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Pearce, Milton J. Rosenau, Edward E. Stitt, Wm. 

 H. Welch, H. Gideon WeUs. 



Agriculture: Eaymond Pearl, chairman. Edwin 

 W. AUen, Carl L. Alsberg, Henry P. Armsby, Eu- 

 gene Davenport, Edward M. East, L. O. Howard, 

 L. R. Jones, Whitman H. Jordan, Karl E. Keller- 

 man, Jacob G. Lipman, L. B. Mendel, Erwin F. 

 Smith, Theobald Smith, W. J. Spillman, William 

 M. Wheeler. 



Physiology : W. B. Cannon, chairman. 



Geography: W. M. Davis, chairman. 



Geology: John M. Clarke, chairman. 



Anthropology : Wm. H. Holmes, chairman. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



In accepting the resignation of Professor 

 E. C. Carpenter from the faculty of Sibley 

 College, Cornell University, the trustees have 

 adopted the following resolution : 



Resolved, that the trustees in aeeepting the res- 

 ignation of Professor Carpenter, express their high 

 appreciation of his services to the university for 

 nearly thirty years. As a pioneer in the field of 

 experimental engineering he is held in the highest 

 esteem by all mechanical engineers, and by his 

 writings in this field he has made an assured place 

 for himself in the annals of his profession. As a 

 teacher and investigator he is affectionately re- 

 membered by many generations of students and his 

 retirement from the faculty of Sibley College will 

 be viewed with great regret by all of Ms colleagues. 



The portrait of Professor E. D. Salisbury, 

 planned for by his former students, was pre- 

 sented to the University of Chicago on the 

 afternoon of February 8. Dr. T. C. Chamber- 

 lin gave a sketch of Professor Salisbury's life, 

 emphasizing his early work as a student and 

 his contribution as a man of research. Pro- 

 fessor W. W. Atwood, of Harvard University, 

 spoke in behalf of the students, emphasizing 

 the great work of Professor Salisbury as an 

 educator and formally presented the ijortrait 

 to the university. Professor Salisbury, at the 

 request of President H. P. Judson, who pre- 

 sided, replied briefly, and on behalf of the uni- 

 versity the president accepted the gift. 



Dr. Joseph A. Blake, formerly professor 

 of surgery in Columbia University, who has 

 rendered distinguished services at Neuilly and 

 at Eis-Orangis, has accepted an invitation 



from the French government to become head 

 of the great Doyen Hospital. 



The officers of the Illinois State Academy 

 of Science elected for the ensuing year are 

 as follows: 



President, Dr. J. C. Hesler, James Millikin Uni- 

 versity, Decatur. 



Vice-president, J. H. Ferris, Joliet. 



Treasurer, Professor T. L. Hankinson, Eastern 

 State Normal School, Charleston. 



Secretary, Professor J. L. Pricer, State Normal 

 University, Normal. 



The following officers of the Chemical So- 

 ciety, London, for 1917-18, have been proposed 

 by the council : President, Professor W. Jack- 

 son Pope; New Vice-presidents, Colonel A. 

 SmitheUs and Professor Sydney Young; New 

 Ordinary Memhers of Council, Professor H. 

 C. H. Carpenter, Professor A. Findlay, Pro- 

 fessor A. Harden and Dr. T. A. Henry. 



Mr. F. J. Cheshire has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Optical Society, London. 



A GOLD medal has been awarded by the 

 French government to Professor Landouzy 

 for his long and ceaseless study of tuberculosis 

 and means to combat it. 



Dr. Eoy G. Pearce, formerly assistant pro- 

 fessor of physiology, college of medicine. Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Chicago, is now a member 

 of the research laboratory of the medical clinic. 

 Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland. Dr. Stanley P. 

 Eeiman, formerly resident pathologist. Lake- 

 side Hospital, has been appointed Hanna re- 

 search fellow in pathology in the school of 

 medicine. Western Eeserve University. 



Dr. Eobert Grant Aitken, astronomer in 

 the Lick Observatory, has been granted by the 

 University of California four months' leave of 

 absence to go to the Atlantic coast to complete 

 arrangements for the publication of his work 

 on the double stars. 



Henry Hinds, geologist and acting chief of 

 the section of eastern coal fields of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has left the government 

 service temporarily in order to take up pri- 

 vate oil work in Costa Eica and neighboring 

 republics. 



