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fornia, has been elected a correspondant de 
V’Institut de France in the section of astron- 
omy. 
Sm JosrepH Larmor, M.P. for the Univer- 
sity of Cambridge, has been awarded the 
Poncelet prize for the mathematical sciences 
this year by the French Academy of Sciences. 
Tue Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 
the Montyon prize, consisting of 2,500 francs, 
to Drs. Henri Guillemard and André Labat, 
of the medical faculty of Paris, for their re- 
search work on asphyxiating gases. 
At a meeting of July 30, the Paris Academy 
of Medicine elected, as vice-president for 1918 
to succeed the late Professor Pozzi, Dr. De- 
lorme, director of the School of Military Medi- 
cine. Conforming to the regulations of the 
academy, the vice-president succeeds to the 
presidency the following year. 
Tue Madrid Academy of Medicine has 
elected Dr. Max Nordau corresponding mem- 
ber. It will be remembered that he has been 
in Madrid since early in the war. 
Dr. Hugu M. SmirxH, the commissioner of 
fisheries, was at Woods Hole in the latter part 
of July for the purpose of collaborating with 
Mr. William A. Found, superintendent of 
fisheries of the Dominion of Canada, in the 
preparation of the draft of the final report of 
the International Fisheries Conference. 
Proressor A. TANAKADATE, professor of 
physics in the University of Tokyo, visited 
Washington in July in the interest of inter- 
national scientific work. 
Dr. Euwoop Mean, chairman of the Land 
Settlement Board of the ‘State of California, 
has been appointed by Secretary Lane to assist 
in formulating a national policy for colonizing 
returned soldiers of the American Expedition- 
ary Forces. 
Dr. Engar BuckincHaM, of the Bureau of 
Standards, has been appointed physical asso- 
ciate to the scientific attaché to the American 
embassy at Rome. 
Dr. T. GrirritH Taytor, of the Meteorolog- 
ical Bureau of Australia, has been awarded the 
David Syme Research prize for 1918 for a 
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thesis based on the correlation of Australian 
physiography, meteorology and climatology, 
with special reference to the control of its 
settlement and industrial development. 
Dr. Frank J. MonaGcuan has been appointed 
deputy health commissioner in charge in 
Brooklyn to succeed Dr. Frank B. Knause, 
who has resigned in order to join the Medical 
Reserve Corps of the United States Army. 
Dr. Cart E. SEASHORE, professor of psy- 
chology in the University of Iowa, is con- 
ducting investigations on certain problems of 
hearing as related to the army and navy, and 
is also devising and standardizing a series of 
tests for the selection of telegraphers and 
radio operators. R. H. Sylvester, assistant 
professor of psychology, is now lieutenant and 
chief clinical psychologist at Camp Dodge. 
Proressor Guy F. Lipscoms, of the Clemson 
Agricultural College of South Carolina, is en- 
gaged for the summer on military work in the 
Chemical Laboratory at Princeton University. 
Dr. Ouar ANDERSON, petrologist at the Geo- 
physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 
tion at Washington, has resigned in order to 
accept the position of government geologist 
and director of an experimental silicate lab- 
oratory for the Norwegian Government, in 
Kristiania. 
Proressor E. W. GupGer spent the present 
summer at the American Museum of Natural 
History, collaborating on the “ Bibliography 
of Fishes which the museum is now publish- 
ing. 
Proressor Ropert F. Grices, of the Ohio 
State University, director of the Katima Ex- 
peditions of the National Geographic Society, 
has received a wireless message from this 
year’s field party composed of Messrs. Jasper 
Sayre and Paul R. Hagelbarger announcing 
the successful termination of the season’s field 
work in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. 
The party carried the topographic survey, be- 
gun last year, forward to the shore of the 
Bering Sea, adding some 1,500 square miles to 
the map and completing a section across the 
base of the Alaska Peninsula from Katmai Bay 
to Naknek. This survey will furnish the data 
for the construction of a topographic map on 
