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was made by Dr. George S. Huntington, pro- 

 fessor of anatomy. 



The John Fritz gold medal for notable sci- 

 entific and industrial achievement has been 

 awarded to Sir Eobert Hadfield, inventor of 

 manganese steel and leader of the British 

 steel industry. The award of the medal has 

 been authorized unanimously by the sixteen 

 members of the committee representing the 

 national organizations of civil, mechanical, 

 mining, metallurgical and electrical engineers. 

 The medal was established in 1902 in honor of 

 John Fritz, iron-master of Bethlehem, Pa. 



The Honor Society of Agricidture, Gamma 

 Sigma Delta, with chapters in the University 

 of Minnesota, University of Nebraska, Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, Iowa State College, 

 Oregon Agricultural College, Kansas State 

 College, State College of Utah and Alabama 

 Polytechnic Institute conferred honorary mem- 

 bership for distinguished services to agricul- 

 ture on Dr. Eugene Davenport, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois; Dr. T. B. Osborn, of Yale 

 University; Dr. H. P. Parmsby, of State Col- 

 lege, Pennsylvania, and Dr. L. H. Bailey, of 

 Ithaca, IST. Y. The medal was conferred upon 

 Dr Davenport. 



The twenty- fifth anniversary of the publi- 

 cation of the discovery of the roentgen ray 

 by Professor Roentgen has been celebrated 

 with tributes to Eoentg-en in Germany. He 

 retired last spring from the chair of experi- 

 mental physics at the University of Munich. 



Dr. E. 0. Teale has been appointed govern- 

 ment geologist of Tanganyika Colony, for- 

 merly German East Africa. 



Professor E. B. Mathews, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, has been appointed chair- 

 man of the advisory council of the United 

 States Board of Surveys and Maps. 



The $5,000 prize offered by Mr. Higgins 

 through the Scientific American for the best 

 popular essay on the Einstein theories was 

 awarded to the essay submitted by Mr. L. 

 Bolton, of London. It appears in the Scien- 

 tific American for February 5, and will be 

 followed in subsequent issues by a number of 



the other essays, some in full and others in 

 part. 



Officers of the American Anthropological 

 Association have been elected as follows: W. 

 C. Farabee, of the University of Pennsyi- 

 vania, president; A. V. Kidder, of Phillips 

 Andover Academy, secretary; J. R. Swanton, 

 of the Bureau of Ethnology, treasurer and 

 editor. 



The Missouri Society for Mental Hygiene 

 was organized in St. Louis on January 13, 

 with the following officers: Dr. M. A. Bliss, 

 president; Dr. J. F. McFadden, secretary; Dr. 

 J. E. W. Wallin, treasurer. 



The American Journal of Psychology, es- 

 tablished by Dr. G. Stanley Hall in 1887, and 

 since edited by him, has been acquired by 

 members of the department of psychology of 

 Cornell University,- and will hereafter be 

 edited by Professor E. B. Titchener. 



The Rockefeller Foundation announces the 

 election of Miss Norma Foster Stoughton, to 

 become assistant secretary of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation, and Miss Margery K. Eggleston, 

 to become assistant secretary of the China 

 Medical Board, a department of the founda- 

 tion. Miss Stoughton entered the staff of the 

 Rockefeller Foundation in 1916 and has made 

 a special study of hospital administration and 

 service. Miss Eggleston has been since 1914 

 with the General Education Board, the China 

 Medical Board and the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion. In addition to her position with the 

 China Medical Board she has just been ap- 

 pointed assistant secretary of the trustees of 

 the Peking Union Medical College, an institu- 

 tion erected and maintained in Peking by 

 funds of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Dr. William W. CoRT, associate professor of 

 helminthology in the school of hygiene and 

 public health of Johns Hopkins University, 

 has been appointed director of the expedition 

 recently formed by the International Health 

 Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, New 

 York, to study the hookworm larvse in Trini- 

 dad, West Indies. The expedition will leave 

 for Trinidad about May 1 and will be gone 

 four months. Dr. Cort will be assisted by Dr. 



