August 5, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir Joseph Thomson has been elected honor- 

 ary professor of natural philosophy and Sir 

 Ernest Rutherford professor of natural phi- 

 losophy at the Royal Institution. 



The Osiris prize of 100,000 francs has been 

 awarded by the Academies of the Institute of 

 France to General Ferrie, director-general of 

 French military telegraphs, in recognition of 

 his work in the development of wireless teleg- 

 raphy for war purposes. 



We learn from Nature that at the annual 

 visit to the National Physical Laboratory of 

 the members of the General Board on June 

 28 a bas-relief in bronze of the former director. 

 Sir Richard Glazebrook, was presented to the 

 laboratory. The presentation was made by Sir 

 Joseph Thomson and received on behalf of the 

 laboratory by Professor Sherrington, president 

 of the Royal Society. 



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. 



Dr. J. H. Shrader, formerly of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, has been 

 appointed director of the Bureau of Chemis- 

 try and Food, Health Department, Baltimore, 

 Md. 



Charles Y. Clayton, professor of metal- 

 lurgy at the Missouri School of Mines, is 

 working at the laboratory of Dr. H. M. Howe 

 at Bedford Hills, N. T., during the summer. 



Olaf p. Jenkins, associate professor of eco- 

 nomic geology at the State College of Wash- 

 ington, is in charge of the field work for the' 

 Washington Geological Survey and is investi- 

 gating certain road materials, the Grand 

 Coulee as a reservoir site, and the iron ores of 

 Washington in relation to the possible manu- 

 facture of iron and steel. 



Harlan I. Sjiith, of the Victoria Memorial 

 Museum, Ottawa, Canada, is now in the field 

 carrying on the investigations of the ethnology 

 of the Bellacoola Indians of British Columbia 

 which were begun by him in 1920 under the 

 auspices of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



The annual meeting of the French Associa- 



tion for the Advancement of Science is being 

 held this year at Rouen from August 1 to 6. 



The Municipal Observatory at Des Moines, 

 Iowa, which is said to be the only municipal 

 observatory in the world, was opened on 

 August 1. The observatory building is to be 

 equipped by Drake University with an 8-inch 

 equatorial telescope. It is to be under the con- 

 trol of the university and oj)en to the public at 

 least three times a week, and at any other 

 time when occasion may warrant. 



A NEW forest experiment station, the first 

 in the Eastern States, has been established 

 at Asheville, N". C, by the Forest Service of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 Steady depletion of the Southern Appalachian 

 timber supply has been responsible for the 

 location of this station in the East, and the 

 object of the work to be conducted will be to 

 secure the information needed by foresters to 

 determine the best methods of handling for- 

 est lands in the southern mountains. 



The Swedish Academy of Sciences has asked 

 the government to set aside a million and a 

 half kroner from the private funds of the 

 Nobel Foundation and apply the interest to 

 the Nobel prizes as owing to the depreciation 

 of the Swedish krona the recipients of the 

 prize do not receive the former value. 



The French Academy of Medicine has re- 

 ceived a donation from the widow of the 

 Marquis Visconti to found a triennial prize 

 of 3,000 francs in memory of Infroit, the 

 radiologist. 



The school of mines of the College of En- 

 gineering of the University of Alabama offers 

 five fellowships of the value of $540 in mining 

 and metallurgical research in cooperative work 

 with the U. S. Bureau of Mines. They have 

 been established for the purpose of undertak- 

 ing the solution of problems being studied by 

 the U. S. Bureau of Mines that are of especial 

 importance to the State of Alabama and the 

 Southern States. 



The members of the American Chemical 

 Society were informed of the printers' strike 

 and the action of the council regarding it in 

 the May issue of the Journal of Industrial and 



