August 20, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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addresses of the divisional and sectional secre- 

 taries : 



Agricultural and food chemistry: T. J. Beyan, 



4100 Filmore St., Chicago, 111. 

 Biological chemistry: A. W. Dox, cr. Parke, Davis 



& Co., Detroit, Mich. 

 Dye section: R. Norris Shrevb, 43 Fifth Ave., 



New York, N. Y. 

 Fertilizer chemistry: H. C. Moore, 209 W. Jack- 

 son Blvd., Chicago, 111. 

 Industrial and engineering chemistry: H. E. 



Howe, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 



Hole, Mass. 

 Organic chemistry: Eoger Adams, University of 



Illinois, ITrbana, 111. 

 Pharmaceutical chemistry (medicinal products 



chemistry) : Edgar B. Carter, 2615 Ashland 



Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 

 Physical and inorganic chemistry: H. N. 



Holmes, Severance Chemical Laboratory, Ober- 



lin, O. 

 Eubber chemistry: Arnold H. Smith, Goodyear 



Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 

 Water, sewage and sanitation : W. W. Skinner, 



Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C. 

 Sections : 

 Leather chemistry: William Klaber, 613 North 



Third St., Newark, N. J. 

 Sugar chemistry: Frederick J. Bates, Bureau of 



Standards, Washington, D. C. 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. George Ellery Hale, director of the 

 Mount Wilson Observatory, has been elected 

 one of the twelve foreigii members of the 

 Societa Italiana delle Scienze, in succession 

 to the late Lord Rayleigh. 



Professor Raymond Pearl, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, has been decorated by 

 the King of Italy as Knight of the Crown of 

 Italy. 



A Mary Kinglsey medal has been awarded 

 by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 

 to Ch. Warden Stiles, of the United States 

 Public Health Service, for his work on the 

 eradication of hookworm disease. 



Sir W. J. Pope has been elected an associate 

 of the section for the mathematical and phys- 

 ical sciences of the Royal Belgian Academy. 



The first gold medal given by the Institu- 

 tion of Sanitary Engineers was presented at 

 the annual summer meeting of the institution 

 to Major A. J. Martin " for his services in 

 originating health week and in the develop- 

 ment of civil and military sanitation before 

 and during the war." 



Mr. G. W. Morey, of the Geophysical Lab- 

 oratory, Carnegie Institution of Washing-ton, 

 who has been on leave of absence in charge of 

 the optical glass plant of the Spencer Lens 

 Company of Buffalo, N. Y., since ISToveniber, 

 1918, has returned to his research work at the 

 laboratory. 



Mr. M. J. Proffitt, formerly of the Great 

 Western Sugar Company, Denver Colorado, 

 has been put in charge of sugar technology 

 at the Bureau of Standards. 



Mr. Friend Lee Mickle, bacteriologist of 

 the Bureau of Laboratories of the Connecti- 

 cut State Department of Health, has been 

 appointed director of laboratories for the 

 Bureau of Health of Atlantic City, N. J. 



