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of increasing scientific knowledge upon consti- 

 tutional government." 



On May 1 a number of the friends of Colonel 

 Fielding H. Garrison gave a dinner in his honor 

 in Washington. Dr. Harvey Gushing presided 

 and Dr. William H. Welch gave an account of 

 Dr. Garrison's work in medical history and 

 bibliography. Dr. Garrison will leave shortly 

 for work in the Philippines. 



Professor Frederic S. Lee, of Columbia 

 University, has been elected vice-president of 

 the International Association of the Institut 

 Marey of Paris. 



To fill the place of the correspondent in 

 geometry in the Paris Academy of Sciences, 

 vacant by the death of Professor Noether, of 

 Erlangen, M. Rene Baire, of Dijon, has been 

 elected. 



The Bessemer Gold Medal of the British 

 Iron and Steel Institute for the year 1921 has 

 been awarded to Mr. Charles Fremont, in recog- 

 nition of his services in the advancement of 

 the metallurgy of iron and steel and the tech- 

 nology of the testing materials. 



At the fifth annual meeting of the British 

 Society of Glass Technology held on April 26, 

 Professor W. E. S. Turner was elected presi- 

 dent. 



Dr. a. Pulle, professor of systematic bot- 

 any in the University of Utrecht, Holland, has 

 become director of a second botanical garden 

 presented to the university by the heirs of the 

 late August Janssen, who founded his garden 

 in 1905 near his country residence about fifteen 

 kilometers from Utrecht. 



Dr. L. R. Williams, formerly deputy com- 

 missioner of health of New York State and 

 for the last four years director of the Rocke- 

 feller Commission on the Prevention of Tuber- 

 culosis, has been appointed managing director 

 of the National Tuberculosis Association in the 

 place of Dr. Charles J. Hatfield, of Philadel- 

 phia, who resigned to give most of his time to 

 tuberculosis work in Philadelphia. 



On May 1, R. T. Stull was relieved of the 

 superintendency of the Ceramic Experiment 

 Station of the Bureau of Mines at Columbus, 

 Ohio, and made supervising ceramist for the 



bureau as a whole. He will act under the direc- 

 tion of the chief mineral technologist and will 

 have supervision in technical matters in ceram- 

 ics, and such related investigations of non- 

 metallic minerals as may from time to time be 

 assigned to him. 



E. R. Shepard, known for his work in elec- 

 trolysis at the Bureau of Standards, has re- 

 signed to engage in private practice. 



The Universities of Melbourne, Sydney and 

 Adelaide have united to invite Professor Ein- 

 stein, should he visit Java, to continue after- 

 wards to Australia and visit the principal cities. 



0. P. Hood, chief mechanical engineer of 

 the Bureau of Mines, will spend the summer in 

 Europe investigating recent developments in 

 fuels. 



Dr. R. B. Moore, chief chemist of the 

 Bureau of Mines, sailed on May 6 for England, 

 preparatory to spending two months in various 

 European countries for the purpose of obtain- 

 ing data on chemical and mineral technology. 

 Dr. Moore will visit England, Germany, France, 

 Austria, Czechoslovakia, Holland and Belgium. 



During the summer Messrs. C. 0. Peak, 

 0. A. Plunkett, C. L. Porter and P. A. Young 

 will be employed in plant disease survey work 

 in the State of Illniois. . This survey is under 

 the general direction of Professor F. L. Ste- 

 vens and under the special direction of Mr. 

 L. R. Tehon. 



The committee on the C. M. Warren Fund 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences voted the following grants at its meeting 

 held on May 4: $500 to Professor C. James, 

 New Hampshire College, to assist a research on 

 the ytterbimn earths ; $500 to Professor Charles 

 A. Kraus, Clark University, to be used to con- 

 tinue his investigations on the constitution of 

 metallic substances. Applications for grants 

 should be made to the chairman of the com- 

 mittee, Professor James F. Norris, Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, be- 

 fore the next meeting of the committee, which 

 will be held on October 1. 



Professor William H. Hodbs, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, gave a lecture at the Sor- 

 bonne, University of Paris, on April 29, on 



