January 10, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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Ashe; Secretary, P. D. Kelleter; Treasurer, 

 A. F. Hawes; Member of the Council for Five 

 Years, S. T. Dana. 



At the annual election for officers and coun- 

 cillors of the American Philosophical Society 

 held on January 3, the following officers were 

 elected: President, William B. Scott; Vice- 

 presidents, George EUery Hale, Arthur A. 

 Noyes, Hampton L. Carson; Secretaries, I. 

 Minis Hays, Arthur W. Goodspeed, Harry F. 

 Keller, Bradley Moore Davis; Curators, 

 Charles L. Doolittle, William P. Wilson, Leslie 

 W. Miller; Treasurer, Henry La Barre Jayne; 

 Councillors, to serve for three years, Maurice 

 Bloomfield, John M. Clarke, George H. Parker, 

 Arthur G. Webster. 



The officers of the American Public Health 

 Association elected at the Chicago meeting 

 are: President, Lee K. Frankel, New York 

 City ; Vice-presidents, Colonel John W. S. Mc- 

 Cullough, Toronto, Ont; Colonel Victor C. 

 Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Dr. John D. 

 Robertson, Chicago; Secretary, A. W. Hed- 

 rick, Boston ; Treasurer, Dr. Guilford H. Sum- 

 ner, Des Moines, Iowa, and Executive Com- 

 mittee, Drs. Allan J .McLaughlin, U. S. P. H. 

 S., Washington, D. C. ; Charles J. C. O. Hast- 

 ings, Toronto; Peter H. Bryce, Ottawa; John 

 N. Hurty, Indianapolis, Ind., and William C. 

 Woodward, Boston. The association will meet 

 next year in New Orleans. 



The Perkin medal of the American Chem- 

 ical Society has been awarded to Dr. F. G. 

 Cottrell, of the II. S. Bureau of Mines, for his 

 work on electrical precipitation. 



Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of the 

 University of Colorado and of the Rockefeller 

 Anti-tuberculosis Commission, has been named 

 an officer of the Legion of Honor on the pro- 

 posal of Captain Andre Tardieu, French high 

 commissioner to the United States. Selskar 

 M. Gunn, of Boston, and Alexander Miller, 

 have been made knights of the Legion of 

 Honor. 



Cambridge University has conferred on Mr. 

 F. W. Harmer the titular degree of M.A., 

 honoris causa. Mr. Harmer, who is eighty- 

 four years of age, served the office of mayor of 



Norwich about twenty-four years ago. The 

 degree was granted in recognition of re- 

 searches in geology, especially that of the 

 eastern counties, which have occupied his chief 

 attention for more than fifty years. 



Dr. Frank M. Surf.\ce, of the Maine Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, who has been in 

 Washington for the past year and a half as 

 assistant chief of the Statistical Division of 

 the U. S. Food Administration, sailed for 

 France in December 31 as Food Statistician 

 of the American Commission to Negotiate 

 Peace. 



It is reported that Brigadier Generals J. M. 

 T. Finney and W. S. Thayer have been ordered 

 back to the United States from France. 



Major William A. H.\mor, Chemical War- 

 fare Service, who returned from France in No- 

 vember, after ten months' service in the Amer- 

 ican Expeditionary Forces, has resumed his 

 work at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Re- 

 search as assistant director. Major Hamor 

 served as assistant chief of the Technical Di- 

 vision of the Chemical Warfare Service until 

 the conclusion of hostilities. 



Professor F. C. Newcombe, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, has been granted leave of 

 absence for the second half year on condition 

 that he supply a substitute at his own cost. 



Dr. R. W. Hess, formerly chemist in the 

 dyestuff department at the Chicago plant of 

 the Sherwin-Williams Co., has recently, ac- 

 cepted a position as senior research chemist 

 with the National Aniline and Chemical Co., 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Dr. William V. P. Garretson has recently 

 been appointed consulting neurologist to the 

 Hospital of Functional Reeducation of Dis- 

 abled Soldiers and Sailors, which is affiliated 

 with Cornell Medical College, New York. 



The annual meeting of the Philosophical 

 Society of Washington was held on January 4. 

 The address of the retiring president was 

 given by Dr. George K. Burgess on " Science 

 and the after-war period." 



The inaugural address of the Listerian So- 

 ciety of King's College Hospital, London, was 

 given by Sir St. Clair Thomson, who described 



