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doned for using so prominent a place in the Quar- 

 terly to give general notice of this fact. It ■would 

 seem to me unfortunate that the society should 

 come to the election of efiicers at the Toronto con- 

 vention without being precisely informed on the 

 matter and having considered carefully candidates 

 for the place. I should not wish in any way to be 

 charged with undue consideration for the work of 

 the office, but I am sure that I should be false to 

 my obligations to the society at large if I did not 

 indicate the proposed change in adequate time for 

 that part of the membership which is interested in 

 the society to give proper thought to the election 

 of my successor. I am sure that the society can 

 secure a better man for the place, but all of us 

 know that chance nominations on the floor of a con- 

 vention frequently result in the choice of an indi- 

 vidual who for various reasons is unable to assume 

 the responsibilities of the position, even though he 

 may be adequately endowed to discharge its duties 

 with credit to himself and entire satisfaction to the 

 organization. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Eoyal Society has made the following 

 awards: Eoyal medals to Sir Frank Dyson, 

 astronomer royal, for his researches on the 

 distribution of the stars, and to Dr. F. F. 

 Blackman, for his researches on the gaseous 

 exchange in plants; the Copley medal to 

 Sir Joseph Larmor, for his researches in 

 mathematical physics; the Davy medal to 

 Professor Philippe A. Guye, for his researches 

 in physical chemistry; and the Hughes medal 

 to Professor Niels Bohr, for his researches 

 in theoretical physics. 



According to press reports, the ITobel prize 

 for chemistry for 1920 has been awarded to 

 Professor Walter Nernst, of Berlin. The 

 prizes for chemistry and physics for 1921 

 have been reserved for nest year. It is said 

 that the prize in medicine will not be awarded 

 this year, and that the candidates that have 

 been considered most eligible are the English 

 physiologist, Sherrington, the Netherlands 

 professor, Magnus, and the two brain special- 

 ists, Henschen of Sweden and Vogt of Ger- 

 many. 



The Jenner Memorial Medal of the Royal 

 Society of Medicine has been awarded to Sir 



Shirley Forster Murphy in recognition of 

 distinguished work in epidemiologic research. 



B. B. GoTTSBEEGER has been elected secre- 

 tary of the Mining and Metallurgical Society 

 of America. 



Lathrop E. Egberts^ of Northampton, 

 Mass., has been appointed to the staff of the 

 Bureau of Mines at Berkeley, California, to 

 take charge of work in physical chemistry. 



Dr. E. D. Ball has been appointed by 

 Secretary Wallace as the representative of 

 the Department of Agriculture on the re- 

 search information service of the National 

 Eesearch Council to take the place of Dr. 

 Carl L. Alsberg. The secretary has also 

 named Dr. Frederick B. Power, for many 

 years director of the Wellcome Research 

 Laboratory of London and now in charge of 

 the phytochemical laboratory of the bureau 

 of chemistry, as a representative of the bureau 

 in the division of federal relations in the 

 place of Dr. Alsberg. 



Professor Warren D. Smith is remaining 

 in the Philippine Islands another year as 

 chief of the Division of Mines, Bureau of 

 Science, his leave of absence from the Uni- 

 versity of Oregon having been extended. 



Walter F. Cameron, formerly deputy chief 

 government geologist. Geological Survey of 

 Queensland, and chairman of the committee 

 on development of oil and gas at Roma, has 

 been appointed mining geologist to the Feder- 

 ated Malay States Government and has com- 

 menced his new duties at Ipoh, Kinta Dis- 

 trict, Perak. 



Dr. Clemens Pirquet, professor of pedia- 

 trics in the University of Vienna, will de- 

 liver the third Harvey Society Lecture at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine, on Decem- 

 ber 17. His subject will be " Nutrition 

 treatment of tuberculosis in childhood." 



Dr. H. H. Love, of Cornell University, has 

 returned to Ithaca, having spent a week each 

 at the Kansas Agricultural College and the 

 Iowa Agricultural College, where a series of 

 lectures were given on the probable error and 

 its relation to experimental results. 



