456 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. L. No. 1298 



mating new knowledge available in tlie pro- 

 tection of the public health and in the im- 

 proved treatment of disease and injury. 



By this increase in the endowment, new 

 lines of research will be sustained in biology, 

 chemistry and physics, upon which medical 

 science so largely rests, as well as in medicine 

 itself, as will the study of many practical 

 problems directly relating to diseases in men 

 and animals which are already under way. 



The local activities of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute in "New York are chiefly carried on in 

 the great laboratories and the hospital, which 

 stand high on the bluff facing the East River, 

 between East 64th and 67th Streets, a part of 

 the old Seherinerhom Farm of an earlier day. 



Ifear Princeton, N. J., the institute has a 

 large farm, where it maintains a department 

 of animal pathology. The laboratories and 

 various accessory buildings here are devoted 

 to research on the diseases of animals and 

 effective methods for their prevention and 

 cure, as well as to the study of the bearing 

 of animal diseases upon the health and eco- 

 nomic interests of man. 



The scientific staff of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute numbers sixty-five, most of them 

 highly trained and of large experience in the 

 subjects to which they are exclusively devoted. 

 The institute fm-ther employs 310 persons in 

 its technical and general service. It is to the 

 perpetual maintenance of such a group of 

 men and women, with adequate facilities and 

 suitable conditions for their successful work, 

 for the general welfare, that the gifts of Mr. 

 Rockefeller to the institute are devoted. 



The scientific staff consists of members, 

 associate members, associates and assistants. 

 The members are: 



Simon Flexner, pathology and bacteriology; di- 

 rector of the Laboratories. 



Rufus Cole, medicine; director of the Hospital; 

 physician to the Hospital. 



Theobald Smith, director of the department of ani- 

 mal pathology. 



Alexis Carrel, experimental surgery. 



P. A. Levene, chemistry. 



Jacques Loeb, experimental biology. 



S. J. Meltzer, physiology and pharmacology. 



Hideyo Noguchi, pathology and bacteriology. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Charles Henry Hitchcock, for forty years 

 professor of geology at Dartmouth College, 

 died on November 6, at Honolulu, aged 

 eighty-three years. 



Mr. Richard B. Moore, until recently 

 stationed at the Bureau of Mines' experiment 

 station at Golden, Colorado, has been ap- 

 pointed chief chemist of the bureau, to suc- 

 ceed Dr. C. L. Parsons. 



The degree of doctor of philosophy has 

 been conferred upon Dr. Bohumil Shimek, 

 professor of physiological botany in the State 

 University of Iowa, by the University of 

 Prague in appreciation of his scientific work. 

 Dr. Shimek lectured in Prague in 1914. 



ViLHjALMUR Stepansson has been awarded 

 the La Roquette Gold Medal of the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Paris, in recognition of 

 the discoveries made by the Canadian Arctic 

 Expedition under his command during the 

 years 1913-18. 



The Royal Institute of Venice has awarded 

 the Querini-Stampalia prize to Professor 

 G. D. Birkhoff, of Harvard University, for 

 his papers on " The restricted problem of 

 three bodies," and " Dynamical systems with 

 two degrees of freedom." 



Professors P. Boutroux and J. H. M. 

 Wedderburn returned from military service 

 to Princeton University at the opening of the 

 present academic year. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. Francis 

 Jeffrey Bell, who has just retired from the 

 ISTatural History Museum under the age-limit, 

 entered the service of the trustees in 1878, 

 when the zoological department was still at 

 Bloomsbury and Professor Owen the superin- 

 tendent. Mr. Bell is emeritus professor of 

 comparative anatomy in King's College, 

 London, and he served for many years as one 

 of the secretaries of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society, the Journal of which he also edited. 

 In 1898 he acted as general secretary of the 

 International Congress of Zoology. 



Proessor S. H. Vines proposes to retire 

 from the Sherardian professorship of botany 



