April 21, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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Mt. Holyoke; Helen Abbot Merrill, Wellesley; 

 Roland Greorge Dwiglit Richardson, Brown; 

 Oswald Veblen, Princeton; Henry Seely White, 

 Vassar, and Ruth Goulding Wood, Smith. 



A TESTIMONIAL dinner in honor of Dr. 

 George E. de Schweinitz, president-elect of the 

 American Medical Association, was held in 

 Philadelphia, on April 4, under the auspices 

 of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. 

 Dr. Hobart A. Hare was toastmaster, and the 

 speakers were: Dr. Hubert Work, president of 

 the association and postmaster general of the 

 United States; Dr. William C. Braisted, presi- 

 dent of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; 

 Dr. Ross V. Patterson, dean of the Jefferson 

 Medical College, and Dr. John G. Clark, pro- 

 fessor of gynecology in the Medical School of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



President Porras, of Panama, on April 7, 

 tendered a reception to Dr. Richard P. Strong, 

 professor of tropical medicine at Harvard 

 University and director of the Gorgas Memo- 

 rial Institute, recently founded there. Dr. 

 Strong started on the following day on a tour 

 of the interior. 



The Royal Geographical Society will award 

 its medals and grants as follows : The Found- 

 er's Medal to Lieutenant Colonel C. K. How- 

 ard-Bury for his distinguished services in 

 command of the Mount Everest Expedition of 

 1921; The Patron's Medal to Mr. Ernest de K. 

 Leffingwell for his surveys and investigations 

 on the coast of northern Alaska; The Victoria 

 Medal to Mr. J. F. Baddeley for his work on 

 the Historical Geography of Central Asia; The 

 Mtirchison Grant to Mr. Charles Camsell for 

 his explorations and surveys in northern Can- 

 ada; The Back Grant to Khan Bahadur Sher 

 Jang for his surveys on the Indian frontier; 

 The Cuthbert Peek Grant to Mr. F. H. Melland 

 for his explorations in northern Rhodesia; and 

 The Gill Memorial to Mr. A. A. R. Boyee for 

 his triangulations in the Sudan. 



We learn from Nature that the following 

 were elected fellows of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh at the meeting on March 6: Mr. 

 C. L. Abernethy, Professor G. Barger, Sir 

 Dugald Clerk, Dr. F. A. E. Crew, Dr. W. 0. 



Greenwood, Mr. W. A. Guthrie, Professor R. K. 

 Hannay, Professor E. Hindle, Dr. C. F. Juritz, 

 Professor J. C. Meakins, Mr. M. Maegregor, 

 Dr. Bijali Behari Sarkar, Professor H. W. 

 Turnbull, Dr. J. Walker, Mr. J. Wilson, Mr. 

 J. M. Wordie. 



Dr. 0. Staff, who has been keeper of the 

 herbarium and library at the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew, since 1908, has retired on reach- 

 ing the age limit. He is succeeded as keeper 

 by Mr. A. D. Cotton, formerly a member of 

 the herbarium staff and lately mycologist to 

 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. 



The Engineering and Mining Journal and 

 Mining and Scientific Press were consolidated 

 on April 1, to form the Engineering and 

 Mining Journal-Press, with Josiah Edward 

 Spurr as editor. 



A NEV? major subdivision has been created 

 in the United States Geological Survey by 

 raising the division of Alaskan mineral re- 

 sources to the status of a branch. The work 

 will continue under the immediate direction of 

 Colonel A. H. Brooks, whose title under the 

 rearrangement is chief Alaskan geologist. 



R. T. Stull, who for several years has been 

 superintendent of the Columbus (Ohio) Ex- 

 periment Station of the Bureau of Mines, has 

 been appointed assistant chief of the bureau's 

 mineral technology division. In that position 

 he will have technical supervision over the 

 work in non-metallics and in ceramics. 



During the absence of Director Frank 

 Schlesinger, who is attending the meeting of 

 the International Astronomical Union in Rome 

 and will be absent until the latter part of May, 

 Professor Ernest W. Brown is to serve as act- 

 ing director of the Yale Observatory. Mr. Carl 

 L. Stearns, assistant at the observatory, with 

 the rank of instructor, has been granted leave 

 of absence for a year beginning July 1, 1922. 



FoLLOVFiNG the return of Dr. H. H. Rusby, 

 the scientific men who were members of the 

 Mulford Expedition to South America, arrived 

 in New York last week. They include Dr. 

 W. M. Mann, assistant entomologist of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture; Dr. Orlando 

 E. White, assistant botanist of the Brooklyn 



