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Assyrian antiquities, British MTiseum; Col- 

 onel W. A. Cliurchman, ministry of munitions 

 explosives department; Dr. J. Court, known by 

 his researches on diseases of miners; Mr. F. 

 C. Danson, chairman of the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medicine; Mr. D. E. Hutchins, 

 for his services to forestry; Mr. James Kem- 

 nal, for public services in connection with the 

 manufacture of munitions; Mr. F. S. Lister, 

 research bacteriologist. South African Insti- 

 tute for Medical Eesearch; Mr. H. J. Mae- 

 kinder, M.P., and Dr. F. G. Ogilvie, director 

 of the Scientee Museum, South Kensington. 

 Professor S. J. Chapman, joint permanent 

 secretary. Board of Trade, and Sir Richard 

 Glazebrook, have been promoted from C.B. to 

 K.C.B. Dr. G. R. Parkin has been promoted 

 to the rank of K.O.M.G., and Mr. H. N. 

 Thompson, chief conservator of forests, Ni- 

 geria, has received the honor of C.M.G. 



Professor Banti, of Florence, Dr. Van 

 Ermengem, of Ghent, and Dr. Pawinski, of 

 Warsaw, have been elected correspondents of 

 the Paris Academy of Medicine. 



Officers of the American Philosophical 

 Society for 1902 have been elected as follows : 

 President, William B. Scott; Y ice-presidents, 

 George Ellery Hale, Arthur A. Noyes, Hamp- 

 ton L. Carson; Secretaries, I. Minis Hays, 

 Arthur W. Goodspeed, Harry F. Keller, John 

 A. Miller; Curators, William P. Wilson, 

 Leslie W. Miller, Henry H. Donaldson ; Treas- 

 urer, Henry La Barre Jayne. 



Officers of the Brooklyn Entomological 

 Society for the year 1920 have been elected 

 as follows: 



President: W. T. Davis. 



Vice-president : J. B. de la Torre-Bueno. 



Treasurer: Kowlaoid F. McElvare. 



Beoording and Corresponding Secreta/ry: Dr. J. 

 Bequaert. 



Librarian: A. C. Weeks. 



Curator: Geo. Franck, 



Publication Committee: J. R. dc la Torre- 

 Bueao, editor, Geo. P. Engelhardt, Dr. J. Be- 

 quaert. 



Delegate to Council of New TorTc Academy of 

 Sciences: Howard Notman. 



Dr. Louis A. Bauer gave an illustrated lec- 



ture on " The solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, 

 and the Einstein effect," at Brown University, 

 under the auspices of the Sigma Xi, on Jan- 

 uary 15. He repeated the lecture at Columbia 

 University, Friday afternoon, January 16. On 

 Friday evening, February 6, he has been in- 

 vited to address the American Philosophical 

 Society in Philadelphia at the stated meeting, 

 on "Observations in Liberia and elsewhere of 

 the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, and 

 their bearing on the Einstein theory." The 

 address will be illustrated by lantern slides of 

 all exx)editions showing the fully developed 

 solar corona and remarkable prominences, as 

 well as the deflected star images. 



At a meeting of the Society of Medical 

 History of Chicago on January 17, addresses 

 were made by Colonel Casey A. Wood, on 

 "Walter Bailey, the first writer of an Oph- 

 thalmic Treatise in English," and by Lieuten- 

 ant-Colonel Fielding H. Garrison, on "Med- 

 ical Men and Music," and "Remarks on the 

 Medical History of the War." 



Professor George M. Stratton, of the 

 University of California, is giving a series 

 of lectures in San Francisco, during January 

 and February on psychology and health. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Massaohusetts Institute of Technology 

 wiU 'be administered by a special committee 

 composed of three members of the faculty, the 

 corporation having decided that it is not ad- 

 visable to name an acting president in succes- 

 sion to the late Dr. Richard C. Maclaurin. 

 This administrative committee will be com- 

 posed of Dr. Henry P. Talbot, chairman of the 

 faculty and head of the department of chem- 

 istry ; Professor Edward P. Miller, head of the 

 department of mechanical engineering, and 

 Dr. William H. Walker, director of the newly 

 instituted division of industrial cooperation 

 and research. Frederick P. Fish, senior mem- 

 ber, has been eleicted chairman of the execu- 

 tive committee of the corporation and a sub- 

 committee, consisting of Everett Morse, 

 Francis R. Hart and Edwin S. Webster, has 



