April 15, 1921] 



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mann have been given the freedom of the 

 City of New York. 



ViLHjALMUE Stefansson, on motion of the 

 prime minister of Canada, has recently re- 

 ceived the thanks of the Canadian government 

 for his public services during the years 1906— 

 1919. The action was based partly on his 

 work in science and in geographic discovery, 

 and partly on his having called to the atten- 

 tion of the country great economic resources 

 in the north that had been previously unknown 

 or undervalued. " He has turned men's 

 minds towards the north country as a possible 

 source of food supply and home for colonists, 

 and his work and advice have proved the 

 greatest incentive in promoting public and 

 private development of our northern re- 

 sources." For his geographic work, Mr. 

 Stefansson had already received several gold 

 medals from learned societies in America and 

 Europe. 



The Boyle medal of the Royal Dublin 

 Society has been awarded to Dr. George H. 

 Pethybridge, botanist of the department of 

 agriculture, Dublin. 



Sir Willia-m J. Pope has been elected an 

 honorary member of the French Chemical 

 Society. 



Dr. H. K. Anderson, master of Gonville 

 and Caius College, Cambridge; Professor "W. 

 M. Bayliss, professor of general physiology. 

 University College, London; and Sir "William 

 H. Bragg, Quain professor of physics. Uni- 

 versity of London, have been elected members 

 of the Athenaeum Club, London, for etainenee 

 in science. 



Dr. Solon Shedd, professor of geology at 

 the State College of Washington, Pullman, 

 has been appointed state geologist. Dr. Shedd 

 will retain his position as professor of geology 

 at the State College. 



Mr. C. E. DeLong has been appointed chief 

 of the chemical division of the U. S. Tariff 

 Commission, succeeding Dr. Grinnell Jones, 

 who has returned to Harvard University, but 

 retains a connection with the commission in 

 an advisory capacity. The other members of 



the chemical staff are: S. D. Kirkpa trick, 

 W. N". Watson and A. B. Willis. 



The annual general meeting of the Chem- 

 ical Society was held on March 17, when, as 

 we learn from Nature, Sir David J. Dobbie, 

 the retiring president, delivered his address. 

 The following officers and members of council 

 were declared elected: President: Sir James 

 Walker. Vice-presidents who have filled the 

 office of president: Professor H. E. Arm- 

 strong, Sir James J. Dobbie, Professor W. H. 

 Perkin, Sir William J. Pope, Dr. Alexander 

 Scott and Sir WiUiam A. Tilden. Other 

 Vice-presidents: Professor F. G. Hopkins, 

 Professor F. S. Kipping and Professor J. F. 

 Thorpe. Ordinary Members of Council: Pro- 

 fessor J. S. S. Brame, Dr. C. H. Desch, Mr. 

 E. V. Evans, Mr. H. B. Hartley, Dr. T. S. 

 Patterson, Dr. T. Slater Price, Mr. W. 

 Eintoul, Dr. E. Eobinson and Dr. If. V. 

 Sidgwick. 



Dr. Walter E. Collince, of St. Andrews 

 University, has been appointed keeper of the 

 York Museima. 



Dr. Colin G. Fine, organizer and for the 

 past four years director of the Research Lab- 

 oratories of the Chile Exploration Company 

 has resigned his post. Formerly Dr. Fink was 

 in charge of research at the Edison Lamp 

 Works. 



Mr. W. M. Smart, Trinity College, chief 

 assistant at the Cambridge Observatory, has 

 been appointed to the John Couch Adams 

 astronomership, recently founded under a be- 

 quest by the late Mrs. Adams. 



Collier Cobb, professor of geology at the 

 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is 

 on a year's leave of absence under the Kenan 

 Traveling Fund. He is studying shore-lines 

 and shore-line processes in Japan. 



Professor Herbert Osborn, of the Ohio 

 State University, has recently returned from a 

 two months' stay in Florida, during which he 

 collected entomological material at different 

 points in the state witli cooperation of the 

 State Plant Board of Florida. 



Dr. Frank App, of Eutgers College, has been 

 given a year's leave of absence to become sec- 



