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the Bordin prize in mathematics to Dr. S. 

 Lefschetz, assistant professor of mathematics 

 in the University of Kansas, and of the La- 

 lande prize in astronomy to Dr. V. M. Slipher, 

 director of the Lowell Observatory at Tlag- 

 staff. 



Former assistants of Dr. Edwin R. Le 

 Count, professor of pathology in Rush Med- 

 ical College, tendered him a banquet on 

 December 17 and presented him with two 

 paintings as a recognition of esteem and 

 gratitude. The presentation address was made 

 by Dr. Frank R. Nuzum, Janesville, Wis., who 

 presided. Addresses were also made by Drs. 

 Herman A. Brennecke, Aurora; George E. 

 Clements, Crawfordsville, Ind. ; William H. 

 Burmeister, George H. Coleman, Arthur H. 

 Curtis, Morris Fishbein, Edward H. Hatton 

 and James P. Simonds, Chicago. 



Surgeon General Sm Alfred Keogh and 

 Sir Almroth E. Wright have had the honorary 

 degree of doctor of science conferred on them 

 by the University of Leeds. 



Sir Donald MacAllister, superintendent 

 of the British Medical Council, has been in- 

 vested by President Poincare, with the cross 

 of the commander of the Legion of Honor. 



Dr. a. S. Loevenhaet, professor of phar- 

 macology and toxicology at the University of 

 Wisconsin, was elected president of the Phar- 

 macological Society at the annual meeting 

 held in Cleveland last week. 



Mr. Elmee H. Finch, geologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has recently been ap- 

 pointed chairman of the Mineral Division 

 Land Classification Branch, U. S. Geological 

 Survey, succeeding Mr. A. R. Schultz, re- 



Dr. Forest B. H. Brown, research fellow at 

 Tale University, has been appointed botanist 

 on the staff of the Bishop Museum at Hono- 

 lulu. Dr. Elizabeth Wuist Brown has been 

 appointed research associate in cryptogamic 

 botany in the same institution. 



De. p. G. Agnew, physicist in the Electrical 

 Division of the Bureau of Standards, has re- 

 signed to become secretary of the American 

 Engineering Standards Committee, with head- 



quarters at the Engineering Building, 29 

 West 39th Street, Few York City. 



Dr. Arthur Lachman, a well-known chem- 

 ist of San Francisco, formerly professor in the 

 University of Oregon, was last seen on the 

 street at noon on December 11, 1919. Since 

 then his family and friends have been unable 

 to obtain any clue or any trace of his where- 

 abouts. It seems probable that he had an 

 attack of amnesia with loss of identity and 

 wandered away. Dr. Lachman is known to 

 many readers of Science. Any one having in- 

 formation in regard to him is requested to 

 communicate with his family or with Dr. 

 Felix Langfeld, 272 Post St., San Francisco, 

 California. 



Lancaster D. Burling, invertebrate paleon- 

 tologist of the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 has accepted the position of geologist with 

 S. Pearsons and Sons, Limited, of London, 

 England. His first assignment is to work in 

 the old fields of Trinidad, for which he will 

 leave upon the first available sailing. 



Captain W. E. Brophy, C.E. (Columbia, 

 '15), formerly of the Barrett Company and 

 later of the Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. 

 A., has joined the engineering staff of Arthur 

 D. Little, Inc., at Cambridge, Mass. In the 

 early part of the war. Captain Brophy had 

 charge of the construction and operation of 

 the plant at Astoria, Long Island, for the 

 manufacture of high absorbent carbon for use 

 in gas masks and later he designed, construc- 

 ted and operated an additional unit for the 

 purpose at San Francisco. 



Dr. Hideyo ISToGUCHi, of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research, has landed at 

 the port of Progreso from which he will pro- 

 ceed to Merida in order to carry on confirma- 

 tory studies of his discovery of L. icteroides 

 and to try on a larger scale the curative prop- 

 erties of the specific serum prepared by him. 



Mr. W. H. Darton, geologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, will spend two months in 

 the Dominican Republic early in 1920 to in- 

 vestigate oil conditions for a New York com- 

 pany. 



