Januakt 9, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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June retired from the chair of physics at Cor- 

 nell University, was elected general secretary 

 of the association. The other officers elected 

 and a report of the meeting are given elsewhere 

 in this issue. 



Dr. Shepherd Ivory Pranz was elected presi- 

 dent of the American Psychological Associa- 

 tion at the meeting held in Cambridge last 

 week. 



Professor Ealph B. Perry, of Harvard 



University, was elected president of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Association at the meeting in 

 Ithaca last week. Professor Alfred H. Jones, 

 of Brown University, was elected secretary. 



At the Boston meeting of the Paleontological 

 Society, officers were elected as follows : Presi- 

 dent, P. B. Loomis, Amherst; Vice-presidents, 

 C. C. Case, Ann Afbor; Ealph Arnold, Los 

 Angeles; E. M. Kindle, Ottawa; Secretary, R. 

 S. Bassler, Washington, D. C; Treasurer, 

 Richard S. Lull, New Haven; Editor, W. D. 

 Matthew, New York. 



At the Society of American Bacteriologists, 

 also meeting in Boston, the following officers 

 were elected: Dr. Charles Krumweide, of the 

 research laboratory of the New York Health 

 Department, president; Dr. P. C. Harrison, 

 president of the MacDonald College in Mon- 

 treal, vice-president; Dr. A. Parker Hitchens, 

 of Indianapolis, was reelected secretary-treas- 

 urer, and Dr. J. W. M. Bunker was chosen 

 assistant secretary, a new position in the or- 

 ganization. New members of the council are 

 Dr. P. P. Gay, professor of pathology and bac- 

 teriology at the University of California, and 

 Dr. C. G- Bull, professor of immunology at the 

 Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene in Balti- 

 more. A committee on national research was 

 created, consisting of all the past presidents, 

 with Dr. Bunker as executive secretary, and 

 Dr. S. C. Prescott, of Boston, as chairman. 



The William H. Nichols medal of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society will be conferred on Dr. 

 Irving Langmuir for his work on " the arrange- 

 ment of electrons in atoms and molecules," at 

 the March meeting of the New York Section of 

 the society. 



The Perkin medal for 1919 has been awarded 

 by the American Section of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry to Dr. Chas. P. Chandler, 

 for his work on the standardization of kero- 

 sene. The committee in making the award 

 called especial attention also to the work Pro- 

 fessor Chandler, as head of the chemistry de- 

 partment of the school of mines at Columbia 

 University, has done in training men for the 

 chemical industry. The medal wiU be pre- 

 sented to Dr. Chandler, "dean of American 

 chemists," at the regular meeting of the So- 

 ciety of Chemical Industry, American Section, 

 at the Chemists' Club, New York City, on Jan- 

 uary 16. 



Dr. Louis A. Bauer will repeat his illus- 

 trated lecture on " The Solar Eclipse of May 

 29, 1919, and the Einstein Effect" at the 

 Johns Hopkins University, Monday after- 

 noon, January 12; at Yale University, under 

 the auspices of the Society of Sigma Xi on 

 the evening of January 13; and at Brown 

 University on the evening of January 16. At 

 the stated meeting of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences at Boston on January 

 14, he will give an illustrated address on " Ob- 

 servations of the Solar Eclipse at Cape 

 Palmas, Liberia, and other Stations." 



At the meeting of the Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Washington on January 3 the follow- 

 ing pajjers were read: Enoch Karrer: I. 

 " Diffusion of light in a searchlight beam." 

 II. " The contrast sensibility of the eye at low 

 illumination." F. E. Wright : " The contrast 

 sensibility of the eye as a factor in the re- 

 solving power of the microscope." L. A. 

 Bauer : " Further results of observations of 

 the solar eclipse of May 29. 1919. 



Sir Oliver Lodge delivered the Trueman- 

 Wood lecture on " Some Possible Sources of 

 Energy," at the Royal Society of Arts on 

 December 10. 



We learn from Nature that on December 

 10, a memorial tablet with a medallion por- 

 trait and a suitable inscription was unveiled 

 in memory of Sir Ramsay in the presence of 

 Lady Ramsay and a large number of friends 

 and members of the University of Glasgow. 



