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chemistry at Columbia College and the first 

 senator from the State of New Tork. The 

 lecture will be in Havemeyer Hall, Columbia 

 University, on March 2, 1922, at 8:15 P. M. 



Professor Theodore Lyman has succeeded 

 the late Professor Charles W. Cross as chair- 

 man of the Rumford Committee of the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Arts and Sciences. Applica- 

 tions for grants from the funds at the disposal 

 of the committee should be made to Professor 

 Theodore Lyman, Jefferson Physical Labora- 

 torj', Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Dr. William T. Councilman, since 1892 

 professor of pathology in the Harva.rd Medical 

 School, and Dr. Harold C. Ernst, since 1895 

 professor of bacteriology, will retire from 

 active service at the close of the academic year. 



The Ambassador of the United States to 

 France has presented Professor Bergonie with 

 the medal and diploma of the Franklin In- 

 stitute in recognition of his services to science 

 and more particularly for his apparatus em- 

 ploying electricity in the search for and ex- 

 traction of fragments of projectiles. 



The American Association of Economic En- 

 tomologists, at the Toronto meeting, elected 

 Professor James G. Sanders, director of the 

 Pennsylvania Bureau of Plant Industry, Har- 

 risburg, to be president for 1922. 



At the New Haven meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Biological Chemists, the oflficers 

 elected for 1922 were: President, Donald D. 

 Van Slyke; Vice-president, Philip A. Shaffer; 

 Secretary, Victor C. Myers; Treasurer, Walter 

 R. Bloor; Councilors, Stanley R. Benedict, 

 Harold C. Bradley, Albert P. Mathews; Nomi- 

 nating Committee, C. L. Alsberg, G. H. A. 

 Clowes, P. B. Hawk, P. A. Levene, H. B. 

 Lewis, E. V. McCoUum, L. B. Mendel, J. R. 

 Murlin, R. T. Woodyatt. The president and 

 secretary of the Biochemical Society are this 

 year the chairman and executive secretai-y of 

 the Federation of American Societies for Ex- 

 perimental Biology, which will hold its 1922 

 meeting in Toronto. 



In addition to the election, already noted 

 here, of Professor Henry C. Cowles, of the 



University of Chicago, as president of the Bo- 

 tanical Society of America, other ofl&cers were 

 elected, as follows : Vice-president, Margaret C. 

 Ferguson, Wellesley College; Treasurer, 1. W. 

 Bailey, Bussey Institution; Secretary, 1. P. 

 Lewis, University of Virginia. 



Mme. Marie Curie on February 7 was 

 elected a member of the Paris Academy of 

 Medicine. It is the first time a woman had 

 been elected a member of one of the French 

 academies. The committee had presented six 

 names as candidates to succeed the late Edmund 

 Penier. The five men nominated withdrew 

 their names when they found out Mme. Curie's 

 name was on the list, and she obtained 64 votes 

 against 15 blanks. 



At the annual meeting of the Royal Meteoro- 

 logical Society on January 18 the Symons gold 

 medal, which is awarded biennially for dis- 

 tinguished work in connection with meteoro- 

 logical science, was presented to Colonel H. G, 

 Lyons. 



Eric A. Lor, of the power and mining en- 

 gineering department of the General Electric 

 Company, has been decorated with the Royal 

 Order of Vasa by the King of Sweden, in 

 recognition of services to the Swedish Govern- 

 ment. 



Professor C. F. Curtis Riley, of the de- 

 partment of zoology of the University of Mani- 

 toba, who is carrying on investigations on the 

 ecology and behavior of Gerridse, has been 

 elected a member of the Zoological Society of 

 Tokyo, Japan. 



The Societe Fran^aise de Physique, at its 

 last meeting in Paris, elected to its member- 

 ship Professor L. L. Campbell, head of the 

 Physics department of Simmons College, Bos- 

 toru 



The board of directors of the American 

 Electrochemical Society has appointed Dr. 

 CoUn G. Fink, 101 Park Avenue, New York 

 City, secretary of the society to fill the un- 

 expired term of the late Professor Joseph W. 

 Richards. 



Oliver H. Gish, for the past four years 

 research engineer with the Westinghouse Elec- 



