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cepted a position as pathologist at the Babies 

 Hospital, ISTew York City. 



Dr. Israel J. Kligler, hitherto an associate 

 in bacteriology, has accepted an appointment 

 with the Zionist Medical Unit in Palestine. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. F. H. Kn-owlton, of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, received the honorary degree 

 of doctor of science from Middlebury College, 

 at its recent commencement. 



Professor Lawrence J. Henderson, of 

 Harvard University, has been elected a foreign 

 correspondent of the Paris Academy of Med- 

 icine. 



Dr. H. S. Washington, of the Greophysical 

 Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, has been elected a foreign honorary 

 member of the Norwegian Academy of Sci- 

 ences. 



Professor Florian Cajori, of the University 

 of California, has been elected fellow of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



Dr. a. Smith Woodward, keeper of geology 

 in the British Museum of Natural History, 

 has been elected president of the Linnean So- 

 ciety of London. 



Dr. George M. Piersol, who has been pro- 

 fessor of anatomy in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania for thirty years, is retiring from ac- 

 tive service. 



Dr. Michael E. Gardner has been appointed 

 chief of the bureau of preventable diseases and 

 director of the bacteriologic laboratory of the 

 United States Public Health Service. 



The Albert medal of the Royal Society 

 of Arts for 1921 has been awarded to Profes- 

 sor J. A. Fleming in recognition of his con- 

 tributions to electrical science and its appli- 

 cations. 



Charles F. Rand, chairman of the executive 

 board of Engineering Foundation, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute of Great Britain. Mr. Rand is 

 honorary secretary of the John Fritz Medal 

 Board of Award in London which recently be- 



stowed the John Fritz Medal for achievement 

 in applied science on Sir Robert Hadfield. 

 On July 8 the mission went to Paris to confer 

 the John Frita Medal for 1922 upon Eugene 

 Schneider, head of the Creusot Works. 



George Otis Smith, director of the United 

 States Geological Survey, sailed for England 

 on July 9 on the Cedric to attend the meeting 

 of the organization committee of the Inter- 

 national Geological Congress in London on 

 July 20. Professor R. W. Brock, of the Uni- 

 versity of British Columbia, the chairman of 

 this international committee, is the other rep- 

 resentative of the Western Hemisphere. The 

 last meeting of this congress was held in Can- 

 ada in 1913, when Belgium invited the con- 

 gress to meet in Brussels in 1916. This invi- 

 tation has been renewed for 1922. 



Dr. William H. Welch, director of the 

 school of hygiene and public health, Johns 

 Hopkins University, is among those who will 

 attend the dedication of the new buildings of 

 the Peking Union Medical College, at Peking, 

 China, in September. 



Professor Thomas Hunt Morgan, of Co- 

 lumbia University, is spending the last few 

 months of his sabbatical leave at the Univer- 

 sity of California, where he and his group of 

 assistants are continuing their genetic investi- 

 gations of Drosophila. The other members of 

 the party are Dr. A. H. Sturtevant, Dr. C. B. 

 Bridges, Dr. D. E. Lancefield, Mrs. D. E. 

 Lancefield and Miss Phoebe Reed, cytologists, 

 and Miss Edith Wallace, artist. The party 

 will remain at the university until the open- 

 ing of Columbia University about Sept. 15. 



Thomas Forsyth Hunt, dean of the college 

 of agriculture at the University of California, 

 has returned to the university after a year's 

 travel and study in Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Eng- 

 land and Scotland. The main purpose of his 

 trip was to make a survey of European methods 

 of agriculture with special reference to fruit 

 production and its effect upon the progressive 

 development of various nations. 



Dr. O. G. F. Luhn, of Larawok, Borneo, re- 

 cently arrived at the University of California 



