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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIII. No. 1378 



Mme. Curie set in motion the machinery of the 

 new low temperature laboratory of the Bureau 

 of Mines, which is dedicated to her. 



The degree of LL.D. has been conferred on 

 Mme. Curie by Smith College, and she re- 

 ceived the same degree from the University of 

 Pennsylvania at a special ceremony arranged 

 in her honor on May 23. The Chicago Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society has 

 awarded to her the Willard Gibbs Medal which 

 will be presented at a formal banquet on June 

 14. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Edward Bennett Rosa, chief physicist 

 of the Bureau of Standards, died suddenly on 

 May 17, ^ed sixty years. 



Professor S. C. Prescott, the acting head 

 of the department of biology and public health 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 has sent a letter to the former students of the 

 late Professor W. T. Sedgwick informing them 

 of the establishment of a William T. Sedg- 

 wick Memorial Fund and asking for contribu- 

 tions of from five to one hundred dollars. The 

 income of the fund will go to Mrs. Sedgwick 

 during her life, after which the principal will 

 go into the funds of the institute, where it 

 will probaibly be used to establish a memorial 

 professorship or some other project to en- 

 courage public health teaching and general 

 sanitation. 



PREsroENTS of state academies of science 

 have been elected as follows: Professor J. C. 

 Jensen, University of Nebraska, of the Ne- 

 braska Academy of Science; Dr. D. W. More- 

 house, of Drake University, of the Iowa 

 Academy of Science ; and Dr. Frank L. West, 

 of the Utah Agricultural College, of the Utah 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. F. B. Sumner, of the Scripps Biological 

 Institution, at La Jolla, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the San Jacinto Section of the West- 

 ern Society of Naturalists. 



Professor August Krogh, professor of 

 physiology in the University of Copenhagen, 

 recently awarded the Nobel Prize, and Dr. 



Clemens von Pirquet, professor of children's 

 diseases in the University of Vienna, have 

 been appointed Silliman lecturers at Yale 

 University. Dr. Krogh's lectures will be con- 

 nected with his recent work on the physiology 

 of capillaries, and those of Dr. von Pirquet 

 on undernutrition, with reference to tuber- 

 culosis in children and its treatment. 



A NUMBER of engineers of the United States 

 will hold a joint meeting with British engi- 

 neers in London in July. The American en- 

 gineers will present Sir Robert Hadfield on 

 June 29 with the John Fritz medal, awarded 

 to him in recognition of his invention of man- 

 ganese steel. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. J. E. Sears, 

 Jr., has been appointed deputy warden of the 

 standards in succession to Major P. A. Mac- 

 Mahon, who has retired under the age-limit. 

 Mr. Sears is superintendent of the metrology 

 department at the National Physical Labora- 

 tory, and will continue to hold this post in 

 addition to that at the Standards Department 

 of the Board of Trade. 



In recognition of the successful laboratory 

 research accomplished by Dr. Esmond R. 

 Long, of the department of pathology at the 

 University of Chicago, on " The fundamental 

 problems in the nutrition of the tubercle ba- 

 cillus," the National Tuberculosis Association, 

 with headquarters in New York, has appro- 

 priated $4,000 for the further prosecution by 

 Dr. Long of this work. 



Professor W. H. Stevenson, head of the 

 department of farm crops and soils in the Iowa 

 State College and chief in agronomy and vice- 

 director of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has been granted a year's leave of ab- 

 sence to accept an appointment as the repre- 

 sentative of the United States on the Perma- 

 nent Committee of the International Institute 

 of Agriculture at Rome, to succeed Dean Tho- 

 mas F. Hunt, of the University of California. 

 Dr. P. E. Brown wiU be the acting head of 

 the department in Professor Stevenson's ab- 

 sence. 



