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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIV. No. 1142 



stated that Major F. L. Grant, who had been 

 severely wounded at the front, had resigned the 

 secretaryship. Mr. W. Heath, M.A., was ap- 

 pointed to the vacancy. 



Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer has resigned his office 

 as director of the Armagh Observatory, a posi- 

 tion which he has held since 1882. 



In addition to the awards announced in 

 April for papers read at the meetings, the 

 council of the British Institution of Civil 

 Engineers have made the following awards for 

 papers published in the Proceedings without 

 discussion during the session 1915-16 : Telford 

 Premiums to Messrs. Hubert Mawson (Liver- 

 pool), T. W. Keele (Sydney), E. W. Holmes 

 {Wellington, N. Z.), W. Fairley (London), J. 

 M. Greathead (Johannesburg), T. 0. Hood 

 (Manmad, India), and J. B. Ball (London) ; 

 the Manby Premium to Mr. W. 0. Cushing 

 (Pittsburgh, U. S. A.), and the Orampton 

 Prize to Major C. E. P. Sankey, D.S.O., R.E. 

 ■(London). The Indian Premium for 1916 has 

 been awarded to Sir John Benton, K.C.I.E. 

 (Eastbourne). 



Professor C. E. Orton, of Pennsylvania 

 State College, is on leave of absence for one 

 year and has registered for graduate work at 

 Columbia University. He will spend some 

 time at the New York Botanical Garden in 

 connection with his researches on parasitic 

 fungi. 



The steam yacht Alberta, which is to carry 

 a party of scientific men headed by Dr. Alex- 

 ander Hamilton Eice up the Amazon Eiver, 

 left New York City, November 15, for South 

 America. The expedition plans to make a 

 topographical survey of portions of the Ama- 

 zon valley and interior districts and studies of 

 the diseases of natives in that section. The 

 members of the party include, besides Dr. and 

 Mrs. Eice, Dr. William T. Councilman, pathol- 

 ogist of Harvard University; Earl S. Church, 

 of Newport, of the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, and Ernest Howe, of New- 

 port, geologist. 



At the recent meeting of the Clinical Con- 

 gress of Surgeons held in the various institu- 

 tions in Philadelphia, Dr. John C. Clark, chief 



operating surgeon at the University Hospital 

 and professor of gynecology at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, was elected president. The 

 next meeting of the congress will be held in 

 New York City. 



Dean Francis C. Shenehon, of the College 

 of Engineering of the University of Minne- 

 sota, has been engaged as consulting engineer 

 since the middle of June on hydraulic investi- 

 gations in Blinois and will be absent from the 

 university almost continuously until the mid- 

 dle of December. 



Dr. Eobert M. Lewis has left for Shanghai, 

 China, where he will be associated with Dr. 

 McCracken, teaching in the University of 

 Pennsylvania Medical School of China, which 

 a few years ago became a department of St. 

 John's University. He goes as one of the rep- 

 resentatives of the Christian Association ef 

 the University of Pennsylvania and expects to 

 return some time in the spring. He has lately 

 been associated with his uncle, Dr. Howard A. 

 Kelly, in surgical work at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Mr. Edwin T. Hodge, who has been pursuing 

 graduate studies in geology at Columbia Uni- 

 versity for the past two years, and has spent 

 one summer season in field investigation in 

 Porto Eico, has been given a position on the 

 instruction staff in the department of geology 

 in the University of British Columbia. 



The Harveian oration before the Eoyal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of London was delivered by 

 Sir Thomas Barlow on October 18. 



The address of the retiring president at the 

 anniversary meeting of the London Mathe- 

 matical Society, on November 2, was delivered 

 by Sir Joseph Larmor, who took as his subject 

 " The Fourier Harmonic Analysis : its Prac- 

 tical Scope and its Limitations." 



The Bradshaw lecture before the Eoyal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of London was delivered on 

 November 2 by Dr. Hector Mackenzie, whose 

 subject was exophthalmic goitre. The Horace 

 Dobell lecture was delivered on November 1 

 by Dr. H. E. Dean, on the mechanism of the 

 serum reactions. Dr. W. H. E. Eivers has 

 given a second course of FitzPatriek lectures 



