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ern United States. The other members of 

 the staff are E. F. McCarthy, for nine years 

 a member of the teaching staff of the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 University and recently research specialist 

 with the Canadian Conservation Commis- 

 sion; C. F. Korstian, at one time a member 

 of the staff of the Fort Valley Forest Experi- 

 ment Station and recently in charge of research 

 in the Intermountain District of the U. S. 

 Forest Service, Ogden, Utah; and F. W. 

 Haasis, until recently a member of the in- 

 vestigative staff of the Fort Valley Forest 

 Experiment Station near Flagstaff, Arizona. 



THE INSTALLATION OF PRESIDENT FARRAND 

 AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



Dr. Livingston Farrand was inaugurated 

 president of Cornell University on October 20. 

 Chief Justice Frank H. Hiscock of the New 

 York State Court of Appeals made an intro- 

 ductory address as chairman of the board of 

 trustees of the university. Acting President 

 Albert W. Smith, formerly dean of Sibley Col- 

 lege of Engineering, delivered the seal and 

 charter of the university to President Farrand. 



President Farrand then gave his inaugural 

 address, which was on the world situation fol- 

 lowing the war and the service that the univer- 

 sities should offer. 



Following President Farrand's address Dean 

 William A. Hammond spoke for the faculties 

 of the university and Mr. Foster L. Coffin for 

 the alumni. 



President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, 

 President M. L. Burton of Michigan, and Pres- 

 ident R. L. Wilbur of Leland Stanford, Jr., 

 brought the greetings from the universities of 

 the East, Middle West, and West respectively. 

 President Harry W. Chase of the University 

 of North Carolina, who was unable to be 

 present, telegraphed the greetings of the South- 

 ern colleges. 



Finally Governor Miller presented greetings 

 from the State of New York. 



At the dinner in the evening in addition to 

 President Farrand the speakers included Presi- 

 dent James R. Angell of Yale University, Sir 

 Robert Falconer, president of the University 

 of Toronto, and Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey. 



Coincident with the inauguration of Dr. 

 Farrand came the disclosure that the anonym- 

 ous benefactor who gave $1,500,000 to Cornell 

 for a new chemical laboratory is Mr. George 

 F. Baker, chairman of the board of directors 

 of the First National Bank of New York. 

 Mr. Baker attended the exercises and laid the 

 corner stone of the laboratory. 



Professor E. L. Nichols made an introduc- 

 tory address, which was followed by the main 

 address of the day by Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, 

 provost emeritus of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania and president of the American Chemical 

 Society. Mr. Charles M. Schwab, a trustee of 

 Cornell University, spoke for Mr. Baker. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. George S. Crampton was elected presi- 

 dent of the Society of Illuminating Engineers 

 at the recent Rochester meeting. 



Professor Henry S. Jacoby, for thirty-one 

 years a member of the college of civil engineer- 

 ing of Cornell University and for twenty-one 

 years head of the bridge engineering depart- 

 ment, will retire from active service at the 

 close of the college year. 



Robert Stanislaus Griffin, for more than 

 eight years head of the Bureau of Engineering 

 of the Navy Department and engineer in chief 

 of the U. S. Navy, has retired from active 

 service. 



The Morris Liebman Prize, the cash award 

 made each year by the Institute of Radio Engi- 

 neers to that member of the institute who is 

 considered to have made the most important 

 contribution to radio art during the preceding 

 twelve months, has been awarded to R. H. 

 Heising, of the engineering laboratory of the 

 Western Electric Company, " for his analysis 

 of vacuum tube action and his research work 

 on modulation systems." 



The first award of the Marcel Benoist Prize 

 of 20,000 francs has been made to M. Maurice 

 Arthus, director of the Institute of Physiology 

 at Geneva. The prize was founded by M. 

 Benoist of Paris, who bequeathed his whole for- 

 tune to the Federal Council of Switzerland in 

 recognition of the care and attention which he 



