April 27, 1917] 



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Earl Phelps, sanitary engineer, Washington, D. C. 

 Dr. John M. Finney, professor of clinical surgery, 



Johns Hopkins University. 

 Dr. Edward P. Davis, professor of obstetrics, Jef- 

 ferson Medical College. 

 Dr. Edward C. Kirk, dean of dental department, 



University of Pennsylvania. 

 Dr. W. C. Woodward, commissioner of Public 



Health, Washington, D. C. 

 Dr. Simon Plexner, director, Eockefeller Institute, 



New York City. 

 Dr. Theodore Janeway, professor of medicine, 



Johns Hopkins University. 

 Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, New York Commissioner of 



Public Health. 

 Dr. George Brewer, professor of surgery, Coliim- 



bia University. 

 Dr. George Walker, Johns Hopkins University. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the meeting of the National Academy of 

 Sciences in Washington on April 18, the fol- 

 lowing members were elected : Edward Kasner, 

 mathematics; Walter S. Adams, astronomy; 

 Theodore Lyman, Walter C. Sabine, S. W. 

 Stratton, physics; W. R. Whitney, chemistry; 

 J. J. Carty, electrical engineering; W. F. 

 Durand, marine engineering; H. M. Howe, 

 metallurgy; E. 0. Ulrich, geology; Eobert 

 Ridgway, ornithology; Harvey Gushing, Wil- 

 liam S. Halsted, surgery; L. H. Bailey, bot- 

 any; Edward L. Thorndike, psychology. 



At the annual dinner of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences on the evening of April 17, 

 the Henry Draper gold medal was presented 

 to Professor A. A. Michelson, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, and the public welfare medal 

 to Dr. S. W. Stratton, director of the Bureau 

 of Standards. 



The seventh annual award of the Willard 

 Gibbs Medal, founded by William A. Gonverse 

 of Ghicago, will be made to Dr. Edward W. 

 Morley. Dr. Morley was elected by a jury of 

 twelve, including some of our most eminent 

 chemists in the United States. He will talk 

 upon his early work in connection with hydro- 

 gen and oxygen, on Friday evening, May 18, 

 at Hotel Sherman, Ghicago, at which meeting 

 the medal will be awarded to him. Previous 

 recipients of this medal have been: W. E. 



Whitney, A. A. ISToyes, T. W. Richards, Ira 

 Remsen, L. H. Baekeland and Svante 

 Arrhenius. 



Professor M. G. Whitaker, head of the 

 department of chemical engineering, Colum- 

 bia University, was elected vice-president of 

 the U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., at the meet- 

 ing of their board, on April 19. In this capac- 

 ity, Mr. Whitaker will serve as chairman of 

 the manufacturing committee in charge of 

 plants and operations, chairman of the re- 

 search committee in charge of the new labo- 

 ratories at Baltimore, and as a member of the 

 sales committee of the company. 



Dr. H. ]Sr. McGoY, who has been connected 

 with the department of chemistry of the Uni- 

 versity of Ghicago since 1901 and professor 

 since 1911, has tendered his resignation in 

 order to be free to devote more time to his 

 important technical interests. His process of 

 extracting radium from carnotite is being used 

 by the Carnotite Production Company of Ghi- 

 cago in which he is a director. He is also in- 

 terested in the production of thorium and 

 related products and is a director of the 

 Lindsay Light Company of Ghicago, which has 

 probably the largest thorium production in the 

 country. 



Anouncement is made by the Forest Serv- 

 ice of the appointment of Carlile P. Winslow 

 as director of the Forest Products Laboratory, 

 at Madison, Wisconsin, to succeed Howard F. 

 Weiss, whose resignation took place on April 1. 



Dorothy W. Block has been awarded the 

 Maria Mitchell memorial scholarship of $500, 

 to be used in research work at the Harvard 

 observatory during the year 1917-18. For the 

 past two years Miss Block has been laboratory 

 assistant in the department of astronomy at 

 Hunter College. 



James F. Couch was elected president of 

 the recently organized Des Moines Chemical 

 Society at the regular meeting on April 9. 



A GRADUATE medical course will be con- 

 ducted at the new St. Luke's Hospital, 

 Spokane, during the summer. Among those 

 who have accepted invitations to lecture, ac- 

 cording to the Journal of the American Med- 



