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the Tosemite " ; Dr. 0. Hart Merriam, " In- 

 dian tribes formerly in Tosemite." 



The University of Copenliagen has awarded 

 the Salomonsen prize to Professor V. Eller- 

 mann for 'his work on leukemia in fowls. The 

 fund for promotion of research on diabetes has 

 been awarded to Dr. H. C. Hagedom. 



A PRELIMINARY Committee has been formed 

 to give to Sir George Thane, who recently re- 

 signed the chair of anatomy at University Col- 

 lege, London, after forty-'two years' service, 

 some mark of the appreciation felt for him by 

 his old pupils and colleagues. The intention is 

 .to ask Sir George Thane to sit for his portrait. 



Claude Wakeland, deputy state entomolo- 

 gist of Colorado in charge' of the alfalfa 

 weevil investigation during the three years 

 1917-19, has accepted the position of state 

 extension entomologist with the University of 

 Idaho. Mr. Wakeland's permanent head- 

 quarters will be at Boise. 



Dr. David Klein has resigned as associate 

 professor of biochemistry in the Johns Hop- 

 kins University School of Public Health and 

 Hygiene, and has taken a position with the 

 Hollister Wilson Laboratories, Chicago, 111., 

 as director of research and control labora- 

 tories. 



Ernest Jenkins Hoffman, who recently re- 

 signed as assistant chemist, U. S. Bureau of 

 Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa., has accepted a posi- 

 tion in organic research with W. B. Pratt, 

 Inc., Boston, Mass. 



Fixing their base of scientific operations in 

 Death Valley at a level of 178 feet below the 

 sea at the mouth of Furnace Creek Canyon 

 which issues from the Funeral Mountains, 

 Dr. Francis B. Sumner, associate professor 

 and biologist in the Scripps Institute for 

 Biological Research, and Joseph Grinnell, 

 professor of zoology and director of the Uni- 

 versity of California Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology, are now making special studies upon 

 the mammals and birds of Death Valley. 

 The expenses of the expedition are being 

 defrayed from a special fund provided for the 

 purpose by Mj. E. "W. Scripps. 



Neil M. Judd, curator of American archeol- 

 ogy in the U. S. National Museimi, left for 

 northwestern Arizona on May 1 to continue 

 his archeological investigations of the region 

 north and west of the Rio Colorado. It is 

 expected that a report on the prehistoric re- 

 mains of this section of the southwest, cover- 

 ing researches of the past five years, will fol- 

 low this season's work. At the request of the 

 National Geographical Society, the secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution has granted 

 permission for Mr. Judd to direct the 

 society's archeological reconnaissance of the 

 Chaco Canyon region in New Mexico. 



While returning from the recent meeting 

 of the American Chemical Society at St. 

 Louis, Dr. J. H. Ransom, director of chemical 

 research at the Michigan Smelting and Re- 

 fining Co., Detroit, Mich., stopped off at 

 Purdue University and delivered a lecture on 

 Non-Ferrous Alloys before the students of 

 the school of chemical engineering. Dr. 

 Ransom was formerly professor of general 

 chemistry in this university. 



, It is requested that any material or facts of 

 ,interest whiich will aid in the construction of 

 a biographical memoir of the life and work of 

 Henry Lord Wheeler, be mailed to Professor 

 Treat B. Johnson, of Yale University, who is 

 preparing a memoir of Professor Wheeler for 

 the National Academy of Sciences. 



The autumn meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society will be held in Chicago from 

 .September 7 to 10, inclusive. 



A special meeting of the Colorado Academy 

 of Sciences ■vs'hich is the natural history sec- 

 tion of the State Historical and Natural His- 

 itory Society of Colorado, was held at the State 

 Museum, Denver, on April 2, when .the follow- 

 ing program was presented: 



"Work done and work that should be done by — 



1. The Ofaee of the State Forester, W. J. Morrill, 



sitate forester, Ft. Collins, Colo. 



2. The Ofaee of the State Geologist, R. D. George, 



state geologist, Boulder, Colorado. 



3. The OfSce of the State Entomologist, C. P. Gil- 



lette, state entomologist. Fort Collins, Colo. 

 The annual convention of Sigma Gamma 



