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was appointed chief chemist, in 1916, chief 

 metallurgist, and in 1919, assistant director. 



Aside from his work on smelter smoke Dr. 

 Cottrell has been intimately connected with 

 work on the separation and purification of 

 gases by liquification and fractional distilla- 

 tion. During the world war and subsequently 

 the development of the Norton or Bureau of 

 Mines process for the recovery of helium from 

 natural gas has been his special care, and it 

 was chiefly tlhrough his efforts that a plant for 

 recovering helium on a lai^e scale for military 

 aeronautics has been erected near Petrolia, 

 Texas. 



Dr. Cottrell is a member of the American 

 Chemical Society, Mining and Metallurgical 

 Society of America, the American Electro- 

 chemical Society, the American Institute of 

 Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. He was awarded the Perkin medal 

 by the New York Section of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry in 1919 in recognition of 

 his Work on electrical precipitation. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Augustus Trowbridge, professor of 

 physics at Princeton University, during the 

 war lieutenant colonel and head of the sound 

 ranging service of the A. E. F., has accepted 

 appointment as chairman of the division of 

 astronomy, mathematics and physics of the 

 National Eesearch Council for the year be- 

 ginning on July 1. 



Dr. Hubert Work, of Colorado, first 

 speaker of the house of delegates of the 

 American Medical Association, has been 

 elected president of the association. 



The coimcil of the British Medical Asso- 

 ciation, at the meeting of April 14, resolved 

 unanimously to recommend the Annual Rep- 

 resentative Meeting that Dr. David Drum- 

 mond, should be elected president of the 

 association for the year 1921-22, to take office 

 at the Annual Meeting to be held at New- 

 castle-on-Tyne in 1921. Dr. Drummond is 

 vice-chancellor and professor of medicine, 

 University of Durham, and consulting phys- 



ician, Royal Victoria Infirmai-y, Newcastle. 

 The council decided also to accept an invita- 

 tion from the Glasgow and West of Scotland 

 Branch to hold the annual meeting of 1922 

 in Glasgow. 



Dr. Otto Klotz, director of the Dominion 

 Observatory, has been elected president of 

 the Seismological Society of America. 



Dr. William H. Welch and Dr. Ira 

 Remsen, both of Johns Hopkins University, 

 have been appointed to the Board of Electors 

 for the Hall of Fame of New York University. 



Dr. John H. Finley has received the gold 

 medal of the Geographical Society of Paris, 

 in recognition of the English edition of his 

 book, " The French in the Heart of America." 

 The French edition of the same work was 

 crowned by the Academie with an award of 

 1,500 francs. 



Professor Eat S. Owen, of the department 

 of topographic and highway engineering of 

 the University of Wisconsin, has been made 

 Officier d'Academie by the French govern- 

 ment for his work in the intelligence depart- 

 ment of the army. 



The Howard Taylor Ricketts prize of the 

 University of Chicago for 1920 has been 

 awarded to Ivan C. Hall for his work on 

 " Studies in Anaerobiology." This prize is 

 awarded annually on May 3, this being the 

 anniversary of the death of Dr. Ricketts from 

 typhus fever while engaged in investigative 

 work on this disease in Mexico City in 1910. 



The Boylston Prize of $300 has been 

 awarded to Messrs. Stuart Mudd, Samuel B. 

 Grant and Alfred Goldman, fourth year stu- 

 dents of medicine, for their research on " The 

 Effect of Chilling on the Mucous Membrane 

 of the Throat and Tonsil," performed in the 

 pathological laboratory of the Washington 

 University School of Medicine. 



Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, formerly physicist in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, who had been on tem- 

 porary assignment to the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards for research on aeroplane problems 

 during the war, has been transferred per- 



