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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Proressor A. A. Micurenson, head of the 
department of physics, University of Chicago, 
has been commissioned as lieutenant-com- 
mander in the navy. 
~ Dr. Ricuarp C. Macuauriy, president of 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has ac- 
cepted the appointment of director of college 
training, in charge of the Students’ Army 
Training Corps under the War Department’s 
~ Committee on Education and Special Train- 
ing aiming 'to mobilize the higher institutions 
of learning. 
PROFESSOR JULIUS STIEGLITZ, chairman of 
the department of chemistry at the University 
ot Chicago, has been appointed as special ex- 
pert in the United States Public Health Serv- 
ice of the Treasury Department. This will not 
involve his work at the university. The goy- 
ernment assigns him two assistants, who will 
be in the employ of the Public Health Service 
and will carry out their work in Kent Chem- 
ical Laboratory under Professor Stieglitz’s di- 
rection. 
Masor Anton J. Caruson, chairman of the 
department of physiology at the University of 
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Chicago, who is now in the Sanitary Corps of 
the National Army attached to the Food Di- 
vision of the Surgeon General’s Office, is at 
present on duty in England, making a study 
of food conditions in the rest camps of the 
United States Army. 
M. K. Akers, professor of applied electric- 
ity, at the State College of Washington, has 
been granted leave of absence for the duration 
of the war. He is now conducting research 
work in the development department of the 
Western Electric Company of New York. 
Harry L. Cole, instructor in chemistry at the 
State College of Washington, has been recom- 
mended for leave of absence during the period 
of the war, and is now training in the avia- 
tion camp at Berkeley, California. 
THE Royal Society of Arts has awarded the 
Albert Medal for 1918 to Sir Richard Tetley 
Glazebrook, C.B., Se.D., F.R.S., “ for his serv- 
ices in the application of science to the indus- 
tries of peace and war, by his ‘work as director 
of the National Physical Laboratory since 
1899, and as chairman of the Advisory Com- 
mittee for Aeronautics.” The society’s Albert 
medal, founded in 1863 to commemorate the 
presidency of Prince Albert, has been awarded 
annually “for distinguished merit in pro- 
moting arts, manufactures and commerce.” 
Oxrorp University has conferred the de- 
gree of master of arts honoris causa on John 
Louis Emil Dreyer, Copenhagen, late director 
of the Armagh Observatory. 
THE Birmingham medal of the British In- 
stitution of Gas Engineers, has been presented 
to Mr. John West, of Southport. Mr. West, 
who is eighty years of age, has been awarded 
the medal in connection with his work for the 
gas industry and Ministry of Munitions. 
THE Bavid Livingstone Centenary medal of 
the American Geographical Society has been 
awarded to Colonel Candido Mariano da Silva 
Rondon in recognition of his valuable work of 
exploration in South America. 
Mr. Hersert SAMUEL, M.P., has been elected 
president of the Royal Statistical Society of 
Great Britain. 
