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Haven, a testimonial dinner was given to 

 him by tlie observatory committee. Besides 

 the committee there were present other mem- 

 bers of the board of trustees and a few other 

 guests. 



Dr. H. D. Curtis has been elected director 

 of the observatory and he is to assume charge 

 early in July, 1920. Dr. Curtis has been 

 connected with the Lick Observatory for about 

 twenty years. For a number of years he had 

 charge of the station of the Lick Observatory 

 at Santiago, Chile; more recently he has had 

 charge of the work with the Crossley Reflect- 

 ing Telescope on Mount Hamilton. 



Dr. Frank Craig Jordan, assistant pro- 

 fessor at the Allegheny Observatory since 

 1908, has been promoted to a full professor- 

 ship and has been elected assistant director of 

 the observatory. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Members of the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences have been elected as follows : Dr. James 

 Rowland Angell, University of Chicago and 

 the National Research Council, president-elect 

 of the Carnegie Corporation, psychologist; Dr. 

 Henry Prentiss Armsby, Pennsylvania State 

 College, physiological chemist : Dr. Wilder D. 

 Bancroft, Cornell University and the Na- 

 tional Research Council, chemist; Dr. Hans 

 F. Blichfeldt, Stanford University, mathe- 

 matician; Dr. A. J. Carlson, University of 

 Chicago, physiologist; Dr. William Duane, 

 Harvard University, physicist; Dr. Lewis R. 

 Jones, University of Wisconsin, plant pathol- 

 ogist; Dr. Elmer Peter Kohler, Harvard 

 University, chemist; Dr. Charles K. Leith, 

 University of Wisconsin, geologist; Dr. 

 Clarence Erwin McClung, University of 

 Pennsylvania and National Research Council, 

 zoologist; Dr. Elmer V. McCollum, the Jolras 

 Hopkins University, physiological chemist; 

 Dr. George Washington Pierce, Harvard 

 University, physicist; Harris J. Ryan, Stan- 

 ford University, electrical engineer; Dr. Joel 

 Stebbins, University of Ulinois, astronomer, 

 and Dr. Bailey Willis, Stanford University, 

 geologist. Arthur L. Day, of the Carnegie 

 Institution, and T. H. Morgan, of C'olumbia 



University, were elected members of the 

 council. 



At a meeting held April 20, the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, in recog- 

 nition of their scientific accomplishments, 

 elected as correspondents the following: 

 William Berryman Scott, Merrit L. Femald, 

 Hans Frederick Gadow, Johann P. Lotsy, 

 Daniel T. MacDougal, Raymond Pearl, 

 William E. Ritter, William Schaus and 

 William Lutley Sclater. 



Dr. William Morris Davis, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of geology at Hai-vard University, has 

 been awarded the Vega medal of the Swedish 

 Anthropological and Geographical Society. 



At its last meeting the Rumford Committee 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 made the following appropriations for re- 

 search: To Professor H. M. Randall, of the 

 University of Michigan, in aid of his research 

 on the structure of spectra in the infra-red, 

 ^ve hundred dollars ; to Professor L. R. Inger- 

 ^11, of the University of Wisconsin, in aid of 

 his research on the polarizing effect of diffrac- 

 tion gratings, one hundred and fifty dollars; 

 to Professor A. G. Webster, of Clark Univer- 

 sity, in aid of his researches on new methods in 

 pyrodynamics and practical interior ballistics, 

 five hundred dollars. 



Professor Jacques Hadamard, Sc.D., LL.D., 

 of the College of France, is delivering at Yale 

 University the thirteenth regular course of lec- 

 tures on the Hepsa Ely Silliman Foundation. 

 The first of M. Hadamard's lectures on " Some 

 topics in linear partial differential equations " 

 was given on April 23. 



The second series of the LeConte Memorial 

 lectures will be given in the Tosemite National 

 Park during the months of June and July. 

 These lectures were instituted in honor of the 

 naturalist and geologist, Joseph Le Conte, who 

 for thirty years was a member of the faculty 

 /of the University of California. This year the 

 (Speakers and subjects are announced as fol- 

 lows: Dr. John C. Merriam, " The philosophy 

 of Joseph Le Conte " ; Dr. A. C. Lawson, " The 

 geological history of the Sierra Nevada " ; Dr. 

 ,Joseph Grinnell, " The vertebrate animals of 



