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be deemed to have distinguislied himself in 

 the science of physiology, especially during 

 the two years immediately preceding, has been 

 awarded this year to Dr. Leonard Hill. 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh has 

 awarded the Makdougall-Brisbane prize for 

 the period 1916-18 to Professor A. Anstruther 

 Lawson, of Sydney, for his papers on cytology 

 and on the gametophytes of various gymno- 

 sperms. 



Me. J. C. HosTETTEE has resigned from the 

 Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution, to take up research and development 

 work for the Steuben Glass Works, of Corn- 

 ing, ISTew York. 



Dr. F. E. Ci-iidester, in charge of zoology at 

 Rutgers College, until he entered the TJ. S. 

 Public Health Service, is now engaged in. 

 investigations for the U. S. Bureau of Fish- 

 eries. 



Dr. Ealph B. Seem, assistant superintend- 

 ent of Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Billings Hospital of 

 the University of Chicago from January 1, 

 1921, and assistant consultant on the plans for 

 the hospital. 



Major-General W. C. Gorgas, former Sur- 

 geon-General of the United States Army, who 

 has been visiting Central and South American 

 cities with a party of representatives of the 

 Rockefeller Foundation, arrived from the Pan- 

 ama Canal zone at San Salvador on August 

 20, for the purpose of studying sanitary con- 

 ditions in this city. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, left for the Mesa 

 Verde in July to continue his work in the 

 archeological development of the park. 



Mr. E. p. Van Duzee, curator of entomology 

 of the California Academy of Sciences, and 

 specialist in the hemiptera, has just returned 

 from a sojourn at Huntington Lake, Fresno 

 county, California. This lake has an eleva- 

 tion of 7,000 feet and the neighborhood is of 

 special interest to entomologists on account of 

 the great abundance of insect fauna. Nearly 

 six thousand specimens were secured which 

 will add a large number of species to the acad- 



emy collection, some of which are new to sci- 

 ence. Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, the coleopterist, ac- 

 companied Mr. Van Duzee and also made im- 

 portant collections. 



Mr. Hoyt S. Gale, of the Geological Survey, 

 who has spent several months investigating the 

 potash resources of Europe for the Department 

 of the Interior, has made a study of the de- 

 posits of Alsace and of Spain, and will study 

 those of Stassfurt, Germany, before returning 

 to the United States. 



Professor E. W. D. Holway, of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, and Mrs. Holway, sailed 

 from ISTew York on August 16, on the Santa 

 Luisa, for Valparaiso, Chile. They will collect 

 the plant rusts (Uredinales) of the Andes from 

 Chile and western Argentina northward to 

 Ecuador, and expect to be gone about two 

 years. 



Professor Duncan S. Johnson, Mr. W. E. 

 Seifriz and Mr. L. J. Pessin, of Johns Hop- 

 kins University, and Professor C. C. Plitt, of 

 the University of Maryland, have returned 

 from a two months' stay in Jamaica. Most of 

 this time was spent at the Cinchona Botanical 

 Station in the study of liverworts, lianes, epi- 

 phyllous plants and lichens. Cinchona proved 

 an admirable place for summer work. In six 

 weeks of June and July there were but two 

 rainy days and three or four days with midday 

 showers. The temperature ranged from 60° 

 to 70° F., occasionally dropping to 58° at 

 nights and once rose to 74° for an hour at 

 midday. It is probable that the Cinchona Sta- 

 tion will be available for American botanists 

 during the year 1920. 



The University of Chicago has received a 

 fund of $3,000 from the mother, brother, col- 

 leagues and friends of Edith E. Barnard, a 

 former instructor in chemistry, for the endow- 

 ment of the "Edith Barnard Memorial Fellow- 

 ship in Chemistry." This fellowship has been 

 temporarily provided through the aid of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Barnard since 1916, but is now per- 

 manently endowed. 



A NATiON-wroE campaign for funds to erect 

 a hospital in !N"ew York City in memory of Dr. 

 Abraham Jacobi is now under way. The 



