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ranged a symposium on " Orthogenesis," to be 

 participated in by L. J. Henderson, 0. B. Lip- 

 man, M. F. Guyer, William Bateson, W. M. 

 Wheeler and H. F. Osborn. This symposium 

 will be given on Friday, possibly beginning in 

 the forenoon. 



A. Franklin Shull, Secretary 

 TJniveksity of Michigan, 

 Ann Arboe, Michigan 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Harlow Shapley, formerly of the 

 Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, has been 

 appointed director of the Harvard College 

 Observatory in succession to the late Edward 

 C. Pickering. 



Dr. Joel Stebbins has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Washburn Observatory and 

 professor of astronomy at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, beginning on July 1, 

 1922, to succeed Professor George 0. Com- 

 stock, who has been director of the observatory 

 since 1889 and has reached the age of re- 

 tirement. Professor Comstock will carry on 

 his work as director of the observatory during 

 the present academic year, while Dr. Stebbins 

 will act as non-resident professor of astron- 

 omy. Dr. Stebbins has been a member of the 

 department of astronomy at the University of 

 Illinois since 1903 and director of the ob- 

 servatory since 1913. Professor Comstock has 

 been a member of the Wisconsin faculty since 

 1887 and, besides being director of Washburn 

 Observatory for 32 years, was dean of the Wis- 

 consin Graduate School from 1906 to 1920. 



Dr. Edgar F. Smith, provost emeritus of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the French 

 Society of Chemical Industiry, and also an 

 honorary member of the Chemical, Metal- 

 lurgical and Mining Society of South Africa. 



Wilfrid Kilian, professor of geology in the 

 University of Grenoble in the Dauphine, 

 France, has been awarded the Gaudry gold 

 medal, the highest distinction of the Societe 

 Geologique de France. 



At the opening of the annual meeting of 

 the French Society of Chemical Industry on 



October 10, the Dumas medal of the society 

 and an illuminated address were presented by 

 M. Dior, minister of commerce, to Sir Wil- 

 liam J. Pope. 



Dr. Hiko Matsumoto, who until a few 

 weeks ago was studying the Fayum collection 

 of Proboscidea in the American Museum, re- 

 cently received the prize of the Imperial In- 

 stitution of Science and Literature of Japan. 



The French Geological Society met, from 

 September 14 to 20, in Savoie, under the presi- 

 dency of M. G. Eevil and with the assistance 

 of MM. Morel, Le Eoux and Kilian. A num- 

 ber of excursions were made. 



At its 1921 meeting in New Orleans, the 

 American Pharmaceutical Association award- 

 ed the 1921-22 grant from the A.Ph.A. Ee- 

 search Fund to Dr. David I. Macht, of Johns 

 Hopkins University, for pharmacological 

 work on the benzyl compounds found in cer- 

 tain galenicals. The first grant made in 

 1919 was awarded to Dr. George D. Beal, 

 of the University of Illinois, for work on 

 alkaloidal assays, while the 1920 award was 

 made jointly to Dr. Heber W. Toungken, of 

 the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and 

 Sciences, for work on aconite varieties and 

 Dr. E. Kremers and Miss Lila Winkelblech, 

 of the school of pharmacy of the University of 

 Wisconsin, for work on derivatiives of guaia- 

 col. 



Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of ge- 

 ology at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 

 lectured before the Geographical Society of 

 Chicago on October 28. His subject was 

 "Andine trails and jungle sti-eams, the search 

 for oil in Bolivia." Dr. Mather spent the 

 greater part of the year 1920 in exploration 

 along the eastern froni; of the Andes in the 

 central portion of South America. On his 

 return he resumed his work at Denison Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor E. J. Cohen, of the University of 

 Utrecht, Holland, was at the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity for nine days in the early part of 

 October. During this time he delivered 

 three lectures on piezochemistry, two on the 



