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Applications for grants should be made not 

 later than December 1, 1920, to any member 

 of the committee, the personnel of which is 

 as follows: Henry Crew, chairman; W. B. 

 Cannon, E. T. Chamberlin, G. N. Lewis, 

 George T. Moore, G. H. Parker, Joel Steb- 

 bins and Robert M. Yerkes. The awards will 

 be announced soon after January 1, 1921. 

 Joel Stebbins, 

 Secretary Commitiee on Grants 

 TJrbana, III. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The International Congress of Mathema- 

 ticians at the Strasbourg meeting accepted 

 the invitation presented by Professor Leonard 

 E. Dickson to hold the next congress in New 

 York in 1924. 



At the International Congress of Physiolo- 

 gists, held in Paris, it was resolved, on the 

 invitation of Sir E. Sharpey Schafer, to hold 

 the next meeting in Edinburgh in 1923. 

 I Professor Stephen Moulton Babcock, of 

 the University of Wisconsin, inventor of the 

 Babcock test for determining the amount of 

 butter fat in milk, reached his seventy-seventh 

 birthday on October 22, and in honor of the 

 event and of his work a university convocation 

 was held. Professor Babcock is engaged in 

 active work in his laboratory. 



Dr. Esih,e Roux, director of the Pasteur 

 Institute, Paris, has been awarded the Grand 

 Cross of the Legion of Honor, with the cita- 

 tion: ''Principal collaborator and disciple of 

 Pasteur, throughout an admirable life of 

 simplicity, modesty, labor and devotion he has 

 continued the great work of his master, 

 notably by his researches on diphtheria ; by his 

 discovery of antidiphtheritic serum he has 

 conquered this formidable disease and has 

 saved a great number of lives. President of 

 the Conseil superieur d'hygiene, director of 

 the Pasteur Institute for which he has gained 

 universal renown. A noble and great figure in 

 the world of science." 



1 The Rumford Committee of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences has made the 

 following appropriations in aid of research: 



To Profesor W. W. Campbell, of Lick Ob- 

 servatory, $360 for the purchase of a special 

 photographic lens; to Professor H. L. Howes, 

 of the New Hampshire State College, $90 in 

 aid of his researches on luminescence. 



Dr. E. Hastings Sjiyth, formerly captain in 

 the Chemical Warfare Service, has joined the 

 staff of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. 



Mr. L. E. Jackson has resigned as chemist 

 and chemical engineer with the Empire Gas 

 & Fuel Co., Bartlesville, Okla., to accept a fel- 

 lowship at the Mellon Institute. 



Professor MIark Alfred Caeleton, for- 

 merly cerealist of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and recently plant 

 pathologist of the United States Grain Cor- 

 poration, is at present engaged as plant 

 pathologist for the United Emit Company, 

 with headquarters at Bocas del Toro, Panama. 

 At the last meeting of the American Society 

 of Agronomy Professor Carleton was elected 

 the first honorary life member of that society. 



Dr. L. 0. Grondahl, until recently associate 

 professor of physics at Carnegie Institute of 

 Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., has resigned to 

 accept the position of director of research with 

 the Union Switch and Signal Company, 

 Swissvale, Pa. 



D. Harrison E. Patten, for several years 

 research chemist with the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry of the Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, has accepted the position 

 of chief chemist of the phosphate plant of the 

 Provident Chemical Works, St. Louis, Mo. 



Dr. Erederick E. Breithut has entered the 

 employ of the Calco Chemical Company, 

 Boundbrook, New Jersey. 



George P. Gray has resigned his position 

 as assistant professor of entomology and chem- 

 ist, insecticide laboratory, at the University 

 of California, to become chief of the Division 

 of Chemistry of the newly established Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of the State of Cali- 

 fornia, Sacramento, Calif. 



Mr. Samuel H. Simpson has resigned his 

 position in the physical chemistry section of 



