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plained the new plans of the school. Wiat 

 these men said concerning the work of the 

 school is now doing and its recognition 

 throughout the medical world greatly im- 

 pressed the trustees. The following resolu- 

 tions concerning the school were unanimously 

 adopted : 



Sesolved, That in the judgment of the board of 

 trustees the maintenance and development of the 

 graduate school of medicine is essential alike to the 

 cause of medical education in this commonwealth 

 and to the leadership of the university in this 

 field. 



Besolved, That the budget of the graduate school 

 of medicine for the year 1920-21, involving an es- 

 timated deficit of $158,079.37, be approved. 



Besolved, That a committee ■consisting of all the 

 members of this board and such others as may be 

 appointed by the provost be empowered to cooper- 

 ate with the managers of the hospitals of the 

 graduate school of medicine in raising the neces- 

 sary funds for the support of that school. 



Besolved, That pending the receipt of the neces- 

 sary contributions for the support of the graduate 

 school of medicine the credit of the university be 

 pledged and the treasurer be authorized to pay out 

 of unrestricted funds not otherwise appropriated 

 such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding the 

 amount of the estimated deficit, $157,079.-37. 



OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH 

 COUNCIL 



The National Research Council has elected 

 the following officers for the year beginning 

 July 1, 1920: Chairman, H. A. Bumstead, 

 professor of physics and director of the Sloane 

 physical laboratory, Tale University; First 

 Vice-Chairman, C. D. Walcott, president of 

 the National Academy of Sciences and Sec- 

 retary of the Smithsonian Institution; Second 

 Vice-Chairman, Gano Dunn, president of the 

 J. G. White Engineering Corporation, New 

 York; Third Vice-Chairman, E. A. Millikan, 

 professor of physics. University of Chicago; 

 Permanent Secretary, Vernon Kellogg, pro- 

 fessor of entomology, Stanford University; 

 Treasurer, F. L. Ransome, treasurer of the 

 National Academy of Sciences. The chair- 

 man of the various Divisions of the Council 

 have not yet been all selected but will be 

 announced later. As the general officers and 



the division chairmen of the coim.cil are 

 elected annually, with the consequent possi- 

 bility of an almost complete change of ad- 

 ministrative officers at the end of any annual 

 period, the coimcil instituted the office of per- 

 manent secretary for the sake of effecting 

 some degree of administrative continuity. 

 Professor Kellogg, who has for the past year 

 been serving as secretary of the council and 

 chairman of its division of educational rela- 

 tions, will fill ithis office, and will resign from 

 Stanford University on July 1 of this year. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



On the recommendation of the National 

 Academy of Sciences the Barnard medal for 

 meritorious service to science has been con- 

 ferred by Columbia University on Professor 

 Albert Einstein, of Berlin, in recognition "of 

 his highly original and fruitful development 

 of the fundamental concepts of physics 

 th-rough application of mathematics." 



Dr. Ernest Solvay, Belgium, has been 

 elected to honorary memibership in the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society. 



The honorary d^ree of doctor of science 

 was conferred on Edward "William Nelson, 

 chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, at the re- 

 cent commencement exercises of George Wash- 

 ington University. 



On the evening of May 22, a dinner was 

 given at New Haven to Professor Russell H. 

 Chittenden in honor of the fortieth anniver- 

 sary of his receiving the degree of doctor of 

 philosophy from Yale University. Sixty-five 

 former graduate students and friends were 

 present. The dinner followed the one hun- 

 dred and eighth meeting of the Society for 

 Experimental Biology and Medicine. 



Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, retiring provost of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, was a guest 

 of honor at a dinner given by nearly 500 mem- 

 bers of the faculty of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania at Weighitman Hall, May 26. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research, has been ap- 

 pointed to represent the United States at the 

 first formal meeting of the Medical Advisory 



