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mollusoan studies in the interest of the G^eo- 

 logical and Natural Survey of Wisconsin. 



Dr. J. H. Grisdale, who has been for sev- 

 eral years the director of the E.xperimental 

 Farms Branch of the Dominion Department 

 of Agriculture at Ottawa, has recently been 

 appointed to the position of deputy minister 

 of agriculture. 



Dr. S.\.mvel C. Prescott, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, formerly major 

 in the SanitJiry Corps, U. S. A., has been ap- 

 pointed expert in charge of dehydration in- 

 vestigations in the Bureau of Chemistrj-, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, and will continue the 

 investigations on this subject carried on dur- 

 ing the war under the direction of the War 

 Department. 



C. M. WooDWORTii has resigned as instructor 

 in genetics at the University of Wisconsin in 

 order to take a position with the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. He will devote his attention prin- 

 cipally to a study of disease resistance in flax. 

 The field experiments will be mostly in North 

 Dakota, but Mr. Woodworth will retain Madi- 

 son, Wis., as his permanent headquarters. 



C.^PT.UN S. T. D.\XA has resumed his duties 

 with the Forest Service as assistant chief of 

 forest investigations. During the war he was 

 on the general staff as secretary of the army 

 commodity committee on lumber, and in 

 charge of determining wood requirements of 

 the army. 



W. F.UTOUTE MusN, formerly chemist in 

 charge at the Baker and Adamson Works of 

 The General Chemical Company, Easton, Pa., 

 has accepted the position as chief chemist for 

 The Brewster Film Corporation of East 

 Orange, New Jersey. 



Professor Charles E. Fav, of Tufts Col- 

 lege, Massachusetts, president of the American 

 Alpine Club, and Henry G. Bryant, of Phila- 

 delphia, have been elected honorary members 

 of the French Alpine Club. 



Colonel E. Lester Jones, superintendent of 

 the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, has been 

 made by the king of Italy an officer of the 

 Order of S. S. Maurizo e Lazzaro. 



Sir Er.vest Rutherford, recently elected 

 Cavendish professor of experimental physics 

 at the University of Cambridge, has been 

 elected to a fellowship at Trinity College. 



The British Electrical Research Committee 

 has appointed Mr. E. B. Wedmore as director 

 of research. 



The British Institution of Civil Engineers 

 has made the folkiwing awards for papers read 

 and discussed at the meetings during the 

 session 1918-19 :— A Telford gold medal to 

 George Hughes (Horwich), a Telford gold 

 medal and an Indian premitim to R. B. Joyner 

 (Bombay), a Watt gold medal to W. S. Abell 

 (London), a George Stephenson gold medal to 

 the Hon. R. C. Parsons (London), a Webb 

 prize to F. E. Gobey, (Horwich), Telford 

 premiums to James Caldwell (London), H. B. 

 Savers (London), J. Reney Smith (Liver- 

 pool), and F. W. Scott (Benoni, Transvaal), 

 and a Manby prize to E. L. Leeming (Man- 

 chester). 



Professor R. Kobert died on December 27, 

 at sixtj'-four years of age. He was professor 

 of pharmacology at Rostock. 



The death of Dr. Edmund Weiss, director 

 oi the Vienna Observatory for thirty-two 

 years, which occurred in 1917, was recently 

 announced by the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 of which he was a correspondent. 



The death is announced of Dr. Jose Penna, 

 professor of epidemic diseases at the Univer- 

 sity of Buenos Aires. 



The British Scientific Products Exhibition, 

 arranged by the British Science Guild, will be 

 open in the Central Hall, Westminster, from 

 July 3 to August 5. Its objects are to illus- 

 trate recent progress in British science and in- 

 vention, and to help the establishment and de- 

 velopment of new British industries. 



We learn from Nature that at a recent 

 meeting of the council of the Marine Biolog- 

 ical Association of the United Kingdom it was 

 announced that Dr. G. P. Bidder and Mr. E. T. 

 Browne had each undertaken to contribute a 

 sum of £500 towards a fund for the extension 

 of the laboratory at Plymouth. The new 

 building will be commenced at once, and the 



