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the classes of science, of letters, and moral and 

 political sciences and of fine arts, contributed 

 summaries of the activities of their several sec- 

 tions of the academy. Later the visitors were 

 received by the king and the queen at the 

 Palace of Laeken, and in the evening a banquet 

 was held at the Hotel Astoria. 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 



At the annual meeting of the Koyal Geo- 

 graphical Society on May 29 Lord Ronaldshay 

 was elected president of the society in succes- 

 sion to Sir Francis Younghusband, and the 

 following were elected vice-presidents: Sir 

 Francis Younghusband, Colonel Sir Charles 

 Close, Mr. D. W. Freshfield, Lord Edward 

 Gleichen, Sir T. H. Holdich, and Sir J. Scott 

 Keltic. 



The royal medals were presented, the found- 

 er's medal being awarded to Lieutenant Colonel 

 C. K. Howard-Bury for his distinguished 

 services in command of the Mount Everest Ex- 

 pedition, 1921, and the patrons' medal to Mr. 

 Ernest de K. Leffingwell, Los Angeles, Califor- 

 nia, for his surveys and investigations on the 

 coast of northern Alaska. Mr. Oliver B. Har- 

 rhnan, first secretary at the American embassy, 

 on behalf of Mr. Leffingwell, who could not 

 attend, accepted the patrons' medal. 



The other awards of the council were made 

 as follows: The Victoria medal to Mr. J. F. 

 Baddeley, for work on the historical geography 

 of Central Asia; the Murchison grant to Mr. 

 Charles Camsell, deputy minister of mines, 

 Canada, for explorations and surveys in north- 

 ern Canada (accepted, on Mr. Camsell's behalf, 

 by Mr. Peter Larkin, high commissioner for 

 Canada) ; the Back grant to Khan Bahadur 

 Sher Jang, for surveys on the Indian frontier 

 and in adjacent countries; the Cuthbert Peek 

 grant to Mr. F. H. Melland, for explorations 

 in Northern Rhodesia; and the Gill Memorial 

 to Mr. A. R. R. Boyce, of the Sudan Survey, 

 for triangulations in the Sudan. 



The address of the retiring president was 

 chiefly concerned with the Mount Everest Ex- 

 pedition. 



SIGMA XI AT UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 



The thirty-seventh chapter of Sigma Xi to 



be known as the Kentucky Chapter was 



installed at the University of Kentucky on 

 May 5. The petitioning group numbered 

 seventeen. These were already active members 

 of the society, having been elected to such while 

 connected with other educational institutions. 



The installation exercises were conducted by 

 Dr. Henry B. Ward and Dr. Edward Ellery, 

 president and secretary of the national organ- 

 ization. The charge to the chapter was deliv- 

 ered by Dr. Ellery and the symposium was 

 conducted by Dr. Ward. 



The following officers were elected : 



President: Dr. Paul P. Boyd 



Vice-president : Dr. W. D. Funkhouser. 



Secretary: Professor E. S. Good. 



Treasurer: Professor E. N. Fergus. 



A banquet was held in the evening at the 

 Phoenix Hotel, Lexington. The chapter had 

 as its guests Dr. Ward, Dr. Ellery, Judge R. C. 

 Stoll, chairman of the executive committee, 

 University of Kentucky, Dr. Glanville Terrell, 

 chairman of the Graduate School, Professor 

 W. S. Anderson, president of the Research 

 Club, Dr. Thomas B. McCartney, acting-presi- 

 dent of Transylvania College, Dr. Robert C. 

 Hinton, of Georgetown College, and Dr. Frank 

 L. Rainey, of Center College. 



Besides those of the Kentucky Chapter pres- 

 ent at the banquet were the following members 

 of the society resident in Lexington: Dr. A. F. 

 Hemmingway, Dr. J. A. Gunton, Professor 

 Mary Brown, Dr. J. A. Herring and Dr. Philip 

 P. Blumenthal. 



Dean P. P. Boyd acted as toastmaster and 

 toasts were responded to by Judge Stoll, Dr. 

 Ward, Dr. Ellery and Dr. McCartney. 



DEAN OF THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC 

 SCHOOL 



The Yale Corporation has elected as dean 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School in succession 

 to Director Russell H. Chittenden, Professor 

 Charles Hyde Warren, since 1900 a member of 

 the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, where he has been professor of 

 mineralogy since 1915. 



The dean-elect of the Sheffield Scientific 

 School served as an assistant in chemistry and 

 mineralogy in that school from 1896 to 1900, 

 studying in the Graduate School during this 

 period and receiving the degree of doctor of 



