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Eeprints of it accompany this report. They 

 can also be sent to members of the Committee 

 of One Hundred who so desire. 



It is intended presently to collect data re- 

 garding Astronomical Observatories and Ma- 

 rine Biological Laboratories which hitherto 

 have been delayed by unavoidable circum- 

 stances. 



It is desirable to secure authoritative in- 

 formation regarding the appropriations which 

 are annually made by the federal government 

 and many state legislatures for research in 

 agricultural and engineering subjects, unless 

 the committee should be relieved from doing 

 this because of the similar work undertaken 

 by the committee appointed by the ITational 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Chas. E. Cross, 



Chairman 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Julius Stieglitz, professor of chemistry 

 in the University of Chicago, has been elected 

 president of the American Chemical Society. 

 Dr. Stieglitz has also been elected president of 

 the Society of Sigma Xi. 



The alumni of Colimibia University will 

 give a dinner on February 19 in recognition of 

 the university's contributions to science and 

 engineering. The guest of honor will be Pro- 

 fessor M. I. Pupin, who completes his twenty- 

 fifth year of service to the university. 



The gold medal of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society has been awarded to Mr. "W. S. Adams, 

 of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatoi-y, for 

 his investigations in stellar spectroscopy. 



The Geological Society, London, has this 

 year made the following awards: Wollaston 

 medal. Professor A. P. A. Lacroix (Paris) ; 

 Murchison medal. Dr. G. P. Matthew (Can- 

 ada) ; Lyell medal, Dr. Wheelton Hind (Stoke- 

 on-Trent) ; Bigsby medal, Mr. E. G. Carruthers 

 (H.M. Geological Survey) ; Wollaston fund. 

 Dr. P. G. H. Boswell (Imperial College of 

 Science) ; Murchison fund. Dr. W. Mackie 

 (Elgin) ; LyeU fund, Dr. A. H. Cox (King's 

 College, London), and Mr. T. 0. Nicholas 

 (Trinity College, Cambridge) ; Barlow-Jame- 



son fund, Mr. H. Dewey (H.M. Geological 

 Survey). 



At the suggestion of the chairman of the 

 National Research Council of the National 

 Academy of Sciences the following Committee 

 for the Encouragement of Research at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago has been appointed: Presi- 

 dent Judson, Trustees Martin Eyerson, Julius 

 Eosenwald and Harold Swift, Professors Coul- 

 ter, Michelson, Millikan, T. C. Chamberlin, 

 Stieglitz, E. H. Moore and Bensley, and, from 

 the alumni of the university. Dr. P. B. Jewett, 

 of the Western Electric Company, New York 

 City, and Dr. E. P. Bacon, director of the 

 Mellon Institute. 



Raymond Cecil Moore, Ph.D. (Chicago, 

 '16), has been appointed head of the state geo- 

 logical survey of Kansas. Dr. Moore has been 

 engaged in geological survey work in Missouri 

 and Illinois and for the United States govern- 

 ment, and is now connected with the Univer- 

 sity of Kansas. 



At the annual meeting of the trustees of the 

 Rockefeller Foundation Dr. George E. Vin- 

 cent, president of the University of Minnesota, 

 was elected president of the foundation to suc- 

 ceed Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who was ap- 

 pointed chairman of the board of trustees. 

 Messrs. Charles E. Hughes, Julius Rosenwald, 

 of Chicago, and Dr. Wallace Buttrick, chair- 

 man of the General Education Board, were also 

 elected trustees, and Mr. Edwin Rogers Em- 

 bree, assistant secretary of Yale University, 

 was elected secretary to succeed Mr. Jerome D. 

 Greene. 



George E. La Eue, assistant professor of 

 zoology at the University of Michigan, has 

 been appointed director of the University of 

 Michigan Biological Station at Douglas Lake, 

 Michigan. 



Dr. William S. Stone has been appointed 

 assistant director of cancer research of the 

 Memorial Hospital, New York City. 



Major John A. Amyot, Toronto, formerly 

 director of the Ontario Board of Health labora- 

 tories and professor of hygiene and public 

 medicine in the University of Toronto, has 



