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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LI, No. 1313 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE BONAPARTE AND LOUTREUIL FOUNDA- 

 TIONS OF THE PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



We learn from Nature tha.t of the Y2,500 

 francs placed at the disposal of the Academy 

 by Prince Bonaparte, it proposed to allocate 

 30,000 francs as follows: 



Five thousand francs to Charles Alluaud, travel- 

 ing naturalist to the National Natural History Mu- 

 seum, for a geological and botanical expedition in 

 the Moroccan Grand Atlas Chain. 



Two thousand francs to A. Boutaric, for the con- 

 struction of an apparatus for recording nocturnal 

 radiation. 



One thousand francs to Emile Brumpt, for con- 

 tinuing his work on parasitic hsemoglobinuria or 

 piroplasmos of cattle. 



Three thousand francs to E. Faure-Fremiet, for 

 undertaking a series of studies on histogenesis and 

 certain surgical applications. 



Three thousand francs to A. Guilliermond, for 

 pursuing his researches on lower organisms and on 

 mitochondria. 



Three thousand francs to Joseph Martinet, for 

 continuing his researches on the isatins capable of 

 serving as raw material for the synthesis of indigo 

 coloring matters. 



Three thousand francs to A. Vavssi&res, for the 

 continuation of his researches of the marine mol- 

 luscs, family Cyprseidse. 



Ten thousand francs to the Federation francaise 

 des SocietSs de Sciences naturelles, for the publi- 

 cation of a fauna of France. 



The committee appointed to allocate the 

 LoTitreuil foundations recommended the fol- 

 lowing grants: 



1. To establishments named by the founder: 



Ten thousand francs to the National Museum of 

 Natural History, for the reorganization of its li- 

 brary. 



Seven thousand five hundred francs to the Paris 

 Observatory, at the request of the Central Council 

 of the Observatories, for purchasing an instrument. 



2. Grants applied for direct : 



Six thousand francs to the Society Ggologique du 

 Nord, to enable it to take up work interrupted by 

 the war. 



Ten thousand francs to 1 'Ecole des hautes etudes 

 industrielles et commerciales ed Lille, for restoring 

 the material of its chemical laboratory. 



Twenty thousand francs to the Observatory of 



Ksara (near Beyrout). This laboratory was prac- 

 tically destroyed by the Turks and Germans. The 

 grant is towards its restoration. 



Eight thousand francs to Henri Deslandres, for 

 the study of the radical movements of the solar 

 vapors and the thickness of the gaseous atmosphere 

 of the sun. 



Seven thousand five himdred francs to Maurice 

 Hamy, to carry out certain improvements in astro- 

 nomical apparatus of precision. 



Three thousand five hundred francs to Felix 

 Boquet, for the publication of Kepler tables. 



One thousand francs to G. Raymond, for the con- 

 tinuation of his actinometric experiments. 



Ten thousand francs to Charles Marie, for ex- 

 ceptional expense connected with the publication of 

 the ' ' Tables annuelles de constants et donnees 

 num&iques de chimie, de physique et de technol- 

 ogie. ' ' 



Ten thousand francs to the Federation frangaise 

 des Sooietgs de Sciences naturelles, for the publica- 

 tion of a French fauna. 



Two thousand francs to P. Lesne, for his re- 

 searches on the insects of peat -bogs. 



Two thousand francs to A. Paillot, for his re- 

 searches on the microbial diseases of insects. 



Two thousand francs to Just Aimiiot, for the 

 methodical study of the varieties of potato. 



Five thousand francs to Albert Peyron and Ga- 

 briel Petit, for the experimental study of cancer in 

 the larger mammals. 



Three thousand francs to Th. Nogier, for com- 

 pleting the installation of the radio-physiological 

 laboratory of the Bacteriological Institute of 

 Lyons. 



AWARD OF THE NOBEL PRIZE TO PROFESSOR 

 HABER 



By order of the minister from Sweden the 

 first secretary of the legation has made public 

 the following statement correcting certain re- 

 marks that have appeared in the daily press 

 concerning the award by the Swedish Acad- 

 emy of Science of a Nobel Prize for chem- 

 istry to Professor Pritz Haber of Berlin- 

 Dahlen. 



1. The invention for which the prize was 

 awarded to Professor Haber was the synthesis 

 of ammonia by direct way out of its constitu- 

 ent elements. 



2. The report on which the award was made 

 stated that the Haber method of producing 



