NOVBMBEE 12, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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THE SECTION OF ZOOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION 



The Convocation Week meertings of Section 

 F (Zoology) of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science will be held in 

 conjunction with those of the American 

 Society of Zoologists at Chicago University, 

 Chicago, Illinois, December 28, 29 and 30. 

 As the officers of the American Society for 

 Zoologists are responsible for the program 

 under the rules of the American Association, 

 all titles and abstracts of papers should be 

 sent to Professor W. C. AJlee, Lake Forest 

 College, Lake Forest, Illinois. 



The address of the retiring vice-president 

 of Section F, Professor William Morton 

 Wheeler, will be given at the Zoologists 

 Smoker, Tuesday evening, December 28. 

 H. V. Neal, 

 Secretary of Section F 



Tufts College, Mass. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Sajiuel James Meltzer member of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 

 and head of the department of physiology and 

 pharmacology, died on N^ovember 7 at the age 

 of sixty-nine years. 



The address of Dr. Simon Flexner, as retir- 

 ing president of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, will be given at 

 the Chicago meeting on the evening of Mon- 

 day, December 27, instead of on Tuesday 

 evening as originally planned. 



Sir Almroth Wright, has received the first 

 award of a gold medal established through the 

 gift of an anonymous fellow of the Royal So- 

 ciety of Medicine and open to medical practi- 

 tioners throughout the world. 



At the conclusion of the Harveian Oration, 

 delivered by Sir Frederick Andrewes on Oc- 

 toiber 18, before the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians of London, the President, Sir Iforman 

 Moore, presenited the triennial Biaset Hawkins 

 memorial medal for distinction in public 

 health to Dr. W. H. Hamer, medical officer 

 of health to the London County Council. 



Dr. Waldemar T. Schaller has severed his 

 connection with the Great Southern Sulphur 

 Co., Inc., of New Orleans, La., and has re- 

 turned to the U. S. Geological Survey, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Mr. H. H. Brown, formerly connected with 

 the Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agri- 

 culture, where he was in charge of the chemi- 

 cal investigations on the cause and prevention 

 of dust explosions, is at present employed by 

 the Pejepscot Paper Co., Brunswick, Maine, to 

 establish a chemical research laboratory and to 

 investigate chemical problems connected with 

 the manufacture of paper and the utilization 

 of waste products. 



At a meeting of the Institute of Medicine 

 of Chicago, October 29, Professor Graham 

 Lusk, New York, delivered the first Pasteur 

 Lecture on " Some influences of French science 

 on medicine." 



Dr. Victor G. Heiser, director for the East 

 of the International Health Board, recently 

 delivered a lecture at the School of Hygiene 

 and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital on the work done by the United 

 States government in the betterment of health 

 conditions in its dependencies. 



Mr. Elmer A. Sperry, president of the 

 Sperry Gyroscope Company, of New York, is 

 to give a demonstration lecture at the Har- 

 vard Union, November 15, at 8 p.m., on " Ap- 

 plications of the gyroscope to navigation." 

 The lecture is held under the auspices of the 

 department of astronomy at Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and will be open to the public. 



The eleventh course of lectures under the 

 Herter Foundation was delivered by Dr. Jules 

 Bordet, director of the Pasteur Institute, 

 Brussels, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, on 

 October 26, 27 and 28. 



The Emil Fischer memorial lecture was 

 delivered by Dr. M. O. Forster at the meeting 

 of the Chemical Society, London, October 28. 



Memorial exercises for the late Dr. Samuel 

 Sheldon, professor of physics and electrical 

 engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of 

 Brooklyn, will be held in the auditorium of 



