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Sir Joseph Larmor, who has long held a lead- 

 ing' position in the British school of mathe- 

 matical physics. It may fairly be said that 

 his preliminary work was of the utmost value 

 in paving the way to the modern develop- 

 ments of the theory of relativity. A Eoyal 

 medal to Dr. Frederick Frost Blackman, dis- 

 tinguished for his contributions to plant phys- 

 iology, and especially to knowledge of the 

 process of photo-synthetic assimilation of 

 carbon dioxide. A Eoyal medal to Sir Frank 

 Dyson, who has devoted special attention t3 

 investigations of the movements and distances 

 of the stars and of the bearing of these upon 

 the structure of the stellar universe. It was 

 mainly to his foresight and organizing ability 

 that we owe the successful observations of 

 the deflection of light by the sun's gravita- 

 tional field during the eclipse of 1919. The 

 Davy medal to Prof. Phillijje Auguste Guye, 

 in recognition of his work on optically active 

 organic substances, on molecular association, 

 and on atomic weights. The Hughes medal 

 to Prof. Niels Bohr, the author of the con- 

 ception to which the name " Bohr-atom " has 

 been attached. This conception gave a solu- 

 tion of the long-standing puzzle of the Balmer 

 series of hydrogen, and appears likely to pro- 

 vide a complete explanation of the spectra 

 of the various elements. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. L. O. Howaed, chief of the Division of 

 Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, gave at Toronto on the evening of 

 December 2Y the address of the retiring presi- 

 dent of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, which is printed in 

 the present issue of Science. We hope to 

 print in subsequent issues the addresses of 

 the chairmen of the sections and other ad- 

 dresses and proceedings that are of general 

 interest. 



At the last meeting of the Indiana Academy 

 of Science held at Indianapolis, Indiana, Dec. 

 1 and 2, 1921, the following officers were 

 elected : 



President : F. M. Andrews, Indiana University. 



Vice-president : C. A. Behrens, Purdue Univer- 

 sity. 



Secretary : W. N. Hess, De Pauw University. 



Assistant Secretary: H. T. Dietz, Indianapolis, 

 Indiana. 



Treasurer: W. M. Blanehard, De Pauw Univer- 

 sity. 



Editor: F. Payne, Indiana University. 



Press Secretary: F. B. Wade, Shortridge High 

 School, Indianapolis, Indiana. 



The recent election of the Optical Society 

 of America resulted in the choice of the follow- 

 ing officers for terms beginning January 1, 

 1922: 



President (2 year term) : Leonard T. Troland, 

 Harvard University. 



Vice-president (2 year term) : Herbert B. Ives, 

 Western Electric Company, New York. 



Secretary (5 year term) : Irwin G. Priest, 

 National Bureau of Standards. 



Treasurer (5 year term) : Adolph Lomb, Bausch 

 and Lomb. 



Menibers of the Executive Council (2 year term) : 

 Adelbert Ames, Jr., Dartmouth College, W. E. Por- 

 sythe, Nela Research Laboratories, Henry G. Gale, 

 University of Chicago, Ernest Merritt, Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



The retiring president. Professor J. P. 0. 



Southall and all of the above-named officers 



are ex-officio members of the Executive 

 Council. 



At its 1921 meeting at New Orleans, the 

 American Pharmaceutical Association awarded 

 the 1921-22 grant from the A. Ph. A. Research 

 Fund to Dr. David I. Macht, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, for pharmacological work on 

 the benzyl compounds found in certain galen- 

 icals. The first grant made in 1919 was 

 awarded to Dr. George D. Beal, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, for work on alkaloidal assays, 

 while the 1920 award was made jointly to Dr. 

 Herber W. Toungken, of the Philadelphia Col- 

 lege 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 

 derivatives of guaiacol. 



R. L. Agassiz, of Boston, was elected presi- 

 dent of the Copper and Brass Research As- 



