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succeed Dr. Frederick SkifF. Mr. Davies lias 

 been connected with the museum for twenty- 

 seven years, and, as assistant to Dr. Skiff, 

 superintended the moving of the museum ex- 

 hibits from the building in Jackson Park to 

 the new quarters in Grant Park. The mu- 

 seum will be opened to the public on May 3. 



President Harding has reappointed Colonel 

 E. Lester Jones to continue as head of the 

 Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey, and 

 the appointment has been confirmed by the 

 senate. 



Mr. Thomas Eobertson, of the patent law 

 firm of Eobertson & Johnson, Washington, 

 has been appointed commissioner of patents. 



Surgeon John D. Long, who for the last 

 two years has been supervisor of the U. S. 

 Public Health Service in San Francisco, has 

 been transferred to the office of Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral, in Washington. 



A DINNER of congratulation to Professor 

 Sherrington on his election to the presidency 

 of the Royal Society was given by the Pliysio- 

 logical Society on March 11, at the Cafe 

 Eoyal, London. Professor Sir E. Sharpey- 

 Schafer proposed the toast of the guest and 

 Professor Sherrington replied. 



In recognition of the knighthood conferred 

 upon him by the king. Sir Dawson Williams, 

 editor of the British Medical Journal, was en- 

 tertained by the council of the British Med- 

 cal Association at a complimentary luncheon 

 on Felbruary 16. 



Professor Douglas Johnson, of Columbia 

 University, has been awarded the Janssen 

 Medal by the Geographical Society of Paris, 

 for his recent work on " Shore processes and 

 slioreline development." This medal was 

 founded in 1896 by the astronomer, J. Janssen, 

 to encourage precision in the making of scien- 

 tific observations, and is awarded each year 

 " to the author or explorer who shall have made 

 the largest number of consistent scientific ob- 

 servations." 



Dr. Eeid Hunt, professor of pharmacology 

 in the Harvard Medical School, has been ap- 

 pointed by the Surgeon-General of the United 

 States Public Health Service, a member of 



the advisory board of the Hygienic Laboratory 

 to succeed the late Dr. W. T. Sedgwick. 



The thirty-seventh session of the American 

 Association of Anatomists was held at The 

 Wistar Institute of Anatomy anidi Biology, 

 Philadelphia, on March 24, 25 and 26. Dr. S. 

 Walter Eanson, Northwestern University, and 

 Dr. Robert J. Terry, Washington University, 

 were elected menibers of the executive commit- 

 tee. The editorial boards of the two anatom- 

 ical journals were reorganized. Dr. Charles 

 R. Stoekard, of Cornell University, was se- 

 lected as managing editor of The American 

 Journal of Anatomy, and Dr. John Lewis 

 Bremer, of Harvard University, was made 

 managing editor of The Anatomical Record. 



A CONFERENCE was held on March 25, of 

 physicians summoned by Brigadier-General 

 Charles E. Sawyer, President Harding's per- 

 sonal physician, to discuss with the president 

 proposed plans for reorganization. Those at- 

 tending the meeting were Surgeon-General 

 Cumming, U. S. P. H. S. ; Surgeon-General M. 

 W. Ireland, of the Army; Surgeon-General E. 

 R. Stitt, of the Navy; Dr. Charles H. Mayo, 

 Rochester, Minn.; Dr. Edward Martin, Penn- 

 sylvania eoanmissioner of health, and Dr. Wil- 

 liam F. Snow, New York, American' Social 

 Hygiene Association. General Sawyer said the 

 discussion was a preliminary one to action for 

 uniting government health units. An advis- 

 ory council was formed, consisting of the 

 Surgeon-Generals of the Army, Navy and 

 Public Health Service and Dr. Mayo. Two 

 other members will be added to the council, 

 one an educator and the other a woman 

 engaged in public welfare work. 



The Joint committee of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society and the Alpine Club have 

 now completed the appointments to the recon- 

 naissance of Mount Everest. The expedition 

 is constituted as follows : Chief of the expedi- 

 tion: Colonel Howard Bury; mountaineers: 

 Mr. Harold Raeburn (leader). Dr. A. M. 

 Kellas, Mr. G. L. Mallory, Mr. George Finch; 

 medical officer and naturalist: Mr. A. F. R. 

 Wollaston. The surveyor-general of India 

 telegraphs that, subject to the consent of the 



