Marcu 15, 1912] 
Proressor CHARLES JAMES, of New Hamp- 
shire College, has been awarded the Nichols 
medal of the American Chemical Society. 
Dr. A. E. Ortmann, curator of invertebrate 
zoology, Carnegie Museum, and professor of 
physical geography, University of Pittsburgh, 
has been elected a member of the Halle Acad- 
emy of Sciences. 
Mr. Gueiietmo Marconi has been appointed 
a life senator by the Italian government. 
Tuer following fifteen candidates have been 
selected by the council of the Royal Society to 
be recommended for election into the society: 
Professor J. O. Arnold, Professor C. G. 
Barkla, Mr. L. Cockayne, Mr. A. L. Dixon, 
Sir T. L. Heath, Dr. H. O. Jones, Professor 
T. R. Lyle, Dr. W. McDougall, Mr. R. Messel, 
Professor B. Moore, Mr. E. Nettleship, Mr. 
R. Newstead, Vice-Admiral Sir H. J. Oram, 
Dr. G. T. Prior and Mr. R. C. Punnett. 
Tur following have been appointed mem- 
bers of the American Commission on Inor- 
ganic Nomenclature of Chemistry, to co- 
operate with similar national bodies of other 
countries: Jas. Lewis Howe, of Washington 
and Lee University, chairman; P. E. Brown- 
ing, of Yale; E. C. Franklin, of the Hygienic 
Laboratory, Washington; A. M. Patterson, 
Xenia, O.; Chas. H. Herty, of the University 
of North Carolina; Owen Shinn, of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, and Adolf Law Voge, 
of the Library of Congress. 
At its last meeting the Rumford committee 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 
ences granted the sum of $250 additional to a 
former appropriation to Professor Gilbert N. 
Lewis, of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, in aid of his research upon the 
free energy changes in chemical reactions. 
Recent appointments to the research staff 
of the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute, 
Chicago, are Dr. Lydia M. DeWitt, formerly 
of the department of anatomy at the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, and more recently of the 
health department of the city of St. Louis, 
and Dr. Samuel Amberg, of the department 
of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Medical 
School. 
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Dr. R. Ramsay Wricut, vice-president of 
the University of Toronto and dean of the 
faculty of arts, will retire from active service 
on September 30. He has filled the chair of 
biology for the last thirty-eight years. 
Proressor Epwarp Hicking JACKSON, pro- 
fessor of orthopedic surgery at the Harvard 
Medical School, and Professor James Jackson 
Putnam, professor of diseases of the nervous 
system, have retired from active service and 
will be given the title of professor emeritus. 
Mr. N. E. Dorszy, Ph.D. (Hopkins, 1897), 
associate physicist in the U. S. Bureau of 
Standards, has been appointed research asso- 
ciate in the department of terrestrial magnet- 
ism of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 
ton. 
Dr. Grorce A. Huett, professor of phys- 
ical chemistry, at Princeton University, has 
received leave of absence for the academic 
year 1912-13, in order that he may accept, 
for the year, the post of chief chemist in the 
U. S. Bureau of Mines. 
Miss Marcaret Harwoop, of the Harvard 
College Observatory, has been appointed to 
the astronomical fellowship of the Nantucket 
Maria Mitchell Association. 
Proressor W. Batpwin Spencer, F.R.S., 
has been appointed protector of the aborigines 
in the northern territory of Australia. 
Dr. ScHLAGINHAUFER has been chosen as the 
successor of Dr. R. Martin at the head of the 
Anthropological Institute, Zurich. 
Dr. W. J. Hoxzanp, director of the Car- 
negie Institute, Pittsburgh, has been ap- 
pointed by the Entomological Society of Lon- 
don to represent it at the centenary of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Dr. A. Hrpricka has been designated as the 
representative of the Smithsonian Institution 
at the eighteenth International Congress of 
Americanists, to be held at London from May 
97 to June 1, 1912. Dr. Hrdlicka has also 
been accredited as a delegate to the congress 
on the part of the United States. 
Dr. C. H. EigenmMAnn, curator of ichthyol- 
ogy at the Carnegie Museum, reports himself 
