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the telephone system in Japan, he received there 

 the Order of the Rising Sun and of the Sacred 

 Treasure. For his war services, he was given the 

 formal thanks of the French Army, the cross of 

 Officer of the Legion of Honor and the Distin- 

 guished Service Medal from the United States 

 government. 



EusSELL Henet Chittenden: Dr. Chittenden 

 was born in New Haven, and his active career has 

 been identified with the Sheffield Scientific School, 

 a fortunate thing for that institution. He took 

 his bachelor of philosophy degree there in 1875 

 After ta.king his doctorate in the Graduate School 

 he studied at Heidelberg, and has received hou' 

 orary degrees from the University of Toronto 

 University of Pennsylvania, Washington Univer- 

 sity, and the University of Birmingham in Eng- 

 land. His researches and publications in the field 

 of physiological chemistry have made him one of 

 the world 's foremost authorities ; and during the 

 war he represented America on the Inter-Allied 

 Scientific Food Commission, which held sessions 

 in London, Paris and Eome. In 1898 he was 

 appointed director of the Sheffield Scientific 

 School, where he immediately showed executive 

 ability' as remarkable as his powers of research. 

 Under his leadership the Sheffield Scientific 

 School became a liberal college, one of the best 

 in America, where the study of the humanities 

 had no stronger friend than the great scientist 

 who directed the institution. Its growth in num- 

 bers and in buildings and in resources was phe- 

 nomenal; leading authorities were numerous on 

 the faculty. Dr. Chittenden 's devotion to the 

 avocation of fishing enabling him to be a good 

 fisher of men. He retires from office this year 

 in the plepitude of his powers, with the respect" 

 of the best scholars in Europe and America, with 

 the admiration of his colleagues, and with the 

 devoted affection of thousands of students who 

 have been graduated under his administration. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor T. H. Morgan, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, was on June 1 formally received into 

 the Royal Society and delivered the Croonian 

 lecture. On the following day he and Dr. 

 Sturtevant addressed the Genetical Society at 

 its annual meeting, held at the John Innes 

 Horticultural Institution. On June 8, Pro- 

 fessor Morgan lectured at the University of 

 Edinburgh and its degree of doctor of laws 

 was presented to him. 



Dr. George Ellert Hale, director of the 

 Mount Wilson Observatory and honorary 

 chairman of the National Research Council, 

 has been elected the American representative 

 on the international committee which, under 

 the auspices of the League of Nations, is to 

 study and suggest methods of intellectual co- 

 operation throughout the world. 



At the commencement exercises of Princeton 

 University, the doctorate of science was con- 

 ferred on Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, pro- 

 fessor of physics at Clark University; Dr. 

 Henry Crew, professor of physics at North- 

 western University, and Dr. John Campbell 

 Merriam, of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington. The doctorate of laws was conferred 

 on Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cor- 

 nell University. 



Dr. Vernon Kellogg, of the National Re- 

 search Council, was given the honorary degree 

 of doctor of science by Oberlin College on 

 June 21. 



The honorary degree of doctor of laws was 

 conferred on the secretary of agriculture, 

 Henry C. Wallace, by the Iowa State College 

 of Agriculture and Mechanics Arts at the com- 

 mencement this month. Secretary Wallace is 

 an alumnus of the institution and gave the 

 commencement address. 



Dr. Harold L. Amoss, associate member of 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 New York, on June 7 received the degree of 

 doctor of science from George Washington 

 University, Washington, D. C. The scientific 

 staff: of the Rockefeller Institute on June 12 

 gave a dinner in honor of Dr. Amoss, who has 

 accepted the appointment of associate professor 

 of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School, Baltimore. 



Among those knighted on the occasion of 

 King George's birthday were Professor William 

 Maddock Bayliss, professor of general physi- 

 ology in University College, London; Professor 

 Frederick William Keeble, Sherardian pro- 

 fessor of botany at Oxford University, and 

 Dr. Edward John Russell, director of the 

 Rothamsted Experiment Station. 



A complimentary dinner was given to Dr. 



