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served as president of the Eoehester Academy 

 of Science from 1889 to 1891, secretary of 

 Geological Society of America from 1890 to 

 1906, and president of the society in 1912. 

 He was chairman of a section of geology of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science in 1898 and is a member of 

 its executive committee. Professor Fairchild 

 is an authority in glacial and dynamic geology. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor John C. Merriam, of the Uni- 

 versity of California, was elected president of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington on 

 May 25, to succeed Dr. R. S. Woodward, who 

 will retire at his own request at the end of the 

 year, after sixteen years of service. Dr. 

 Merriam is professor of paleontology and 

 dean at the University of California. He was 

 last year acting chairman of the National 

 Research Council. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences held on May 

 12, it was voted upon the recommendation of 

 the Rumford Committee to award the Rum- 

 ford Premium to Dr. Irving Langmuir, of 

 the General Electric Co., for his researches 

 in thermionic and allied phenomena. 



At a stated meeting of the Franklin Insti- 

 tute on May 19 the Franklin Medals were 

 presented to Sir Auckland Geddes, British 

 ambassador for the Honorable Sir Charles A. 

 Parsons, Newcastle-on-Tyne and to His Ex- 

 cellency, Mr. A. W. F. Ekengren, minister 

 of Sweden for Professor Svante August 

 Arrhenius, of the ISTobel Institute, Stockholm. 

 Papers were read on " Some Reminiscenses 

 of Early Days of Turbine Development," by 

 Sir Charles A. Parsons and on " The World's 

 Energy Supply," by Professor Arrhenius. 



The Societe de Pathologic Exotique has 

 elected the following members from the United 

 States: Dr. S. Flexner, Rockefeller Institute, 

 associate member, already corresponding mem- 

 ber; Dr. B. H. Ransom, U. S. Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, corresponding member. 



Professor Hiram Bingham has been dec- 

 orated by the French government with the 



Ordre de I'Etoile Noire, grade of officer, for 

 his services in France during the war. Dr. 

 Bingham was recently elected an alternate-at- 

 large to the Republican National Convention 

 to be held in Chicago in June. 



Professor A. D. Wilson, director of the 

 division of agricultural extension of the col- 

 lege of agriculture of the University of 

 Minnesota, has declined the post of assistant 

 secretary of agriculture, tendered him by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, E. T. Meredith. 



At its meeting on May 12 the Rumford 

 Committee of the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences voted an appropriation of $200 

 additional to former appropriations to Pro- 

 fessor Norton A. Kent, of Boston University, 

 in aid of his research on spectral lines. 



Charles W. Trigg, incumbent of the Coffee 

 Fellowship at the Mellon Institute of Indus- 

 trial Research, while still retaining his former 

 connection, has moved to Detroit, Michigan, 

 to assume charge of the chemical department 

 of the donors, the King Coffee Products 

 Corporation. 



General W. C. Gorgas has left for England 

 accompanied by Brigadier-General Robert E. 

 Noble. They will proceed to Wset Africa to 

 study what is alleged to be an outbreak of 

 yellow fever in that district. 



Dr. Louise Pearce, of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research, has sailed for 

 England and Belgium en route to the Belgian 

 Congo for the purpose of studying the chemo- 

 therapy of African sleeping sickness. 



Mr. Frank 0. Baker, curator of the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History of the University of 

 Illinois, wiU' spend the months of July and 

 August in making a survey of the mollusean 

 fauna of Winnebago Lake, Wisconsin, in the 

 interests of the Wisconsin Geological and 

 Natural History Survey. Material will also 

 be obtained for the exhibits and research col- 

 lections of the Illinois University Museum. 

 Winnebago Lake is similar in origin to the 

 large Oneida Lake in New York, which Mr. 

 Baker surveyed several years ago for the Col- 

 lege of Forestry at Syracuse University, and 

 a comparison of the faunas of the two bodies 



