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manufacturers, and his appointment is wel- 

 comed by the British glass industry." 



Peofessob Frank G. Haughwout has been 

 placed in charge of the work and investiga- 

 tion in protozoology and parasitology in the 

 Bureau of Science, Manila. He has resigned 

 his chair in the University of the Philippines, 

 but win continue to lecture to the medical 

 students. 



Messes. 0. G. Derick, William Hoskins, 

 F. A. Lidbury, A. D. Little, Charles L. Eeese, 

 and 0. P. Townsend, have been appointed as- 

 sociate editors with Dr. John Johnston, editor 

 of the Technological Monographs of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society. Messrs. G. 'N. Lewis, 

 L. B. Mendel, Julius Stieglitz and A. A. 

 Noyes, have been appointed associate editors 

 with A. A. N"oyes, editor of the Scientific 

 Monographs of the society. 



Professoe H. a. Curtis, who has held the 

 chair of organic chemistry at Iforthwestern 

 University, has resigned to enter industrial 

 work. 



Mr. E. K. Brodie has been transferred from 

 the position of industrial fellow at the Mellon 

 Institute of Industrial Research to the chem- 

 ical department of the chemical division of 

 Proctor and Gamble Company, Ivorydale, 

 Ohio. 



De. George Heyl has become vice-presi- 

 dent and technical director of the Heyl Lab- 

 oratories, Inc., New York City. 



The directors of the Fenger Memorial As- 

 sociation have awarded Dr. Harry Culver a 

 grant to aid in the study of certain urinary 

 infections. 



De. Edwin Dellee, secretary of the Brown 

 Animal Sanatory Institution, University of 

 London, has been appointed assistant secre- 

 tary to the Royal Society to succeed Mr. R. 

 W. F. Harrison, who, owing to the state of 

 his health, has resigned the office, which he 

 has held for twenty-four years. 



The following awards have been made by 

 the council of the British Institution of 

 Mining and Metalliirgy: (1) Gold medal of 

 the institution to Mr. H. Livingstone Sulman, 

 in recognition of his contributions to metal- 



lurgical science, with special reference to his 

 work in the development of flotation and its 

 application to the recovery of minerals. (2) 

 "The Consolidated Gold Fields of South 

 Africa, Ltd." gold medal to Mr. William 

 Henry Goodchild, for his papers on " The 

 Economic Geology of the Insizwa Range" 

 and " The Genesis of Igneous Ore Deposits." 

 (3) " The Consolidated Gold Fields of South 

 Africa, Ltd." premium of forty guineas to 

 Dr. Edward Thomas Mellor, for his paper on 

 " The Conglomerates of the Witwatersrand." 



At a recent meeting of the advisory com- 

 mittee of tie American Chemical Society it 

 was voted to recommend to the Board of 

 Directors that a sum not to exceed $1,000 for 

 traveling expenses be placed at the disposal of 

 Professor W. A. Ifoyes, the president of the 

 society, for the year 1920, for the purpose of 

 visiting local sections of the society, such 

 trips to be made by arrangement with the 

 president but only on condition that the sec- 

 tion or sections visited pay one half such ex- 

 penses. It was suggested that local sections 

 so far as possible arrange with the president 

 or among themselves for joint meetings or 

 continuous routing. 



It is noted in Nature tibat December 31, 

 marked the bicentenary of the death of John 

 Flamsteed, first astronomer royal of England, 

 and the rector of the parish of Burstow, 

 Surrey, where he is buried. Flamsteed was 

 bom four years after Newton. Though pre- 

 vented by illness from attending a imiversity, 

 he was devoted to mathematical studies, and 

 in 1671 sent a paper to the Royal Society. 

 Three years later he published his " Ephe- 

 merides," a copy of which, being presented to 

 Charles II. by Sir Jonas Moore, led to Flam- 

 steed being appointed on March 4, 1675, " our 

 astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 

 per annum, his duty being " forthwith to 

 apply himself with the most exact care and 

 diligence to the rectifying the tables of the 

 motions of the heavens and the places of the 

 fixed stars, so as to fijid out the so much 

 desired longitude of places for the perfecting 

 the art of navigation." The observatory at 

 Greenwich, constructed partly of brick from 



