Dbcembee 20, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



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Metchnikoff. Sir Archibald Geikie spoke as 

 follows in regard to the award of the Bu- 

 chanan medal : " This medal is awarded every 

 five years in recognition of distinguished serv- 

 ices to hygienic science or practise in the di- 

 rection either of original research or of pro- 

 fessional, administrative, or constructive 

 work, without limit of nationality or sex. It 

 has this year been adjudged to Colonel Wil- 

 liam Crawford Gorgas, for his remarkable 

 services under the American government, in 

 combating the terrible scourge of yellow fever. 

 As chief sanitary oiEcer at Havana, Cuba, he 

 there for the first time applied those sanitary 

 methods by which the yellow fever was almost 

 entirely eradicated from the place. This 

 marked success led to his being entrusted in 

 1904 with a similar but greater task in the 

 Panama Canal zone, where the same disease 

 was rampant, and where he is still engaged. 

 His success in that region has been not less 

 conspicuous." 



The Nobel prizes were presented by the 

 King of Sweden at a banquet in Stockholm on 

 December 10, when those to whom awards had 

 been made were present, including Dr. Alexis 

 Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute, New 

 York City. 



The American Society of Naturalists will 

 hold its annual dinner at the Colonial Hotel, 

 Cleveland, on the evening of January 2, when 

 the presidential address will be given by Pro- 

 fessor E. G. Conklin, of Princeton Univer- 

 sity, on " Heredity and responsibility." Mem- 

 bers of other scientific societies are invited to 

 be present and may obtain tickets at a cost of 

 two dollars from the secretary of the society. 



Dk. Franz Pfaff has resigned from the 

 chair of pharmacology and therapeutics in the 

 Harvard Medical School. He plans a visit to 

 California and Honolulu. 



Mr. T. Francis Connolly, of the Solar 

 Physics Observatory, South Kensington, has 

 been appointed an assistant-inspector of scien- 

 tific supplies at the India Stores Department, 

 Lambeth. 



On November 29 Mr. Edgar A. Smith, 

 assistant-keeper in the zoological department 



of the Natural History Museum, was, in view 

 of his approaching retirement, presented by 

 the director. Dr. L. Fletcher, F.E.S., on behalf 

 of the subscribers, including many of his col- 

 leagues and other friends, with silver plate 

 and other objects. 



The special board for biology and geology 

 of Cambridge University has adjudged the 

 'Walsingham Medal for 1912 to Mr. Edgar 

 Douglas Adrian, B.A., Trinity, for his essay 

 entitled, " On the transmission of subnormal 

 disturbances in normal and in incompletely 

 recovered nerve." 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of McGill 

 University, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Centro de Scieneias, Letras,- 

 e Artes, Campinas, S. Paulo, Brazil, especially 

 in recognition of his work on the desert rub- 

 ber plant, guayule. 



Mr. J. T. Saunders, last year demonstrator 

 in invertebrate embryology in the University 

 of Toronto, has been elected to a fellowship 

 at Christ's College, Cambridge. 



Mr. N. Cunliffe, B.A., Trinity, has been 

 appointed to the research studentship in med- 

 ical entomology at Cambridge University. 



Dr. Theodore Lyman, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and Mr. N. K. Hollister, of the division 

 of mammals of the U. S. National Museum, 

 have returned from an expedition to the Altai 

 Mountains, Siberia and Mongolia, with a 

 large collection of mammals, which will be 

 divided between the U. S. National Museum 

 and the Museum of Comparative Zoology of 

 Harvard University. 



The " Elements of Physical Chemistry " 

 (fourth edition) by Dr. Harry C. Jones, pro- 

 fessor of physical chemistry at the Johns 

 Hopkins University, has been translated into 

 Russian and Italian. 



Dr. Harvey W. Wiley lectured at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois on December Y, and was 

 entertained at dinner by Phi Lambda Upsilon, 

 the honorary chemical fraternity. 



Professor Walter S. Tower, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has lectured before the 

 Geographical Society of Chicago, on " A Jour- 

 ney through Argentina." 



