July 23, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



79 



Chicago, has been elected a member of the 

 Swedish Medical Society in Stockholm. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. Thomas Huston Macbride, 

 president emeritus of the University of Iowa, 

 was presented by 0. F. Kuehnle, on behalf of 

 the alumni to the university at the June com- 

 mencement. The portrait was painted by 

 Professor C. A. Cununing, of the department 

 of graphic and plastic art, and is life size. 



Dr. Elias Potter Lyon, dean of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota Medical School, was 

 granted the degree of doctor of laws by the 

 St. Louis University at its recent commence- 

 ment. 



Morris Scherago, formerly head of the de- 

 partment of bacteriology of the University of 

 Kentucky, has been appointed assistant bac- 

 teriologist in the New York State Laboratory. 



Professor J. G. Gallan, of the department 

 of steam and gas engineering of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, who has been on leave of 

 absence during the present academic year, has 

 recently resigned to become professor of me- 

 chanical engineering in Harvard University. 

 He will teach factory administration and will 

 also act as consulting mechanical engineer for 

 an eastern manufacturing company. 



"William D. Ennis announces his resignation ' 

 as professor of marine and mechanical engi- 

 neering in the post graduate department of 

 the United States Naval Academy, to become 

 vice-president of the Technical Advisory Cor- 

 poration of New York. Mr. Ennis has been 

 associated with the latter corporation since its 

 organization and will be hereafter located at 

 its general offices, 132 Nassau St., New York 

 City. 



Mr. Egbert V. Townend, chemist in charge 

 of the chlorinated toluene products with the 

 Semet-Solvay Co., has accepted a position with 

 the Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. 

 J., where he will organize and direct their de- 

 partment of chemical research. 



Dr. N. E. Dorsey, who recently resigned 

 as chief of the radium and X-ray section of 

 the Bureau of Standards in order to take up 

 private consulting and testing work, has been 



retained by the bureau in the capacity of con- 

 sulting physicist. 



We learn from Nature that on the occasion 

 of the birthday of the King of England the fol- 

 lowing were knighted: Professor F. W. An- 

 drews, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Captain 

 D. Wilson-Barker, captain-superintendent of 

 the trainingship Worcester, and past-president 

 of the Royal Meteorological Society ; Dr. J. C. 

 Beattie, principal of the University of the 

 Cape of Good Hope; Mr. W. B. M. Bird, 

 founder of the Salters' Institute of Industrial 

 Chemistry; Dr. H. H. Hayden, director of 

 the Geological Survey of India, and Professor 

 J. B. Henderson, professor of applied mechan- 

 ics, Eoyal Naval College, Greenwich. 



Mr. O. E. Brown, assistant inspector of 

 wireless telegraphy in the Post Office, has been 

 appointed technical officer to the Eadio Re- 

 search Board, which has been formed recently 

 under the chairmanship of Admiral Sir Henry 

 Jackson, in connection with the Department 

 of Scientific and Industrial Research. 



Colonel H. G. Lyons has been appointed di- 

 rector and secretary to the Science Museum, 

 South Kensington, in succession to Sir Erancis 

 Ogilvie, who has been transferred to the De- 

 partment of Scientific and Industrial Research. 



The death is announced of Augusto Righi, 

 the distinguished Italian physicist, professor 

 in the University of Bologna. 



Professor T. R. Rydberg, of the University 

 of Lund, elected a foreign member of the 

 Royal Society for his researches in spectro- 

 scopy, has died at the age of sixty-five years. 



A. A. Inostranseff, for many years pro- 

 fessor of geology in the University of Petro- 

 grad, has died at the age of seventy- seven 

 years. 



Dr. E. a. Tarleton, senior fellow of Trin- 

 ity College, and formerly professor of natural 

 philosophy in the University of Dublin, died 

 on June 19. 



A survey of the steamer Albatross was 

 made on May 25 and 26 by a board con- 

 sisting of I. H. Dunlap, assistant in charge 

 of office. Lighthouse Inspector J. T. Yatea, 



