66 SCIENCE. 
S. C., has been assigned to the Brady Labora- 
tory, Yale University Medical School, New 
Haven, Conn., in connection with the Gas 
Defense Service of the Medical Officers’ 
Training School. 
Dr. Treat B. JoHNSON, professor of organic 
chemistry in the Sheffield Scientifie School of 
Yale University, is cooperating in research 
with the chemical section of the War Depart- 
ment, and is acting as director of a field lab- 
oratory which has been established in Yale 
University for gas experimentation work. As- 
sociated with him in this work are: Dr. 
Arthur J. Hill, Dr. Blair Saxton and Dr. 
Sidney E. Hadley, of the Department of 
Chemistry, Yale University. Dr. Norman A. 
Shepard, of the department of chemistry, at 
Yale University, is working in conjunction 
with Professor Johnson during the summer 
months, and is carrying on experimental work 
dealing with the manufacture of explosives 
for the government. 
At the request of the President, the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture has designated as mem- 
bers of the National Research Council Henry 
S. Graves, forester and chief of Forest Serv- 
ice; Karl F. Kellerman, associate chief, Bu- 
reau of Plant Industry, and Raphael Zon, 
chief Forest Investigations. 
Dr. Raymonp F. Bacon, of the Mellon Insti- 
tute of Pittsburgh, now lieutenant-colonel, 
chief of the Technical Division on General 
Pershing’s staff in France, while on a short 
visit to this country, was given an honorary 
doctor of science degree by the University of 
Pittsburgh. 
At the recent commencement of Yale Uni- 
versity, Professor Emeritus Theodore S. 
Woolsey, of the Law School, in introducing 
Professor EH. S. Morse for the honorary degree 
spoke as follows: 
Edward Sylvester Morse—Born in Portland 
eighty years ago, a student with Agassiz, in the 
chair of zoology at Bowdoin, the pursuit of Brachi- 
opods led Professor Morse to Japan. Three years 
in the Orient changed the current of his life. As 
collector, man of taste and man of letters, he has 
interpreted Japanese ceramics and Japanese char- 
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acter with loving fidelity. As head of the Peabody 
Museum in Salem since 1881, he has built up a 
wonderful institution. As zoologist and ethnolo- 
gist he has won an enviable name. A double life 
is his, the happy union of science and of art. 
Tue Angrand Foundation of France has 
awarded a prize of five thousand francs to Dr. 
Herbert J. Spinden, assistant curator in an- 
thropology at the American Museum, in rec- 
ognition of his memoir on Maya Art, published 
by the Peabody Museum of Harvard Univer- 
sity. This prize is awarded once in five years 
for original investigations in the anthropology 
of North and South America. Dr. Spinden is 
engaged at present on reconnaissance work in 
South America. 
Dr. Henry FairFiELD Osporn, president of 
the American Museum of Natural History, 
has been elected an honorary member of the 
Royal Irish Academy. 
Dr. E. R. Wem ety, of the Mellon Institute, 
has been appointed by President Nichols to 
represent the American Chemical Society on 
the Committee on the Supervision of Chem- 
ical Engineering Catalogue and as a member 
of the Perkin Medal Committee and the Com- 
mittee on Cooperation between Industries and 
Universities in place of Colonel R. F. Bacon, 
who is now in foreign military service. 
CuarLes T. Kirk has resigned the positions 
of professor of geology in the university and 
the state geologist of New Mexico, to begin 
consulting practise in geology with offices in 
Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 
AT a recent meeting of the Columbus Sec- 
tion of the American Chemical Society, Dr. W. 
D. Bancroft made addresses on “Gas war- 
fare,” and on “ Contact catalysis.” 
A portRAIT bust of the late F. Massei, pro- 
fessor of otorhinolaryngology at the Univer- 
sity of Naples, was recently installed in the 
hospital where most of his work has been done. 
THE Rey. Guorce M. SEARLE, superior gen- 
eral of the Paulist Fathers from 1904 to 1909, 
and previously professor of mathematics and 
director of the astronomical observatory of 
