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SCIENCE 



513 



The Eamsay Memorial trustees will at the 

 end of June consider applications for two 

 Ramsay Memorial fellowships for chemical re- 

 search. One of the fellowships will be limited 

 to candidates educated in Glasgow. The value 

 of the fellowships will be £250 per annum, to 

 which may be added a grant for expenses not 

 exceeding £50 per annmn. Full particulars as 

 to the conditions of the award are obtainable 

 from Dr. Walter "W. Seton, secretary, Eamsay 

 Memorial Fellowships Trust, University Col- 

 lege, London. 



The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 

 has awarded the Mary Kingsley medal to the 

 Oswaldo Cruz Institute of Rio de Janeiro in 

 appreciation of the scientific work of the late 

 Dr. Oswaldo Cruz. Dr. Carlos Chagas is the 

 director of the institute now, and the letter ac- 

 companying the medal states that the Liverpool 

 school had decided to award this medal "For 

 Devotion to Science" to Dr. Cruz, but was wait- 

 ing for the close of the war before making any 

 awards. The letter continues: "In the mean- 

 time Dr. Cruz had died, and the school now 

 confers the medal on the Oswaldo Cruz Insti- 

 tute as a tribute to the memory of one of the 

 greatest sons of Brazil. As the institute found- 

 ed by him is destined to be the leading one of 

 the institutions for medical research in tropical 

 America, it is only just that it should receive 

 this token of appreciation." 



W. A. Cruse, secretary of the Petroleum 

 Section of the American Chemical Society, an- 

 nounces that members of the special committee 

 for promotion of research on petroleum in 

 cooperation with Dr. Van H. Manning, direc- 

 tor of research for the American Petroleum 

 Institute, are as follows : W. F. Faragher, 

 chairman, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; 

 R. E. Wilson, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Cambridge, Mass. ; R. P. Anderson, 

 United Natural Gas Company, Oil City, Pa.; 

 N. A. C. Smith, Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa.; C. E. Waters, Bureau of Standards, 

 Washington, D. C. ; R. R. Matthews, Roxana 

 Petroleum Company, Wood River, 111. ; E. W. 

 Dean, Standard Oil Company, 26 Broadway, 

 New York, N. T. At the recent meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society in Birmingham, 



the Petroleum Section authorized the appoint- 

 ment of such a committee. 



The Biological Research Institute (Bio- 

 logische Versuchsanstalt) of the Vienna Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, affords exceptional oppor- 

 tunities for students to pursue investigations in 

 experimental biology on both animals and 

 plants. Research tables may be occupied by 

 properly qualified persons at a monthly rental 

 of $20. Inquiries should be addressed to the 

 director, Professor Hans Przibram, II. Prater, 

 Vivarium, Vienna, Austria. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Mr. E. W. Scripps has established a founda- 

 tion at Miami University for the study of pop- 

 ulation in its various aspects, particularly the 

 population of the United States. Dr. Warren 

 S. Thompson, professor of rural sociology at 

 Cornell University, has accepted the appoint- 

 ment as director of the foundation. 



Dr. Sydney Walker, Jr., has provided for 

 a scholarship in the department of physiology 

 of the University of Chicago, to be known as 

 the Sydney Walker III scholarship in physi- 

 ology, in memory of Dr. Walker's son. It is 

 to be used for the furtherance of research in 

 physiology and provides $200 a year. 



The inaugui'ation of Dr. Clarence C. Little, 

 formerly of the Cold Spring Harbor Biological 

 Laboratory, as president of the University of 

 Maine, will take place on May 10. 



Professor D. Weight Wilson, Ph.D., pro- 

 fessor of physiological chemistry, Johns Hop- 

 kins Medical School, Baltimore, has been ap- 

 pointed to fill a similar position at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, to succeed Dr. Alonzo 

 E. Taylor. 



Dr. Albert Schneider has resigned from 

 the University of Nebraska. He will teach 

 in the summer session of the University of 

 California, and will then go to Portland, where 

 he has accepted a position in North Pacific 

 College and where he will continue his cancer 

 research. 



