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[Vol. LV, No. 1411 



University, was elected president. Two new 

 members of the council were elected: Professor 

 Warner Brown, of the University of California, 

 and Dr. F. L. Wells, of the Psychopathic Hos- 

 pital, Boston. 



Dr. W. C. Fakabee, curator of the Museum 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, was elect- 

 ed president of the American Anthropological 

 Association at the Bi-ooklyn meeting. 



The Perkin medal of the American Section 

 of the Society of Chemical Industry, was pre- 

 sented on January 13, to William M. Burton, 

 chemist of the Standard Oil Company of 

 Indiana. Presentation addresses were made by 

 Sumner R. Chm-ch, R. F. Ruttan, Charles H. 

 Herty, Russell Wiles and Charles F. Chand- 

 ler, to which Mr. Burton replied. 



Dr. E. p. Hyde, director of the Nela Re- 

 search Laboratories, was made president of 

 the International Commission on Illumination 

 which met lately in Paris. 



De. a. W. Rogers has been elected president 

 of the South African Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science to preside at the next 

 annual meeting to be held in July at Loureneo 

 Marques. 



We learn from Nature that Professor Ho- 

 race Lamb, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Sir Arthur 

 Schuster and Professor G. Elliot Smith have 

 been elected honorary members of the Man- 

 chester Literary and Philosophical Society. 



The honorary degi'ee of doctor of science 

 has been conferred by the University of Cal- 

 cutta on Sir W. J. Pope, professor of chem- 

 istry, Cambridge University, and on Professor 

 C. V. Raman, professor of physics. University 

 of Calcutta. 



Among the prizes recently awarded by the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences was one to E. Rou- 

 baud for his works on malaria in France and 

 the disappearance of malaria in temperate 

 climates. 



The British Medical Journal reports that 

 the eminent histological anatomist Professor 

 Johan August Hammar, of Upsala, celebrated 

 his sixtieth birthday on August 21, and re- 



ceived on this occasion from his fellows, friends 

 and pupils a Festskrift containing thirty-eight 

 scientific papers written in Swedish, German, 

 and English, covering over a thousand pages. 

 The position of naturalist of the Albatross 

 in the Bureau of Fisheries, which for some 

 time has been vacant for lack of an available 

 candidate of suitable qualifications, has been 

 filled by the appointment of Paul S. Galtsoff, 

 who was formerly chief zoologist of the Rus- 

 sian Academy of Sciences and assistant direc- 

 tor of the marine biological station at Sebas- 

 topol. 



Earle E. Richardson, instructor in ana- 

 lytical chemistry and physics for the past four 

 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, has been appointed research physicist 

 at the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



J. E. Walters, F. W. Sehroeder and Frank 

 Porter, chemists at the helium plant of the 

 Bureau of Mines at Petrolia, Texas, have been 

 transferred to the new cryogenic laboratory of 

 the Bureau in Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Ralph W. G. Wyckofp, of the Geo- 

 physical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, is on a year's leave of absence, 

 which he will spend at the California Institute 

 of Technology at Pasadena, California. 



The third Asiatic Expedition of the Ameri- 

 can Museum, under the leadership of Mr. Roy 

 Chapman Andrews, is beginning its work in 

 China, with the cooperation of Dr. Yen, mini- 

 ster of foreign affairs, and other members of 

 the cabinet in Pekin. Dr. V. K. Ting, direc- 

 tor of the National Geological Survey of China, 

 and Dr. J. G. Anderson, mining adviser to the 

 Chinese Government and curator of the Mu- 

 seum of the Geological Survey of China, have 

 also given assistance. 



Dr. Samuel J. Mixter, of Boston, delivered 

 the Hodgen Lecture, under the auspices of the 

 St. Louis Surgical Society and the Medical 

 Fimd Society on January 4. 



William A. Durgin has been given leave 

 of absence from the Commonwealth Edison 

 Company, Chicago, to direct the new activities 



