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(2,000 francs) and Mile. I. lotevko (2,000 

 francs) ; the Jerome Ponti foundation to MM. 

 Battandier and Trabut, for their botanical 

 work in northern Africa. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, in order to fulfil the provi- 

 sions of its constitution, held a general as- 

 sembly at Paris on October 28, when the 

 president, M. Emile Picard, made an address, 

 in which he discussed German and French 

 contributions to science. 



Sir Egbert Hadfield has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Faraday Society, London. 



Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, of Milton, 

 Mass., has been elected president, and Pro- 

 fessor John W. Harshberger, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, vice-president of the 

 Ecological Society of America. 



At the meeting of the Society of Directors 

 of Physical Education and Colleges, held in 

 New York on December 29, Dr. Joseph E. 

 Raycroft, Princeton, N. J., was elected presi- 

 dent. 



The New York State Science Teachers' 

 Association, in convention at Syracuse, chose 

 Professor E. C. Gibbs, of the department of 

 physics of Cornell University, as its president. 



Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, director of 

 the Museum of the California Academy of 

 Sciences, has been elected president of the 

 Cooper Ornithological Club. 



Professor Eolla Clinton Carpenter, of 

 Sibley College, Cornell University, has re- 

 signed, his resignation to take effect at the 

 end of this academic year. Professor Car- 

 penter will reach the age of sixty-five on 

 June 26, 1917, the day "before commencement. 



The National Institute of Social Sciences 

 has awarded medals of the society to Pro- 

 fessor M. I. Pupin, of Columbia University, 

 for his work in mathematical physics and 

 electrical engineering; to Surgeon General 

 William C. Gorgas, for his work in stamping 

 out yellow fever in Cuba and Panama, and to 

 Dr. George W. Crile, of Cleveland, for his 

 contributions to surgery and allied sciences. 



The C. M. Warren Committee of the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences has made 

 an additional grant of $150 to Professor E. F. 

 Brunei, of Brjm Mawr College, for the con- 

 tinuation of his research on the relation be- 

 tween the constitution of aliphatic radicals 

 and their chemical affinities. 



Henry N. Ogden, professor of sanitary 

 engineering in the college of civil engineering 

 of Cornell University, has been reappointed 

 a member of the State Public Health Coun- 

 cil by Governor Whitman. Professor Ogden 

 was made a member of this council when it 

 was created in 1913. Before that he had 

 been for seven years engineer to the state 

 board of health. 



The Bureau of Fisheries has engaged the 

 services of Dr. N. L. Gardner, of the Univer- 

 sity of California, for comprehensive investi- 

 gations of the marine algse of the Pacific 

 coast, with reference to their more adequate 

 utilization and their relation to fisheries. 



Professor Henri A. Hus, of the depart- 

 ment of biology of the University of Michigan, 

 who was granted a three years' leave of ab- 

 sence for the purpose of doing some experi- 

 mental work for the United States Eubber 

 Company at their plantation in Sumatra and 

 in the botanical garden at Buitenzorg on the 

 island of Java, has returned to the United 

 States owing to lack of laboratory equipment 

 due to the present war, and will continue his 

 work in the New York Botanical Garden. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. F. A. Stock- 

 dale, director of agriculture, Mauritius, has 

 been appointed by the British Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies director of agriculture, 

 Ceylon, and Dr. H. A. Tempany, government 

 chemist and superintendent of agriculture for 

 the Leeward Islands, has been appointed to 

 succeed Mr. F. A. Stockdale as director of 

 agriculture, Mauritius. 



On December 25, Dr. Charles L. Parsons, 

 chief chemist of the Bureau of Mines, re- 

 turned from a ten-weeks' trip in Europe. As 

 a representative of the War Department, Dr. 

 Parsons visited Norway, Sweden, England, 

 France and Italy, to make a study of nitrogen 



