February 11, 1921] 



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Smith Hartley, senior physician at the Hos- 

 pital for Consumption and Diseases of the 

 Chest, Brompton. 



The pupils and friends of Professor E. 

 Morselli recently celebrated the fortieth anni- 

 versary of his incumbency of the chair of 

 psychiatry at the University of Genoa. The 

 celebration occurred during the Italian Con- 

 gress of Neurologists and Alienists, held at 

 Genoa in his honor. A copy of Raphael's 

 Madonna of the Candelabra, in a sixteenth 

 centiu-y frame, was presented to him by public 

 subscription. 



The Geological Society, London, has made 

 the following awards: Wollaston medal, Dr. 

 John Home and Dr. B. N. Peach; Murch- 

 ison medal, Mr. E. S. Cobbold; Lyell medal, 

 Dr. E. de Margerie, director of the Geological 

 Survey of Alsace-Lorraine; Bigsby medal. Dr. 

 L. L. Fermor, Geological Survey of India; 

 Wollaston fund. Dr. T. 0. Bosworth; Muroh- 

 ison fund. Dr. Albert Gilligan; and Lyell 

 fund, Professor H. L. Hawkins, Reading Uni- 

 versity College, and Mr. C. E. N. Bromehead, 

 H.M. Geological Survey. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine has elected 

 the following officers for the year 1921 : Presi- 

 dent, Dr. Richelot; Vice-president (president 

 for 1922), Professor Bourquelot, and Annual 

 Secretary, Professor Achard. 



Herbert E. Gregory, professor of geology 

 at Yale University and director of the Bishop 

 Museum in Honolulu, has returned to the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



Dr. Oskar Klotz, professor of pathology 

 and bacteriology at the University of Pitts- 

 burgh, will sail on February 9 for Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil, to assume for a two-year period the 

 directorship of the pathological laboratories at 

 the University of Sao Paulo, under the 

 auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Professor Charles J. Tilden has been 

 granted a leave of absence from Yale Univer- 

 sity, where he was called to reorganize the 

 engineering courses a year ago, to become di- 

 rector of the Highway Education Committee 

 appointed by the federal commissioner of edu- 

 cation. 



Dr. L. a. Mjkeska has accepted a position 

 on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute, New 

 York City, having left the Color Laboratory 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry in Washington, 

 D. C, where he was working on photosensi- 

 tizing dyes. 



Deaist a. Pack, Ph.D. (Chicago), has been 

 appointed plant breeder in the Office of Sugar- 

 Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. 

 Pack has charge of the sugar beet seed breed- 

 ing work for the department in the Inter- 

 mountain States, with headquarters at Salt 

 Lake City, Utah. 



Dr. J. C. Witt, assistant professor of 

 analytical chemistry in the University of 

 Pittsburgh, has resigned to become chief re- 

 search chemist for the Portland Cement Asso- 

 ciation with headquarters in Chicago. Dr. 

 Witt has been succeeded in his former posi- 

 tion by Dr. C. J. Engelder, of Homell, N. Y. 



Mr. Thomas M. Rector, formerly in charge 

 of the division of food technology of the In- 

 stitute of Industrial Research, Washington, 

 D. C, has been appointed director of the de- 

 partment of industrial chemistry of the Pease 

 Laboratories, Inc., New York City. 



Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, formerly provost of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, made an ad- 

 dress on February 11, on " Research," before 

 the New York Section of the American Elec- 

 trochemical Society in joint session with the 

 American Chemical Society, the American 

 Section Society of Chemical Industry and the 

 American Section of Soeiete de Chime Indus- 

 trielle. 



Dr. J. S. Plaskeet, director of the Domin- 

 ion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B. C, 

 delivered two addresses at the University of 

 Washington on January 19 and 20, the one on 

 " Modern ideas of the universe," and the other 

 on " The chemistry of the stars." These lec- 

 tures were held under the auspices of the Uni- 

 versity of Washington Chapter of Sigma Xi, 

 the Puget Sound Section of the American 

 Chemical Society and the Puget Sound Sec- 

 tion of the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers. 



