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military sanitation and epidemic disease con- 

 trol. 



The Fenger Memorial Fund has allotted a 

 grant of $400 for the extension of work now 

 being carried out by Dr. M. G. Seelig on some 

 uses of magnesium in surgery. This work is 

 being conducted in the surgical laboratories of 

 the Washington University School of Medicine. 



The British Medical Association has award- 

 ed its gold medal to Sir T. Clifford AUbutt, 

 regius professor of physic in the University of 

 Cambridge, for his distinguished services to 

 the profession and the association, and in com- 

 memoration of his five years' presidency of the 

 association in the time of the war. 



The Founder's Medal of the Royal Geo- 

 graphic Society has been awarded to Colonel 

 Howard Bury, the leader of last year's Everest 

 expedition, as a token of appreciation for what 

 the society considers the most noticeable geo- 

 graphic achievement in the last twelve months. 

 The presentation was made by Sir Francis 

 Younghusband, president of the society. 



The Society of Sigma Xi of the University 

 of Iowa has elected to membership Dr. L. Wal- 

 lace Dean, dean of the college of medicine; Dr. 

 Samuel T. Orton, head of the psychopathic 

 hospital; Lorle I. Stecher of the Iowa Child 

 Welfare Research Station; Clarence W. Hew- 

 lett and Edward 0. Hulburt, assistant profes- 

 sors of physics. Walter S. Hendrixson, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Grinnell College, and 

 William Harmon Norton, professor of geology 

 at Cornell College, are initiates from other 

 institutions. 



Dr. Victor F. Hess, technical director of 

 the United States Radium Corporation, has 

 been appointed consulting physicist of the 

 United States Bureau of Mines. 



William H. Rhodes, Jr., who has been 

 senior highway engineer, U. S. Bureau of 

 Public Roads, has accepted the position of 

 maintenance engineer with the Louisiana High- 

 way Commission. 



Dr. W. J. Humphreys writes that on page 

 312 of Science for March 24, it is stated 

 through an error that got into the rough min- 



utes that N. L. Bowen will be the new secretary 

 of the G«odetic Section of the American Geo- 

 physical Union. Wm. Bowie, the present sec- 

 retary of the section, will continue to hold that 

 office. 



Dr. F. F. Russell and Dr. Richard M. 

 Pearce have arrived in South America to pro- 

 mote the work of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



John R. Freeman, Jr., returned recently to 

 the Bureau of Standards from a seven months' 

 trip to Europe, where he visited, for the Bureau 

 of Standards, the principal metallurgical lab- 

 oratories of France, Germany and England. 

 While in England he worked for about two 

 months in the metallurgical department of the 

 National Physical Laboratories under Dr. 

 Walter Rosenhain. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, professor of biometry 

 and vital statistics at the Johns Hopkins 

 School of Hygiene and Public Health, will de- 

 liver the ninth Harvey Society lecture at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine, on Saturday 

 evening, April 8. His subject will be "The 

 interrelations of the biometrie and experi- 

 mental methods of acquiring knowledge, with 

 special reference to the problems of the dura- 

 tion of life." The lecture on March 25 was 

 given by Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout, professor of 

 botany in Harvard University, on "The mech- 

 anism of injury, recovery and death." 



Professor Edward S. Morse, curator of the 

 Peabody Academy of Science, gave a lecture at 

 the Buckingham School, Cambridge, on March 

 25, on "Some experiences of a collector." 



Professor Edward Kasner, of Columbia 

 University, spoke on "Dimensionality in Ein- 

 stein's cosmological theories," at Princeton 

 University on March 14. 



Dr. F. W. Aston, F.R.S., of Cambridge 

 University, addressed the Physical Colloquium 

 of the Western Electric Company in New York 

 on March 13 on the subject, "Isotopes." 



Dr. Thomas Lewis, of London, will deliver 

 the seventh Mellon lecture before the Society 

 of Experimental Biology of the School of Med- 

 icine of the University of Pittsburgh, on "Clin- 

 ical electrocardiography," on May 8. 



