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time to the investigation of the ipreparation and 

 properties of germanium and its compounds. 



To Professor Frank L. Fairbanks, '10, $500 

 for the purpose of developing and completing a 

 traction dynamometer. 



To Professor Simon H. Gage, '77, and Pierre 

 A. Fish, '90, $250 for colored plates needed in 

 completing a work on the digestion and assimila- 

 tion of fat in the human and the animal body. 



To Professor A^adimir Earapetoff $200 or such 

 part as is needed for an assistant and materials in 

 carrying on investigations on mechanical aids in 

 the design of electrical machinery and lines. 



To Professors "William E. OrndorfC and Boswell 

 C. Gibbs, '06, $2,525 to pay for the services of an 

 assistant on half time during 1921-22 and on full 

 time during the summer and for appara.tus to be 

 used by him in connection with the investigation 

 of the absorption spectra of certain organic com- 

 pounds. 



To Professor Floyd K. Riehtmyer, '04, a sum 

 not to exceed $1,800 for an assistant for one year 

 to devote all his time to investigations of the laws 

 of the absorption of x-rays, and $1,000 for the 

 purchase of apparatus. 



To Professor Ernest W. Schoder, Ph.D., '03, a 

 sum sufficient to provide a substitute for him dur- 

 ing the first half of 1921-22 in order that he may 

 prepare for publication the results of investiga- 

 tions in hydraulics made by himself and the late 

 Professor Kenneth B. Turner, '03. 



To Professor Sutherland Simpson $100 to enable 

 him to oontiaue his investigations into the func- 

 tions of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. 



To Professor Albert H. Wright, '04, $500 for 

 investigations of the life history of North Ameri- 

 can frogs, toads and tree toads. 



To Professor Virgil Snyder, '90-92 Grad., a 

 sum not exceeding $1,200 to provide a substitute 

 for him during the second half of 1921-22 and 

 thus enable him to continue during that time his 

 studies of algebraic correspondences. 



To Professor Wallace Notestein $1,800 for an 

 assistant during the simimer and the year 1921-22 

 to help in his work of editing various historical 

 documents in connection with the study of the 

 Parliamentary history of England. 



To Harry S. Vaudiver $500 to support, during 

 the summer, investigations on the subject of alge- 

 braic numbers. 



These grants amount to about $20,725. 

 The council has postponed the consideration 

 of all requests for grants in aid of publication 



until it is possible to consider ia detail the 

 whole subject of the publication of results of 

 research and its relation to the purposes of 

 the Heekscher Foundation. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Philosophical Society has 

 elected members as follows : Herman V. Ames, 

 Philadelphia; George David BirkhofE, Cam- 

 bridge; John J. Carty, Short Hills, N. J.; 

 Frank M. Chapman, New York; Henry Crew, 

 Evanston, 111.; Benjamin M. Duggar, St. 

 Louis; John Marshall G-est, Philadelphia; 

 Charles Homer Haskins, Cambridge; Law- 

 rence J. Henderson, Cambridge; J. Bertram 

 Lippincott, Philadelphia; Hideyo Xoguchi, 

 S'ew York; Thomas B. Osborne, New Haven; 

 Charles J. Ehodes, Philadelphia; Yesto M. 

 Slipher, Flagstaff, Ariz.; David White, Wash- 

 ington. 



Prince Albert of Monaco gave the even- 

 ing address at tlie annual meeting of the 

 National Academy of Sciences on April 23, 

 and the address was followed by a reception 

 in the U. S. National Museum. At the 

 dimier of the academy on the following even- 

 ing Prince Albert was presented with the 

 Alexander Agassiz gold medal, awarded in 

 recognition of his promotion of oceanograph- 

 ical research. 



Dr. Albert Einstein, to whom Columbia 

 University last year awarded the Barnard 

 medal on the recommendation of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, was present at the 

 meeting of the academy, and responded to an 

 address of welcome from President AValcott 

 just before the adjournment of the Tuesday 

 morning session. Dr. Einstein also spoke at 

 the academy dinner. 



Eear Admiral William C. Beaisted, TJ. S. 

 N., retii-ed, former surgeon general of the 

 Navy, has been elected president of the Phila- 

 delphia College of Pharmacy. He is this year 

 president of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion. 



Dr. Willlam S. Thayer, professor of med- 

 icine at the Johns Hopkins University and 



