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Speakers at the Banquet 

 Dean Toumey, Colonel Woolsey, Major Marston, 



E. C. Hirst and Mr. Eogers, of the Indian Forest 



Service. 



February S8 



Tlie undergraduate student of forestry : J. H. Bris- 

 coe, Orono, Maine. 



The student of forestry and state service: E. C. 

 HiEST, Concord, N. H. 



The student of forestry and research : S. T. Dana, 

 Washington, D. C. 



MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS 

 CONGRESS IN NEW YORK CITY 



The National Eesearch Council has ap- 

 pointed a conunittee on eugenics, under the 

 division of biology and agriculture, consisting 

 of the following members: L. F. Barker, A. 

 G. Bell, E. A. Hooton, Daniel W. LaEue, 

 Stewart Baton, Eaymond Bearl, R. M. 

 Terkes, H. S. Jennings and C. B. Daven- 

 port, chairman. The committee met on 

 March 20 and voted to hold the Second Inter- 

 national Eugenics Congress in New York 

 City, September 22 to September 28, 1921, 

 inclusive. The invitation of the American 

 Museum of Natural History to hold the 

 meetings of the Congress was gratefully ac- 

 cepted. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was 

 elected honorary president and Dr. Henry F. 

 Osborn, president. Madison Grant is treasurer 

 and Mrs. Sybil Gotto, secretary of the Eu- 

 genics Education Society, in view of her 

 activity in organizing the First Eugenics 

 Congress, was named as honorary secretary of 

 the Second Eugenics Congress. The nucleus 

 of a general committee for the Second Inter- 

 national Congress was elected. This general 

 committee is to meet in New York on Satur- 

 day, April 10. To this general committee are 

 entrusted the details of organizing the con- 

 gress, of arranging the program of the meet- 

 ing, of providing for the entertainment of 

 guests and the raising the necessary funds. 

 The national consultative eugenics bodies in 

 the various allied and associated countries 

 will be informed of the action of the eugenics 

 committee of the National Research Coxmcil 

 and invited to send representatives. A gen- 

 eral invitation will be sent to universities in 



diiferent American countries and in various 

 countries of Europe. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers will confer the Edison Medal, awarded 

 each year for the most noteworthy advance 

 in electrical engineering, on Mr. William 

 Leroy Emmet, consulting engineer of the 

 General Electric Company, for his work on 

 the electric propulsion of ships. 



Dr. E. W. Brown, professor of mathematics 

 in Yale University, received the Bruce Medal 

 of the Astronomical Society of the Bacific, at 

 a meeting in San Francisco on March 26. 



The University of Dublin has conferred the 

 degree of doctor of science on Frofessor R. A. 

 Millikan, of the University of Chicago. 



Dr. J. M. T. Finney, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, and Dr. Charles H. Mayo, Rochester, 

 Minn., have been elected honorary fellows of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons. It is hoped 

 that they may be able to attend the meeting 

 of the council in July for the presentation of 

 diplomas. 



Sir James Dewar has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the French Academy of 

 Sciences in the section of general physics in 

 succession to the late Professor P. Blaserna. 



Professor Horace Lamb, Sir Thomas L. 

 Heath, Professor W. H. Bragg and Dr. Henry 

 Head have been elected honorary fellows of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. 



Dr. Bradford Knapp, chief of extension 

 work in the South, States Relations Service, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, since 1911, 

 has been appointed dean of the coUege of 

 agriculture, of the University of Arkansas 

 and director of the experimental station, and 

 chief of the department of rural economics. 

 Martin Nelson has been appointed vice-dean 

 and vice-director and chief of the department 

 of agronomy. 



Dr. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.E.S., professor 

 of zoology in the University of Cambridge, has, 

 at the request of the deputy minister of fisher- 

 ies, undertaken temporarily the direction of 



