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the best essay on, " The control of the foreign 

 relations of the United States: the relative 

 rights, duties and responsibilities of the Pres- 

 ident, the Senate and the House, and of the 

 judiciary, in theory and practise," and pres- 

 entation of John Scott Medals "For Useful 

 Inventions," by Owen Roberts, Esq., on be- 

 half of the Board of City Trusts of Phila- 

 delphia. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The IvTational Institute of Social Sciences 

 has awarded its gold medal to Mme. Curie. 



Mr. Herbert C. Hoover has been elected a 

 trustee of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington. 



Professor A. S. Eddington has been elected 

 president of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 in succession to Professor A. Eowler. 



Mr. C. Tate Regan has been appointed 

 keeper of zoology at the British Natural His- 

 tory Museum, South Kensington. 



Dr. Johan Hjort, director of the Nor- 

 wegian Fisheries, has received the degree of 

 doctor of science from the University of Cam- 

 bridge. 



We learn from Nature that the following 

 were elected feUows^of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh at the ordinary meeting on March 

 7: Dr. Nelson Annandale, Mr. W. Arthur, 

 Mr. B. B. Baker, Dr. Archibald Barr, Mr. J. 

 Bartholomew, Mr. A. Bruce, Mr. Andrew 

 Campbell, Dr. Rasik Lai Datta, Dr. John 

 Dougall, Dr. C. V. Drysdale, Mr. G. T. For- 

 rest, Dr. W. Gibson, Dr. J. W. H. Harrison, 

 Mr. J. A. G. Lamb, the Rev. A. E. Laurie, 

 Mr. Neil M'Arthur, Mr. D. B. M'Quistan, 

 Dr. T. M. MacRobert, Dr. J. M'Whan, Mr. 

 J. Mathieson, Sir G. H. PoUard, Professor 

 E. B. Ross, the Right Hon. J. P. Smith, 

 Professor N. K. Smith, and Dr. I. S. Stewart. 



At the Chicago meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 the council established a committee on con- 

 servation to cooperate with similar committees 

 of other organizations. This new committee 

 on conservation has now been appointed, its 



personnel being as follows: J. C. Merriam, 

 chairman, Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton, Washington, D. C. ; Isaiah Bowman, 

 American Geographical Society, New York 

 City; H. S. Graves, 1731 H Street, N.W., 

 Washington, D. C. ; Barrington Moore, 925 

 Park Avenue, New York City; V. E. Shel- 

 ford. University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



Dr. Haven Emerson, formerly commis- 

 sioner of health of New York City, has been 

 appointed medical adviser and assistant direc- 

 tor of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. 



Dr. p. G. Nutting, organizer and for the 

 past four years director of the scientific re- 

 search of the Westinghouse Electric Com.- 

 pany, will not be with that company after 

 May 1. Dr. Nutting was for ten years with 

 the Bureau of Standards, leaving in 1912 to 

 assist Dr. Mees in the organization and de- 

 velopment of the research work of the East- 

 man Kodak Company. 



Dr. L. a. Mikeska has resigned from the 

 Color Laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, to join the 

 stafE of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, New York City. 



Dr. Henry E. Crampton, of Barnard Col- 

 lege and the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has returned from a nine months' 

 trip to the tropics and the islands in the 

 Pacific. 



John W. Gilmore, professor of agronomy 

 at the University of California, has been ap- 

 pointed exchange professor from the United 

 States to the University of Chile for the 

 academic year 1921-1922. 



Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel, professor of 

 physiological chemistry, Yale University, 

 spoke before 500 members of the Chicago 

 Section of the American Chemical Society on 

 Friday, March 18. Preceding the talk, a din- 

 ner in honor of Dr. Mendel was served at the 

 Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago. 



On March 12, the Mayo Foundation, 

 Rochester, Minn., was addressed by Dr. James 

 Ewing, President George E. Vincent and Dr. 

 Charles Choyce. 



