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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LII. No. 1335 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor Leonard Eugene Dickson, of the 

 department of matliematies at the University 

 of Chicago, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the French Academy of Sciences. 

 At a complimentary Itmcheon to Dr. Dickson 

 at the Quadrangle Club, Professor A. A. 

 Michelson, head of the department of physics, 

 presided and welcomed Dr. Dickson to mem- 

 bership in the academy. Other speakers were 

 Eliakim Hastings Moore, head of the depart- 

 ment of mathematics; Thomas C. Chamber- 

 lin, former head of the department of geology, 

 and Forest Pay Moulton, professor of as- 

 tronomy. 



At the eighty-eighth annual meeting of the 

 British Medical Association, held at Cam- 

 bridge, the president Sir T. Clifford Allbutt, 

 chose as the subject of his address, " The 

 Universities in Medical Eesearch and Prac- 

 tise." At the conclusion of his address the 

 president was presented with his portrait, the 

 work of Sir "William Orpen, which had been 

 subscribed for by a great number of physi- 

 cians. Sir Norman Moore, president of the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians made the pre- 

 sentation address. 



Dr. David Drumiiond, vice-chancellor and 

 professor of the principles and practise of 

 medicine. University of Durham, has been 

 elected president of the British Medical Asso- 

 ciation and will preside at the meeting to be 

 held next July at Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



AiiONG the foreign guests at the Cambridge 

 meeting of the British Medical Association 

 were: Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the lab- 

 oratories of the Eockefeller Institute and Pro- 

 fessor J. Abel, professor of pharmacology. The 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Colonel F. F. Russell has resigned from 

 the Medical Corps, U. S. Army, to take 

 charge of the newly organized Division of 

 Public Health Laboratories of the Interna- 

 tional Health Board of the Eockefeller Foun- 

 dation. 



Mr. E. a. Holbrook, formerly superin- 

 tendent of the Pittsburgh branch of the Bu- 

 reau of Mines, has been transferred to Wash- 



ington as assistant to the director, Dr F. G. 

 Cottrell, whose nomination has been con- 

 firmed by the Senate. 



J. M. Hill, of the United States Geological 

 Survey, has been transferred from Washing- 

 ton to the survey's office in San Francisco, 

 where he will be associated with Charles G. 

 Yale. Mr. Hill's field of geological studies 

 will include the Pacific coast states and to 

 some extent also Arizona and Nevada. 



Mr. Alan Ogilvte who resigned the reader- 

 ship in geography of the University of Man- 

 chester, has joined the staff of the American 

 Geographical Society of New York. 



Dr. Seymour Hadwin has resigned his posi- 

 tion as chief pathologist in charge of the bio- 

 logical laboratory, health of animals branch, 

 Canadian Department of Agriculture, at Ot- 

 tawa, and has taken a position as chief pathol- 

 ogist in the reindeer investigations of the 

 Bureau of Biological Survey, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, with headquarters 

 at Unalokleet, Alaska. 



Dr. S. Josephine Baker has been made con- 

 sultant in child hygiene for the U. S. Public 

 Health Service and has received a commission 

 as surgeon in the reserve of the U. S. Public 

 Health Service. 



Dr. J. S. Flett has been appointed director 

 of the Scottish Geological Survey and Museum 

 to succeed Sir Aubrey Strahan. 



Dr. Ludwik Silberstein, formerly of Adam 

 Hilger, Ltd., of London, is now associated with 

 the Eesearch Laboratory staff of the Eastman 

 Kodak Company. Dr. Silberstein is known 

 for his mathematical papers dealing with 

 electro-magnetism, optics, theory of relativity, 

 projective geometry, spectrum theory, etc. 



Dr. Harrison E. Patten has resigned from 

 the Bureau of Chemistry of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to accept the position of 

 chief chemist with a St. Louis firm. 



Kenneth P. Monroe has resigned as chem- 

 ist in the color laboratory. United States Bu- 

 reau of Chemistry, Washington, to accept a 

 research position in the Jackson Laboratory 

 of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, Wil- 

 mington, Del. 



