November 18, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



489 



Gregory, Major-General W. B. Bannerman 

 and Dr. W. A. Tait. 



We learn from Nature that Professor Leon 

 Fredericq is to be presented witli a medallion 

 in recognition of his distinguished services as 

 professor of physiology for fifty years in the 

 University of Liege. The presentation will 

 take place this month, vsrhen his son v?ill take 

 the chair which Professor Leon Fredericq 

 has held so long. 



The quinquennial prize for the best work 

 in medical sciences, offered by the Brussels 

 Academy of Medicine, has been awarded to 

 Dr. A. Brachet, professor of anatomy and 

 embryology of the University of Brussels, for 

 his contributions to topographical anatomy. 



The Italian Society of Internal Medicine 

 at its eighteenth congress in Naples on Oc- 

 tober 26, celebrated the ninetieth year of 

 Professor Cardarelli, and the fortieth year of 

 Professor Maragliano's work as teacher. These 

 physicians are the directors of La Biforma 

 Medica, one of the chief medical journals 

 published in Italy. 



Professor P. Guthnick has been appointed 

 director of the Babelsberg Observatory in suc- 

 cession to the late Herman Struve. 



Ernest P. Bicknell, who has been repre- 

 senting the Bed Cross abroad, has been ap- 

 pointed American National Red Cross Com- 

 missioner for Europe. 



Dr. H. C. Dickinson, chief of the automo- 

 tive investigations division of the Bureau of 

 Standards, has been granted a leave of ab- 

 sence to become director of research for the 

 Society of Automotive Engineers. He will 

 continue to assist in the work of the bureau 

 in a consulting capacity. 



Secretary op Labor Davis has appointed a 

 special committee to consider the welfare of 

 immigrants coming through the principal 

 ports of entry of the United States. The mem- 

 bers are: Fred C. Croxton, chairman of the 

 Ohio Council of Social Agencies; Miss Julia 

 Lathrop, former head of the U. S. Children's 

 Bureau ; Miss Lola D. Lasker, of New York. 



Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood has been appointed 

 curator of the department of zoology in the 

 Field Museum of Natural History. 



A GEOLOGICAL party of four, consisting of 

 Professors E. A. Daly and Charles Palache of 

 Harvard University, Professor G. A. F. Molen- 

 graaf of the University of Delft, Holland, and 

 Dr. F. E. Wright of the Geophysical Labora- 

 tory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, will 

 spend the coming winter in southern Africa, 

 in a geologic and petrologic study of the 

 Bushfeld igneous complex in Transvaal. 



The council of the California Academy of 

 Sciences announces the appointment of Dr. 

 Barton Warren Evermann as director of the 

 new Steinhart Aquarium. The duties of this 

 position will be in addition to those of direc- 

 tor of the Museum of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, which Dr. Evermann has 

 held for many years. It was through Dr. 

 Evermann's interest in fishes and aquariums 

 that the late Mr. Ignatz Steinhart was in- 

 duced to give to the California Academy of 

 Sciences $250,000 for the construction and 

 equipment of a public aquarium building in 

 San Francisco. The council has selected Mr. 

 Alvin Scale to be superintendent of the 

 aquarium. For several years Mr. Scale was 

 director of fisheries of the Philippine Islands. 

 He also planned the Manila Aquarium, of 

 which he was director during his several years' 

 residence in the Philippines. He will be on 

 duty throughout the period of construction 

 and thereafter. The aquarium will be situ- 

 ated in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 

 immediately adjoining the present museum of 

 the academy. 



The new hospital of the Manchester and 

 District Radium Institute was opened on 

 October 7, by Lord Derby. It is the first 

 hospital in England to be used exclusively 

 for radium treatment. 



Bert Holmes Hite, chief chemist of the 

 Virginia Experiment Station since 1895, pro- 

 fessor of agricultural chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of West Virginia since 1898, has died 

 at the age of fifty-five years. 



