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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1414 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search on January 20 celebrated the twentieth 

 anniversary of its foundation with a reception 

 at which brief speeches were made by Mr. 

 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of the Board of Trus- 

 tees, and Dr. William H. Welch, of the Board 

 of Scientific Directors. 



Db. Henet C. Co"wles, of the University of 

 Chicago, was elected president of the Botanical 

 Society of America at the Toronto meeting. 



Dr. Hugh M. Smith, who has been United 

 States commissioner of fisheries since 1913, 

 has tendered his resignation. Mr. Herbert 

 Hoover, secretary of commerce, has written to 

 Dr. Smith: "I believe your service for thirty- 

 six years, rising from the bottom to the top^ 

 in one of our great scientific bureaus, is unique 

 in the history of the government. The whole 

 country is under an obligation to you for so 

 long and faithful a service." 



British New Year honors include knight- 

 hood conferred on Professor C. S. Sherring- 

 ton, president of the Royal Society and of the 

 British Association and on Professor W. A. 

 Herdman, recently president of the British 

 Association. 



Emmanuel De Maegerie, Strasbourg, direc- 

 tor of the Geological Survey of Alsace, has 

 been elected correspondent of the Geological 

 Society of America. 



Mme. Curie, having been proposed for mem- 

 bership in the French Academy of Medicine, 

 the academy, which has hitherto included no 

 woman, has voted that she is eligible, and it is 

 expected that she will be elected at the next 

 meeting. 



De. N. Antoni, of Stockholm, has been 

 awarded the Lennalm prize for 1921 by the 

 Swedish Association. He is the author of a 

 number of works on clinical neurology. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 to M. Georges Claude the Le Conte prize, 

 amounting to 50,000 francs, for his discoveries 

 in the field of industrial chemistry. M. Claude, 

 in a letter expressing his gratitude, announces 



that he has decided to divide the amount of the 

 prize between the Soeiete de secours des amis 

 de la science and the research laboratories of 

 the College de France. 



De. Albert Hassall, of the Zoological Di- 

 vision of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has 

 been awarded the Steel Memorial Medal for 

 1921 by the Council of the Royal College of 

 Veterinary Surgeons. Dr. Hassall has been in 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry for the last 

 thirty-five years, and in the coui'se of that 

 time, in addition to publishing numerous papers 

 on parasitology, has built up a complete index 

 catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology. 



Dr. a. G. Ireland, associate professor of 

 hygiene and public health at the University of 

 Kentucky, has been appointed state super- 

 visor of physical education and health by the 

 Connecticut State Board of Education. 



Dr. Frank P. Eldred, for twenty years di- 

 rector of the scientific division of Eli Lilly and 

 Company, of Indianapolis, has resigned to en- 

 gage in consulting work. 



Wabren R. Sholes, of the School of Mines, 

 University of Utah, has received an appoint- 

 ment as mineral examiner in the Utah field 

 division of the United States Land Office. 



Dr. Robert N. Nye, former research assist- 

 ant to Dr. Frank B. Mallory, has been made 

 assistant director of the division of biologic 

 laboratories of the Massachusetts State Depart- 

 ment of Public Health. 



Me. S. Keuse, associate electrical engineer 

 at the Bureau of Standards, who has been en- 

 gaged in radio development work at the bureau, 

 has been granted a year's leave of absence and 

 has accepted a position with the Hammond 

 Radio Research Corporation, Gloucester, Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



Professoe Ralph S. Hosmee, of Cornell 

 University, who has been studying forest con- 

 ditions in Europe, is returning to the Univer- 

 sity. 



Feed P. Bakee, for the past year and a half 

 assistant director of the Boston station of the 

 school of chemical engineering practice of the 



