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D. Sig-sbee, TJ. S. IST., retired, " for his impor- 

 tant contributions to oceanography, both by 

 actual researcli, by publication of his results 

 and invention of new methods." 



In recognition of successful scientific re- 

 search in the prevention of disease and the 

 conservation of health, Dr. Theobald Smith, 

 head of the Laboratory of Comparative Pathol- 

 ogy of the Rockefeller Institute and formerly 

 of Harvard University, has been voted the M. 

 Douglas Flattery Medal and $500 in gold by 

 the Harvard Corpoi^ation. The medal is 

 awarded to the man of science whose efforts 

 have proved of the greatest value to mankind 

 in fighting disease. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. William H. Welch, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, president of the 

 University Club of Baltimore, was presented 

 to the club recently at its monthly meeting. 



Dr. W. W. Keen has been elected an honor- 

 ary fellow of the Eoyal Society of Medicine, 

 London, and of the American Surgical Asso- 

 ciation. 



Dr. Eaymond F. Bacon, director of the 

 Mellon Institute of Industrial Research of 

 the University of Pittsburgh, who during 

 1918, was a colonel serving as chief of the 

 Technical Division of the Chemical Warfare 

 Service, A. E. P., has been awarded a cita- 

 tion by General Pershing for exceptionally 

 meritorious and conspicuous services in 

 Erance. 



Professor Sadao Yoshida, of Osaka Med- 

 ical College (Japan), has been awarded the 

 Katsurada prize and medal of honor estab- 

 lished by the Japanese government to be 

 given periodically to some distinguished 

 worker on tropical diseases. Professor Yo- 

 shida is spending his sabbatical year in re- 

 search at the Parasitological Laboratory of 

 the University of Illinois. 



Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson has been 

 awarded the La Eoquette Medal of the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Paris. He had pre- 

 viously been awarded the following medals : In 

 December, 1918, the Daly Medal of the Amer- 

 ican Geographical Society, New York; in 

 December, 1918, the medal of the Explorers 



Club of New York; in January, 1919, the 

 Hubbard Medal of the National Geographical 

 Society, Washington; in January, 1919, the 

 Kane Medal of the Geographical Society of 

 Philadelphia; in March, 1919, the Cullum 

 Medal of the Chicago Geographical Society. 

 All these medals are known as gold medals 

 but at Mr. Stefansson's request they have 

 been struck in bronze and the difference in 

 east has been given to Madame Beuchat, the 

 mother of the distinguished scientific man, 

 Henri Beudhat, who died on the expedition. 



Professor Konrad Roentgen retired from 

 his chair of experimental physics at the Uni- 

 versity of Munich and resigned the charge of 

 the Physikalisches Institut at the end of the 

 winter semester. 



The board of trustees of the University of 

 Pennsylvania has accepted the resignation of 

 Provost Edgar Smith to take effect June 30. 

 Dr. Smith presented his resignation last Feb- 

 ruary. In accepting it now the board made 

 him emeritus professor of chemistry and 

 placed at his disposal the Harrison laboratory, 

 where Dr. Smith expects to devote the greater 

 part of his time to research work. 



Dr. Edward T. Reichert, professor of phys- 

 iology in the Medical School of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, has retired from active 

 service. 



At the annual meeting of the Kentucky 

 Academy of Science held in Lexington on May 

 8, the following officers were elected: Presi- 

 dent, Professor W. H. Coolidge, Centre Col- 

 lege, Danville, Ky. ; Vice-President, Professor 

 George D. Smith, Eastern Kentucky State 

 Normal School, Richmond, Ky. ; Secretary, Dr. 

 A. M. Peter, Experiment Station, Lexington, 

 Ky. ; Treasurer, Mr. J. S. McHargue, Experi- 

 ment Station, Lexington, Ky. 



Dr. a. Hrdlioka, of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, has returned from a trip to the Far East 

 He visited Japan, Korea, Manchuria, northern 

 China and Hawaii. 



Mr. Irving Perrine, vice-president of the 

 American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 

 is moving his office from Hutchinson, Kansas, 

 to 1415 West 31st Street, Oklahoma City, 



