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the Schneider award for 1922. M. Schneider 

 received the gold medal in person for his 

 achievements during the war " in the indus- 

 trial and scientific defense of civilization." 

 The John Fritz Medal Board of Award, in 

 conferring the honor, lauded M. Schneider's 

 " achievements in the metallurgy of iron and 

 steel, in the development of ordnance, espe- 

 cially the 75 mm. gun, and in notable patri- 

 otic contribution to the winning of the war." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Francis Bacon Crocker, electrical engi- 

 neer, until 1914 professor in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, died on July 9, at the age of sixty 

 years. 



Gabriel Lippman, professor of physics in 

 the University of Paris, the recipient of a 

 N^obel prize in 1908, died on the steamship 

 France on his return with the French com- 

 mission sent to Canada to express France's 

 appreciation of Canada's services in the war. 



The council of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry has nominated Professor R. F. Rut- 

 tan, of Montreal, as president for the session 

 1921-22. The annual meeting of the society 

 will be held in Montreal in August. 



The University of Oxford conferred on June 

 22 the honorary degree of doctor of science 

 on Professor C. S. Sherrington, president of 

 the Royal Society. 



Professor Henri Bergson has retired from 

 the chair of philosophy at the College de 

 France. 



During a colonial health conference, the 

 British government gave a dinner on June 13, 

 at the Carleton Hotel, London, in honor of 

 Drs. George E. Vincent, WicklifEe Rose, and 

 Vincent G. Heiser, representatives of the Rock- 

 efeller Foundation. Mr. "Winston Churchill, 

 secretary for the colonies, presided. 



Richard T. Fisher, assistant professor of 

 lumbering and forestry and director of the 

 Harvard Forest, has been elected chairman of 

 the New England Section of the Society of 

 American Foresters. At the recent National 

 Conference on Forest Education, he was ap- 



pointed chairman of the committee on re- 

 search in forest schools; that committee has 

 been continued as a standing sub-committee 

 of the Society of American Foresters. 



The American Society of Mechanical En- 

 gineers announces the appointment as man- 

 aging editor of C. E. Davies, associate edi- 

 tor, to succeed the late L. G. French, who 

 was both editor and manager of the society's 

 publication. The June issue of Mechanical 

 Engineering contains eulogies of the work of 

 Mr. French, including resolutions of appre- 

 ciation adopted by the council of the society 

 and by the boiler committee. 



Dean W. R. Appleby, of the School of 

 Mines, and Professor W. H. Emmons, director 

 of the State Geological Survey and head of 

 the department of geology and mineralogy at 

 the University of Minnesota, left about the 

 first of June for Northern China, where, in 

 conjunction with other scientific men, they 

 will make a general survey of the mineral re- 

 sources of the region. 



Dr. Douglas Houghton Campbell, of 

 Stanford University, sailed for Australia on 

 July 5. Dr. Campbell expects to spend six 

 months in Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti, 

 to extend his studies on the Pacific floras, espe- 

 cially in relation to the origin of the Hawaiian 

 flora. 



Professor Karl M. Wiegand, of Cornell 



University, and Mrs. Wiegand, with a party 



of students, are making a botanical trip by 

 automobile to the Pacific coast. 



Donald B. MacMillan sailed from Wis- 

 casset. Me., on July 16 for Baffin Land on the 

 115-ton schooner Bowdoin. The program of 

 the scientists of the expedition calls for field 

 work in zoology, botany, geology, meteorology 

 and terrestrial magnetism. Special observa- 

 tions will be taken of the magnetic pole, 

 which was located first by James Ross in 1830 

 on the further side of the Boothia Peninsula, 

 not far from Mr. MacMillan's proposed win- 

 ter camp. 



A COMPANY has been formed at Vancouver, 

 B. C, with Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson as 



