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from August 30 to September 2, with Dr. 

 E. C. Pickering in the chair. 



Dr. Thomas H. Macbride has been elected 

 president emeritus of the State University of 

 Iowa, on his retirement from the presidency 

 which he accepted two and a half years ago. 

 Dr. Macbride had been assistant professor and 

 professor of botany in the university since 

 1878. 



Dr. L. H. Baekeland has been appointed to 

 represent the American Chemical Society on 

 the Natural Research Council being organized 

 by a committee of the National Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The Alvarenga prize this year in Brazil was 

 awarded to G. Biedel, chief of the biologic 

 chemistry service at the Hospicio Nacional 

 and instructor at the university. His work 

 described researches on the protective fer- 

 ments, and a process for determining the spe- 

 cific ferments by superficial tension. 



Professor Charles Bichet, of the Univer- 

 sity of Paris, has been awarded the state prize 

 for poetry. The subject was " The Glory of 

 Pasteur." 



We learn from Nature that Dr. A. Lauder, 

 of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, has been elected honorary 

 secretary of the Edinburgh and East of Scot- 

 land section of the Society of Chemical Indus- 

 try, in succession to Dr. J. P. Longstafi, now 

 general secretary of the society in London. 



Dr. Herbert B. Brown has resigned from 

 the position of assistant director of the Massa- 

 chusetts State Department of Health to ac- 

 cept an appointment as pathologist at the 

 Bochester Homeopathic Hospital at Bochester, 

 1ST. T. 



The position of assistant botanist to the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden has been filled by 

 the appointment of Mr. J. C. Th. Uphof, for 

 the past three years assistant professor of 

 botany at the University of Arizona. 



On the initiative of the Boyal Society a 

 Board of Scientific Societies has been estab- 

 lished in Great Britain to promote the co- 

 operation of those interested in pure or ap- 

 plied science; to supply a means by which the 



scientific opinion of the country may, on 

 matters relating to science, industry and edu- 

 cation find effective expression; to take such 

 action as may be necessary to promote the 

 application of science to industries and to the 

 service of the nation; and to discuss scien- 

 tific questions in which international coopera- 

 tion seems advisable. The board at present 

 consists of representatives of twenty-seven 

 scientific and technical societies. An execu- 

 tive committee has been appointed, consist- 

 ing of Sir Joseph Thomson, CM., president 

 of the Boyal Society, chairman; Dr. Dugald 

 Clerk, F.E.S., Sir Bobert Hadfield, E.B.S., 

 Mr. A. D. Hall, F.B.S., Professor Herbert 

 Jackson, honorary secretary, Sir Alfred Keogh, 

 KC.B., Sir Bay Lankester, K.C.B., F.E.S., 

 Professor A. Schuster, secretary of the Boyal 

 Society, Sir John Snell, Professor E. H. 

 Starling, F.B.S., Lord Sydenham, E.R.S. and 

 Mr. B. Threlfall, E.E.S. The first meeting of 

 the board was held on July 20, when questions 

 relating to scientific, educational and indus- 

 trial matters were under consideration. 



The American Association for Clinical Be- 

 search will hold its eighth annual meeting in 

 New York, September 28, 29 and 30, with 

 headquarters at the Hotel Majestic. There 

 will be three sessions each day, morning, after- 

 noon and evening. Clinics will be held at the 

 Flower, Metropolitan and other hospitals. 

 Dr. Daniel E. S. Coleman, of New York, is 

 president of the society, and Dr. James Krauss, 

 419 Boylston Street, Boston, is permanent 

 secretary. 



Donald B. MacMillan, who went in 1913 

 in search of " Crocker Land," will arrive home 

 within a month, according to a message re- 

 ceived by the officers of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. His party will be 

 with him, including Dr. E. 0. Hovey, who 

 had charge of the relief expedition sent to 

 MacMillan in 1915 on the schooner George B. 

 Cluett. The party is expected to reach St. 

 Johns, N. F., between September 20 and Octo- 

 ber 1. The explorers are returning on the 

 Danish steamer Danmarh, chartered by the 

 museum from the Greenland Mining Company, 

 They will stop on the way at Thule to pick up 



