December 2, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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Saturday will extend from ten to one o'clock; 

 afternoon sessions Friday and Saturday from 

 two thirty to five tliirty. The president's ad- 

 dress will be given at the opening of the session 

 on Friday afternoon, and will be followed by 

 a series of invited papers on " Trade Routes." 

 The American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers will hold its annual meeting in ISTew York 

 city from December 5 to 9. The report of the 

 committee on elimination of waste in industry 

 of the American Engineering Council will pro- 

 vide the basis for the discussion. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Norwegian Storthing has awarded the 

 Nobel peace prize for 1921 to Dr. Elis Stroem- 

 gren, professor of astronomy at the Univer- 

 sity of Copenhagen, for his efforts to effect 

 reconciliation among scholars of European 

 countries. 



Dr. T. C. Chaiiberlin, of the University 

 of Chicago, has been made a corresponding 

 member of the Stockliohn and Belgian Geo- 

 logical Societies. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, the director of the 

 Eockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 New York, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Vienna Society of Physicians. 



Professor George Grant MaoCurdy, of 

 Yale University, first director of the Ameri- 

 can School in France for Prehistoric Studies, 

 has been elected a corresponding member of 

 the Societe Archeologique et Historique de 

 la Charente. 



Dr. John B. Whitehead, dean of the en- 

 gineering school and professor of electrical 

 engineering at Johns Hopkins University, 

 has been awarded the five thousand francs 

 prize of the Institute Electrotechnique Monte- 

 fiore of Liege, Belgium, bestowed every three 

 years for original work on the scientific ad- 

 vancement in the technical application of 

 electricity. The prize was given for an essay 

 on " The Corona Voltmeter and the Electric 

 Strength of Air." 



The Jenner Memorial Medal of the Royal 

 Society of Medicine has been conferred on 



Sir Shirley Murphy in recognition of his 

 work in epidemiological research. 



The University of Cambridge has presented 

 an address to Dr. G. D. Liveing, St. John's 

 College, formerly professor of chemistry, to 

 commemorate the fact that he has kept by 

 residence every term in the university for 

 the last seventy-five years. Dr. Liveing be- 

 came fellow of St. John's College in 1853, 

 and professor of chemistry in 1861. 



President Livingston Farrand, of Cornell 

 University, was elected president of The 

 American Child Hygiene Association at its 

 annual convention in New Haven, on No- 

 vember 5. 



Professor Filibert Roth, head of the de- 

 partment of forestry of the University of 

 Michigan, was recently appointed by Gover- 

 nor Groesbeck as a member of the State 

 Commission of Conservation. Professor Roth 

 represents on the commission the forestry 

 interests of the state. 



David Lumsden, formerly assistant profes- 

 sor of floriculture at Cornell University and 

 during the last two years director of Agricul- 

 tural Reconstruction at Walter Reed General 

 Hospital, has been appointed horticulturist 

 in the Office of Foreign Plant Quarantines, 

 Federal Horticultural Board, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Messrs. J. E. Walters, F. W. Schroeder, 

 and Frank Porter, chemists at the helium 

 plant of the Bureau of Mines at Petrolia, 

 Texas, have been transferred to the new cryo- 

 genic laboratory of the bureau in Washing- 

 ton. 



Mr. Earle E. Richardson, who has been 

 instructing in analytical chemistry and phys- 

 ios for the past four years at the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, has been ap- 

 pointed research physicist under Mr. L. A. 

 Jones at the research laboratories of the East- 

 man Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. 



Mr. Allen Abrams has resigned as research 

 associate from the research laboratory of ap- 

 plied chemistry at the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology to become chief chemist 

 for the Cornell Wood Products Co. 



