NOVEMBEE 19, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



487 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



According to a cablegram from Stockholm 

 to the daily press, Charles Edouard Guillaume 

 Breteuil, head of the International Bureau of 

 "Weights and Measures, was awarded the 

 Nobel prize in physics for 1920 on November 

 11 by the Swedish Academy of Science. The 

 prize in chemistry has been awarded to Pro- 

 fessor Adolf Ossian Aschan, of Helsingfors 

 University in recognition of his researches in 

 connection with the production of synthetic 

 Tubber. The award of Nobel prizes to Pro- 

 fessor Jules Bordet, of Brussels, and Professor 

 August Krogh, of Copenhagen, has been re- 

 ■corded in Science, but, following a press de- 

 spatch, the subject of Professor Krogh's work 

 was incorrectly given. He is professor of ani- 

 mal physiology at the University of Copen- 

 hagen and was a pioneer in the study of the 

 forces governing gas exchange in the lungs 

 and other parts of the body. Professor Bordet 

 is now lecturing in this country on immunol- 

 ogy and anaphylaxis. He has given the Herter 

 lectures at the Johns Plopkins University, the 

 Outter lecture at Harvard University, a Hanna 

 lecture at Western Reserve University and 

 will give shortly a course of Hitchcock lec- 

 tures at the University of California. 



Dr. Thomas F. Hunt, dean of the college 

 of agriculture of the University of California, 

 Leon M. Estabrook, statistician and chief of 

 the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture and Harvey 

 J. Sconce, of Sidell, 111., were appointed dele- 

 gates from the United States to the general 

 assembly of the International Institute of 

 Agriculture at Rome, November 3—15. Dean 

 Hunt, who has been appointed permanent 

 delegate to succeed David Lubin, is in Europe 

 on sabbatical leave from the university, and 

 reached Rome in time to take part in the 

 meeting. 



Dr. J. H. White, assistant surgeon general 

 and Surgeon G. N. Guiteras have been desig- 

 nated by Surgeon General Gumming to rep- 

 resent the United States at the sixth Inter- 

 national Sanitary Conference to be held at 

 Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 19 and 20. 



Surgeon-General M. W. Ireland, U. S. 

 Army, has been appointed a member of the 

 Council on Medical Education, of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association to succeed the late 

 Dr. Isador Dyer, of Tulane University. 



The appointment of T. W. Norcross as chief 

 engineer of the Forest Service is announced by 

 Colonel W. B. Greeley, head of the service. 

 Mr. Norcross succeeds Mr. O. C. Merrill, who 

 resigned to become executive secretary of the 

 Federal Power Commission. 



Mr. F. R. Cole, of Stanford University, has 

 been appointed associate curator in dipterol- 

 ogy, and Mr. Chase Littlejohn, of Redwood 

 City, California, assistant curator in ornithol- 

 ogy, in the Museum of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, San Francisco. 



According to the Journal of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences Mr. P. C. Holdt has 

 been appointed research associate at the Bu- 

 reau of Standards, by the American Paint and 

 Varnish Manufacturers' Association, and Mr. 

 E. J. Ruh by the International Nickel Com- 

 pany. 



Dr. Norah E. Dowell, instructor in geol- 

 ogy at Smith College, has been appointed as- 

 sistant geologist in the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey for duty as office geologist and research 

 assistant in the Ground Water Division. 



John W. Calvin, professor of chemistry at 

 the University of Nebraska and associate chem- 

 ist in the station, has become chemist in the 

 experiment station of the Dominican Republic. 



J. C. McNuTT has resigned as head of the 

 department of animal husbandry in the Massa- 

 chusetts College to become eastern representa- 

 tive of the American Shorthorn Breeders' As- 

 sociation, with headquarters at Amherst. 



Dr. Douglas R. Semmes, professor of geol- 

 ogy at the University of Alabama, has re- 

 signed his work at the university and accepted 

 the position of assistant chief geologist of 

 the Compania Mexicana de Petroleo, "El 

 Aguila," and will be located permanently at 

 the company's headquarters in Tampico. 



After twenty-five years of active service in 

 teaching and research work in applied chemis- 



