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Expenditures for the foundation's war work 

 in 1919 will be for the war demonstration hos- 

 pital, for work of the medical division of the 

 National Research Council, for assistance in 

 care and treatment of soldiers mentally and 

 nervously disabled, for payment on pledges 

 made in 1918 to the United "War Work Fund 

 and for work under the direction of the com- 

 missions on Training Camp Activities. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. J. A. L. Waddell, head of the firm of 

 Waddell & Son, consulting engineers of Kan- 

 ;sas City, Missouri, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences. 



The Ifational Geographic Society, on Jan- 

 uary 10, awarded the Hubbard Gold Medal to 

 Vihjabnur Stefansson, 'v^ose explorations dur- 

 ing the last five and a haK years in the Arctic 

 regions have resulted in the redtiction of the 

 un k nown Polar regions of the western hem- 

 isphere by approximately 100,000 square miles. 

 Admiral Peary introduced Mr. Stefansson at 

 his afternoon lecture, and General Greely pre- 

 sided when the medal was conferred. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the division 

 of physical anthropology at the TJ. S. ISTational 

 Museum and editor of the American Journal 

 of Physical Anthropology, has been elected an 

 honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological 

 Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 



Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College gave a dinner, on January 14, to Pro- 

 fessor William P. Brooks, who has resigned 

 after thirty years' service in the faculty. The 

 United States Department of Agriculture was 

 represented by Dr. E. W. Allen, who paid a 

 Mgh tribute to Professor Brooks's work in the 

 experiment station. Wilfred Wheeler, secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Agriculture; Dr. H. 

 E. Stockbridge, editor of the Southern Bural- 

 ist, and representatives of the faculty and 

 trustees, attended the dinner. 



At its meeting held January 8, the Riun- 

 ford Committee of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences voted the following appro- 

 priations : To Professor H. M. Randall, of the 



University of Michigan, for his research on 

 the infra-red spectrum (additional to former 

 appropriation), $200; to Professor Alpheus W. 

 Smith, of the University of Ohio, for his re- 

 search on the Hall effect in rare metals (addi- 

 tion to a previous appropriation), $100; to 

 Professor A. G. Webster, of Clark University, 

 in aid of his researches on pyrodynamics and 

 practical interior ballistics, $500 ; to ProfesBor 

 Julius Stieglitz, of the University of Chicago, 

 in aid of the publication of Marie's Tables of 

 Constants for 1919 (in addition to previous 

 appropriations for earlier years), $250. 



Professor Frederic S. Lee has returned to 

 his work at Columbia University after a ten 

 weeks visit to England and France as the 

 representative of tlie U. S. Public Health 

 Service in an investigation of the physiolog- 

 ical and hygienic aspects of industrial effi- 

 ciency. He was able to meet many of the 

 representative men of both countries who are 

 engaged in the study and improvement of in- 

 dustrial conditions. While in England he sat 

 as a member of the Industrial Fatigue Re- 

 search Board, and he gave evidence before the 

 War Cabinet Committee on Women in In- 

 dustry. 



We learn from Nature that ClifEord C. 

 Patterson has resigned his position in the 

 physics department of the British National 

 Physical Laboratory, and has joined the Gen- 

 eral Electric Co., as director of research lab- 

 oratories. 



The honorary degree of D.Sc. has been 

 conferred by the University of Oxford on Mr. 

 William Crooke, known for his researches on 

 the anthropology of the native races of India. 



The University of Cambridge has conferred 

 its titular degree of M.A., honoris causa, on 

 Mr. Frederic William Harmer, of Norwich, 

 in recognition of his researches in geology. 



Mr. James Inglis, Detroit, Mich., chair- 

 man, Mr. B. C. Butler, chief of the Bureau 

 of Foreign and Domestic Conmierce, Mr. 

 Samuel L. Rogers, director of the Census, De- 

 partment of Commerce, Mr. E. D. Walen, as- 

 sociate physicist. Textile Division, Bureau of 



