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Sir Norman Lockyer has been elected a for- 

 eign honorary member of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has voted 

 to confer its Delalande-Guerineau prize on Sir 

 Ernest Shaekleton. 



Professor C. F. Marvin, chief of the 

 Weather Bureau, and Dr. L. O. Howard, chief 

 of the Bureau of Entomology, have been ap- 

 pointed by the secretary of agriculture to rep- 

 resent the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 on the Council of Research which is being or- 

 ganized by the National Academy of Sciences. 



The forty-fourth annual meeting of the 

 American Public Health Association will be 

 held in Cincinnati, October 24 to 27, under the 

 presidency of Dr. John E. Anderson, of New 

 Brunswick, N. J., formerly assistant surgeon 

 general of the United States Public Health 

 Service. 



Dr. Emery B. Hayhurst, of Columbus, has 

 resigned as chief of the bureau of occupational 

 diseases of the Ohio State Department of 

 Health, to accept the assistant professorship 

 of industrial hygiene in the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity. Dr. Boscoe P. Albaugh succeeds Dr. 

 Hayhurst as chief of the bureau of occupa- 

 tional diseases. 



The Chicago commissioner of health has ap- 

 pointed a committee to undertake research on 

 infantile paralysis. The members are: Dr. M. 

 Herzog, chairman, and Drs. K. Meyer, H. B. 

 Thomas, A. Hoyne and A. K. Armstrong. 



J. N. B. Hewitt, of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, is continuing this summer his eth- 

 nologic researches among the Iroquois tribes. 



Van H. Manning, director of the bureau of 

 mines of the department of the interior, vis- 

 ited Seattle on August 14 for the purpose of 

 determining whether the experimental mining 

 and metallurgical station to be established in 

 the northwest by the federal government 

 should be in Seattle. Dean Milnor Roberts, 

 of the college of mines of the University of 

 Washington, has offered the facilities of his 

 college for use by the station and has asked 

 that the station be located on the university 



campus. Mr. Manning also inspected other 

 possible locations for the station. 



Dr. W. A. Murrill returned on August 21 

 from a vacation of two weeks spent in the 

 Catskills, at Arkville, Delaware County, New 

 York, where he obtained about 400 numbers 

 of fungi for the New York Botanical Garden 

 herbarium. Arkville is of special interest to 

 botanists in New York City because it is in- 

 cluded in the local flora range and furnishes 

 many species found in the Adirondacks. 



The George Williams Hooper Foundation 

 for Medical Research of the University of 

 California has sent a member of its staff, Dr. 

 Ernest Linwood Walker, associate professor 

 of tropical medicine, to South America, to 

 carry on investigations as to tropical diseases 

 on the upper reaches of the Amazon. He will 

 be stationed for most of the year 1,500 miles 

 up the Amazon, in the region of Porto Zelho, 

 Rio Madeira, Amazon, Brazil. For his re- 

 searches as to parasitic infections of man he 

 is to have the privileges of the hospital main- 

 tained there by the Madeira-Mamora Railroad, 

 of which the medical director is Dr. Allen M. 

 Walker, a graduate of 1907 of the University 

 of California Medical School. 



A cablegram to the press from Buenos Aires 

 reports that Sir Ernest Shaekleton left Punta 

 Arenas, Chile, on August 26, on board the ship 

 Yelcho, to make a third attempt to rescue the 

 members of his expedition marooned on Ele- 

 phant Island. 



At the meeting of the American Chemical 

 Society, to be held in New York, from Septem- 

 ber 25 to 30, the program will include a sym- 

 posium on occupational diseases which will be 

 presided over by Professor Charles Basker- 

 ville, head of the department of chemistry of 

 the College of the City of New York. Among 

 the topics which will be discussed are the 

 chemical trades, prophylaxis in chemical in- 

 dustry, diseases incidental to work in aniline 

 and other coal tar products, cedar lumber, 

 mines and explosives. There will be a gen- 

 eral discussion, the speakers including Dr. W. 

 Gilman Thompson, of New York; Dr. F. L. 

 Hofman, Dr. J. W. Schereschewsky, G. P. 



