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Secretary of Section N for 1922: A. J. Gold- 

 farb, College of the City of New York, New 

 York, N. Y. 



Members of the Council: J. McKeen Cattell 

 (to retire at the end of 1924), Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. ; F. G. Cottrell (to retire at the 

 end of 1924), National Research Council, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; Henry C. Cowles (to retire at the 

 end of 1925), the University of Chicago, and 

 John C. Merriam (to retire at the end of 1925), 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Members of the Executive Committee: Simon 

 Flexner and W. J. Humphreys were elected to 

 succeed themselves, as members of the executive 

 committee (to retire at the end of 1925). 



The following were appointed to membership in 

 the Committee on Grants, to succeed Henry Crew, 

 Joel Stebbins and G. H. Parker, who retired at 

 the end of 1921: E. G. Conklin (to retire at the 

 end of 1925), Princeton University, E. L. Nichols 

 (to retire at the end of 1925), Cornell Univer- 

 sity), and P. E. Moulton (to retire at the end of 

 1922), the University of Chicago. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 De. Edgae T?. ■ Smith, provost emeritus of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, has been elect- 

 ed an honorary member of the Chemical, Metal- 

 lurgical and Mining Society of South Africa. 



Chaeles W. Goodale has been awarded the 

 gold medal of the Mining and Metallurgical 

 Society of America for distinguished service 

 in increasing the safety of men in mining and 

 metallui'gieal operations. 



Dk. F. G. Cottebll, of the National Re- 

 search Council, has been elected an honorary 

 member of the French Society of Chemical 

 Industry. 



The American Society of Agricultural En- 

 gineers has elected A. J. E. Curtiss, of Chi- 

 cago, president for the coming year. 



AccoEDiNG to the Journal of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, the following Washing- 

 ton scientific men have been appointed mem- 

 bers of the technical staff of the American 

 delegation to the Conference on the Limita- 

 tion of Armament: Dr. L. W. Austin, radio 

 specialist of the Navy Department; Dr. J. H. 

 Bellinger, chief of radio investigations at the 



Bureau of Standards; Gen. Amos E. Fries, 

 chief of the Chemical Warfare Service of the 

 Army; Gen. George O. Squier, chief of the 

 Signal Corps of the Army; and Dr. S. W. 

 Stratton, director of the Bureau of Standards. 



At the recent meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation • of Anatomists in New Haven, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected : President, Clar- 

 ence M. Jackson, University of Minnesota; 

 Vice-President, Harold D. Senior, New York 

 University; Secretary-Treasurer, Lewis H. 

 Weed, Johns Hopkins University; Members 

 of the Executive Committee: Davenport Hook- 

 er, University of Pittsburgh, and Benjamin F. 

 Kingsbury, Cornell University. 



Celebeations were held at Liege on Decem- 

 ber 4, in honor of the completion of fifty years 

 of scientific work of Professor Leon Frederieq. 

 A bas-relief portrait of himself in bronze was 

 presented to him, and this will be placed later 

 in the Institute of Physiology at Liege. Rep- 

 resentatives of the Universities of Lausanne 

 and of Strasbourg conferred honorary de- 

 grees upon Professor Frederieq. 



A Dutch pharmacist. Dr. H. Baljet, of 

 Arnheim, has been awarded the Davy prize 

 by the University of Geneva for an essay on 

 the dosage of digitalis. 



The docent of neurology at the Karolinska 

 Mediko-Kirurgiska Institut at Stockholm, Dr. 

 N. Antoni, has been awarded the Lennmalm 

 prize for 1921 by the Swedish Medical Asso- 

 ciation. 



S. J. Speak has been elected president of 

 the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 

 London. 



De. Robeet N. Ntb_, formerly research as- 

 sistant to Dr. F. B. Mallory, has accepted the 

 position of assistant director of the division 

 of biologic laboratories of the Massachusetts 

 State Department of Public Health. 



De. William A. Peelzvs^eig has resigned the 

 position of biochemist in the New York branch 

 of the Hygienic Laboratory and has accepted 

 an appointment as chemist to the Medical 

 Clinic of the Johns Hopkins University. 



