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[Vol. LV, No. 1417 



Evermann, director of tJie Museum of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, has been elected 

 president to succeed Dr. Hale, and will give the 

 address at the m.eeting to be held in Salt Lake 

 City from June 22 to 24. It will be re- 

 membered that the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science will hold a sum- 

 mer meeting at Salt Lake City in conjunction 

 with the Pacific Division. 



We learn from Nature that a portrait of 

 Sir Patrick Manson was unveiled by Sir James 

 Michell at the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine on January 20. The portrait was 

 subscribed for by a large number of past and 

 present students and other friends at home and 

 abroad. 



The board of managers of the Hospital of 

 the University of Pennsylvania will extend the 

 age limit for professors to enable Dr. John B. 

 Deaver to continue as head of the surgical de- 

 partment of the University Medical School. 

 Dr. Deaver will be 67 years old on July 25, 

 and the board of managers was unanimous in 

 the desire to retain him. 



Dr. Smith Ely Jellifpe has been elected 

 president of the New York Psychiatric Society. 



Bradley Stoughton, formerly secretary of 

 the American Institute of Mining and Metal- 

 lurgical Engineers, was elected president of the 

 Yale Engineering Association at the annual 

 meeting on February 2, 1922. 



Dr. Harold Pender, director of the depart- 

 ment of electrical engineering at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, was recently appointed 

 chairman of the standards committee of the 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 



Mr. John G. Sullivan was elected presi- 

 dent of the Engineering Institute of Canada 

 for 1922 at the annual meeting held in Mon- 

 treal from January 24 to 25. 



We learn from Nature that shortly after the 

 retirement of Professor P. F. Frankland from 

 the Mason chair of physics in the University 

 of Birmingham a fund was opened with the 

 object of providing some permanent memorial 

 of his work in the university. The money 

 subscribed was devoted in the first place to a 



portrait of Professor Frankland (painted by 

 Mr. Bernard Munns), which now hangs in the 

 great hall of the University at Edgbaston. 

 The balance of the fund has been applied to 

 the institution of a Frankland medal, which, 

 together with a prize of books, is to be pre- 

 sented annually to the best student in practical 

 chemistry. 



The council of the Geological Society has 

 this year made the following awards : WoUaston 

 Medal, Alfred Harker; Murchison Medal, John 

 WiUiam Evans; LyeU Medal, Charles Davison; 

 WoUaston Fimd, Leonard Johnston WUls; 

 Murchison Fund, Herbert Bolton; LyeU Fund, 

 Arthur Macconochie and David Tait. 



The Prince Albert of Monaco and Professor 

 G. 0. Sars, of Christiania, were elected foreign 

 members of the Zoological Society of London 

 at its monthly meeting on December 21. 



In the recent reorganization of the Russian 

 Soviet cabinet, three new portfolios were 

 created, one of them for public health, in which 

 Dr. Semashko has been placed in charge. 



Dr. Lester A. Pratt, who has been in charge 

 of the research laboratory of the Merrimac 

 Chemical Company, Boston, for the past six 

 years, has been made director of research in 

 the same institution. 



Edward A. Dieterle^ assistant chief chemist 

 of the Koppers Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., has 

 been made chief chemist of the Chicago By- 

 product Coke Company, Chicago. 



Dr. Carl S. Oakman, of the Digestive Fer- 

 ments Company, Detroit, has accepted the 

 general managership of the Wilson Labora- 

 tories, Chicago. 



Professor Jacob R. Schramm, of the de- 

 partment of botany of Cornell University, has 

 been granted a leave of absence for work in 

 Washington on Botanical Abstracts. 



Professor Stephen S. Vishee has resumed 

 his teaching of geography at Indiana Univer- 

 sity after spending nearly six months in a 

 field study of the tropical cyclones of the Paci- 

 fic. The investigation was financed by the 

 Bishop Museum of Honolulu and by Yale and 



