April 29, 1921] 



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physician-in-chief of the Jolins Hopkins Hos- 

 pital, lias resigned. 



Professor Ernest W. Brown, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, has been elected a correspondent of 

 the French Academy of Science. 



The Vienna Medical Society at a recent 

 meeting elected to honorary membership as 

 token of gratitude for their efforts in promot- 

 ing the public health of Austria, Mr. Herbert 

 Hoover, of Washington, D. C, and Dr. F. 

 Ferriere, the vice-president of the Interna- 

 tional Red Cross, at Geneva. 



The University of Dublin has conferred the 

 honorary degree of doctor of science upon A. 

 A. Michelson, professor of physics in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; W. M. Bayliss, professor 

 of general physiology in University College, 

 London, and E. Borel, professor of the theory 

 of functions at the Sorbonne, Paris. 



Professor C. S. Sherrington, president of 

 the Eoyal Society, has been elected a member 

 of the Athenseum Club under the provision for 

 the election of persons " of distinguished emi- 

 nence in science, literature, the arts, or for 

 public service." 



The Royal medals of the Royal Geograph- 

 ical Society have been awarded as follows : 

 Founder's medal to Mr. Vilhialmur Stefansson, 

 " for his distinguished services to the Domin- 

 ion of Canada in the esploration of the Arctic 

 Ocean " ; and Patron's medal to General Bour- 

 geois, senator for Alsace, " for his long and 

 eminent services to geography and geodesy." 

 The council has made the other awards as fol- 

 lows: The Murohison grant to Commandant 

 Maury, for his surveys in the Belgian Congo; 

 the Bach gi'ant to Miss Marian Newbigin, for 

 her contribution to geography, particularly of 

 the Balkans ; the Cuthbert Peek grant to Oaip- 

 tain J. B. L. Noel, for his reconnaissance of 

 the eastern approaches to Mount Everest and 

 other geographical work; and the Gill me- 

 morial to Lieutenant Colonel M. N. Mac- 

 Leod, R.E., for his contribution to the theory 

 of survey from air photographs. 



Dr. Oskae Klotz, professor of pathology in 

 the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, 

 has been appointed representative of the Later- 

 national Health Board of the Rockefeller 



Foundation for medical research work and 

 education of Sao Paulo, Brazil, serving as 

 director of a pathologic institute. 



The Food Research Institute, established by 

 the Carnegie Corpoi"ation and Stanford Uni- 

 versity with Dr. C. L. Alsberg, formerly chief 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture as director, has 

 appointed, to be associated with Dr. Alsberg, 

 Alonzo E. Taylor, professor of physiological 

 chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and Joseph S. Davies, assistant professor of 

 economics at Harvard University. The di- 

 rectors will have authority to determine the 

 scientific policies of the Institute and the 

 problems to be studied. Leland Stanford, Jr., 

 University has appointed as an advisory com- 

 mittee Herbert Hoover, Julius -M. Barnes, Dr. 

 J. C. Merriam, J. R. Howard, Dr. William M. 

 Jardine and George Reeding. 



Dr. a. S. Hitchcock, systematic agi-ostolo- 

 gist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 leaves about May 1 for an extended trip to tlie 

 Orient. He will visit the Philippines, Japan, 

 China, Indo-China, Singapore and Java, re- 

 turning about January 1. He will study the 

 grasses of the regions visited and will gather 

 data especially for a revision of the bamboos 

 of the world. 



Professor M.\rston Taylor Bogert, of Co- 

 lumibia University, gave an address at New 

 York University on April 13, on " Science and 

 disarmament." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A maintenance fund of $30,000 a year has 

 been promised to the Albany Medical College 

 on condition that a similar amount is raised 

 each year by the trustees. The Rockefeller 

 Foundation will give $20,000; the General 

 Electric Company $5,000, and Dr. Charles 

 Alexander Richmond, president of Union Uni- 

 versity, $5;000. The money this year must be 

 raised by June 1 to make the $30,000 available. 



It is announced that the Ontario govern- 

 ment will give immediate financial aid to the 

 universities of the province as follows : Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, $900,000; Queen's at Kings- 



