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publique by the French government, has been 

 named officier d'Academie (silver palms). 

 The decorations are in recognition of -work 

 done as Medecin-chef of Hopital militaire 32 

 bis. during 1916. 



Sm Joseph Larmor, of the University of 

 Cambridge, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the French Academy of Sciences 

 in the section of geometry. 



Presidents of sections of the British Asso- 

 ciation have been appointed as follows: A 

 (Mathematics and Physics), Professor A. S. 

 Eddington; B (Chemistry), Mr. C. T. Hey- 

 cock; C (Geology), Dr. F. A. Bather; D 

 (Zoology), Professor J. Stanley Gardiner; E 

 (Geography), Mr. J. McFarlane; F (Eco- 

 nomics), Dr. J. H. Clapham; G (Engineer- 

 ing), Professor C. F. Jenkin; H (Anthro- 

 pology), Professor Karl Pearson; I (Phys- 

 iology), Mr. J. Barcroft; K (Botany), Miss 

 E. E. Saunders; L (Education), Sir Robert 

 Blair; and M (Agriculture), Professor F. W. 

 Keeble. As has already been announced Pro- 

 fessor W. A. Herdman will preside over the 

 meeting which opens at Cardiff on August 24. 



Dr. 0. G. Storm, formerly lieutenant colonel, 

 Ordnance Department, U. S. A., has resigned 

 as assistant director of research with the Tro- 

 jan Powder Co., Allentown, Pa., to accept the 

 I)osition of professor of chemical engineering 

 in the Ordnance School of Application, Aber- 

 deen Proving Ground, Maryland, and will also 

 be engaged in research work on explosives and 

 other ordnance materials. 



Mr. Sherman Leavitt, formerly professor of 

 cliemistry and agriculture in Illinois College, 

 Jacksonville, 111., has become food chemist for 

 the War Department, stationed in the Bureau 

 of Chemistry laboratory at St. Louis. 



Dr. Edwin Linton, professor of biology in 

 Washington and Jefferson College, having 

 reached the age of sixty-five years, vsdll retire 

 at the end of the present college year. He ex- 

 pects to devote his time to research work. 



Professor Henry Parker Manning, of the 

 department of mathematics of Brown Univer- 

 sity, has resigned. Professor Manning has 



been connected with Brown University for 

 twenty-nine consecutive years. 



Professor Ora Miner Leland, of the faculty 

 of civil engineering at Cornell University, has 

 resigned his professorship and taken a position 

 with the J. G. White Company of New York. 



Mr. H. DeWitt Valentine has resigned 

 from his position as instructor in chemical 

 engineering at the University of Wisconsin, 

 Madison, Wis., and is now retained as chem- 

 ical engineer and bacteriologist by the Ozone 

 Company of America, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Professor Ernest Merritt lectured recently 

 on " Methods used for the detection of sub- 

 marines " before the Cornell chapter of the 

 Sigma Xi. During the war Professor Merritt 

 conducted investigations that proved of great 

 value in diminishing the danger of submarine 

 attack. 



Professor C. F. Hottbs gave the address be- 

 fore the Illinois chapter of Sigma Xi, at the 

 meeting of March 17. The subject of the ad- 

 dress was " Algse as rock builders." 



Dr. Louis A. Bauer gave the evening lecture 

 at the joint meeting, held in Columbus on 

 April 2, of the Ohio Section of the Mathe- 

 matical Association of America, the Ohio Col- 

 lege Association and the Ohio Society of Col- 

 lege Teachers of Education. His topic was 

 " The deflection of light observed during the 

 solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, and its bearing 

 upon the Einstein theory of gravitation," il- 

 lustrated by lantern slides. He also gave pub- 

 lic lectures on " The solar eclipse of May 29, 

 1919 and the Einstein theory" at Ohio State 

 University, April 3, at Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, April 5, and at the College of Wooster, 

 Wooster, Ohio, April 6. 



A course in fractures is being given at the 

 Cornell Medical College, during April by Dr. 

 Joseph A. Blake, Dr. George W. Hawley and 

 Dr. James IST. Hitzrot Five. Dr. Alexis Carrel 

 wiU also give one lecture. Other exercises 

 will be held by Dr. H. H. M. Lyle, Dr. Burton 

 J. Lee and Dr. John C. A. Gerster. 



The annual initiation of the Columbia 

 Chapter of Sigma Xi was held on Friday 

 evening, April 9, at Columbia University. 



