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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1422 



cation bill as reported by the Senate civil 

 service committee, which provides for higher 

 salaries for scientific men employed by the gov- 

 ernment. 



THE JOHN SCOTT MEDAL FUND 



The Board of Directors of City Trusts, 

 having charge of the John Scott Medal Fund, 

 has recently awarded the John Scott Medal and 

 Certificate, with premium of $800, to each of 

 the following, for the inventions named: 



William Duane, Ph.D., of Boston, Mass., for 

 "his researches in radio-activity and the physics 

 of radium and of X-rays. ' ' 



Eeginald Aubrey Fessenden, of Chestnut Hill, 

 Mass., for "his invention of a reception scheme 

 for continuous wave telegraphy and telephony." 



Elwood Haynes, of Kokomo, Indiana, for "his 

 discoveries in connection with stainless steel, 

 stellite, chrome-iron, etc." 



Thomas B. Osborne, Ph.D., of New Haven, 

 Conn., for "his researches on the constitution of 

 the vegetable proteins." 



John Scott Medal Fund 

 Extract from power of attorney to carry out 

 certain provisions in the will of John Scott. 

 Dated April 2, 1816 : 



. . . that the interest and dividends to become 

 receivable ... be laid out in premiums to be 

 distibuted among ingenious men and women who 

 make useful inventions ; but no one of such pre- 

 miums to exceed twenty dollars, and along with 

 which shall be given a copper medal with this 

 inscription ' ' To the most deserving, ' ' conforma- 

 bly to the tenor of the will of the said testator, 

 John Scott, deceased. 



Decree of the Court of Common Pleas of 

 Philadelphia : 



And now, this nineteenth day of Februarj', 

 A. D. 1919, the report of the master having been 

 duly filed and no exceptions having been taken 

 thereto, it is adjudged and decreed that the same 

 be confirmed, and that the Board of Directors of 

 City Trusts having in charge the trust created 

 under the will of John Scott, deceased, be author- 

 ized and directed in the administration of said 

 fund to distribute the income arising from the 

 fund as it stands with its accumulations as of the 

 date of this decree, in premiums to be distributed 

 among ingenious men and women who make useful 

 iaventions, but no one of such premiums to ex- 



ceed eight hundred dollars ($800.00) in value 

 (increased under decree of court, dated November 

 29, 1921, to $2,000.00); and along with such pre- 

 mium shall be given a copper medal with this 

 inscription, ' ' To the most deserving ' ' conforma- 

 bly to the tenor of the will of the said testator. 



It is further ordered and decreed that in the 

 selection of the recipients, the said trustees shall 

 be at liberty to make such rules and regulations 

 for enabling them to make a wise selection of 

 beneficiaries either by the selection of an advisory 

 board or otherwise, as they may deem best. The 

 premiums shall be awarded for useful inventions 

 which shall include any inventions that will be 

 useful to mankind in the advancement of chem- 

 ical, medical or any other science or in the devel- 

 opment of industry in any form; the test being 

 that the invention is, in the judgment of the trus- 

 tees, definitely accomplished, and that it may add 

 to the comfort, welfare and happiness of man- 

 kind. 



Resolution adopted by the Board of Direc- 

 tors of City Trusts : 



Resolved, That the award of medals under the 

 John Scott Medal Fund be made hereafter upon 

 the recommendation of an advisory board, to 

 consist of five persons, to be appointed by the 

 Board of Directors of City Trusts; three to be 

 nominated by the National Academy of Sciences, 

 one by the University of Pennsylvania, and one 

 by the American Philosophical Society; all of 

 said nominees to be acceptable to the Board of 

 Directors of City Trusts; the recommendations of 

 the Advisory Board to be made on a majority 

 vote. 



Personnel of the Advisory Committee : 

 National Academy of Sciences: H. H. Donald- 

 son, Theobald Smith, W. B. Scott. 



University of Pennsylvania: Arthur W. Good- 



American Philosophical Society: Samuel M. 

 Vauclain. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Hans Zinsser, professor of bacteriology 

 in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Columbia University, formerly in charge of 

 the sanitary inspection, successively in the first 

 and second army eoi-ps, American Expedition- 

 ary Forces, was awarded the distinguished 

 service medal at Governors Island, on March 

 17, for his successful operation of a plan of 



