Jantjaky 27, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



97 



Charles W. Goodale^ of Butte, Montana, 

 was awarded the gold medal of the Mining 

 and Metallurgical Society of America at its 

 annual meeting on January 10, for conspicuous 

 services in safety and welfare work. 



The Crompton Medal, given annually by the 

 Institution of Automobile Engineers for the 

 best paper read during the session, has been 

 awarded to Mr. H. L. Heathcote for his paper 

 on "Ball Bearings." 



Dk. August Pacini, of Washington, D. C, 

 was awarded the prize of $1,000 for research 

 work in roentgen-ray esperimentation by the 

 American Roentgen Bay Society at its recent 

 meeting in Washington, 



Sir George T. Beilbt, Sir John Cadman and 

 Professor J. S. Haldane have been appointed 

 to represent science on the advisory committee 

 for coal and the coal industry set up under 

 the British Mining Act of 1920. 



Dr. E. N. Miles Thomas has resigned the 

 keepership of the Department of Botany of the 

 National Museum of Wales. 



De. S. K. Lot, chief chemist of the Standard 

 Oil Company's refinery at Casper, Wyoming, 

 has been appointed consulting chemist of the 

 Bureau of Mines in connection with the oil 

 shale work. 



Dr. Emilius Clark Dudley has been given 

 leave of absence from the Northwestern Uni- 

 versity Medical School to accept an invitation 

 from Yale University to give a course in clini- 

 cal surgical gynecology at the Hunan- Yale 

 College of Medicine, Changsha, China. Dr. 

 Dudley expects to return to Chicago about 

 July 1. 



E. F. BuRCHARD has been granted a year's 

 leave of absence by the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey to undertake private work in oil geology 

 in South America. 



President Arthur A. Hamerschlag, of the 

 Carnegie Institute of Technology, sailed for 

 Europe on January 17 for three months vaca- 

 Mon. During his absence Dr. Thomas S. Ba- 

 ker, the secretary of the institution, will be 

 the acting pnesident. 



Dr. a. S. Hitchcock, systematic agrosto- 

 logist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has returned from a trip to the Orient where 

 he went to study the gi-asses, especially the 

 bamboos. He visited the Philippines, Japan, 

 central and south China, including the island 

 of Hainan, and Indo-China. 



Professor W. H. Hobbs, head of the de- 

 partment of geology at the University of 

 Michigan, who has been conducting in the Pa- 

 cific area a study of mountain growth and of 

 the formation of coral reefs and islands, has 

 now reached Europe. As exchange professor 

 with Professor H. A. Brouwer, he will begin 

 his lectui-es at the University of Delft the first 

 week in February. Dr. Brouwer sailed for 

 America on January 18 and before going to 

 Ann Arbor expects to give an address before 

 the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



At the meeting of the Federal Board of 

 Surveys and Maps, held on January 10, at 

 Washington, D. C, the following officers were 

 elected : Chairman : William Bowie,, chief. 

 Division of Geodesy, U. S. Coast and Geodetio 

 Survey, and chairman of the American Geo- 

 physical Union ; Vice-chairman : A. D. Kidder, 

 Cadastral Engineer, U. S. General Land Office; 

 Secretary: C. H. Birdseye, Chief Topographic 

 Engineer, U. S. Geological Survey; Members 

 of the Executive Committee : Colonel G. S. 

 Norvell, Military Intelligence Office, U. S. 

 Army, and Commander W. D. Puleston, Hydro- 

 graphic Office, U. S. Navy. 



At a recent meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee of the American Astronomical Union, 

 Dr. Ludwik Silberstein, of the Research Labora- 

 tory of the Eastman Kodak Company, was ap- 

 pointed chairman of a Committee on Relativity. 

 Other members of this committee are Dr. Ed- 

 ward Kasner, Columbia University, Dr. A. A. 

 Michelson, University of Chicago and Dr. D. C. 

 Miller of the Case School of Applied Science. 

 A meeting of the American Section of the 

 International Astronomical Union will be 

 called some time in the early spring before the 

 delegates sail for Rome, where the National 

 Conference opens on AprU 20. At this sec- 

 tional meeting it is hoped to have a report 



