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Naval Consulting Board. These honorary de- 

 grees were given upon the recommendation of 

 the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, 

 an integral part of the University of Pitts- 

 burgh. 



DuRiUM Unh'ersity has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Sir E. Rutherford, Sir G. 

 T. Beilby. Professor A. A. Herdman and Pro- 

 fessor J. J. Welsh. 



Sm J. J. Thomson has been appointed a 

 member of the advisory council to the com- 

 mittee of the privy council for scientific and 

 industrial research. 



Dr. Gisbert Kapp is about to resign the 

 professorship of electrical engineering in the 

 University of Birmingham. 



Professor Robert "W. Wilson has retired 

 from the chair of astronomy at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



The Royal Society of Arts, London, has 

 awarded its Albert medal for 1919 to Sir Oliver 

 Lodge " in recognition of his work as the 

 pioneer of wireless telegraphy." The medal 

 was instituted in 1864 to reward " distin- 

 guished service in promoting arts, manufac- 

 tures and commerce." 



Professor G. Elliot Smith has been elected 

 president of the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophic Society. 



Dr. R.\y Lyman Wilbur, president of Stan- 

 ford University, who has always taken partic- 

 ular interest in the sociological problems con- 

 nected with diseases, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the California State Conference of 

 Social Agencies. 



At the annual meeting of the Linnean So- 

 ciety on May 24, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, of 

 the British Museum of Natural History, was 

 elected president. 



Charles W. Leno, secretary of the New 

 York Entomological Society and research asso- 

 ciate in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, has been appointed director of the Mu- 

 seum of the Staten Island Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences. Mr. Leng has been interested 

 in the natural history of Staten Island, where 



he was born and lives, since boyhood. Ento- 

 mologists and other naturalists, visiting New 

 York City, can reach the museum of the in- 

 stitute by a pleasant half hour's sail across 

 the bay on the Staten Island ferry. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Among the gifts announced at the com- 

 mencement of Harvard University were the 

 following: From the estate of Mrs. Robert D. 

 Evans, $15,687; one half each to the Arnold 

 Arboretum and the Dental School. The James 

 C. Melvin Fund, anonymous $53,750 for trop- 

 ical medicine. Anonymous gift of $11,250 for 

 the departments of agriculture and landscape 

 architecture. Estate of Mrs. Charles H. Col- 

 burn, $97,052, for the study of tuberculosis. 

 Mrs. Winthrop Sargent, $27,500, of which $25,- 

 QOO goes to the Blue Hill Observatory. From 

 the Nathaniel Canners' Association, $15,000 

 for studies in public health. 



Dr. LeRoy S. Palmer, assistant professor of 

 dairy chemistry in the college of agriculture 

 of the University of Missouri, has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor of agricultural bio- 

 chemistry in the college of agriculture. Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, and dairy chemist in 

 the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion. George E. Holm. Ph.D., Minnesota, 1919, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of agri- 

 cultural biochemistry and assistant agricul- 

 tural biochemist in the Experiment Station. 

 He will devote his time almost exclusively to 

 research on the proteins. 



A. F. Kidder has resigned as professor of 

 agronomy in the college of agriculture of the 

 Louisiana State University to accept the posi- 

 tion of agronomist and assistant director of 

 the State Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Baton Rouge. 



Dr. Albert Schneider, of the pharmaceut- 

 ical department of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, will go next September to the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska as professor of pharmacog- 

 nosy and director of the experimental medici- 

 nal plant garden. 



