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a set of steel acoustic cylinders to be used in de- 

 termiuing the nature of sensory response under 

 conditions of normal psychometric situation. 



ANTHROPOLOGY 



Two hundred dollars to Professor A. L. Kroeber, 

 of the University of California, for bibliograph- 

 ical and clerical assistance in connection with an 

 ethnological investigation to determine the culture 

 areas of aboriginal South America. 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Miss Helen H. 

 Boberts, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, for a study of negro folk-anusic in Ja- 

 maica. 



PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor Carl 

 J. Wiggers, Western Eeserve University, in con- 

 tinued support of his investigation on the physiol- 

 ogy of the circulation. 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor 

 Frank A. Hartman, University of Buffalo, for aid 

 in the study of suprarenal insufaeieney, including 

 circulatory, respiratory, temperature, and fatigue 

 changes, as well as possible histological alterations 

 in the ductless glands. 



Two hundred dollars to Professor W. E. Garrey, 

 Tulane University, for the purchase of apparatus 

 for hydrogen ion determination. 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor F. P. 

 Knowlton, Syracuse University, in support of a 

 study of the blood flow and gaseous metabolism in 

 the thyroid gland. JoEL Stebbins, 



Secretary Committee on Grants 



Urbana, Illinois 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Willum Crocker, associate professor 

 of botany in the University of Chicago, has 

 been appointed director of the newly founded 

 Thompson Institute for Plant Eesearch at 

 Yonkers, New York. He will enter on his 

 work next autumn. The board of trustees of 

 the new foundation will consist of three 

 business men and three scientific men. Pro- 

 .fessor John M. Coulter, head of the depart- 

 ment of botany at the University of Chicago, 

 and Raymond F. Bacon, of the Mellon Insti- 

 tute of Pittsburgh, will be two of the scientific 

 men, and tliese two will select the third. 



The nomination made by ex-President 

 Wilson, not oonfirmed by the Senate before 



adjournment, of Eear-Admiral E. E. Stitt to 

 the position of Surgeon-General of the Navy, 

 succeeding Eear-Admiral Braisted, retired, 

 has been sent again to the Senate by Presi- 

 dent Harding. 



Honorary membership in the Chemists' 

 Club of New York City was conferred upon 

 four American and four foreign chemists at 

 the dinner commemorating the tenth anni- 

 versary of the opening of its present home at 

 52 East Forty-first Street. The foreign chem- 

 ists were Dr. Giacomo Giamician, professor 

 of general chemistry at the University of 

 Bologna, Italy; Dr. Henri Louis Le Chatelier, 

 professor at the College de France and at 

 L'Ecole des Mines; Dr. Ernest Solvay, of 

 Brussels, Belgium, founder of the ammonia- 

 soda process, and Sir Edward Thorpe, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry emeritus of the Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology, Soutli 

 Kensington, England. The Americans were 

 Dr. John Uri Lloyd, of Cincinnati, former 

 president of the American Pharmaceutical As- 

 sociation; Dr. William Henry Nichols, of 

 New York, former president of the American 

 Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical 

 Industi-y and the Eighth International Con- 

 gress of Applied Chemistry; Dr. Edgar Fahs 

 Smith, of Philadelphia, President of the 

 American Chemical Society and until recently 

 provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and Dr. Edward Weston of Newark, N. J. 

 Dr. Frank Wigglesworth Clark and Dr. H. 

 ■S. Washington have been elected foreign 

 members of the Geological Society of London. 



The following fifteen candidates have been 

 selected by the council of the Eoyal Society 

 to be recommended for election into the 

 society: Dr. W. E. Agar, Dr. F. W. Aston, 

 Professor W. L. Bragg, Dr. W. T. Caiman, 

 Dr. A. Church, Professor G. Dreyer, Pro- 

 fessor W. H. Eccles, Dr. J. C. G. Ledingham, 

 Mr. 0. S. Middlemiss, Professor K. J. P. 

 Orton, Dr. J. H. Parsons, Professor J. C. 

 Philip, Dr. A. A. Eobb, Sir E. Tennyson 

 D' Eyncourt, and Mr. G. Udny Yule. 

 ■ The council of the Chemical Society has 

 awarded the LongstafE medal to Professor J. F. 



