Mat 2, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



421 



North Sea Fisheries Investigation 1,250 



Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau 11,000 



Edinburgh Observatory 1,974 



SCIENTiriC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH £ 



Salaries, wages and allowances 11,870 



Traveling and incidental expenses 1,500 



Grants for Investigation and Research: 



(1) Grants for investigations carried out 



by learned and scientific societies, etc. 13,570 



(2) Grants for investigations directly 

 controlled by the Department of Sci- 

 entific and Industrial Research 55,000 



(3) Grants to students and other per- 

 sons engaged in research 25,000 



Fuel Research Station 12,775 



National Physical Laboratory 154,650 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The American Philosophical Society will 

 procure a portrait of the late Edward C. Pick- 

 ering to be hung in the hall of the society 

 " as a token of the affectionate regard in 

 which he was held by his fellow members." 

 Professor Pickering was a vice-president of 

 the society from 1909 to 1917. 



Dr. J. A. Allen, curator of mammals in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City, has been elected the first 

 honorary member of the American Society of 

 Mammalogists and the only person to be 

 elected to such membership during the pres- 

 ent year. 



The Harris lectures for 1920 at North- 

 western University, are to be delivered by Pro- 

 fessor Edward Sharpley Schafer, professor of 

 physiology in the University of Edinburgh. 



Dr. E. H. Sellards, who has been state 

 geologist of Florida since the organization of 

 the survey in 1907, has resigned, and has ac- 

 cepted appointment as geologist in the Bureau 

 of Economic Geology of the University of 

 Texas. Herman Gunter who has been assist- 

 ant geologist since the department was estab- 

 lished has been appointed state geologist. 



Dr. Herman Biggs, public health commis- 

 sioner, New York state, presided over the 

 Eed Cross Conference held at Cannes this 

 month. 



Consequent upon the occupation of Alsace- 

 Lorraine by the French, M. Esclangon, for- 

 merly assistant at the Bordeaux Observatory, 

 has been appointed director of the Strasbourg 

 Observatory. 



W. M. Smart, M.A., Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed chief assistant at 

 the Cambridge Observatory. , 



Professor Yaughan Harley has resigned 

 the chair of pathological chemistry, which he 

 has held for twenty-three years at the Univer- 

 sity of London. 



Concluding a study of the various phases of 

 the food problem in Army aviation camps, 

 Guy E. Stewart, assistant professor of agricul- 

 tural chemistry, has resumed his duties at the 

 University of California. Dr. Eoy E. Clausen, 

 assistant professor of genetics, has also re- 

 turned to the university after nearly two years' 

 service in the army. 



The following members of Stanford Uni- 

 versity have been released from government 

 service and resumed their academic duties with 

 the opening of the spring quarter, March 31, 

 1919 : Bailey Willis, professor of geology ; Wil- 

 liam Frederick Durand, professor of mechan- 

 ical engineering; Ernest Gale Martin, pro- 

 fessor of physiology; Clelia Duel Mosher, as- 

 sistant professor of personal hygiene and med- 

 ical adviser of women ; Albion Walter Hewlett, 

 professor of medicine and Stanley Stillman, 

 professor of surgery. 



A complimentary dinner was tendered Col- 

 onel Alexander Lambert, M. C, U. S. Army, 

 president-elect of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation, by his professional friends in New 

 York City, on April 12. About 400 of the lead- 

 ing physicians of New York and the east at- 

 tended. Dr. George D. Sterwart acted as toast- 

 master. The speakers were Colonel Frank 

 Billings, M. C, U. S. Army, Chicago ; Dr. Wil- 

 liam S. Thayer, of Baltimore; Dr. George E. 

 Brewer, of New York, and Eev. Charles A. 

 Eaton, of New York. Dr. Lambert responded 

 with an account of his experiences abroad as 

 chief medical director of the American Eed 

 Cross hospitals. 



