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One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor 

 Frank A. Hartman, University of Buffalo, to 

 aid in the further study of suprarenal insuf- 

 ficiency. 



Joel Stebbins, 

 Secretary Committee on Grants. 

 Urbana, Illinois 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 

 THE EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL PHOTO- 

 GRAPHIC SOCIETY 



The Eoyal Photographic Society of Great 

 Britain is holding its sixty-seventh annual ex- 

 hibition in September and October of this year. 

 This is the most representative exhibition of 

 photographic work in the world, and the sec- 

 tion sent by American scientific men heretofore 

 has sufficiently demonstrated the place held by 

 this country in applied photography. It is 

 very desirable that American scientific pho- 

 tography should be equally well represented in 

 1922, and, in order to enable this to do be done 

 with as little difficulty as possible, I have 

 arranged to collect and forward American work 

 intended for the Scientific Section. 



This work should consist of prints showing 

 the use of photography for scientific purposes 

 and its application to spectroscopy, astronomy, 

 radiography, biology, etc. Photographs should 

 reach me not later than Thursday, June 15. 

 They should be mounted but not framed. 



I should be glad if any worker who is able 

 to send photographs will communicate with me 

 as soon as possible so that I may arrange for 

 the receiving and entry of the exhibit. 



A. J. Newton 

 The Eastman Kodak Company, 

 eochester, n. y. 



FRENCH EXCHANGE PROFESSORS IN 

 ENGINEERING 



The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that Pro- 

 fessor Jacques Cavalier, rector of the Univer- 

 sity of Toulouse, has begun his term at the 

 University of Pennsylvania as the first ex- 

 change professor appointed b5' the minister of 

 public instruction in France in accordance with 

 an arrangement made by the committee of 

 American universities on exchange with France 

 of professors of engineering and applied sci- 



ence. The plans made by the committee stipu- 

 late that the French exchange professor shall 

 spend one month at each of the following uni- 

 versities : Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns 

 Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy, University of Pennsylvania and Yale, and 

 that a representative of American technical 

 schools shall spend a year visiting and lecturing 

 before the chief French engineering and tech- 

 nical schools. 



Professor Cavalier is an eminent scientist 

 and well known as an investigator in the field 

 of metallurgical chemistry. He was formerly 

 professor of applied chemistry at the Univer- 

 sity of Rennes, and he is now rector of the 

 University of Toulouse. During the war he 

 was attached to the ministry of munitions. 

 Since his appointment to the post of rector of 

 the University of Toulouse he has devoted much 

 of his time to questions related to technical 

 education. 



During his stay in America he hopes to 

 thoroughhr study the organization administra- 

 tion and methods of instruction in our own 

 schools and place before men interested in 

 technical education the principles underlying 

 scientific education in France. It is believed 

 that this exchange of professorships will serve 

 to develop a cordial relationship between engi- 

 neering and technical schools in both countries. 

 Professor Cavalier will lecture before the staff 

 and graduate students of the department of 

 chemistry on questions related to his own in- 

 vestigations in applied chemistry, and he will 

 also deliver three illustrated lectures in French 

 at Houston Hall on Wednesdays, March 1, 

 March 8 and March 15, on 'The French univer- 

 sities," "Student life in France," and the "Evo- 

 lution and development of the French universi- 

 ties." Both as a savant and scholar. Professor 

 Cavalier is well equipped to speak on the ad- 

 vanced studies now carried on in French uni- 

 versities, as well as to discuss their organiza- 

 tion. 



The committee of American universities has 

 appointed as its representative in France this 

 year Professor Arthur E. Kennelly, professor 

 at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. Professor Kennelly has met with 

 so much success in his mission that the number 



