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sociation, at its first annual meeting held in 

 New York, December 6. 



Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring, Des 

 Moines, Iowa, has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Royal College of Physicians 

 of Edinburgh, " to mark its sense of his dis- 

 tinguished services in connection with re- 

 ciprocity " between the United States and 

 Great Britain in matters of medical educa- 

 tion. 



Dr. Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Dr. Johan 

 Hjort, head of the Norwegian Fisheries, and 

 Professor Paul Langevin (Paris) have been 

 elected honorary members of the Royal In- 

 stitution. 



Dr. B. E. Eldred of New York has re- 

 ently been awarded the Elliott Cresson gold 

 medal of the Eranklin Institute, Philadel- 

 phia, for his development of the low-expan- 

 sion leading-in wire for incandescent electric 

 lamps. 



The Journal of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences states that Mr. George M. Rom- 

 mel, chief of the animal husbandry division 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, TJ. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, has resigned to be- 

 come editor-in-chief of the American Inter- 

 national Publishers, New York City. Mr. 

 Rommel had been with the Department since 

 1901, and had been chief of his division since 

 its organization in 1910. 



Captain Ernest L. Bennett, formerly in 

 command of the battleship New York, has 

 been designated by the Navy Department as 

 director of the naval experimental and re- 

 search laboratory now nearing completion at 

 Belleview, on the Potomac River below Wash- 

 ington. 



Dr. George H. Whipple, dean of the Uni- 

 versity of Rochester Medical School, will de- 

 liver the fourth Harvey Society Lecture at 

 the New York Academy of Medicine, on 

 Saturday evening, January Y. His subject 

 will be " Pigment metabolism and regenera- 

 tion of hemoglobin in the body." 



Before a meeting of the Chemical Society 

 of the District of Columbia, at the Cosmos 



Club in Washington on December 8, Dr. H. 

 V. Moore, chief chemist of the Bureau of 

 Mines, spoke on " Radium," Dr. Howard A. 

 Kelley on " The Therapeutic Use of Radium 

 in the Treatment of Cancer," and Miss Arm- 

 strong of the Bureau of Standards on " The 

 Quantitative Measurement of Radium." 



At a meeting of the Faraday Society on 

 December 13, Professor F. 0. Rankine de- 

 livered an address on " The Structure of 

 Gaseous Molecules." 



The Anglo-Batavian Society has proposed 

 an extension of the scheme for the inter- 

 change of lectures between England and Hol- 

 land and has suggested a course of eight lec- 

 tures from the British side this session. The 

 University of London has nominated Profes- 

 sor F. G. Donnan and Dr. J. F. Thorpe as 

 lecturers in chemistry. 



Joseph E. Goodrich, head of the agricul- 

 tural department of the Loomis Institute, 

 Windsor, Conn., died on December 21 at the 

 age of forty years. 



Mr. James Robert Appleyard, of the 

 Royal Technical Institute, died on November 

 26, in Manchester, England, at the age of 

 fifty-two years. 



Wallace Lee has been appointed chief ge- 

 ologist to the Government of Siam. For 

 the present his address is in care of the Com- 

 missioner General, Royal Railroad Depart- 

 ment, Bangkok, Siam. 



The directors of the Fenger Memorial Fund 

 have set aside $500 for medical investigation. 

 The work should have a clinical bearing and 

 if possible it should be carried out in an in- 

 stitution that will furnish facilities and ordi- 

 nary supplies free of cost. Applications with 

 full particulars should be sent to L. Hektoen, 

 637 S. Wood Street, Chicago, before Janu- 

 ary 15, 1922. 



Stanley Field, president of the Field Mu- 

 seum, Chicago, and nephew of Marshall 

 Field, has contributed $265,000 to the mu- 

 seum. Captain Marshall Field has pledged 

 $50,000 a year for five years; Charles R. 

 Crane has given $30,000 and Arthur B. 

 Jones $25,000. 



