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now is hoped to eliminate waste througli scien- 

 tific researcli. 



Under the terms of the agreement Leland 

 Stanford will appmnt three scientific men, with 

 authority to determine policies and problems 

 to be studied. There also will be an advisory 

 committee of men of national prominence, rep- 

 resenting ag'riculturi&ts, consumers, business 

 men and other groups. The university will ap- 

 point seven members of this body to serve with 

 the president of the university and the presi- 

 dent of Carnegie Corporation, ex officio, for a 

 term of three years. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Bruce gold medal of the Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific has been awarded for the 

 year 1921 to M. Henri Alexandre Deslandres, 

 director oi the Astrophysical Observatory of 

 Meudon, France, for his " distinguished serv- 

 ices to asttronomy." 



Professor Jules Bordet, to whom the IsTobel 

 prize in medicine was recently awarded, has 

 been elected a member of the senate of Belgium 

 from the Hainaut district. 



We learn, from Nature that at a meeting of 

 the award committee, consisting of the presi- 

 dents of the principal British engineering in- 

 stitutions, the first triennial award of the Kel- 

 vin gold medal was made to Dr. W. 0. TJnwin, 

 w!ho was, in the opinion of the committee, the 

 most worthy to receive this recognition of pre- 

 eminence in the branches of engineering with 

 which Lord Kelvin's scientific work and re- 

 searches were closely identified. The Kelvin 

 gold medal was established in 1914 as part of a 

 memorial to the lata Lord Kelvin and in asso- 

 ciation with the windiow placed in Westminster 

 Abbey in his memory by British and Ameri- 

 can engineers. 



George C. Whipple, professor of sanitary 

 engineering in the Harvard Engineering 

 Sdhool, has been elected a fellow in the Eoyal 

 Institute of Public Health. 



The Medical Society of the City and County 

 of Denver has appointed a committee to plan 

 a meeting in appreciation of Dr. Hubert Work, 



Pueblo, the president-elect of the American 

 Medical Association. 



Dr. J. M. Aldrioh, of the F. S. National 

 Museum, was elected president of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of America at the Chicago 

 meeting. 



Professor George A. Dean, of the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College, was elected presi- 

 dent of the American Association of Economic 

 Entomologists at its recent annual meeting in 

 Chicago. 



Dr. W. E. G. Atkins, of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, has been appointed head of the depart- 

 ment of general physiology at the Plymouth 

 Laboratory of the Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion. 



We learn from the Journal of the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences that Mr. W. P. 

 Wallis, of the department of terrestrial mag- 

 netism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 left Washington on January 9 for Huancayo, 

 Peru, where he will succeed Dr. Harry M. W. 

 Edmonds as magnetician-in-charge of the 

 Huancayo Magnetic Observatory upon the 

 conclusion of the latter's two-year assignment. 

 Dr. Edmonds will return about April via San 

 Francisco for duty at Washington. 



Dr. H. L. Shantz has been appointed plant 

 physiologist in charge of plant physiological 

 and fermentation investigations in the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. Dr. Shantz returned in 

 September from a year's trip through Africa 

 for the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant In- 

 troduction. 



Mr. a. D. Wilson, who has been director 

 of agricultural work for the University of 

 Minnesota for the past twelve years and super- 

 intendent of Farmers' Institutes for the State 

 of Minnesota for the past fourteen years, has 

 resigned these positions to take up farming 

 in northern Minnesota, the resignation being 

 effective on June 30. 



Mr. W. H. Kenety, who has been assistant 

 professor of forestry in the University of 

 Minnesota and superintendent of the Forest 

 Experiment Station at Cloquet for the past 

 eight years, has resigned to take a position 



