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ent until tlie fund is sufficient for founding 

 fellowships. 



■ 3. That if and when the amount of the fund 

 exceeds the sum required for giving effect to 

 resolutions (1) and (2) the division of such 

 further sum between the augmentation of the 

 sum allotted for the chemical engineering lab- 

 oratory and the augmentation of the number 

 of available fellowships be referred to the exec- 

 utive committee for decision. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



De. John Campbell Merrum, professor of 

 paleontology and historical geology in the Uni- 

 versity of California, who has been acting 

 chairman of the National Council of Eesearch, 

 was elected president of the Pacific Division 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science at the Pasadena meeting. 



On the occasion of the seventieth birthday 

 of Sir William Osier, regius professor at Ox- 

 ford University and previously professor in 

 the Johns Hopkins University, which occurred 

 on July 12, he was presented by Sir Cliiford 

 Allbutt with a collection of essays contributed 

 by about one hundred of his pupils and 

 colleagues. 



Dr. F. Gt. Cottrell, chief metallurgist of 

 the Bureau of Mines, has been named assistant 

 director in charge of all investigative and 

 scientific work and J. E. Spurr, chief of in- 

 vestigative work in connection with relief 

 claims has resigned to become editor of the 

 Engineering and Mining Journal of ISfew 

 York. 



At its recent commencement the University 

 of Maine conferred the degree of LL.D. upon 

 Dr. Raymond Pearl, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. 



Major William Bowie, chief of the Divi- 

 sion of Geodesy, U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, received the degree of doctor of sci- 

 ence at Trinity College, Hartford, Connect- 

 icut, on June 23, Major Bowie sailed from 

 New York on July 5 to attend as a delegate 

 from the United States Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, the conference of the International 



Eesearch Council, which is being held at Brus- 

 sels from July 18 to August 10. 



Sir Francis Younghusband, known for his 

 works on Asia and Africa, has been elected 

 president of the Royal Geographical Society 

 to succeed Sir Thomas Holdrich. 



Mr. L. G. Eadclifpe, of the Mimicipal Col- 

 lege of Technology, Manchester, has been 

 awarded the gold medal of the Worshipful 

 Company of Dyers, London, for his researches 

 on the sulphonation of fixed oils. 



A Ramsay Memorial Fellowship has been 

 awarded to Elrid G. Young, M.Sc, of McGill 

 University. These fellowships are of the value 

 of $1,500, and are given to the students for 

 ability in research to enable them to continue 

 their work in one of the British universities. 



It is reported in Nature that in reply to a 

 question in the House of Commons on July 8, 

 it was stated that the appointment of Major 

 C. E. Mendenhall, professor of physics in the 

 University of Wisconsin, as scientific attache 

 to the United States Embassy has been noti- 

 fied to the Foreign Office by the United States 

 Ambassador. No steps have as yet been taken 

 to appoint a scientific attache to Washington. 

 The appointment of Professor Mendenhall was 

 a war measure and it has yet to be decided 

 whether the post will be made permanent. 



Captain Ebson Y. Titus has been appointed 

 assistant professor of chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. Captain Titus received 

 his doctorate at Wisconsin in 1917. Shortly 

 thereafter he entered military service and be- 

 came gas officer of the Sixth Division in 

 France. In November, 1918, he returned to 

 the United States and was detailed to the Ord- 

 nance Department and was made chief chemist 

 for Nitrate Plant No. 1 at -Sheffield, Alabama. 

 Dr. Isaac F. Harris, head of the department 

 of biochemistry of E. R. Squibb and Sons, has 

 moved from the laboratories at New Bruns- 

 wick, New Jersey, to the offices of this com- 

 pany in New York. During the last years of 

 the war. Dr. Harris constructed and equipped 

 a factory at New Brunswick for the manufac- 

 ture of the chlorinated derivatives of toluol- 

 chloramine-T and diehloramine-T, which were 



