Februabt 14, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



165 



Nebraska 48 



New Haveu 70 



New York 1,59* 



North Carolina 40 



Northeastern 633 



Northern-Intermountain 17 



Oregon 35 



Philadelphia 737 



Pittsburgh 401 



Puget Sound 76 



Rhode Island 85 



Eochester 56 



St. Louis 149 



Southeast Texas 43 



Southern California 157 



South Carolina 24 



South Dakota 29 



Syracuse 149 



Toledo 43 



University of Illinois 115 



University of Michigan 47 



University of Missouri 14 



Vermont 28 



A'irginia 97 



Washington, D. C 402 



Western New York 181 



Wisconsin 93 



8,423 



52 



82 



1,799 



43 



664 

 23 

 33 



716 



441 

 91 

 92 

 52 



160 

 38 



183 

 26 

 21 



127 

 46 



106 

 34 

 12 

 18 



111 



578 



202 

 95 



9,166 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The gold medal of the National Institute 

 of Social Sciences has been awarded to Dr. 

 "Wm. H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins Med- 

 ical School. 



Dk. Hexry a. BusiSTEAD, professor of phys- 

 ics at Tale University, has returned from 

 France, having been engaged in war work 

 abroad since 1917. 



Dr. Laf.4Yette B. Mexdel, professor of 

 physiological chemistry in Yale University, 

 ■who has been overseas as a representative of 

 the U. S. Food Administration on the Inter- 

 Allied Scientific Food Commission, has re- 

 turned to the United States. 



Ma.ior General William C. Gorgas, U. S. 

 Army, retired, will return from Guatemala to 

 Washington, D. C, in February, and on his 

 return to South America in the spring will 

 be accompanied by Mrs. Gorgas. 



Colonel G. A. Burrell, of tlie Chemical 

 Warfare Service, returned to private chemical 

 engineering work at Pittsburgh in January. 

 He was called to Washington by the Bureau 

 of Mines early in the war, to take charge of 

 the research organization that later became 

 the American University Experiment Station 

 of the Chemical Warfare Service. 



At the recent meeting of the Mathematical 

 Association of America Professor Herbert 

 Ellsworth Slaught, of the University of 

 Chicago, was elected president. 



Fred Easmussen, professor of dairy hus- 

 bandry. The Pennsylvania State College, 

 State College, Pa., was, on January 21, 1919, 

 appointed secretary of agriculture for the 

 state of Pennsylvania and left immediately 

 to take up his new duties at Harrisburg. 



Carl N. Austin, who went from the Sears- 

 Roebuck laboratories with a commission as 

 first lieutenant in Gas Defense, has recently 

 been appointed director of the First Corps 

 Gas School located at Gondrecourt, Mouse, 

 France. 



Lieutenant John P. Trickev, a member 

 of the Chicago Section of tlie American 

 Chemical Society, lias been promoted to a 

 captaincy in the Chemical Warfare Service, 

 and is on duty in France. 



Dr. KEmx Burns, of the division of optics, 

 Bureau of Standards, is absent on an ex- 

 tended trip abroad in connection with his 

 scientific work. 



The Geological Society, London, has made 

 its awards as follows: WoUaston medal. Sir 

 Aubrey Strahan, director of the British Geo- 

 logical Survey; Murchison medal, Miss Ger- 

 trude L. Elles, Newnham College, Cambridge; 

 Lyell medal, Dr. W. F. Hume, director of the 

 Geological Survey of EgjT^t; Bigsby medal. 

 Sir Douglas Mawson; Wollaston fund. Dr. 

 Alexander Logie Du Toit, Geological Survey 

 of South Africa ; Murchison fund, Mrs. 

 Eleanor M. Reid; Lyell fund, Mr. John 

 Pringle, Geological Survey of England and 

 Wales, and Dr. Stanley Smith, University 

 College, Aberystwyth. 



