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retired. He is succeeded by his assistant, Mr. 

 W. W. Smith. 



Sib Ronald Ross has been elected a member 

 of the Athenaeum Club for "distinguished em- 

 inence in science." 



Sib Humphry Davy Rolleston was elected 

 president of the Royal College of Physicians 

 of London on April 10, succeeding Sir Norman 

 Moore. 



The committee on scientific research of the 

 American Medical Association has made the 

 following grants : $250 to Professor Yandell 

 Henderson, of Yale -University, for the pur- 

 chase of apparatus to be used in investigation 

 of some problems of the regulation of respira- 

 tion; $225 to Dr. E. B. Krumbhaar, director of 

 laboratories of the Philadelphia General Hos- 

 pital, for studies on the etiology of inguinal 

 granuloma conducted by Dr. James C. Small; 

 an additional $400 to Dr. Herbert M. Evans, 

 of the University of California, for the con- 

 tinuance of his researches on the relations be- 

 tween ovulation and the endocrine glands. 



In June, Professor Walt«r S. Haines, of 

 Rush Medical College, will complete fifty years 

 of teaching in the department of materia 

 medica and therapeutics. A banquet of Rush 

 alumni will be held at the Congress Hotel on 

 May 17, during the session of the Illinois State 

 Medical Association, at which it is planned to 

 give recognition to this unusual record of 

 service. 



About three hundred men and women, in- 

 cluding physicians, social workers and mem- 

 bers of the nursing profession, attended a 

 dinner on April 26, given to Dr. S. Josephine 

 Baker, head of the bureau of child hygiene of 

 the New York City Health Department. Dr. 

 Baker has been appointed by State Health 

 Commissioner Herman M. Biggs as consultant 

 in child hygiene in connection with the organ- 

 ization of a new division in the state depart- 

 ment of health provided by the Davenport law. 



Dr. Joseph C. Swenabton has been ap- 

 pointed assistant director of the bureau of 

 bacteriology of the Baltimore City Health De- 

 partment. 



L. E. Roberts, formerly assistant director of 

 research of the American Writing Paper Com- 

 pany, Holj'oke, Mass., is now physical chemist 

 at the Pacific Coast Experiment Station of the 

 Bureau of Mines at Berkeley, Calif. 



R. E. Hall, formerly with the Geophysical 

 Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at 

 Washington, has been appointed to take charge 

 of the physical laboratory of the Pittsburgh 

 station of the Bureau of Mines. 



Professoe John Frazee, dean of the Towne 

 Scientific School of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been appointed engineering ex- 

 change professor to France next year. In this 

 capacity he will represent seven American 

 technical schools. 



Dr. Harry Richmond Slack, Jr., A.B. 

 (Georgia, '08), M.D. (Johns Hopkins, '12), 

 associate professor of laryngology of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, has been appointed 

 exchange professor to the Union Medical Col- 

 lege, in Peking, China. Dr. Slack will be pro- 

 fessor of otolaryngology and organize and pre- 

 side over that department. He will sail from 

 San Francisco about August 1 and be gone for 

 a year. 



Db. Mary E. Collett, of the University of 

 Buffalo, will spend next year in Sweden as 

 fellow in physiology of the American-Scan- 

 dinavian Foundation. 



Professor C. E. Ferree, of Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege, has been appointed one of an interna- 

 tional commission of four for the standardiza- 

 tion of the work on field taking, to report at 

 the Thirteenth International Congress of 

 Ophthalmology to be held in London in 1925. 



Kurd H. Endell, professor of economic en- 

 gineering at the Technical High School of 

 Berlin, recently made an inspection of many 

 of the open pits and underground properties 

 on the Mesabi iron range in Minnesota and 

 the iron-ore loading docks at Duluth and 

 Superior. 



At the recent national convention of Sigma 

 Gamma Epsilon at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

 the new grand council was constituted by the 

 election of Dean H. B. Meller, University of 



