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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLV. No. 1150 



Smitli, Columbia University; Member of the 

 Council to take the place of Florian Cajori 

 (elected president) : E. V. Huntington, Har- 

 vard University. 



De. F. W. Taussig, professor of political 

 economy at Harvard University, is reported 

 to have accepted the chairmanship of the 

 tariff commission created by the present con- 

 gress. 



The title of emeritus professor of physics in 

 the University of London has been conferred 

 by the senate on Dr. F. T. Trouton, who held 

 the Quain chair of physics until 1915. 



Dr. a. Tersin, director of the Pasteur Insti- 

 tute of Indo-China, has been awarded the 

 Lasserre prize for the present year for his work 

 on anti-plague serum. 



Peivat-Dozent J. Kyele, of the University 

 of Vienna, has been awarded $200 by the Aus- 

 trian Academy of Sciences to continue his 

 experimental researches on leprosy. 



Mr. William Grunow, eighty-seven years 

 old, who was for thirty-six years custodian of 

 the United States Military Academy Observa- 

 tory at West Point and a skilled instrument- 

 maker, died on January 5. 



A correspondent writes that Mr. Orville 

 Wright has moved into his recently completed 

 laboratories at Dayton, Ohio. The death of 

 Wilbur Wright a year ago caused the suspen- 

 sion of work on the problems of aviation for 

 a time. But in November Mr. Wright re- 

 sumed flying at his aviation field and dropped 

 his experiments only when the winter weather 

 interfered. Mr. Wright states that there are 

 certain experiments having to do with the 

 theoretical side of aeronautics which the 

 Wright brothers had made prior to 1905. They 

 gave up experimentation for flying. One of 

 the experiments with which Orville Wright 

 will busy himself is the wind funnel. He 

 began observing the effect of wind currents on 

 plane surfaces early in the year. As soon as 

 spring comes, Mr. Wright will begin flying 

 again at his aviation field and will continue 

 his experiments in the new laboratories. 



Professor Fredeeioe E. Breithut, of the 

 department of chemistry of the College of the 

 City of New York, has issued a report to the 



New York Section of the American Chemical 

 Society, urging a statistical investigation of 

 the chemists of the United States so that the 

 conditions of employment and opportunities for 

 young men entering the profession may be 

 ascertained. The committee, appointed by 

 Dr. J. Merrit Matthews, chairman of the New 

 York Section, consists of Professor Frederick 

 E. Breithut, chairman; Elwood Henrick, 

 Bernhard C. Hesse and Otto H. Klein. 



Dr. Eichard M. Peahce, the John Herr 

 Musser professor of research medicine in the 

 University of Pennsylvania and adviser in 

 medical education to the International Health 

 Board of the Eockefeller Foundation, sails 

 on January 15 for Argentina and Uruguay 

 to study medical conditions in these countries. 



A grant of $250 has been made by the 0. M. 

 Warren Committee of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences to Professor E. L. Mark, 

 of Harvard University, for the investigation 

 of certain properties of sea water at the Ber- 

 muda Islands. 



The Association of Military Surgeons of 

 the United States has announced the results of 

 the Henry S. Wellcome prize competition. 

 Capt. Mahlon Ashford, of the Army Medical 

 Corps, who wrote on " The Organization of 

 Medical Of&cers," was awarded a gold medal 

 and $300. A silver medal and $200 was 

 awarded to Assistant Surgeon-General W. C. 

 Eucker, of the Public Health Service, whose 

 essay was entitled : " The Influence of the 

 European War on the Transmission of the in- 

 fections of Disease." 



Under the Herter Foundation the faculty 

 of the University and Bellevue Hospital Med- 

 ical College announces five lectures by Pro- 

 fessor Archibald B. Macallum, of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, on " The Distribution of In- 

 organic Compounds in Animal and Vegetable 

 Tissues and the Forces that determine it."' 

 These lectures began January 8, at 4 o'clock,. 

 at the Carnegie Laboratory, and will continue 

 daily at the same hour. 



Dr. Forest Eay Moulton, professor of as-, 

 tronomy in the University of Chicago, will 

 give in February, five lectures at Western Ee- 

 serve University on the MacBride Foundation. 



