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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1430 



The Natural and Physiological Sciences: Nath- 

 an Banks, Cambri-dg'e; Thorne Martin Carpen- 

 ter, Boston; Stanley Cobb, Canton, Mass.; 

 Joseph Lincoln Goodale, Boston; Robert Wil- 

 liamson Lovett, Boston; Alfred Clarence Red- 

 field, Boston; Austin Flint Rogers, Palo Alto; 

 William Henry Weston, Jr., Cambridge; Sir 

 Thomas Clifford Allbutt, Cambridge, England; 

 Emmanuel De Margerie, Strasbourg, France. 

 Class III. The Moral and Political Sciences : 

 Edward Channing, George La Plana, William 

 McDougall, Arthur Kingsley Porter, Paul Jo- 

 seph Sachs, Charles Henry Conrad Wright, all 

 of Cambridge; Henri Pirenne, Ghent, Belgium. 



At the recent annual meeting of the members 

 of the Royal Institution, London, the report of 

 the board of visitors was presented and showed 

 that last year 57 new members were elected 

 while 38 were lost by death. The total member- 

 ship in July last was 826 against 831 in the 

 same month of the previous year. The result 

 of the ballot for new officers was as follows : 

 President, The Duke of Northumberland; treas- 

 urer, Sir James Crichton-Browne ; secretary. 

 Colonel E. H. Grove-HiHs. 



Dr. Ludwik Silbeestein, mathematical phy- 

 sicist at the Research Laboratory of the East- 

 man Kodak Company, has been appointed an 

 associate editor of the Journal of the Optical 

 Society of America. 



De. Paul M. Giesy, formerly with the Calco 

 Chemical Company, has become research chem- 

 ist with E. R. Squibb & Sons at their Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. plant. 



A. W. Hickman retired on March 31 from 

 the United States Bureau of Animal Industry 

 after thirty-four years of service. For the last 

 fifteen years he was chief of the Quarantine 

 Division. 



De. Donald D. Van Sltke, member of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has 

 accepted an appointment as visiting professor 

 in biological chemistry at the Peking Union 

 Medical College for four months, beginning 

 with the fall term of the next academic year. 

 Dr. Harry R. Slack, of the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, will be visiting professor in 

 oto-laryngology at the college for the academic 

 year 1922-23. 



Dr. Eenest Fox Nichols, who has been in 

 Honolulu, returned on May 15 to his work as 

 director of pure science in the Nela Park Re- 

 search Laboratoiy of the National Electric 

 Lamp Works at Cleveland. 



Dr. RtTTH Marshall, professor of zoology 

 in Raokford College, will make an extended 

 trip to Alaska this summer, visiting the Atlin 

 Lake region, Cordova and Katchikan. She will 

 collect water mites in these regions. Miss Patsy 

 Hughes Lupo, associate professor of botany, 

 will sail from Seattle to Nome on June 1, and 

 will spend the summer in the interior, studying 

 and collecting algse and fungi. 



Dr. Eloise Gerry, microscopist in the office 

 of wood technology at the Forest Products 

 Laboratory, left on May 20 for a field trip 

 through Georgia, Florida and Louisiana. It is 

 her pui'pose to make experiments and investi- 

 gations that will assist in developing better 

 methods of obtaining turpentine and rosin from 

 living jjine trees. Miss Gerry will work in 

 cooperation with Mr. Austin Cary, of the 

 Washington Office of the Foi'est Service, and 

 Mr. Lenthal Wyman, of the Southern Experi- 

 ment Station, members of the Florida National 

 Forest organization and local timber owners. 



De. Ross Aiken Gortnee, professor of agri- 

 cultural biochemistry at the University of Min- 

 nesota and national president of the honorary 

 chemical society, Phi Lambda Upsilon, recently 

 lectured at the Armour Institute of Technology 

 and the University of Wisconsin on "The Col- 

 loid Chemistry of Wheat and Flour," and at 

 the University of Michigan, Ohio State Univer- 

 sity and Purdue University on "Vital Phenom- 

 ena as Colloid Processes." Both lectures were 

 given at the University of Illinois. 



De. C. E. K. Mees, director of the Research 

 Laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Company, 

 gave a lecture entitled "A photographic re- 

 search laboratory" before the Northeastern 

 Section of the American Chemical Society on 

 May 12. 



Peopessor E. Mellanbt delivered the Oliver 

 Sharpey lectures at the Royal College of Phy- 

 sicians of London on May 2 and 4, on "Some 

 common defects of diet and their pathological 

 signficance." 



