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November 6, for the discussion of observa- 

 tions made during the total solar eclipse of 

 May 29 last. Sir Frank Dyson, the astron- 

 omer royal, opened the discussion, and was 

 followed by Professor Eddington and other 

 members of the eclipse expedition. Cable- 

 grams to the daily papers report that the 

 photographic plates show the deflection of the 

 rays of light from the stars by the sun's 

 gravitation that the Einstein theory of rela- 

 tivity requires. A similar attempt was made 

 by the Crocker Expedition of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory in 1918, and the problem is de- 

 scribed by Dr. W. W. Campbell, the director 

 of the observatory, in Science for July 12, 

 1918. An article on relativity in physics by 

 Professor Reinhard A. Wetzel, of the College 

 of the City of New York, is printed in Science 

 for October 3, 1913, and one by Professor 

 William Marshall, of Purdue University, in 

 The Popular Science Monthly for May, 1914. 

 The article on the ether drift by Professor A. 

 A. Michelson and Professor Edward W. 

 Morley, which gave rise to the discussion, 

 was printed in The American Journal of 

 Science in 1887. Albert Einstein, then an 

 employee in the patent office at Bern, first 

 published his theory of relativity in the 

 Annalen der Physik in 1905. Dr. Einstein 

 later became professor in the Zurich Poly- 

 technic School and was called to Berlin 

 several years ago. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Nobel prize for physics for 1918 has 

 been awarded to Professor Max Planck, of 

 Berlin, and for 1919 to Professor Stark, of 

 Greifswald. The prize for chemistry for 1918 

 has been awarded to Professor Fritz Haber, 

 of Berlin. 



The National Academy of Sciences has 

 voted to confer its Public Welfare medal on 

 Mr. Herbert Hoover. 



Surgeon-General William C. Braisted, of 

 the TJ. S. Navy Medical Corps, has been elected 

 an honorary fellow of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons of Edinburgh. 



Dr. M. C. Tanquary, associate professor of 

 entomology at the Kansas State Agricultural 



College, has resigned to accept the position of 

 state entomologist of Texas, and chief of the 

 division of entomology of the Texas Agricul- 

 tural College. His resignation takes effect on 

 February 1. 



G. B. Richardson has been placed in direct 

 charge of the oil and gas section of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



Dr. G. Dallas Hanna, who for eight years 

 has been an assistant in the United States Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries, has been appointed curator 

 of invertebrate paleontology in the California 

 Academy of Sciences. Dr. Hanna has for 

 seven seasons been engaged in scientific work 

 on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, having taken 

 the census of the fur seal herd for five consecu- 

 tive years. He brings to the museum of the 

 academy his collection of mollusks which num- 

 bers about 100,000 specimens. 



Sir Henry Alexander Miers, F.R.S., vice- 

 chancellor of the University of Manchester, 

 has been appointed a member of the advisory 

 council to the committee of the privy council 

 for scientific and industrial research. 



At the annual meeting of the Royal College 

 of Physicians of Ireland, held on October 18, 

 Dr. James Craig, professor of practise of medi- 

 cine in Trinity College, Dublin, was elected 

 president. 



V. K. Ting, director of the Geological 

 Survey of China, is travelling in the United 

 States. 



Professor Lynds Jones, of the department 

 of zoology, of Oberlin College, conducted a 

 party of students of ecology on a trip to the 

 Pacific coast during the summer. The entire 

 journey was made in automobiles — four Ford 

 cars, a Franklin sedan, and a trailer. The 

 route followed the Trans-continental, the 

 Union Pacific and Northeastern to Omaha, 

 thence to Yellowstone Park, spending several 

 days in the park, up the Columbia River 

 through eastern Oregon to Portland, then to 

 Moelips, Washington, where camp was made 

 and the party explored the coast and the 

 neighboring islands. Except for occasional 

 hospitality of friends along the way, every 

 night was spent out of doors, and meals were 



