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E. Kennelly, chairman of the Edison medal 

 committee; Charles A. Terry, New York, and 

 B. A. Behrend, Boston. 



Professor Hiram Bingham, of Tale Univer- 

 sity, and Dr. Isaiah Bowman, of the American 

 Geographical Society, have been elected corre- 

 sponding members of the Geographical Society 

 of Philadelphia. 



Professor Eobert A. Millikan, of the de- 

 partment of physics of the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been appointed to direct research 

 by the ITational Research Council. He has 

 been granted leave of absence by the university 

 for the spring quarter. 



Dr. Beverly T. Galloway, formerly assist- 

 ant secretaiy of agriculture, will work in co- 

 operation with the Council for !National De- 

 fense in mobilizing the agrieultural interests 

 of the country. 



President Trotter, of West Virginia Uni- 

 versity, has appointed the following commit- 

 tee to cooperate with the ^National Research 

 Council: Professors Waggoner, Reese, Davis, 

 Alderman and Sohultz. 



Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice has returned 

 to New Tork on the steam yatch Alberta, on 

 which he sailed in ISTovember last to the upper 

 Amazon River. The party included William 

 T. Councilman, professor of pathology in Har- 

 vard University; Ernest Howe, a geologist, of 

 Newport, and Earl P. Church, of the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



Professor Julius Stieglitz, director of the 

 chemical laboratory. University of Chicago, 

 and president of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, gave, on April 20 and 21, two lectures 

 before the department of chemistry of the 

 Johns Hopkins University on the electronic 

 conception of valence. Dr. Eugene C. Bing- 

 ham, professor of chemistry at Lafayette Col- 

 lege, recently gave three lectures before the 

 department on the nature of viscous and plas- 

 tic flow. 



Henry Martyn Seely, professor emeritus 

 of chemistry and natural history at Middle- 

 bury College, died on May 4, in his eighty- 

 ninth year. He was active head of his de- 

 partment for thirty-four years.- Professor 



Seely, who is a graduate of Yale College, a 

 member of the American Geological Society 

 and a fellow of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, was the author 

 of important publications on the origin of the 

 Champlain Valley. 



Dr. Henry McHatton, a distinguished 

 physician and surgeon of Macon, Ga., died 

 on April 2, at the age of sixty-one years. Dr. 

 McHatton had been president of the Medical 

 Association of Georgia and medical director 

 of the Macon Hospital. He was the author of 

 numerous contributions to medical science. 



Surgeon-General Sir WiLLLiM Taylor, late 

 director-general of the Army Medical Service 

 of Great Britain, died on April 10, at Windsor. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation reports deaths as follows : I. A. Shabad, 

 professor of pediatrics at the state Woman's 

 Medical College at Petrograd, aged forty- 

 seven years, who had made a special study of 

 rachitis, its origin, nature and treatment. 

 A. Prieur, editor of the France medicale,- 

 which he transformed into a historical jour- 

 nal, founder of the Societe frangaise d'his- 

 toire de la medecine, aged fifty-two years^ 

 W. Winternitz, the pioneer of scientific hydro- 

 therapy, professor of internal medicine at the 

 University of Vienna since 1881, aged eighty- 

 two years. C. Hartwich, professor of pharma- 

 ceutical chemistry, at Zurich, aged sixty-five 

 years. 



Professor Bradley M. Davis, secretary of 

 the American Society of Naturalists, reports 

 the following actions of the executive com- 

 mittee : 



First. The publication of the number of the 

 Records due in 1917 has been deferred, the execu- 

 tive committee holding the view that the funds of 

 the society should not be employed at this time on 

 a publication which is not vital to its welfare. 



Second. It has been voted that the next meet- 

 ing of the Naturalists be held at Pittsburgh in con- 

 jimction with the meetings of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science. 



The ninth semi-annual meeting of the 

 American Institute of Chemical Engineers 

 will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., from June 20 

 to 23. 



