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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Vernon Kellogg, zoologist, secretary of 

 the National Research Council, Washington, 

 D. C, and John W. Davis, attorney, of New 

 York City, formerlj' ambassador to Great 

 Britain, have been elected trustees of the 

 Rockefeller Foundation. 



Professor John Merle Coulter, head of 

 the department of botany at the University of 

 Chicago and editor of the Botanical Gazette, 

 has been elected a con-esponding member of 

 the Czeeho-Slovakian Botanical Society. 



Colonel Arthur S. Dwight, of New York, 

 was elected president of the American In- 

 stitute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 

 at the annual meeting in New York City held 

 last week. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, formerly paleontologist to 

 the British Geological Survey, has been elected 

 president of the Paleontographical Society in 

 succession to the late Dr. Henry Woodward. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the University of 

 Wiirzburg has awarded the Schneider prize 

 for the best work on tuberculosis during the 

 last ten years to Professor K. E. Ranke of the 

 University of Munich. The award states that 

 by his anatomic research on the primary com- 

 plex and the secondary phase of tuberculosis, 

 clinical understanding of the beginnings of 

 tuberculosis has been deepened, and a basis of 

 pathological anatomy provided for recognition 

 of the incipient disease. 



Dr. Adolpho Lindenberg, of the Faculty of 

 Medicine and vice-president of the Society of 

 Medicine, has been elected president of the 

 Society of Biology recently founded in Sao 

 Paulo, Brazil. 



Philip Seabuey Smith has resigned as chief 

 of the Latin-American division of the Biu'eau 

 of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to become 

 associate editor of Ingenieria Internacional. 



Captain A. W. Fuchs, formerly of the U. S. 

 Public Health Service, has resigned to become 

 sanitary engineer for the Missouri Pacific Rail- 

 road, with headquarters at Memphis, Tenn. 



Dr. Herbert S. Davis, until recently pro- 

 fessor of biology in the University of Florida, 

 has entered the permanent service of the Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries as fish pathologist. Dr. 

 Davis has during several summers served the 

 Bureau in the capacity of temporary investiga- 

 tor, first at the Beaufort Biological Station and 

 later at the Fairport Biological Station, giv- 

 ing special attention to the parasites and the 

 diseases of fishes. 



Mr. R. H. Heising of the engineering labora- 

 tory of the Western Electric Company has 

 been awarded the Morris Lieman prize of the 

 Institute of Radio Engineers for the most im- 

 portant contribution to the radio art in the 

 past twelve months. Recently his efforts have 

 been devoted to the study of radio systems for 

 extending Bell telephone service to locations 

 which can not be reached by wire. 



Dr. 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 oil shale 

 work. 



Professor William Ernest Hocking, 

 Ph. D., Alford professor of natural religion, 

 moral philosophy and civil polity, and Pro- 

 fessor Alfred Marston Tozzer, Ph. D., professor 

 of anthropology, have been appointed the pro- 

 fessors from Harvard University for the sec- 

 ond half of the year 1922-23 under the inter- 

 change agreement between Harvard University 

 and the Western Colleges. 



Professor B. E. Fernow, formerly head of 

 the College of Forestry, has returned to Ithaca 

 from Toronto, Canada, to make his home with 

 his son, Bernard E. Fernow, Jr., who is an 

 instructor in the College of Mechanical Engi- 

 neering of Cornell University. 



At the last annual meeting of the American 

 Society of Mammalogists there was authorized 

 the appointment of a Committee on Marine 

 Mammals, with the intention that it should 

 work primarily along the lines of conservation. 

 The committee consists of the following: Dr. 

 E. W. Nelson, chairman, U. S. Biological Sur- 

 vey, Washington, D. C; Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, 



