Mat 27, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



499 



Dr. Maurice H. Givens lias resigned as chief 

 of the department of biochemistry in the re- 

 search laboratories of the Western Pennsyl- 

 vania Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Monsieur Behal, professor in the Paris 

 School of Pharmacy, has been elected a vice- 

 president and president for 1922 of the Paris 

 Academy of Medicine to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the death of M. Bourquelot. Professor 

 Benal has been a member of the Academy of 

 Medicine since 1907, and was lately elected a 

 member of the Academy of Sciences. 



The Council of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers has made the following awards for 

 papers read and discussed during the session 

 1920-21: A TeMord gold medal and a Telford 

 premium to Mr. George Ellson (London) ; 

 Telford gold medals to Sir Murdoch Mac- 

 Donald (Cairo) and Dr. T. E. Stanton (Ted- 

 dington) ; a George Stephenson gold medal to 

 Mr. E. G. C. Batson (Teddington) ; a Watt 

 gold medal to Mr. S. A. Main (Sheffield) ; and 

 TeKord premiums to Mr. Algernon Peake 

 (Sydney, K S. W.), Mr. L. H. Larmuth 

 (London), Mr. H. E. Hurst (Cairo), Professor 

 T. B. Abell (Liverpool), and Mr. tercy Allan 

 (Sydney, K S. W.). 



The observatory founded in 1913 by Sir 

 Iforman Lockyer and Lieutenant-Colonel F. 

 K. McClean on Saloombe Hill, above Sid- 

 mouth, is henceforth to be called "The Nor- 

 man Lockyer Observatory." It is proposed to 

 place in the observatory a portrait of Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, in the shape of a medallion, 

 to be executed by Sir Hamo Thornycroft. 



It is announced in Nature that the annual 

 meeting of the British Medical Association 

 will be held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on July 

 15-23, under the presidency of Professor David 

 Drummond. On the occasion of the presi- 

 dent's address on July 19 the gold medal of 

 the association will be presented to Sir Dawson 

 Williaans, editor of the British Medical Jour- 

 nal since 1898, in recognition of his distin- 

 guished services to the association and the 

 medical profession. In connection with the 

 annual meeting in 1922, to be held at Glasgow, 

 Sir William Macewen, Regius professor of sur- 



gery in the University of Glasgow, is an- 

 nounced as president-elect. The council of the 

 association has recommended that the annual 

 meeting in 1923 be held at Portsmouth. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Connecticut legislature is being asked 

 for $625,000 for the State College, of which 

 $400,000 is for a new science building for the 

 chemical, botanical, physics, and bacteriolog- 

 ical departments. The remainder is for main- 

 tenance during the ensuing biennium, and 

 would be an increase from $150,000. 



The University of Virginia has received 

 the promise of a gift of $100,000 from the 

 Carnegie Corporation of New York on con- 

 dition that the money shall be used for the 

 purposes of permanent endowment, and that 

 it shall be payable after there has been raised 

 not less than $500,000 for permanent endow- 

 ment from other sources. 



Professor Paul H. M.-P. Brinton, head of 

 the department of chemistry at the University 

 of Arizona, has accepted appointment as pro- 

 fessor of analytical chemistry in the school of 

 chemistry at the University of Minnesota. 



Dr. Charles F. Brooks, of the U. S. Wea- 

 ther Bureau, has been appointed associate pro- 

 fessor of meteorology and climatology at 

 Clark University. 



Dr. Meyer Solis-Cohen has been appointed 

 assistant professor of internal medicine in the 

 Graduate School of Medicine of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Elotz, of the chair of pathologic anat- 

 omy at the University of Pittsburgh, has ac- 

 cepted a call to the similar chair at Sao Paulo. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



PRIMITIVE NOTIONS OF LIGHT 



Relative to Mr. Barton's " astonishment " 

 (Science, April 15, page 364) that certain 

 South American Indians do not recognize the 

 sun as the source of daylight and his previous 

 opinion that the Hibemicism, 



