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involved to form an Institute for the Study of 

 Nutrition, to be connected with and a part of 

 tlie League of Nations in precisely the same 

 manner as the League of the Eed Cross will 

 stand with reference to sanitation." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, professor of 

 zoology at the University of Jena since 1865, 

 died on August 9 at tlie ag-e of eighty-five 

 years. 



At a meeting of the Royal Society of 

 London, held on June 26, Dr. Simon Flexner, 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, was elected a fellow. 



The former students of Dr. T. C. Chamber- 

 lin, for twenty-seven years head of the depart- 

 ment of geology at the University of Chicago, 

 are planning to hold a dinner in his honor on 

 the evening of September 27 in Chicago. Dr. 

 Chamberlin has recently retired with the title 

 of professor emeritus and expects to celebrate 

 his seventy-sixth birthday in September. Fur- 

 ther information concerning the dinner may 

 be obtained from Kirtley F. Mather, Gran- 

 ville, Ohio. 



Our attention has been called to tlie fact 

 that prior to the election of Dr. George E. 

 Hale to be a foreign associate of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences the distinction had been 

 conferred on five other Americans: Benjamin 

 Franklin (1772), Count Rumford (1803), 

 Louis Agassiz (1872), Simon Newcomb 

 (1895), and Alexander Agassiz (1904). 



In recognition of his fifty years' service as 

 a teacher of physical education. Dr. Dudley 

 A. Sargent, retiring director of the Hemen- 

 way Gymnasium, was presented on August 7 

 with a large loving cup and pmieh bowl. The 

 gift comes from students in the department 

 of physical education of the Harvard Summer 

 School. 



The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, act- 

 ing through its Committee on Science and the 

 Arts, has awarded to Joshua J. Skinner, of 

 the Bureau of Plant Lidustry of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, its Edward Longstreth 

 Medal of Merit for a paper on " Soil Alde- 



hydes," appearing in the five issues of the 

 Journal of The Franklin Institute from 

 August to December, 1918. In awarding this 

 medal, the committee reported: 



These papers present the results of scientific 

 study of a new class of deleterious soil constituents, 

 clearly described and effectively illustrated, the 

 whole forming a valuable contribution to the sci- 

 ence of agricultural chemistry, and one of marked 

 practical importance. 



In 1912 this medal was awarded to Dr. Oswald 

 Schreiner and Dr. E. C. Lathrop, also of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Dr. Asa C. Chandler, assistant professor of 

 zoology and physiology at the Oregon Agricul- 

 tural College, who made a study in the trenches 

 at the European war front of rats and para- 

 sites in their relation to transmitting diseases 

 to human beings, is now in California and will 

 return to the college next school year. 



Dr. D. G. Byers, of the University of Wash- 

 ington, has been appointed chief of the divis- 

 ion of chemistry in the Bureau of Soils, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. Mr. "W. 0. Rob- 

 inson, of the Chemical Warfare Service, has 

 returned to the bureau. 



Mr. W. E. Perdew recently resigned his posi- 

 tion as chemical engineer in the Petroleum 

 Division of the Bureau of Mines to enter the 

 employ of the Union Petroleum Company of 

 Philadelphia. 



Professor William Peterson, geologist for 

 the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 College, has been granted a six-months' leave 

 of absence to make an appraisal of the mining 

 properties of Utah for the State Board of 

 Equalization. 



Professor W. M. Cobleigh, professor of 

 chemistry in the State College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanical Arts, of the University of 

 Montana, has been appointed state chemist 

 under provisions made in an oil inspection law 

 passed by the Montana legislature. The work 

 of the state chemist will be organized as a part 

 of the required work of the department of 

 chemistry. 



Paul Ashley West, formerly instructor of 

 chemistry. The Jessup Scott High School, has 



