May 9, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



445 



At the annual dinner of the academy, the 

 Henry Draper Gold Medal was awarded to 

 Charles Fabry, professor of physics at the Uni- 

 versity of Marseilles, France, and the Alex- 

 ander Agassiz G-old Medal, established 

 throug'h funds provided by Sir John Murray, 

 was awarded to Prince Albert of Monaco. 



The program of the scientific sessions of the 

 academy was printed in the issue of Science 

 for last week. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the annual general meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Society held on April 24, 

 25 and 26, the following were elected to mem- , 

 bership : Robert Grant Aitken, Mount Hamil- 

 ton, Cal. ; Joseph Charles Arthur, Lafayette, 

 Ind. ; Edward W. Berry, Baltimore; James 

 Henry Breasted, Chicago; Ulric Dahlgren, 

 Princeton; William Curtis Farabee, Philadel- 

 phia ; John Huston Finley, Albany, IsT. T. ; 

 Stephen Alfred Forbes, Urbana, 111.; Cheva- 

 lier Jackson, Philadelphia; Dayton C. Miller, 

 Cleveland; George D. Eosengarteu, Philadel- 

 phia ; Albert Sauveur, Cambridge, Mass. ; Wil- 

 liam Albert Setchell, Berkeley, Cal. ; Julius O. 

 Stieglitz, Chicago; Ambrose Swasey, Cleve- 

 land. 



CoLOKEL John J. Carty, chief engineer of 

 the American Telegraph and Telephone Com- 

 pany, largely responsible for the communica- 

 tions of the American army during the war, 

 has received the rank of commandant of the 

 Legion of Honor. 



At the meeting of the New York Section of 

 the Society of Chemical Industry on April If^, 

 portraits were unveiled by Dr. Charles F. 

 Chandler, of J. B. F. Herreshoff and E. G. 

 Acheson, Perkin Medalists of 1908 and 1910, 

 respectively. 



Dr. Robeut Kirkland Nabours, professor of 

 zoology and curator of the natural history mu- 

 seum at the Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 was elected president of the Kansas Academy 

 of Science at its fifty-first annual meeting. 

 Dr. Bernard M. Allen, of the University of 

 Kansas, was elected vice-president, and Dr. W. 

 E. White, also of the university, secretary. 



Mr. James W. McGumE, of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, has been appointed a mem- 

 ber of the U. S. Geographic Board. 



Dr. W. N. Berg, captain in the Sanitary 

 Corps, stationed at Camp Lee, has received 

 his discharge from the Army and has returned 

 to the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



After thirty years' service as chairman of 

 the department of chemistry at Northwestern 

 University, Professor A. Van Eps Young has 

 retired to his farm in North Carolina as pro- 

 fessor emeritus. 



Dr. H. L. CiiRTis, of the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, has gone for a three months visit to Eu- 

 ropean laboratories to obtain data on the 

 progress of certain war problems. 



Murray P. Horowitz, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, has been asked to go 

 to Oklahoma, by the Oklahoma Tuberculosis 

 Association, in order to conduct health sur- 

 veys this summer. Together with the sur- 

 veys which were completed last summer, the 

 work will represent a state-wide health survey. 



The one htmdred and thirteenth annual 

 meeting of the Medical Society of the state of 

 New York was held May 6 to 8, in SjTacuse, 

 under the presidency of Dr. Thomas H. Hal- 

 sted, Syracuse. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine has elected 

 as national associates: Dr. Yersin, director of 

 the Pasteur Institute of Nha-Trang and Dr. 

 Delageniere of Mans. 



King Alfonso of Spain has signed a decree 

 awarding the Great Cross of the Civilian 

 Order of Alfonso XIII. to Mme Sklodowska 

 Curie, of the University of Paris. 



At the annual meeting of the Chemical So- 

 ciety, Loudon, held on March 27, Sir James J. 

 Dobbie was elected president in succession to 

 Sir William J. Pope. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer sailed from Liverpool, 

 April 12, for Cape Palmas, Liberia, where, as- 

 sisted by Lieutenant H. F. Johnston, he will 

 make magnetic and electric observations in 

 connection with the solar eclipse of May 29 

 next. The duration of totality will be nearly 

 7 minutes at this station. Dr. Bauer expects 



