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Washington, it seemed desirable to select a 

 place to which the amount of traveling would 

 be reduced as much as possible, and where a 

 meeting concerned with problems of national 

 defense and national welfare could be held to 

 best advantage. The situation was carefully 

 considered at the meeting of the committee on 

 policy held in Washington on April 22, and it 

 was decided that it would be desirable to meet 

 in Baltimore. President Goodnow and the 

 professors of the scientific departments of the 

 Johns Hopkins University having cordially 

 welcomed the plan, it has been definitely de- 

 cided that the meeting will be held in Balti- 

 more. A committee consisting of the perma- 

 nent secretary, Dr. L. O. Howard, Dr. W. J. 

 Himiphreys and Professor J. C. Merriam has 

 been appointed to report on a general plan for 

 a program that will make the meeting of the 

 greatest possible service to the nation. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the annual meeting of the council of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, it was 

 voted that the Walker Grand Honorary Prize, 

 in the shape of a one-thousand-dollar Liberty 

 bond, be awarded to Professor Jacques Loeb, 

 of the Rockefeller Institute, New York, in 

 recognition of his many published works cov- 

 ering a wide range of inquiry into the basic 

 concepts of natural history. The Walker 

 Grand Prize is awarded every five years, under 

 the terms of the will of the late William 

 Johnson Walker, " for such scientific investi- 

 gation or discovery in natural history," first 

 made known and published in the United 

 States, as the council of the society shall deem 

 deserving thereof. 



At the annual meeting of the Boston So- 

 ciety of Natural History, Professor Edward S. 

 Morse, of Salem, was reelected president. He 

 has been a member of the society for 60 years, 

 and in point of seniority is exceeded only by 

 President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. Other officers elected were: Vice-Presi- 

 dents, Nathaniel T. Kidder, William F. 

 WTiitney, Charles F. Batchelder; Secretary, 

 Glover M. Allen; Treasurer, William A. 

 Jeffries ; Councillors for three years, Eeginald 



A. Daly, Merritt L. Fernald, William L. W. 

 Field, George H. Parker, John C, Phillips, 

 William M. 'WTieeler, Edward Wigglesworth, 

 Miss M. A. Willcox. A single Walker prize, 

 of sixty dollars, was awarded in the annual 

 competition. The Prize essay was on " The 

 Seasonal Distribution of Diatoms at Woods 

 Hole, Massachusetts," by Miss Elizabeth D. 

 Wuist, of the Osborn Botanical Laboratory, 

 Yale University. 



The Franklin Institute has awarded its 

 Howard N. Potts Gold Medal to Dr. A. E. 

 Kennelly, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, Cambridge, Mass., for his original 

 work on the hot-wire anemometer. The pur- 

 pose of the device is to balance the heat pro- 

 duced by a measured current of electricity 

 through a small wire against the cooling effect 

 of a current of air, or other gas, moving across 

 the wire. The same award was also made to 

 Professor Louis Vessot King, of McGill Uni- 

 ver^T.ty, Montreal, Canada, for his improve- 

 ments in the hot-wire anemometer, his suc- 

 cessful investigations of various physical 

 problems, and for his making of this instru- 

 ment a practical device for anemometry. 



The Academy of Sciences of Vienna has 

 awarded the Baumgartner prize to Professor 

 A. Einstein. 



Sir Aurel Steix has been awarded the 

 Tchihatchef Prize of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences for his geographical work. 



De.\n Edward M. Freeman, chief of the di- 

 vision of plant pathology and botany of the 

 college of agriculture of the University of 

 Minnesota, has been asked to become chair- 

 man of the agricultural committee of the 

 National Research Council. 



Dr. Ralph Arnold, of Los Angeles, the 

 geologist, has been appointed as a member of 

 the Board of Tax Reviewers, in connection 

 with the administration of the War Revenue 

 Act. 



Dr. Charles F. Bolduax, director of the 

 Bureau of Public Health Education of the 

 Health Department of New York City, has re- 

 signed. 



