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noon sessions on Tuesday, Thursday and Fri- 

 day. Receptions will be given on Tuesday aft- 

 ernoon by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, 

 at the Mansion House; on Tuesday evening by 

 Sir James Purves Stewart and Lady Stewart; 

 on Wednesday afternoon by the president of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons of England, at 

 the college; and on Thursday evening by Mr. 

 and Mrs. H. J. Waring. On Wednesdaj' after- 

 noon visits to Barbers' Hall and Apothecaries' 

 Hall have been arranged, and in the evening 

 there will be a conversazione at the Wellcome 

 Historical Medical Museum, where a special 

 loan exhibition will be on view. On Friday 

 afternoon Sir D'Arey Power will give a his- 

 torical address at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 

 and in the evening a banquet will be held at the 

 Hotel Cecil. On Saturday Hampton Court 

 Palace will be visited. Those wishing to be- 

 come members of the congress are asked to com- 

 municate as early as possible with the general 

 secretary. Dr. J. D. Rolleston, 21, Alexandra 

 Mansions, King's Road, S.W.3, London. 



RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ADMINISTERED 

 THROUGH THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGY 

 AND AGRICULTURE OF THE NA- 

 TIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 



Inasmuch as the announcement of medical 

 fellowships to be administered by the National 

 Research Council has called forth many inqui- 

 ries regarding fellowships in biology and agi'i- 

 eulture, it seems desirable to set forth briefly 

 the situation in this division. Notwithstanding 

 the many woi'thy applications which have 

 reached it, the Division of Biology and Agii- 

 culture has not yet been successful in securing 

 a series of general fellowships comparable to 

 those provided by the Rockefeller Foundation 

 through the Divisions of Physics and Chemis- 

 try, or those financed by the Rockefeller Foun- 

 dation and the Greneral Education Board for 

 the Division of Medicine. The Division of 

 Biology and Agriculture does have administered 

 through it directly or indirectly, however, a 

 series of special fellowships, as follows : 



The Rosenwald fellowship with a stipend of 

 $2,000 a year for three years, donated through 

 the General Education Board to Dr. E. E. Just 

 for his studies on the physiology of develop- 

 ment. 



Two Sigma Xi fellowships at $1,600 each, 

 supported by the membership of the Sigma Xi 

 Society. The present policy is to award these 

 in subjects other than physics and chemistry 

 and the medical sciences. The chairman of 

 this division acts ex officio with the fellowship 

 committee of Sigma Xi in their administra- 

 tion. 



Two Crop Protection Institute Sulphur fel- 

 lowships (beginning in 1922) at not to exceed 

 $2,500 each, donated by three sulphur com- 

 panies; an additional $2,500 is to be used in 

 organization work. One of these fellowships 

 is to be assigned to a phytopathologist, the 

 other to an entomologist. 



Eight sulphur fellowships (beginning in 

 1922) at approximately $1,000 each for one 

 year, with assm-ance of further support, do- 

 nated by the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company 

 (see Science, May 26). Two thousand dollars 

 additional is provided for the traveling ex- 

 penses of those concerned with the research. 



M. F. GuTEE, Chairman 

 Committee on Fellowships, 

 DrvisiON OP Biology and Agkiculttiee 



AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 



The American Meteorological Society will 

 hold its first western meeting at Salt Lake City 

 on June 22. W^estern members have arranged 

 a program of varied interest, which will prob- 

 ably occupy all of June 22 and the morning of 

 the 23d. Of particular interest will be the 

 several papers on climatology in relation to 

 agriculture and forestry to be presented on the 

 morning of the 22d, and the symposium on 

 "Forecasting Irrigation and Flood Waters," 

 led hy Dr. J. E. Church, Jr., director, Nevada 

 Cooperative Snow Surveys, on the afternoon of 

 the 22d. It seems probable that at this meeting 

 a Pacific division of the society will be organ- 

 ized in affiliation with the Pacific Division of 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. 



The society held a highly successful meeting 

 in Wasliington on April 26, the proceedings of 

 Avhieh are being published in the Bulletin of 

 the American Meteorological Society. 



Charles F. Brooks, Secretary 

 Clark TJniveksity, 

 WoKCESTER, Mass. 



