June 20, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



587 



" The palace of Minos and the prehistoric civ- 

 ilization of Crete"; and by Mr. Sidney G. 

 Brown on '' The gyroscopic compass." 



The American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers holds its thirty-fifth annual convention 

 at the Lake Placid Club, Lake Placid, Xew 

 York, from June 24 to 27. The annual presi- 

 dential address by President Comfort A. 

 Adams will open the convention on Tuesday 

 morning and will be followed by the introduc- 

 tion of President-elect Calvert Townley. 



Fellows of the Eoyal Society have been 

 elected as follows: Professor F. A. Bainbridge, 

 Dr. G. Barger, Dr. S. Chapman, Sir C. F. 

 Close, Dr. J. W. Evans, Sir Maurice Fitz- 

 maurice, Dr G. S. Graham-Smith, Mr. E. 

 Heron- Allen, Dr. W. D. Matthew, Professor C. 

 G. Seligman, Professor B. D. Steele, Major G. 

 I. Taylor, Dr. G. N. Watson, Dr. J. C. Willis 

 and Professor T. B. Wood. 



Dean Victor C. V.\ughax, of the University 

 of Michigan, was elected the first president of 

 the Medical Veterans of the World War or- 

 ganized at the recent meeting of the American 

 Medical Association. 



The British government has conferred upon 

 Major General Ireland the Cross of Com- 

 panion of the Bath in recognition of his serv- 

 ices as chief surgeon of the American Expedi- 

 tionay Forces and later, as Surgeon-General 

 of the American Army. 



The Cullum geographical medal of the 

 American Geographical Society has been 

 awarded to M. E. de Margerie, known for his 

 work on physical geography. 



Sir J. J. Thomson, master of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, and president of the Koyal 

 Society, and Sir Norman Moore, Bart., presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal College of Physicans, have 

 been elected to the standing committee of the 

 British Museum. 



Ma.ior Reston Ste^tnson', who has been 

 working for the French government in the 

 Chemical Warfare Service, has recently re- 

 turned from France. He has been discharged 

 from the Army, and will return to the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of the College of the City 

 of New York to continue his work there. 



Captain Paul E. Howe, Sanitary Corps, 

 has received his discharge from the Army and 

 has resumed his work at the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute, at Princeton, N. J. For several 

 months. Captain Howe was nutritional officer 

 at Camp Kearny, California. Later he was re- 

 called to Washington to work out plans for a 

 course in food and nutrition at the Army 

 Medical School. A food laboratory has been 

 planned and is now partially equipped for use 

 in connection with this course and for making 

 food analyses for the Medical Department of 

 the Army. 



Professor L. C. Graton, who had recently 

 returned to the Harvard geological depart- 

 ment from work on one of the war committees 

 in New York, has been called to Washington 

 for the next year to establish principles of 

 copper mine valuation and depletion for the 

 Income Taxation program imder the Treasury 

 Department. 



Mr. L. E. Warren has resigned as chief re- 

 search chemist for Wm. E. Warner & Co., of 

 New York City, and has accepted a position 

 as associate chemist in the laboratory of the 

 American Medical Association in Chicago. 



Mr. Eliot Blackwelder has resigned his 

 position as professor of geology at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. After September 1 he will 

 devote his time largely to geologic research, 

 especially regarding the history of the Rocky 

 Mountains, with headquarters at Denver. 



Dr. E. D. Roe, Jr., John Raymond French 

 professor of mathematics at Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, has been elected director of the observa- 

 tory. His position in the department of 

 mathematics remains unchanged. 



Professor Eollin D. Salisburv, head of 

 the department of geography and dean of the 

 Ogden Graduate School of Science at tlie Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has been appointed a 

 member of the Illinois State Board of Natural 

 Eesources and Conservation, to succeed Pro- 

 fessor T. C. Chamberlin, head of the depart- 

 ment of geology. 



In the list of members of divisions of the 

 National Eesearch Council published in the 

 May 16 number of Science, imder the Divi- 



