May 18, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



477 



Dr. Colin G. Fink, in charge of the research 

 laboratory at the Edison Lamp Works, Harri- 

 son, was elected president of the American 

 Electrochemical Society at its recent Detroit 

 meeting. 



At its meeting- of May 9, the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences on the recommenda- 

 tion of the Eumford Committee voted that the 

 Eumford Premium be awarded to Professor 

 Percy W. Bridgman, of the Jefferson Physical 

 Laboratory, for his " Thermodynamical Ee- 

 searches at Extremely High Pressures." 



The Academy of Sciences at Berlin has pre- 

 sented the Helmholtz medal to Professor E. 

 von Hertwig, of the University of Munich, for 

 his embryologieal researches. ' 



The Medical Society of London has awarded 

 the Fothergillian Medal for 1917 to Sir Leon- 

 ard Eogers, of the Medical College, Calcutta, 

 in consideration of his work on dysenteries, 

 their diilerentiation and treatment. 



Dr. Abraham Jacobi was given a dinner on 

 May 6 on the occasion of his eighty-seventh 

 birthday by a group of New York physicians, 

 most of whom had been his assistants. 



A DINNER was given on May 5 in the Haver- 

 ford College dining-hall in honor of Dr. 

 Henry S. Pratt, professor of biology, who has 

 been for over six months one of the district 

 superintendents of food distribution in north- 

 ern France. 



Dr. Maeston T. Bogert, professor of organic 

 chemistry at Columbia University, has been 

 given leave of absence to undertake special 

 chemical research at the request of the Na- 

 tional Eesearch Council. 



Professor "William D. Ennis, since 1907 

 head of the department of mechanical engi- 

 neering in the Polytechnic Institute of Brook- 

 lyn, has been appointed major in the ordnance 

 section, Officers' Eeserve Corps. 



In accordance with the request of the Na- 

 tional Eesearch Council, the faculty of Wes- 

 leyan University have appointed the following 

 local committee, consisting of one representa- 

 tive of each of the scientific departments of the 

 institution with the president, William Arnold 



Shanklin, ex-officio: Professors Walter G. 

 Cady, physics, chairman ; William North Eice, 

 geology; Eaymond Dodge, psychology; Fred- 

 erick Sloeum, astronomy; Leroy A. Howland, 

 mathematics; Moses L. Crossley, chemistry. 



Among the committees working under the 

 general direction of the Pacific Coast Eesearch 

 Com m ittee of the Pacific Division of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, of which Dr. John C. Merriam, of the 

 University of California, is chairman, is a com- 

 mittee on zoological investigations on animal 

 food supply, composed of the following: Dr. 

 Barton Warren Evermann, director of the Mu- 

 seum of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 chairman; Dr. Charles A. Kofoid, of the Uni- 

 versity of California; Dr. Wm. E. Eitter and 

 Mr. W. C. Crandall, of the Scripps Institution 

 for Biological Eesearch; Professors F. M. Mc- 

 Farland, Jno. O. Snyder and E. C. Starks, of 

 Stanford University, and Mr. N. B. Scofield 

 and Dr. Harold C. Bryant, of the California 

 Fish and Game Commission. This committee 

 is now active in making a survey of the native 

 animal food supply (fishes, mollusks, crusta- 

 ceans, mammals, etc.) of the state, for the pur- 

 pose of determining the available supply and of 

 devising ways and means for its increase. 



Dr. Samuel E. Chiu, a recent graduate of 

 the Western Eeserve Medical School, is now 

 director of the department of dermatology,' 

 ophthalmology and Wassermann Laboratory 

 of the Eden Dispensary, Shanghai, China, 

 and reports he is organizing a modern hos- 

 pital in Shanghai with nursing and medical 

 schools. 



Mr. F. M. Anderson, for many years 

 curator of invertebrate paleontology in the 

 California Academy of Sciences, has resigned 

 that position in order to devote his time to 

 special work for the Southern Pacific Com- 

 pany, and Dr. Eoy E. Dickerson, who has 

 been assistant cirrator since 1914, has been ap- 

 pointed curator. 



Mr. W. p. Fraser, plant pathologist, of 

 Macdonald College, has been appointed to in- 

 vestigate the problem of grain rust on the 

 prairie provinces of Western Canada. 



