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University of Alabama, for a study of certain 

 culture-medium characteristics of ringworm fungi. 



The Certificate of Merit to Dr. Vilray Papin. 

 Blair, St. Louis, for an exhibit of photographs 

 and plaster easts showing various types of face 

 restoration. 



The committee also desires to give honorable 

 mention to the following exhibitors : 



Dr. K. M. Lynch, Dallas, Texas, for a study of 

 the cultivation and differentiation of flagellate 

 protozoa. 



Drs. F. C. Mann and Alfred S. Giordano, Mayo 

 Foundation, Rochester, Minn., for studies on the 

 bile factor in pancreatitis. 



Dr. Eugene Opie, Washington University, St. 

 Louis, for a comparison of Eoentgen ray records 

 and gross pathologic specimens. 



Miss Elizabeth Green, Barnes Hospital, St. 

 Louis, for a demonstration of methods used in 

 distributing books in hospitals. 



THE ROME MEETING OF THE INTERNA- 

 TIONAL GEODETIC AND GEOPHYSICAL 

 UNION 



Some 300 delegates and guests attended the 

 meetings at Rome, May 2 to 10, of the Geo- 

 physical' Union and of the Astronomical Union. 

 Every country 'belonging to the unions had sent 

 one or more representatives. There were be- 

 sides present representatives from other coun- 

 tries (the neutrals during the late war), which 

 have already joined the International Research 

 Council and are making preparations to join 

 one or more of the unions. The delegates from 

 the United States for geodesy and geophysics 

 were : Bowie, Bauer, Kimball, Littlehales 

 Reid and Washington. All of the sections re- 

 ported well-attended, successful and stimulating 

 meetings. 



Among the special social features, abun- 

 dantly provided for by the Italian National 

 Committee, were the following : 



May 2, 3 p.m. — Inaugural ceremony at the 

 Campidoglio, at which H.M. the King of Italy 

 ■was present. 



May 4, 9 p.m. — Keception of the delegates at 

 the Campidoglio by the municipality of Eome. 



May 8, 3 p.m. — Visit to the Palatino at the invi- 

 tation of the under-secretary of antiquities and 

 fine arts. 



May 10, 1 p.m. — Visit to the Vatican and audi- 

 ence with the Pope. 



After the meetings, various special trips 

 were arranged for. Thus on May 12 visiting 

 delegates were entertained by the municipality 

 of Florence. 



The Sections of Seismology and Volcanology 

 were definitely organized, as well as a new sec- 

 tion of Scientific Hydrology. 



Professor C. Lallemand was reelected presi- 

 dent of the union for two terms. The next 

 meeting of the union will be at Madrid in 1924. 

 Louis A. Bauer 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick 

 Observatory, has been elected president of the 

 International Astronomical Union in succession 

 to M. Baillaud, director of the' Paris Observa- 

 tory. The Astronomical Union held its tri- 

 ennial meeting in Rome in May and will hold 

 its next meeting in Cambridge, England. 



Dr. Rat Lyman Wilbur, president of Stan- 

 ford University, has been elected president of 

 the American Medical Association for the meet- 

 ing to be held nest year at San Francisco. 



Dr. Louise Pearce, of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research, has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the Societe beige de 

 Medecine tropicale of Brussels, Belgium. 



The John Scott Medal of the Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute was awarded at the com- 

 mencement exercises to Elwood Haynes, head 

 of the Haynes Automobile Company, in recog- 

 nition of his discoveries in certain forms of 

 high speed steels. 



Mr. Gano Dunn, president of the J. G. 

 White Engineering Corporation of New York, 

 has been elected a member of the board of 

 trustees of Barnard College, Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 



De. F. Rossi, of the University of Bologna, 

 has been awarded the Garibaldi Franco-Italian 

 prize offered by the French Surgical Society 

 for his woi-k on "War Wounds of the Thorax." 



Dr. E. Perroncito has reached the age limit 

 and will retire from the chair of parasitology 

 in the University of Turin. A celebration in 

 his honor has been planned and subscriptions 



