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toric Studies, held at the Hotel Plaza, New 

 York, on February 3, 1921, Professor George 

 Grant MacCurdy was elected first director of 

 the found'ation. Dr. Charles Pea'body is chair- 

 man of the board and for the present will also 

 serve as 'treasurer of the foundation. 



The year's work will open at La Quina 

 (Charente) on July 1. After a stay of some 

 three months at La Quina, there will be ex- 

 cursions in the Dordogne, the French Pyrenes 

 and to the Grimaldi caves near Mentone. The 

 winter term will be in Paris; and the work of 

 the spring term will include excursions to the 

 important Chellean and Acheulian stations of 

 the Somme valley, to Neolithic sites of the 

 Marne or other suitable locality, and to Brit- 

 tany for a study of megalithic monuments. 



Students may enroll for an entire year or 

 for any part thereof. Those who contemplate 

 entering for either the year or the first term, 

 should communicate immediately with the di- 

 rector, at Tale University Museum, New 

 Haven, Conn.; or with Dr. C. Peabody, Pea- 

 body Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 



One foundation scholarship of the value of 

 2,000 francs is availa^ble for the first year. The 

 special qualifications of the applicant, to- 

 gether with references, should accompany each 

 application. The foundation is open to both 

 men and women students. The address of the 

 director after June 15 will be care of Guar- 

 anty Trust Company, Paris. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Frank Billings, Chicago, has been 

 elected president of the next congress of 

 American Physicians and Surgeons, which 

 meets in "Washington, May 2-3, 1922. 



At the recent meeting of the Mathematical 

 Association of America the following officers 

 were elected: President, Professor G. A. 

 Miller ; Vice-presidents, Professor E. C. Archi- 

 bald and Professor E. D. Carmichael. 



Dr. George Ellery Hale, director of the 

 Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, has been 

 awarded the Actonian prize by the Eoyal In- 

 stitution of Great Britain in recognition of 

 his work on solar phenomena. 



Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn has 

 been elected one of the vice-presidents of the 

 Eugenics Education Society, of which Major 

 Leonard Darwin is the president. The Ameri- 

 can committee of the Second International 

 Eugenics Congress extended a special invita- 

 tion to Major Darwin to attend the congress, 

 but learned by his letter of Deceniber 1, 1920, 

 that his health will not permit him to oome. 

 Jnvitations have been 'extended ,to several 

 British, French and Scandinavian authors and 

 writers in sulbjeets of genetics and eugenics. 



Dr. Graham Lusk has been elected corre- 

 sponding member of the Societe de Biologic 

 of Paris. 



Mme. Marie Curie has been invited to visit 

 the United States and expects to come in May. 

 Committees of reception have been appointed, 

 including in their membership leading men of 

 science. It is planned to present to Mme. 

 Curie a gram of radium. 



Dr. Henry Norris Eussell, professor of 

 astronomy and director of the observatory at 

 Princeton University, has been appointed a 

 research associate of the Moimt Wilson Ob- 

 servatory of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington for the current year. Dr. Eussell has 

 gone to England to receive the gold medal of 

 the Eoyal Astronomical Society which was 

 recently awarded him in recognition of his 

 work on the evolutionary classification of 

 stars. He expects to return in March to 

 undertake his work at the Mount Wilson 

 Observatory. 



Harlow Shapley, of the Mount Wilson 

 Solar Observatory, has been appointed ob- 

 server at the Harvard College Observatory, 

 and will enter upon his new work in March 

 or April. 



Dr. Henry H. Eobinson, of New Haven, 

 has been appointed superintendent of the 

 Connecticut Geological and Natural History 

 Survey to succeed Professor H. E. Gregory. 

 His address is Hopkins Hall, Yale University, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



The trustees of Bernice Pauahi Bishop 

 Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural 

 History at Honolulu, Hawaii, have appointed 



