June 1, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



561 



We learn from Nature that the Pereira prize 

 of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Bri- 

 tain has been awarded to Miss Ivy Roberts, 

 and the silver and bronze medals of the society 

 have been awarded, respectively, to Mr. H. 

 Jephson and Miss Doris Gregory. The Han- 

 bury gold medal has been awarded to Pro- 

 fessor H. G. Greenish, professor of pharma- 

 ceutics to the Pharmaceutical Society. 



The Swedish Society of Physicians has 

 elected Colonel Eobert Jones, C.B., inspector 

 of British military orthopedices, to be a for- 

 eign member. 



The Jacksonian prize of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons of England for 1916 has been 

 awarded to Mr. E. W. H. Groves for his dis- 

 sertation on " Methods and results of trans- 

 plantation of bone in the repair of defects 

 caused by injury or disease." The subject for 

 the Jacksonian prize for 1918 is " The injuries 

 and diseases of the pancreas and their surg- 

 ical treatment." 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 post of director of the Institute for Experi- 

 mental Therapy and of the Georg-Speyer 

 House in Frankfurt-a.-Main, left vacant more 

 than a year and a half ago by the death of 

 Professor Ehrlich, has been given to Professor 

 Kolle. He was one of Koch's pupils, and was 

 his assistant when he investigated the causes 

 of rinderpest in British South-west Africa 

 in 1896. Kolle was then only twenty-eight. 

 In conjunction with Pfeiiier, he investigated 

 the problems of typhoid immunization, and 

 the typhoid vaccine experiments carried out 

 at the time of the Herero rising were con- 

 tinued during the present war. He has also 

 made observations on cholera, plague and 

 dysentery. 



It was announced at a resumed annual 

 meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute of 

 Great Britain that awards had been made by 

 the council from the Carnegie Research 

 Scholarship Fund to the following: Mr. W. C. 

 Hancock, £50, to enable him to continue his 

 investigations on refractory materials, with 

 special reference to the manufacture of coke- 

 oven bricks ; to J. L. Wauchton and D. Hanson, 

 a grant of £100 to enable them to continue 



their joint research on iron-phosphorous and 

 iron-carbon-phosphorous steels; to J. Hurst 

 a grant of £100 for an investigation on the 

 wearing and the micro-structure of worn cast- 

 iron specimens; to J. H. Whiteley and A. F. 

 Hallimond, a grant of £100 for a joint re- 

 search on the chemical detection of strain in 

 iron and steel. 



Chancellor Day, of Syracuse University, 

 has appointed the following representatives 

 from the faculty, trustees and alumni to act 

 as the local Research Council : Dr. C. W. Har- 

 gitt, chairman; Professor E. IST. Pattee, secre- 

 tary; Dean W. P. Graham, Acting Dean 

 Frank F. Moon, Dr. Frank P. Knowlton, Mr. 

 Edmund L. French, Mr. William J. Harvie. 



Professor George R. McDermott, the pro- 

 fessor of structui-al design in Sibley College, 

 has been appointed a member of the staff of 

 General George W. Goethals, who is taking 

 charge of the construction of an emergency 

 fleet. 



Dr. Allerton S. Cushman, president of the 

 Institute of Industrial Research, with head- 

 quarters at Washington, has been commis- 

 sioned a major in the Officers' Reserve Corps, 

 and will do special research work under the 

 ordnance section on the chemistry of high ex- 

 plosives. 



Mr. Harry S. Swarth has accepted the 

 position of curator of ornithology and mam- 

 malogy in the museum of the California 

 Academy of Sciences, and will enter on the 

 work on October 1. Mr. Swarth has been 

 curator of birds in the museum of vertebrate 

 zoology of the University of California since 

 1915. He is a fellow of the American Orni- 

 thologists Union. 



Dr. Thomas Crowder, medical director of 

 the department of sanitation and medicine of 

 the Pullman Company gave a lecture on May 

 14 at the University of Illinois College of 

 Medicine, his subject being " Ventilation and 

 sanitation of -sleeping cars." 



The Bakerian lecture of the Royal Society 

 was delivered by Mr. J. H. Jeans on May 17 

 upon the subject of the configuration of astro- 

 nomical masses and the figure of the earth. 



