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regular opportunities of graduate students and 

 investigators, but also to the farming interests 

 of the state, to whom the combined efforts and 

 results are valuable. The affiliation, thus 

 bringing a mutual extension of privileges, is 

 characterized by the authorities as a gain to 

 both institutions without cost or loss to either." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The next meeting of the American Astron- 

 omical Society will be held at Smith College 

 Observatory, Northampton, Massachusetts, be- 

 ginning on September 1. The society will 

 also visit the observatoi-y at Mt. Holyoke 

 College. 



The American Association of Anatomists 

 will hold their annual meeting at the National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C, from April 1 to 

 3. The program contains about sixty titles 

 for papers and fifty demonstrations. 



The second annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Society of Mammalogists will be held in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City, May 3-5, 1920. There will 

 be opportunities to visit the New York Zo- 

 ological Park, the Brooklyn Museum, the New 

 York Aquarium, and other institutions of in- 

 terest to members. Headquarters will be at 

 the Hotel York, 7th Avenue and 36th Street, 

 three blocks north of the Pennsylvania 

 Station. 



Dr. John Charles Hessler has been ap- 

 pointed assistant director of the Mellon Insti- 

 tute of Industrial Eesearch of the University 

 of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hessler, who is now serv- 

 ing as president of James Milliken Univer- 

 sity, Decatur, HI., will enter upon his new 

 work at the close of the present academic 

 year. As a member of the administrative 

 stafE of the Mellon Institute, he will be in 

 supervisory charge of certain of the researches 

 in organic chemistry, a field in which he has 

 specialized during the past twenty years. 



Dr. John W. Macfarlane, professor of 

 botany and director of the Botanical Labora- 

 tory and of the Botanic Gardens of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, has tendered his 



resignation after twenty-eight years of serv- 

 ice, to take effect on June 30. 



Dr. Waldemar T. Schaller has resigned as 

 chemist in the division of physical and chem- 

 ical research. United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, and has accepted a position with the 

 Great Southern Sulphur Co., Inc., of New 

 Orleans, La., operating at Orla, Texas. 



The French government has conferred the 

 decoration, " Officier de I'lnstruction Pub- 

 lique," upon Professor E. B. Van Vleck, of 

 the department of mathematics of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, in recognition of his 

 services as teacher and investigator and for 

 his work during the war. 



Professor Warren H. Lewis, of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, has been elected an 

 honorary member of the Society of Medicine 

 of Gand. 



At its meeting held on March 10, the Eum- 

 ford Committee of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences appropriated the sum of 

 $250 to Professor Julius Stieglitz in aid of 

 the publication of Marie's " Tables of Con- 

 stants." 



At a meeting of the Eoyal Society of the 

 Medical and Natural Sciences of Brussels 

 held on December 1, Dr. John J. Abel, profes- 

 sor of pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins 

 University, was elected an associate member 

 of the society. 



The Committee on Scientific Research of 

 the American Medical Association has made 

 these grants for scientific work : Professor G. 

 Carl Huber, University of Michigan, for study 

 of nerve repair, $400. Professor H. M. Evans, 

 University of California, for study of the in- 

 fluence of endocrine glands on ovulation, $400. 

 Professor E. E. LeCount, Eush Medical Col- 

 lege, for study of extradural hemorrhage and 

 of the hydrogen-ion content of the blood in 

 experimental streptococcus infections, $200. 

 Dr. E. E. Ecker, Western Eeserve University, 

 for a study of the specificness of antianaphy- 

 laxis, $200. Dr. Henrietta Calhoun, Iowa, 

 State University, for a study of the effect of 

 protein shock on diphtheria intoxication, $400. 



