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Harvard University. He will continue to re- 

 side at Cambridge. Professor E. A. Daly, of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 ias been appointed to the chair vacant by the 

 retirement of Professor Davis. 



Professor Morton Prince has retired from 

 the active duties of the chair of neurology in 

 Tufts College Medical School, and becomes 

 professor emeritus. He is succeeded by Pro- 

 fessor J. J. Thomas, nove assistant professor 

 of neurology. 



After thirty years of distinguished service 

 in the University of California, Edward J. 

 Wickson, professor of agriculture and director 

 of the Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 been granted a year's leave of absence, which 

 he will spend in Europe. At its expiration be 

 wiU be entitled to claim a retiring allowance 

 under the terms of the Carnegie Foundation. 



Oswald Schreiner, Ph.D., and Elbert C. 

 Lathrop, A.B., have been awarded the Edward 

 Longstreth medal of merit of the Franklin 

 Institute, Philadelphia, for their paper on 

 " The Distribution of Organic Constituents 

 in Soils " appearing in the August, 1911, issue 

 of the Journal of the Franklin Institute, " a 

 comprehensive account of important recent re- 

 searches in agricultural chemistry." 



The Livingstone gold medal of the Eoyal 

 Scottish Geographical Society has been 

 awarded to Captain Eoald Amundsen for his 

 geographical discoveries on his recent expedi- 

 tion to the south pole. 



Mr. James Murray has been awarded the 

 Neill prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh 

 for his papers on the Rotifera and Tardigrada. 



Dr. H. H. Rusby, dean of the College of 

 Pharmacy of Columbia University, New York, 

 has resigned to establish a pharmacognostical 

 laboratory in the city. 



Professor Francis Carter Wood has been 

 appointed director of cancer research under 

 the George Crocker Research Fund of Colum- 

 bia University. 



Mr. Jerome D. Greene, general manager of 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, has resigned that position to enter the 



office of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, where he 

 will be a member of the staff in charge of Mr. 

 Rockefeller's business and philanthropic inter- 

 ests. Mr. Greene will continue as a trustee 

 his connection with the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research. Mr. Henry James, Jr., 

 of Cambridge, Mass., has been appointed to 

 succeed Mr. Greene in the management of the 

 Rockefeller Institute. He is a graduate of 

 Harvard College, in the class of 1899, and of 

 the Harvard Law School in 1904, since when 

 he has been engaged in the practise of law in 

 Boston. He is a son of the late Professor 

 William James. 



Mrs. Mary Schenck Woolman, professor of 

 domestic arts in Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, has been elected president of the 

 Women's Educational and Industrial Union. 



Mr. Edgae a. Doll has been appointed asso- 

 ciate psychologist in the department of re- 

 search of the Vineland Training School, Vine- 

 land, N. J. 



President Howe, of the Case School of 

 Applied Science, has been given a year's leave 

 of absence for the purpose of rest and recu- 

 peration. Dr. F. M. Comstock, professor of 

 drawing and descriptive geometry and senior 

 member of the faculty, will be the acting 

 president during the next college year. 



President R. C. Maclaurin, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has gone to 

 Europe, intending to visit the technological 

 schools of Great Britain and the continent 

 with reference to the plans for the new build- 

 ings of the Massachusetts Institute. 



Dr. L. O. Howard has been appointed as a 

 delegate from the Entomological Society of 

 Washington to the second International Con- 

 gress of Entomology to be held in Oxford this 

 coming August. 



Professor O. D. Kellogg, of the University 

 of Missouri, is on leave of absence in Got- 

 tingen. He will attend the meeting of the 

 International Congress of Mathematicians at 

 Cambridge, England, and of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science at 

 Dundee, Scotland. 



