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SCIENCE 



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Calvin Kendall, of Eochester, Minn., "For 

 biochemical work of high order leading to 

 the preparation of the compound 'thyroxin' 

 and the determination of its chemical struc- 

 ture and giving results which contribute to 

 the comfort and welfare of mankind." 



Professor Stephen A. Porbes, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois has been elected president of 

 the Ecological Society of America. 



At the recent Chicago meeting of the 

 American Psychological Association, Professor 

 Margaret Ploy Washburn was elected to the 

 presidency. 



Dr. William Bldm, of the Bureau of 

 Standards has been elected president of the 

 Washington Section of the American Chem- 

 'ical Society. 



Dr. F. M. Perkin has received the honor 

 of the order of commander of the British Em- 

 pire. Dr. Perkin is one of the leading au- 

 thorities upon the scientific treatment and 

 utilization of coal and the production of oil 

 from it. 



The Italian Society of Sciences has 

 awarded its gold medal for 1920 to Professor 

 A. Signorini, of the University of Palermo, 

 for his papers published during the last year. 



Dr. C. O. Johns, chief of the color and pro- 

 tein laboratories of the Bureau of Chemistry 

 of the Department of Agricultm-e, has re- 

 signed to accept the offer made him by the 

 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, to be 

 director of the research laboratory of the com- 

 pany. 



Mr. H. D. Foster has been appointed re- 

 search associate at the Bureau of Standards 

 by the Hollow Building Tile Association. 



Assistant Surgeon-General J. H. White, 

 U. S. P. H. S., after the close of the sixth 

 Sanitary Conference of the American Repub- 

 lics, to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, will 

 proceed to Valparaiso, Chile, and other jKiints 

 on the West Coast of South America, via 

 Panama, for the purpose of investigating 

 sanitary conditions at the various ports. 



Commander Cope, leader of the British Ant- 

 arctic Expiedition, is detained in Montevideo 



through the non-arrival of his dogs. He is 

 also encountering difficulty in obtaining films 

 owing to their imexpected cost. He proposes 

 to give lectures at Montevideo and at Buenos 

 Aires, thus obtaining assistance from the 

 British communities. He will probably pro- 

 ceed south early in December in the whaler 

 Solstreif, without waiting for the dogs, al- 

 though their absence makes sledging more 

 difficult. 



Professor J. W. E. Glattfeld, of the de- 

 partment of chemistry of the University of 

 Chicago, will spend his winter quarter vaca- 

 tion at the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution at Tucson, Arizona. 



Dr. Julius Stieglitz, of the University of 

 Chicago, has delivered three lectures on the 

 Mayo Foundation at Rochester, Minnesota. 

 The first was on " Chemistry and Medicine," 

 and the other two were on " The Electrical 

 Theory of Oxidation." 



A LECTURE was delivered at the School of 

 Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hop- 

 kins University, December 13, by Dr. Charles 

 Warden Stiles, U. S. P. H. S., on "Some 

 Practical Aspects of the Subject of Soil Pol- 

 lution." 



Dr. Alfred F. Hess, of the N"ew York Uni- 

 versity and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 

 lege, will deliver the fifth Harvey Society 

 Lecture at the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine on Saturday evening January 15. His 

 subject will be " Newer Aspects of Some 

 Nutritional Disorders." 



Dr. Yves Delage, professor of zoology in 

 University of Paris, distinguished for his 

 work on protoplasm, heredity and general 

 biology, has died at the age of sixty-six years. 



Professor G. M. Debove died on November 

 19, at almost seventy years of age. He is 

 known for his work on diseases of the stomach 

 and for the past seven years has been perma- 

 nent secretary of the Paris Academy of Medi- 

 cine. 



At the annual meeting of the Society of 

 American Foresters held in New York City 



