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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL VII. No. 1218 



Smitlisoniaii Institution, President Walcott 

 presiding. 



The scientific program whicli was printed in 

 tlie last issue of Science included reports of 

 important researches, summaries of war work 

 connected with, the Wational Research Coun- 

 cil (a committee of the Academy), and the 

 William Ellery Hale lectures on " The Begin- 

 ning of Human History from the Geologic 

 Eecord," by Dr. John C. Merriam, of the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



At the annual dinner, held Tuesday evening 

 at the Cosmos Club, the following medals and 

 awards were presented: 



The Comstock Prize of $1,500 for discoveries in 

 magnetism and eleetrieity was awarded to Samuel 

 Jackson Barnett, Ohio State University, Oolumbus, 

 Ohio. 



The Draper Medal for discoveries in astronom- 

 ical physics, to Walter Sydney Adams, Mount Wil- 

 son Solar Observatory, Pasadena, California. 



The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and Honor- 

 arium, for work in paleontology and zoology, to 

 Frank M. Chapman, American Museum, New York. 



Members of the Council elected were W. H. 

 Howell and C. G. Abbott. 



The new members elected were: 



Eobert Grant Aitkem, astronomer, Lick Observ- 

 atory, California. 



George Francis Atkinson, botanist, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, New York. 



George David BirkhofE, mathematician. Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Percy Williams Bridgman, physicist, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Stephen Alfred Forbes, zoologist, Urbana, Illi- 

 nois. 



Charles Elwood Mendenhall, physicist, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. 



John Campbell Merriam, paleontologist, Uni- 

 versity of California, Berkeley, California. 



Henry Norrds Eussell, astronomer, Princeton 

 University, Princeton, New Jersey. 



David Watson Taylor, engineer. Bear Admiral, 

 and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Re- 

 pair, Department of the Navy, Washington, D. C. 



John Ripley Freeman, engineer. Providence, 

 Rhode Island. 



Charles Judson Herriek, neurologist, University 

 of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 



Ludwig Hektoen, pathologist. University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, IlMnois. 



Frank Baldwin Jewett, engineer. Western Elec- 

 tric Company, New York City. 



Walter Jones, physiologist, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Baltimore, Maryland. 



Irving Langmuir, chemist, Greneral Electric 

 Company, Schenectady, New York. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Geological Society of France has 

 awarded to Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn the 

 Gaudry Medal, which was established by the 

 society in the year 1910 in honor of the dis- 

 tinguished French paleontologist, Albert Gau- 

 dry. Previous awards of the medal have 

 ,been to the following paleontologists and geol- 

 ogists: Albert Gaudry, 1910; Marcellin Boule, 

 1911; Henri Douville, 1912; Eduard Suess, 

 1913; Emile Haug, 1914; Charles D. Walcott, 

 191Y. 



Dr. Louis A. Bauer, director of the depart- 

 ment of terrestrial magnetism, Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington, has been elected a for- 

 eign correspondent member of the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Sciences of Netherlands India. 



At the last session of the Paris Academy of 

 Medicine, an election was held to fill the places 

 of Dr. Duguet and Professor Eeclus in the sec- 

 tion of internal pathology and external pathol- 

 ogy, respectively. To the former Dr. Pierre 

 Teissier was elected by 55 out of 62 votes, and 

 to the latter. Dr. Felix de Lapersonne was 

 elected by 49 out of 61 votes. 



The recalling of Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin 

 to the United States Public Health Service to 

 become assistant surgeon-general in charge of 

 the Division of Interstate Quarantine, left a 

 vacancy in the health coromissionership of 

 Massachusetts, which has been filled by the 

 appointment of Dr. Eugene R. Kelley, who 

 went into office on April 1. Dr. Kelley was 

 formerly commissioner of health of Washing- 

 ton, and for three years past has been director 

 cf the department of communicable diseases in 

 the Massachusetts organization. 



Mr. R. M. Stewart, who has been associated 

 with the Dominion Astronomical Observatory 

 at Ottawa since 1902, has been appointed as- 

 sistant chief astronomer. 



