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6. To gather and collate scientific and technical 

 information, at home and abroad, in cooperation 

 with governmental and other agencies, and to 

 render such information avaOable to duly accred- 

 ited persons. 



Effective prosecution of the council's work re- 

 quires the cordial collaboration of the scientific 

 and technical branches of the government, both 

 military and civil. To this end representatives of 

 the government, upon the nomination of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences, will be designated by 

 the President as members of the council, as hereto- 

 fore, and the heads of the departments immediately 

 concerned vrill continue to cooperate in every way 

 that may be required. 



WooDEOw Wilson 



The White House, 

 11 May, 1918 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. John J. Carty, colonel in the Signal 

 Corps, until recently cHef engineer of the 

 American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 

 was presented with the Edison medal for 

 " meritorious achievement in the science and 

 art of electrical engineering," on May lY, at 

 the annual meeting of the American Institute 

 of Electrical Engineers. 



Colonel Henry S. Graves, forester of the 

 United States Forest Service, has been elected 

 an honorary member of the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society of Edinburgh, Scot- 

 land, in recognition of his eminent services to 

 forestry. This distinction is shared by Colonel 

 Graves with only one other citizen of this 

 country. Dr. C. S. Sargent, who was elected 

 in 1889. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences held on May 8, 

 acting on the recommendation of the Rumford 

 Committee, it was unanimously voted to award 

 the Eumford Premium to Theodore Lyman 

 for his researches on light of very short wave- 

 length. 



At the commencement exercises of Colgate 

 University, on May 7, the honorary degree of 

 doctor of science was conferred upon Dr. 

 Charles H. Herty, editor of The Journal of 

 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute, has been promoted by the French govern- 

 ment to the rank of Commander of the Legion 

 of Honor. The new decoration was bestowed 

 on May 16 by M. Mourier, Under Secretary of 

 State for Medical Service, in the presence of a 

 distinguished company. M. Mourier recalled 

 Dr. Carrel's biological discoveries, his method 

 of transfusion of blood, his conservation of liv- 

 ing tissue, and his method of grafting bones, as 

 well as the system of treating wounds which he 

 has developed at the hospital at Compiegne. 



The Franklin Institute, on May 15, 1918, 

 made the annual presentation of its Franklin 

 Medal in the auditorium of the Institute. 

 The Franklin Medal, founded in 1914 and 

 awarded only to " those workers in physical 

 science or technology, without regard to coun- 

 try, whose efforts, in the opinion of the Insti- 

 tute, have done most to advance a knowledge 

 of physical science or its applications," was 

 awarded to Signer Guglielmo Marconi, elec- 

 trical engineer and member of the Italian 

 Senate, and to Dr. Thomas Corwin Menden- 

 hall, physicist, of Ravenna, Ohio. The award 

 to Senator Marconi was made in recognition 

 of his "brilliant inception and successful de- 

 velopment of the application of magneto- 

 electric waves to the transmission of signals 

 and telegrams, without the use of metallic con- 

 ductors." The award to Dr. Mendenhall was 

 made in recognition of his " fruitful and in- 

 defatigable labors in physical research, partic- 

 ularly his contributions to our knowledge of 

 physical constants and electrical standards." 

 His Excellency, Count V. Macchi De Cellere, 

 on behalf of the Royal Italian Government, 

 received the Franklin Medal for Senator 

 Marconi, and addressed the institute when the 

 medal was presented to him. Upon the pres- 

 entation of the Medal to Dr. Mendenhall, he 

 addressed the institute on the subject of 

 " Some Metrological Memories." 



Major O. M. Leland, of the 303d Regiment 

 of Engineers, stationed at Camp Dix, has been 

 appointed Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers in 

 the National Army and assigned to the above 

 regiment. Colonel Leland is professor of as- 

 tronomy and geodesy at Cornell University, 



