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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. L. Nq. 1304 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The annual meeting of the Ifew York 

 Academy of Sciences was held on Monday 

 evening, December 15, at whicli the following 

 officers were elected. President, Dr. Edward 

 L. Thomdike; Vice-presidents, Dr. 0. L. 

 Bristol, Dr. Isaiah Bowman, Dr. W. J. Giles, 

 Dr. E. S. Woodworth; Recording Secretary, 

 Dr. E. W. Tower; Corresponding Secretary, 

 Dr. Henry E. Crampton, Treasurer, Mr. John 

 Tatlock. The retiring President Dr. Ernest 

 E. Smith delivered an address on " Applied 

 Science and the "War," after which two inter- 

 esting and illustrated talks were given by 

 Professor Douglas W. Johnson on "A Geog- 

 rapher at the Front and at the Peace Confer- 

 ence " and Professor Henry E. Crampton on 

 " Tahiti and the South Seas." 



The president of Northwestern University 

 at Evanston, HI., and the board of control of 

 the Michigan College of Mines at Houghton, 

 Mich., have each received from the chief of 

 the Bureau of Ordnance of the U. S. Navy a 

 formal letter of appreciation thanking them 

 for permitting the time and experience of Dr. 

 John F. Hayford, director of the College of 

 Engineering at the former institution, and of 

 Dr. F. "W. MclSTair, president of the College 

 of Mines, to be devoted to the service of the 

 government and in particular to problems of 

 naval gunnery. They were on the staff of the 

 H. S. Bureau of Standards during the war 

 and with Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, chief of the 

 wind tunnel at that bureau worked on prob- 

 lems concerning the large guns of the navy. 

 For purposes of test and demonstration they 

 accompanied the Pacific Fleet on its recent 

 voyage from Hampton Roads to the Cali- 

 fornia coast, attached to the U. S. S. Miss- 

 issippi. The letter of the chief of the Bureau 

 of Ordnance states that the work of these 

 scientific men has resulted in a considerable 

 advance in the gunnery of the IJ. S. Navy. 



The gold medal of the Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Wild Life has been presented to 

 Dr. John M. Clarke, New York state geologist 

 and director of the State Museum at Albany. 



At its meeting held December 10, 1919, 

 the Eumford Committee of the American 



Academy of Arts and Sciences appropriated 

 the sum of three hundred dollars to Dr. 

 Frederick G. Keyes, of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology, in aid of his research 

 on the heats of neutralization at different 

 temperatures. 



Sir Donald MacAlister, president of the 

 British General Medical Council, has been in- 

 vested by President Poincare with the Cross 

 of Commander of the Legion of Honour. 



The University of Leeds has conferred the 

 following honorary degrees: D.Sc. : Admiral 

 Sir Henry Jackson, First Sea Lord, 1915- 

 1916; Surgeon- General Sir Alfred Keogh; 

 Sir Almroth Wright; Professor W H.. Bragg, 

 and Mr. J. G. Baker. 



Dr. J. E. Stead has been nominated by the 

 council of the British Iron and Steel Institute 

 as president for next year in succession to Mr. 

 Eugene Schneider. 



W. F. EuDD, of the department of chemistry 

 at the Medical College of Virginia, has been 

 elected president of the American Conference 

 of Pharmaceutical Faculties. 



Mr. H. a. Nelson, formerly of the Bureau 

 of Standards, is now with the New Jersey 

 Zinc Company. 



Dr. N. F. Drake, head of the departments 

 of geology and mining engineering at the 

 University of Arkansas, will sail on December 

 25 from Vancouver for China, where he will 

 do research work until April of 1920. 



Professor W. A. Noyes, of the University 

 of Hlinois, delivered an address on a " Career 

 in Research " at the fiftieth meeting of the 

 Medical Eesearch Club of the Universtiy of 

 Illinois held on December 9." 



Dr. G. F. Loughlin, of the Geological Sur- 

 vey, is giving a course lecture on metal- 

 liferous geology at the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, temporarily filling the 

 place of Professor Waldemar 



The Thomas Vicary Lecture of the Eoyal 

 College of Surgeons of England was delivered 

 by Sir John Tweedy on December 3, on " The 

 surgical tradition.'' The Bradshaw Lecture 

 before the same College was delivered by Sir 



