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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIII. No. 1381 



The JiTational Academy of Sciences has ap- 

 propriated from the J. Lawrence Smith Fund 

 $300 for the preparation of manuscripts by 

 Mabel Weil on the work of the late Professor 

 C. 0. Trowbridge accomplished under a pre- 

 vious grant, on meteor trains and aurora phe- 

 nomena. 



The Committee on Scientific Research of 

 the American Medical Association has granted 

 Professor Prank P. Underbill, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, the sum of $300 for expenses in con- 

 nection with an investigation on the metab- 

 olism of inorganic salts, and $400 to Dr. Wm. 

 H. Welker, of the University of Illinois, Col- 

 lege of Medicine, for assistance in an inves- 

 tigation on the fractionation of bacterial pro- 

 teins. 



Officers for 1921-1922 of the Boston So- 

 ciety of If atural History have been elected as 

 follows: President, W. Cameron Forbes; Vice- 

 presidents, l^athaniel T. Eadder, William M. 

 Wheeler, Theodore Lyman; Secretary, Glover 

 M. Allen; Treasurer, William A. Jeffries; 

 Councilors for three years, Reginald A. Daly, 

 Merritt L. Fernald, William L. W. Field, 

 George H. Parker, John C. Phillips, Charles 

 H. Taylor, Jr., Edward Wigglesworth, Miss 

 M. A. Willcox. 



At the annual meeting in April of the 

 California Botanical Society the following offi- 

 cers were elected: President, Dr. W. L. Jep- 

 son, professor of botany in the University of 

 California; First Vice-president, Dr. L. R. 

 Abrams, associate professor of botany in Stan- 

 ford University; Second Vice-president, Mi\ 

 W. W. Mackie, assistant professor of agron- 

 omy in the University of California; Secre- 

 tary, Mr. H. E. McMinn, professor of botany 

 in Mills College; Treasurer, Mrs. Adeline 

 Frederick, Berkeley, California. 



Officers of the Southwestern Geological 

 Society elected at the March meeting of the 

 society at Tulsa, Oklahoma, were as follows: 

 E. H. Sellards, president; C. Max Bauer, vice- 

 president; H. P. Bybee, secretary; R. B. 

 Whitehead, treasurer. Members of the coun- 

 cil are: J. A. Udden, C. A. Haramill, E. W. 



Shuler, W. E. Wrather, J. G. Bartram and 

 R. T. Hill. Sections of the seciety are now 

 established at Austin, Texas; Ardmore, Okla- 

 homa; Dallas, Texas; Lawton, Oklahoma; 

 Okmulgee, Oklahoma; and Shreveport, Louisi- 

 ana. The next general meeting will be held 

 in the spring of 1922. 



Dr. Colin G. Fink, of South Yonkers, who 

 organized and for the past four years directed 

 the research laboratories of the Chile Explora- 

 tion Co., has resigned. Dr. Fink has been 

 editor of the " Electrochemistry " section of 

 Chemical Abstracts since 190Y. 



David B. Reger, assistant geologist of the 

 West Virginia Geological Survey, will spend 

 the present field season in Grant and Mineral 

 Counties, making researches for a complete 

 geological report on the area mentioned. Tem- 

 porary headquarters will be at Piedmont. 



The government of Panama has purchased 

 a bronze bust of the late General William C. 

 Gorgas, which will be placed at the entrance of 

 the Santo Tomas Hospital at Panama. The 

 Journal of the American Medical Association 

 states that President Porras of Panama, in 

 wi'iting to the English sculptor in charge of 

 the work, P. Bryant Baker, has stated, " We 

 appreciate very deeply the sanitary work ac- 

 complished by Dr. Gorgas in Panama and feel 

 this is one of the most appropriate ways of 

 showing our gratitude." 



William Brown Cogswell, the mining engi- 

 neer, founder of the Solvay Process, died on 

 June 7, aged eighty-seven years. 



Two fellowship have been established by the 

 honorary scientific society, Sigma Xi, which 

 will pay a maximum of $1,800 each for the 

 academic year, beginning in the fall of 1921. 

 The funds for these fellowships have been con- 

 tributed by the voluntary ofEerings of the 

 members of the Sigma Xi scattered through- 

 out the country, many of whom have agreed to 

 contribute $2 a year for the purpose of en- 

 couraging graduate students to engage in sci- 

 entific investigation. The fellowships are in- 

 tended for those who have already received a 

 doctor's degree. Applicants should present 



