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; These fellowships are to 'be located at vari- 

 ous agricultural colleges in the eastern part 

 of the United States for the purpose of investi- 

 gating the use of gypsum in crop production 

 and for making a fundamental study of the 

 relation of sulphur to crop nutrition and 

 growth. 



The revival of interest ini gypsum and other 

 sulphur fertilizers has largely grown out of the 

 remarbable results that agricultural scientists 

 and farmers of Oregon and Washington are 

 .obtaining from the use of srulphur sources on 

 alfalfa and clover, and other legumes. In 

 many of the soils of these states a leguminous 

 crop can not be successfully grown without an 

 addition of a sulphur source, and such addi- 

 tions give increases in yield ranging from 25 

 to 500 per cent. 



Two of these are to be used in continuing 

 the fellowships that have already been in opera- 

 tion for considerably more than a year at the 

 University of Chicago and at Iowa State 

 Collie. The others will be strategically dis- 

 tributed at state agricultural colleges and ex- 

 periment stations in centfal and eastern 

 United States. 



THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND DR. JORDAN 



, On the occasion of the seventieth birthday 

 of David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of 

 Stanford University, which occurred on Jan- 

 uary 19, the following letter was addressed to 

 him by Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution: 



On the occasion of your seventieth birthday, 

 permit me, on behalf of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and the National Museum, to offer my con- 

 gratulations as well as thanks for your faithful 

 cooperation during half a century. 



For fully fifty years you have labored for the 

 high ideals expressed by the founder of this in- 

 stitution in the words ' ' increase and diffusion of 

 knowledge among men," and for nearly the same 

 period your work has been in close association 

 with the institution and its staff. 



Your work has also been intimately connected 

 with the National Museum since its organization 

 as such, and your scientific papers, are among the 

 most valued contributions to the museum's publi- 

 cations from its very first volume to the latest. 



Your early associations were with Baird, GiU, 

 Brown, Goode and Tarleton Bean, and your name 

 will go down in the museum's history linked with 

 theirs. No wonder we have always regarded you 

 as one of us, and we know that this sentiment is 

 being reciprocated by you. 



As a slight token of my appreciation of your 

 services to science and to the museum, may I not 

 ask you to accept the designation as honorary 

 associate in zoology? 



I trust that you may be spared for many more 

 years to continue your work. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



William Thompson Sedgwick, professor of 

 biology in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology since 1883, died on January 25, aged 

 sixty-five years. 



At a meeting of the Societe beige de Mede- 

 cine of Brussels, Belgium, held on December 

 27, 1920, Dr. William H. Welch, director of the 

 school of hygiene and public health of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, and Dr. Simon Flexner, 

 the director of the Eockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, were made honorary mem- 

 bers of that organization. 



The dinner and reception given by the med- 

 ical profession of Philadelphia to Dr. William 

 W. Keen, at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, on 

 January 20, in honor of his eighty-fourth 

 birthday, was attended by 600 physicians and 

 friends. Dr. George de Schweinitz was the 

 toastmaster, and the speakers included Dr. 

 William H. Welch, Baltimore; Dr. J. Chalmers 

 DaCosta, Philadelphia, and Mr. David Jayne 

 Hill. Major-General Merritte W. Ireland, sur- 

 geon-general, U. S. Army, presented a specially 

 bound volume containing addresses and letters 

 as a tribute to Dr. Keen, and Dr. William J. 

 Taylor, of the College of Physicians, presenlted 

 a life size bust of Dr. Keen in army uniform, 

 by Samuel Murray. Dr. Keen in responding 

 made an address that will be printed in 

 Science. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, dean 

 emeritus of the college of physicians and sur- 

 geons, Columbia University, was presented to 

 the college on January 28. The presentation 



