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Titles of papers offered by memliers of tlie 

 society, with estimated length of delivery and 

 statement of lantern or chart requirements, 

 must be in the hands of the secretary by De- 

 cember 1. It is desired that papers be short 

 and it should be remembered that the interests 

 of the Naturalists are primarily in problems 

 of organic evohition. The papers on the pro- 

 gram will in general be arranged in order of 

 the receipt of title except that papers on simi- 

 lar subjects may be grouped. 



Attention is called to the change in the con- 

 gtitution by which a nomination for member- 

 ship must now remain in the hands of the 

 executive committee for at least one year be- 

 fore action can be taken upon it. Therefore, 

 nominations to receive attention in 1920 must 

 reach the secretary by December 31, 1919. 

 Blank forms for nomination may be obtained 

 from the secretary, Bradley M. Davis, Botan- 

 ical Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. 



AWARD OF THE WILLARD GIBBS MEDAL 



The Willard Gibbs gold medal was pre- 

 sented on September 26 to Professor William 

 A. Noyes, director of the department of chem- 

 isti-y at the University of Illinois, for special 

 work in chemistry for the government per- 

 formed during the war. 



The presentation was made following a re- 

 ception and dinner to Professor Noyes by 

 more than four hundred of the country's 

 leading chemists and educators, who were in 

 attendance at the Fifth N'ational Exposition 

 of Chemical Industries, held at the Coliseum, 

 Chicago. The presentation speech was made 

 by Dr. William H. ISTichols, of ISTew York, 

 president of the American Chemical Society, 

 following a brief history of the achievements 

 of Dr. ISToyes by L. V. Eedman, of Chicago. 



Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, president of the 

 University of Chicago; Dr. W. E. Stone, 

 president of Purdue University; Dr. Ira Rem- 

 sen, past president of Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity; Dr. David Kinley, acting president of 

 the University of Illinois, and Harry H. Mer- 

 rick, president of the Chicago Association of 

 Commerce, gave short addresses, pointing out 



the prominence which American science has 

 attained in the chemical work, and of the suc- 

 cessful efforts now under way to apply the 

 thousands of war secrets to commercial uses. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. W. a. Herdman, professor of zoology in 

 the University of Liverpool, who has been 

 general secretary of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science since 1903, 

 has been elected president of the association. 

 The Triennial Council of the United Chap- 

 ters of Phi Beta Kappa elected at the recent 

 meeting at Harvard University as the new 

 president of the United Chapters for the term, 

 1919-22, President E. A. Birge, of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin. He succeeds Professor E. 

 A. Grosvenor, of Amherst College. 



Dr. Hugh Cabot, professor in the Harvard 

 Medical School and chief surgeon at the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital, has been ap- 

 pointed chief surgeon of the University of 

 Michigan. He expects to take up his new 

 work about January 1. 



Dr. Isadore Dyer has been appointed a 

 colonel in the Medical Section, Officers' Ee- 

 serve Corps. Dr. Dyer was made a member 

 of the Council on Medical Education of the 

 American Medical Association at the meeting 

 of that organization held in Atlantic City in 

 June. 



Dr. C. Leo Mees resigned as president of 

 Hose Polytechnic Institute on September 1, 

 and retires on a pension under the Carnegie 

 Foundation, at the age of sixty-six, his re- 

 tirement being due chiefly to impaired health. 

 President Mees has been a teacher for forty- 

 four years, thirty-two of which have been 

 spent at Rose. For seven years he served as 

 professor of physics, and for twenty-five years 

 as president. He has been appointed president 

 emeritus by the board of managers. 



Dr. F. C. Brown has resigned his position 

 as associate professor of physics. University of 

 Iowa, and accepted a position as technical 

 assistant to the director of the Bureau of 

 Standards. He has, during the war, been do- 

 ing scientific work in connection with aircraft 



