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The council of the Royal Society lias recom- 

 mended the following : Dr. Ed-ward Frankland 

 Armstrong, Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, Dr. 

 Eobert Broom, Professor Edward Provan 

 Cathcart, Mr. Alfred Chaston Chapman, Dr. 

 Arthur Price Chattock, Mr. Arthur William 

 Hill, Dr. Cargill Gilston Knott, Professor 

 Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Dr. Francis 

 Hugh Adam Marshall, Dr. Thomas Ralph 

 Merton, Dr. Robert Cyril Layton Perkins, 

 Professor Henry Crozier Plummer, Professor 

 Eobert Robinson, and Professor John William 

 Watson Stephens. 



At the annual meeting of the Optical So- 

 ciety, London, Mr. R. S. Whipple was elected 

 to the presidency; the vice-presidents are: 

 Professor F. J. Cheshire, Sir Herbert Jackson, 

 and Mr. H. F. Purser. 



Professor B. A. Houssay, of the University 

 of Buenos Aires, has been elected correspond- 

 ing member of the Societe de Pathologic ex- 

 otique at Paris in token of appreciation for 

 his extensive research on snake venom and on 

 scorpion and spider poisons. 



Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, the English 

 zoologist, under the auspices of the London 

 Times, undertook to make a flight from Cairo 

 to the Cape with special reference to scientific 

 observations, leaving Cairo in a Vickers-Vimy 

 machine with a crew of four pilots and me- 

 chanics on February 6. A forced descent 

 after delays by engine troubles at Tabora, in 

 the Tanganyika territory damaged the machine 

 so that the flight could not be continued. 



Mr. Carl L. Hubbs, assistant curator of 

 ichthyology and herpetology in the Field 

 Museum of Natural History, has resigned to 

 "accept the position of curator of fishes in the 

 Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 



Assistant Professor Gerald L. Wendt, of 

 the department of chemistry at the University 

 of Chicago, has been appointed associate edi- 

 tor of the Journal of the Radiological Society 

 of North America. 



Frank H. Reed, Ph.D. (Chicago, '17), has 

 been made supervisor of Industrial Research 

 for the Butterworth-Judson Corporation of 

 Newark, New Jersey. 



Dr. E. p. Wightman, recently of Parke 

 Davis and Co., of Detroit, has accepted a posi- 

 tion as research chemist with the Eastman 

 Kodak Co., Rochester, N. T. 



Lieutenant Schachne Isaacs, formerly in- 

 structor in psychology at the University of 

 Cincinnati, and at present psychologist in the 

 Air Service, Medical Research Laboratory, 

 Mitchell Field, Long Island, has been awarded 

 the fellowship in psychology offered by the 

 Society for American Fellowships in French 

 universities. This enables the holder to do 

 graduate work in the French universities for 

 two years. The purpose of the society is to 

 develop an appreciation among American 

 scholars of French achievements in science 

 and learning. 



Dr. Charles R. Stockard, professor of 

 anatomy at Cornell University Medical 

 School, New York City, read a paper on 

 " Growth Rate and its Influence on Structural 

 Perfection and Mental Reactions" before the 

 Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, on March 

 12. 



A SPECIAL meeting of the College of Physi- 

 sians of Philadelphia was held March 19, as 

 a memorial to Dr. Horatio C. Wood. Dr. 

 George E. de Schweinitz read a memoir to Dr. 

 Wood. " Recollections of a Pioneer in Phar- 

 macology in the United States," was read by 

 Dr. Hobart A. Hare; "An Appreciation," by 

 Dr. Francis X. Dercimi, and " Reminiscences, 

 Chiefly Neurological and Medico-Legal," by 

 Dr. Charles K. Mills. 



Dr. George D. Allen, instructor in zoology 

 in the University of Minnesota, died from 

 pneumonia on March 11. 



Dr. K. a. J. Mackenzie, dean of the medi- 

 cal department of the University of Oregon, a 

 surgeon of national reputation, is dead at 

 Portland, Ore., from heart disease superin- 

 duced by influenza. 



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The University of Michigan has received 

 an anonymous gift of one million dollars. 



