December 16, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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Evening 

 Professor William Bateson's address before the 

 Amerioaa Association, followed by the Biological 

 Smoker at Hart House. Members of all biological 

 societies are invited to attend. 



THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29 



A.M. 

 Joint meeting with Ecological Society of 

 America. 



P.M. 

 Section A. Parasitology. 



Section B. General and Comparative Physiology. 



FKIDAT, DECEMBER 30 



Business session. 

 Section A. Parasitology. 

 Section B. Genetics. 

 Insjjection of Exhibits. 



P.M. 

 Symposium on Orthogenesis: L. J. Henderson, C. 

 B. Lipman, M. P. Guyer, WiUiam Bateson, and H. 

 F. Osborn, with discussions by Oscar Riddle, J. G. 

 Eitzgerald and J. 0. Merriam. 



Evening 

 Annual Zoology Dinner, followed by address by 

 William Bateson, " The Outlook in Genetics." 

 Members of all biological societies are invited to 

 attend. 



W. C. Allee, 

 Secretary-Treasurer 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. William Bateson, director of the John 

 Innes Horticultural Institute, who wiR be 

 present at the convocation week meeting at 

 Toronto as the guest of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science 

 and the American Society of Zoologists, will 

 give a public address on " The Evolutionary 

 Faith and Modern Doubt." At the dinner 

 of the Zoologists he will speak on " The 

 Outlook in Genetics." 



The nomination of Dr. Walter B. Cannon, 

 Harvard Medical School, to serve in the 

 Medical Reserve Corps of the U. S. Army, 

 witli the rank of brigadier general, has been 

 confirmed by the Congress. 



Henry Howard was elected president of 

 the American Institute of Chemical Engi- 

 neers at the convention held in Baltimore 

 recently. 



Tandell Henderson, professor of applied 

 physiology, graduate school, Yale University, 

 has been elected a corresponding member of 

 the Society of Pliysicians of Vienna. 



Sir Frank Dyson, astronomer royal, has 

 been elected master of the Clockmakers' 

 Company. 



At the inaugural meeting of the 168th 

 session of the Eoyal Society of Arts held on 

 November 2, the society's medal was pre- 

 sented to Sir Dugald Clerk, Sir Herbert 

 Jackson, Sir Daniel Hall and Sir Oliver 

 Lodge, for their Trueman Wood lectures. 

 Medals were also presented to Mr. A. F. 

 Baillie, Dr. W. Cramp, Mr. W. Eaitt and 

 Sir Charles H. Bedford for papers of chemi- 

 cal interest. 



At the meeting of the Chemical, Metal- 

 lurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, 

 held on October 15, the following gold medals 

 were presented under the terms of the society's 

 research endowment fund. For chemical re- 

 search to Dr. James Moir; for metallurgical 

 research to Dr. William Arthur Caldecott 

 and Henry A. White; for mining research 

 to John Innes. 



Dr. E. W. Woodward has resigned as phys- 

 icist and chief of the section of mechanical 

 metallurgy of the Bureau of Standards, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, to become chief metallurgist for 

 the Whitney Manufacturing Company, Hart- 

 ford, Conn. 



Professor Henry H. Jeffcott has recently 

 been appointed successor to Dr. J. H. T. Tuds- 

 bery as secretary of the Institute of Civil Engi- 

 neers, London. 



Professor H. Dold, of the Institute for Ex- 

 perimental Therapy in Frankfurt-on-Main, has 

 been appointed to the charge of the sero-diag- 

 nostic department of the Emil von Behring 

 Institute, under the supervision of Professor 

 Uhlenhuth. 



Dr. F. E. Knoch, superintendent of the 

 United Oil Company, Florence, Colorado, and 



