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from all parts of the world, tlie committee re- 

 quested tlie director. Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, 

 to undertake tlie negotiations between the 

 committee and the French university admin- 

 istration. The French administration re- 

 sponded cordially to the offer for the annual 

 exchange of a professor. The French have 

 selected, for their first representative. Profes- 

 sor J. Cavalier, rector of the University of 

 Toulouse, a well-known authority on metallur- 

 gical chemistry, to come to America this fall, 

 and to divide his time during the ensuing aca- 

 demic year, am.ong the seven cooperating in- 

 stitutions, namely, Columhia, Cornell, Har- 

 vard, Johns Hopkins, the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology, Pennsylvania and 

 Tale. 



The American universities have selected as 

 their outgoing representative for the same first 

 year (1921-22), Dr. A. E. Kennelly, professor 

 of electrical engineering at Harvard Univer- 

 sity and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



GRANTS FROM THE BACHE FUND 



Grants from the Bache Fund of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences have been made 

 as follows: 



$500 to C. H. Warren, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, to defray the expense of 

 chemical analysis in the study of igneous rocks 

 from Massachusetts. 



$500 to Waldemar Lindgren, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, for chemical analyses 

 of samples used in a study of additions and 

 losses that limestones from Bingham, Utah, 

 have suffered in contact metamorphism. 



$500 to T. H. Goodspeed, University of Cali- 

 fornia, for photographic records and illustra- 

 tion, over a period of three years, for a study 

 of Nicotiana in respect of Mendelian inlieri- 

 tanoe, of quantitative inheritance, of inheri- 

 tance of inter-specific hybrids, and of the na- 

 ture of bud variation. 



$1,000 to Frank P. Underbill and Lafayette 

 B. Mendel, Yale University, for investigations 

 on deficiencies in nutrition. 



$500 to Gilbert ZST. Lewis, University of 



California, for the computation of chemical 

 constants. 



$300 to H. W. Norris, Grinnell CoUege, Iowa, 

 for the investigation of the nervous system of 

 the Elasmobranoh fishes, and for the study 

 of the Ganoid fishes. 



$750 to Preston Edwards, Johns Hopkins 

 University, for investigations in acoustics. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mme. Curie, accompanied by her two daugh- 

 ters, arrived in New York City on May 11. 

 Last week she visited Smith, Mt. Holyoke and 

 Vassar Colleges. According to the program 

 that has been arranged, she is given this week 

 a luncheon by the chemists of New York City, 

 a welcome by the American Association of 

 University Women, and a reception at the 

 American Museum of Natural History. On 

 Friday President Harding presents her with 

 a gram of radium on behalf of the women of 

 America. 



Dean Albert E. Mann, of the New York 

 State Agricultural College at Cornell Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed head of the New York 

 State Agricultural Department by the reor- 

 ganized Council of Farms and Markets. There 

 were three candidates — ^Raymond E. Pearson 

 and George E. Hogue, who have each held the 

 office, and Dean Mann. 



Dr. E. W. Thatcher, dean of the depart- 

 ment of agriculture and director of the agri- 

 cultural experiment station of the University 

 of Minnesota for the past four years, has re- 

 signed in order to accept the appointment as 

 director of the New York State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y., effective 

 on July 1. Dr. W. H. Jordan, who completes 

 twenty-five years of service as director of the 

 station at Geneva on June 30, retires on that 

 date. 



Dr. W. J. Mayo and Dr. C. H. Mayo have 

 recently received notification that honorary 

 fellowships in the Royal College of Surgeons 

 of Ireland will be conferred ujKjn them as soon 

 as they can attend the ceremony which will be 

 held in the College Hall. 



Dr. Theodore Hough, dean of the medical 



