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to be director of the British Geological Survey 

 and Museum. Dr. Flett succeeds Sir Aubrey 

 Strahan, who retires when Mr. G. W. Lam- 

 plugh, F.R.S., assistant to the director in Eng- 

 land, also retires. 



Mr. E. a. Milne, B.A., Trinity College, has 

 been appointed assistant director of the Solar 

 Physics Observatory, Cambridge. 



The David Syme prize, with medal, for the 

 year 1920, has been awarded to Mr. Frederick 

 Chapman, paleontologist to the National Mu- 

 seum and lecturer in paleontology in the Uni- 

 versity of Melbourne. 



The president of the French repulblic has 

 conferred the honor of ofScer of the Legion of 

 Honor on Dr. Aldo Castellani, of the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine, for his method of 

 combined typhoid-paratyphoid and typhoid- 

 cholera vaccination. 



The ninetieth birthday of John Jacob 

 Bausch, of Eochester, founder of the Bausch 

 and Lomb Optical Company, was celebrated on 

 July 25. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that Professor Luigi 

 Pagliani, of the chair of hygiene in the Uni- 

 versity of Turin, reaches the age limit this 

 year, and it is also the fiftieth anniversary of 

 his professional career. He was the pioneer 

 in organizing the public health service in 

 Italy, in directing legislation and in con- 

 trolling and preventing epidemics. A com- 

 mittee consisting of the incumbents of all the 

 chaira of hygiene in the country has been 

 formed to collect funds to found an annual 

 prize, the Pagliani prize. 



Julius C. Jensen, of the Weather Bureau, 

 has been appointed vice-consul at Copen- 

 hagen, Denmark, and has sailed from the 

 United States. 



Professor H. C. Little, of Colby College, 

 has been appointed executive secretary to the 

 Division of Geology and Geography of the 

 National Research Coiincil. 



A laboratory for research on dyestuffs and 

 explosives has been established at George 

 Washington University. The laboratory which 



is under the general supervision of Professor 

 H. C. McNeil, will be in charge of Mr. G. W. 

 Phillips, formerly of the Chemical Warfare 

 Service. Dr. C. E. Munroe, of the National 

 Research Council, will be consulting chemist 

 of the laboratory. 



Dr. a. C. Trowbridge, professor of geology 

 at the University of Iowa, has been offered a 

 position with a New York Company to carry 

 geological work in South America next year, 

 but has declined and will remain at the state 

 university. At present Professor Trowbridge 

 is in Texas working for the United States 

 geological survey. 



Dr. Harvey Bassler, formerly paleontolo- 

 gist with the U. S. Geological Survey, is now 

 engaged in exploratory work for the Standard 

 Oil Company in South America. 



Mr. E. M. Overbeck has returned from 

 Bolivia and has resumed work in Alaska for 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. Jacob Sobel has been designated assist- 

 ant director of the Bureau of Child Hygiene 

 of the New York City Department of Health. 

 Dr. Helen MacMurohy, Toronto, has been 

 appointed to take active charge of the divi- 

 sion of child welfare in the federal depart- 

 ment of health, Ottawa. 



Dr. Harlan I. Smith, of the Canadian Geo- 

 logical Survey, has left Ottawa to carry on an 

 archeological reconnaissance in the Bella Coola 

 Valley of British Columbia. 



Mr. Charles M. Hoy is collecting for the 

 Smithsonian Institution in Australia. 



Professor Waeren D. Smith is taking a 

 leave of absence for one year from the Uni- 

 versity of Oregon to go to the Philippines as 

 phief of the Division of Mines of the Bureau 

 of Science in order to rehabilitate the work of 

 that department. En route to the Philippines 

 he will attend the Pan-Pacific Scientific Con- 

 gress in Honolulu, August 2-20, as delegate 

 from the University of Oregon. He expects 

 to return to the University of Oregon in 

 October, 1921. 



RoALD Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, 

 arrived in Nome on July 23, having made the 

 Voyage from Norway through the waters north 



