave the Terra Nova when the vessel 

 becomes fast in the ice, and will explore the 

 district to the south of the great ice barrier. 



It is the intention of Mr. Cope to take an 

 aeroplane on board the Terra Nova and make 

 a flight to the South Pole. Already two firms 

 of aeroplane makers have offered to supply the 

 expedition with a machine free of cost. Gen- 

 erous support is being given the expedition by 

 commercial firms. 



DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDALS 



The distinguished service medal has been 

 awarded as follows : Colonel William H. Welch, 

 United States Army. For exceptionally mer- 

 itorious and conspicuous service. From his 

 rich experience in scientific medicine, sanita- 

 tion, public health and medical education he 

 helped materially in guiding the medical pro- 



fession both in and out of the Army safely 

 through many difficulties of war. Colonel 

 Victor C. Vaughan, United States Army. For 

 exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous 

 service. During his service in the office of 

 the surgeon-general his contributions of advice 

 and information have been of great value to 

 the Army in connection with the control of 

 communicable diseases. During the recent 

 epidemic of influenza, in particular, his work 

 was of extreme value. Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Richard P. Strong, Medical Corps, United 

 States Army. For exceptionally meritorious 

 and distinguished services. Possessed of the 

 highest professional qualification and actuated 

 by zealous devotion to duty, he has rendered 

 service of inestimable value to the American 

 Expeditionary Forces, notably as president of 

 a board appointed to investigate the cause of 

 trench fever, a disease which has caused serious 

 losses to the effectives of the allied armies. 

 The scientific research of this board under his 

 skilful direction led to the discovery of the 

 means by which trench fever is transmitted 

 and in the establishment of effective measures 

 for its prevention. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Christopher Addison has been appointed 

 the first minister of health in the Ministry of 

 Health which has been established by the Brit- 

 ish Parliament. Dr. Addison was at one time 

 professor of anatomy. University CoUege, 

 Sheffield. He was parliamentary secretary to 

 the Board of Education, 1914^15, minister of 

 munitions, 1916-17; minister of reconstruc- 

 tion, 1917, and has latterly occupied the office 

 of president of the Local Government Board. 



Professor F. Soddy has been elected a for- 

 eign member of the Swedish Academy of Sci- 

 enees in succession to the late Sir William 

 Crookes. 



Dr. Chas. B. Davenport, of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, has been elected 

 associate of the Academie des Sciences de 

 Belgique. 



Dr. Henry G. Barbour, assistant professor 

 of pharmacology in Yale University, has re- 

 ceived a grant of $200 from the committee on 



