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Sesolved, that, pursuant to paragraph 3 of the 

 resolution recording action taken at the special 

 meeting of the board of trustees held March 28, 

 1919, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars 

 ($100,000) be and it hereby is appropriated to the 

 National Academy of Sciences for the use of the 

 National Research Council for the year beginning 

 July 1, 1919; and that the treasurer be and he 

 hereby is authorized to make payments as needed 

 to the extent of $100,000 on certificates of the 

 chairman of the National Academy of Sciences and 

 the chairman of the National Research Council. 



Moved: That the executive board of the National 

 Research Council go on record as appreciating the 

 recognition by the Carnegie Corporation of New 

 York of the work which it is accomplishing by ap- 

 propriating the sum of $100,000 for its use for the 

 year beginning July 1, 1919. 



The chairman of the National Research 

 Council presented the following letter from 

 the Rockefeller Foundation, appropriating the 

 sum of $20,000 to meet the expenses involved 

 in conferences of special subcommittees on re- 

 search subjects of the Division of Physical 

 Sciences. 



THE EOCKErELLER FOUNDATION 



June 20, 1919 

 My Dear Mr. Merriam: I have the honor to in- 

 form you that at a meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee of the Rockefeller Foundation held June 16, 

 1919, the following resolution was adopted: 



Mesolved: That the sum of twenty thousand dol- 

 lars ($20,000) be, and it is hereby, appropriated to 

 the National Research Council for the Division of 

 Physical Sciences, of which so much as may be 

 necessary shall be used to defray the necessary 

 travelling and other expenses involved in confer- 

 ences of the subcommittees of that division during 

 the year 1919. 



Very truly yours, 



Edwin R. Embree, 



Secretary 



Moved: That the chairman of the National Re- 

 search Council express in behalf of the executive 

 board its appreciation of the interest which the 

 Rockefeller Foundation has shown in the research 

 work of the Division of Physical Sciences by ap- 

 propriating the sum of $20,000 to meet the ex- 

 penses involved in conferences of special subcom- 

 mittees on research subjects of that division. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Officers of the Geological Society of Amer- 

 ica were elected at the Boston meeting, as fol- 

 lows: President, I. C. White, Morgantown, W. 

 Va. First Vice-president, George P. Merrill, 

 Washington, D. C. Second Vice-president, 

 Willet G. Miller, Toronto, Canada. Third 

 Vice-president, F. B. Loomis, Amherst, Mass. 

 Secretary, Edward B. Mathews, Baltimore, 

 Md. Editor, Joseph Stanley-Brown, New 

 York, N. Y. Councilors, H. E. Gregory, New 

 Haven, Conn.; R. A. Daly, Cambridge, Mass.; 

 William S. Bayley, Urbana, EL; E. W. Shaw, 

 Washington, D. C. ; T. W. Vaughan, Washing- 

 ton, D. C; George F. Kay, Iowa City, Iowa. 

 Past Presidents, Frank D. Adams, Whitman 

 Cross and John C. Merriam, are likewise ex 

 officio on the council. 



Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, of Yale 

 University, has been elected an associate mem- 

 ber of the Societe Royale des Sciences Medi- 

 oales €t Naturelles of Brussels. 



Dr. R. Bennett Bean has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the Anthropological 

 Society of Rome. 



Professor Aethur Stanley Eddington, of 

 the University of Cambridge, has received the 

 G. de Ponteooularit prize of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences for his studies of stellar mo- 

 tions. 



Professor H. G. Greenish, dean of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society School of Pharmacy, 

 London, has received the honorary doctorate 

 from the University of Paris. 



Dr. Hanz Gertz, of the physiological labora- 

 tory of Karolina Institute, Stockholm, has 

 been awarded the Jubilee Prize by the Swed- 

 ish Medical Association for his work on the 

 functions of the labyrinth. 



Me. T. W. Reader has been selected by the 

 British Geologists' Association as the first 

 recipient of the Foulerton award. The sum of 

 money which has enabled the association to 

 make this award is the recent gift of Miss 

 Foulerton in accordance with the wishes of 

 her late uncle, Dr. John Foulerton, who was 

 for many years secretary to the association. 



