January 7, 1921] 



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Harvard University; M. Gamio, Director 

 Archeology and Anthropology, Mexico; Sir 

 Auckland Campbell Geddes, British Ambassa- 

 dor to the United States; Dr. Corado Gini, 

 Eome; Hon. Mr. Justice Frank E. Hodgins, 

 Supreme Court of Ontario; Dr. Frederic 

 Houssay, Paris; Dr. H. S. Jennings, Johns 

 Hopkins University; G. H. Knibbs, Mel- 

 bourne; Dr. Herman Lundborg, Upsala; Dr. 

 L. Manouvrier, Paris; M. L. March, Paris; 

 Dr. Jon Alfred Mojen, Christiana; Dr. T. H. 

 Morgan, Columbia University; Dr. R. Pearl, 

 Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Edmond Per- 

 rier, Paris; Dr. Ernesto Pestalozza. Eome; 

 Dr. V. Guiffrida-Euggieri, Italy; Professor 

 E. Vogt, University of Copenhagen ; and Pro- 

 fessor Wille, University of Christiania. 



The Finance Committee has been selected 

 consisting of Messrs. Madison Grant, John T. 

 Pratt, Austin B. Fletcher, and Dr. John H. 

 Kellogg. Of the Exhibits Committee Dr. 

 H. H. Laughlin is chairman; of the Publicity 

 Committee, Dr. Lothrop Stoddard; and of 

 the Executive Committee, Dr. C. C. Little. 

 A general committee of ninety-five members 

 has been appointed. There are to be two 

 classes of members, sustaining members pay- 

 ing one hundred dollars and active members 

 paying five dollars. Further information and 

 a copy of the preliminary annoimcement can 

 be obtained from Dr. C. 0. Little, Secretary- 

 General, American Museimi of ISTatural His- 

 tory, Nevsf York City. 



THE AMERICAN ENGINEERING COUNCIL 



The Engineering Council, formed in 1917 

 as an emergency body to place at the disposal 

 of the government in war the organized engi- 

 neering talent of the nation, has been form- 

 ally merged into the American Engineering 

 Council of the Federated American Engineer- 

 ing Societies. 



Mr. Herbert Hoover, who becomes president 

 of the amalgamated organizations, and the 

 four vice-presidents, Calvert Townley, of ITew 

 York; William E. Eolfe, of St. Louis, Dean 

 Dexter S. Kimball, of Cornell, and J. Parke 

 Channing, of ISTew York, have issued a state- 

 ment in which it is said that the new council 



will immediately enter upon a campaign of 

 public service, involving cooperation with 

 chambers of commerce, labor organizations 

 and other bodies in an effort to solve pressing 

 social, industrial and political problems. 



The appointment of several committees to 

 handle national problems is announced. One 

 on military affairs is headed by Colonel Wil- 

 liam Barclay Parsons, chairman of the trustees 

 of Columbia University. D. L. Hough, of 

 New York City, has been named to head a 

 Bussian- A merican committee, which, it was 

 explained, is in no sense political, but will 

 aim to bring the engineers of the United 

 States and Eussia closer together. A patents 

 committee, which will work for an increase 

 in both the pay and personnel of the United 

 States Patent Office, has been appointed, with 

 E. J. Prindle, of New York as chairman. 

 Other committees chosen thus far are: Classi- 

 fication and Compensation of Engineers, 

 Arthur S. Tuttle, of New York, chairman; 

 National Board of Jurisdictional Awards in 

 the Building Industry, Eudolph P. Miller, of 

 New York, chairman; Cooperation with 

 American Institute of Architects, S. H. 

 Senehon, of Minneapolis, chairman; Payment 

 for Estimating, Ealph Modjeska, of Chicago, 

 chairman; Types of Government Contract, 

 Arthur P. Davis, of New York, chairman. 

 These committees, with others to be appointed, 

 will start at once to carry out a constructive 

 program of national progress. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



In 1816, John Scott, a chemist of Edin- 

 burgh, bequeathed the sum of $4,000 to the 

 City of Philadelphia, the interest upon which 

 was to " be laid out in premiums to be dis- 

 tributed among ingenious men and women 

 who make useful inventions." The Board of 

 Directors of City Trusts of Philadelphia, has 

 awarded $800 together with a bronze medal 

 to Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, of the Eockefeller 

 Institute, for Medical Eesearch in New York, 

 " in recognition of his eminent work in the 

 discovery of disease-producing organisms and 

 the means of combating their action." A 

 similar award has been made to Dr. Edward 



