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service at the Universities of Minnesota and 

 Chicago a rare capacity for sympathetic un- 

 derstanding of undergraduate life." 



President-elect AngeU is now in the south. 

 It is expected that he will later make regular 

 visits to confer with members of the faculty 

 and familiarize himself with the Yale situ- 

 ation. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the annual meeting of the trustees of the 

 American Museum of Natural BCstory changes 

 in the scientific stafE were announced as fol- 

 lows : Dr. J. A. Allen, former curator of mam- 

 mals, was made honorary curator of mammals ; 

 Dr. Henry E. Crampton, former curator of 

 invertebrate zoology, was made honorary cura- 

 tor, and Dr. Willard G. Van ISTame was made 

 assistant curator of lower invertebrates; Dr. 

 F. E. Lutz, former associate curator of inver- 

 tebrates, was made curator of entomology; 

 Dr. Eobert Cushman Mui-phy, former curator 

 of the department of natural science at the 

 Brooklyn Museum, was made associate curator 

 of marine birds; Mr. Carl E. Akeley was made 

 associate in mammalogy; Dr. J. Howard Mc- 

 Gregor, of Columbia University, was made 

 research associate in human anatomy; Mr. E. 

 "W. Gudger was made an associate in ichthyol- 

 ogy. A new department was formed, to be 

 known as the department of comparative anat- 

 omy, of which Dr. William E. Gregory and 

 Mr. S. H. Chubb, both previously of the mu- 

 seum's staff, were made curator and assistant 

 in osteology, respectively. 



, At the Charter Day Exercises of the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh on February 18, the hon- 

 orary degree of doctor of laws was conferred 

 upon Mr. William Boyce Thompson, the copper 

 industrialist of ISTew York, IST. Y. On the 

 same occasion the honorary degree of doctor 

 of science was conferred upon Mr. C. H. Mae- 

 Dowell, president of the Armour Fertilizer 

 Company and director of the chemicals divis- 

 ion of the War Industries Board during 1918. 

 These honors were given upon the recom- 

 mendation of the Mellon Institute of Indus- 

 trial Research. 



. Dr. a. F. Blakeslee, of the department of 

 genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, has been elected an associate member 

 of the Eoyal Botanical Society of Belgium. 



1 The American Genetic Association has 

 ■awarded the Frank N. Meyer medal on Dr. 

 iTrabut, a botanist who is a member of the fac- 

 ulty of the University of Algiers. 



Mr. Llewellyn Treacher has been selected 

 for the Foulerton award of the Geologists' 

 Association. 



. At the annual general meeting of the Fara- 

 ;day Society, London, the following officers 

 twere elected to serve for the coming year : 

 President, Professor A. W. Porter; Yice-presi- 

 dents, W. E. Cooper, Professor C. H. Desch, 

 Dr. J. A. Harker, Emil Hatschek, Professor 

 T. M. Lowry, Dr. E. H. Rayner and Dr. G. 

 ,Senter. 



Lawrence Wilkerson Wallace was elected 

 secretary of American Engineering Council 

 at the meeting of the executive board in Syra- 

 cuse, ]Sr. Y., on February 14, succeeding L. P. 

 Alford, of New York, who has been acting sec- 

 retary since the formation of the council on 

 November 19, 1920. 



At the meeting of the board of trustees of 

 the American Medical Association held on 

 i'ebruary 5, the following fellows were re- 

 elected for terms of six years to positions on 

 the editorial boards of the special journals 

 piiblished by the association as indicated: 

 Eichard C. Cabot, Boston, Archives of In- 

 ternal Medicine; Jolm Howland, Baltimore, 

 American Journal of Diseases of Children; 

 Samuel T. Orton, Iowa City, Iowa, Archives 

 of Neurology and Psychiatry ; Martin E. Eng- 

 man, St. Louis, Archives of Dermatology and 

 Syphilology. E. S. Judd, Rochester Minn., 

 was elected to the editorial board of the 

 Archives of Surgery, succeeding Dr. William 

 Mayo, who had resigned. 



At the " Utility Corn Show " held at Gales- 

 burg, 111., January 5 and 6, Mr. J. E. Holbert, 

 agronomist. Office of Cereal Investigations, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, was pre- 

 sented with a silver loving cup inscribed: 



