June 22, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



633 



The degree of Sc.D has been conferred by- 

 Union College on William Pitt Mason, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the Rensselaer Polytech- 

 nic Institute. 



Mr. OvcYiLhE Wright was awarded the honor- 

 ary degree of doctor of science at the gradua- 

 tion exercises of the University of Cincinnati. 



Lehigh University has conferred its doctor- 

 ate of laws on Wallace C. Reddick, president 

 of the North Carolina College of Agriculture, 

 who gave the commencement address. 



At the formal opening of the American Red 

 Cross Hospital of Paris, on May 31, President 

 Poincare bestowed the cross of the Legion of 

 Honor on Dr. Joseph A. Blake, surgeon-in- 

 chief of the hospital, and thanked him in the 

 name of the republic for his valuable services 

 during the war. 



Professor Haller has been elected honor- 

 ary president of the newly organized French 

 Society of Industrial Chemistry. 



George B. Wislocki has been appointed to 

 take charge of the laboratory of surgical re- 

 search in the Harvard Medical School. 



The California State Board of Health has 

 appointed Professor Charles A. Kofoid, pro- 

 fessor of zoology, University of California, as 

 consulting biologist, and Assistant Professor 

 W. W. Cort, associate biologist, and has made 

 provision for the establishment of a biological 

 laboratory for protozoological and helmintho- 

 logical work in conjunction with their Bureau 

 of Communicable Diseases. Two assistants 

 will be appointed in the laboratory. 



The board of trustees of the Leo M. Levi 

 Memorial Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., an- 

 nounces the founding of a department of med- 

 ical research to be maintained in connection 

 with the hospital. Dr. Geo. L. Hofiman, for- 

 merly assistant to Professor W. Kolle, past di- 

 rector of the Institut zur Erforschung der 

 Infektionskrankheiten in Bern, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the newly founded depart- 

 ment, and will assume charge on July first. 



Mr. Page, the United States Ambassador, at- 

 tended the recent annual meeting of the Royal 



Geographical Society of Great Britain and 

 presented to Mr. G. G. Chisholm the medal 

 awarded to him by the American Geographical 

 Society. Mr. Chisholm is lecturer in geog- 

 raphy at the University of Edinburgh, secre- 

 tary of the Royal Scottish Geographical So- 

 ciety, and author of commercial and school 

 geographies. Mr. Page, in handing the medal 

 to him, said he had richly earned the recogni- 

 tion of his countrymen for the painstaking 

 character and conscientious thoroughness of 

 his work. Mr. Douglas W. Freshfield, the 

 president, presented the Royal medals and 

 other awards that have already been an- 

 nounced in Science. 



As reported in last week's Science, Dr. Ar- 

 thur Dean Bevan, of Chicago, was elected 

 president at the recent meeting of the New 

 York Medical Association. The following 

 officers were also elected : First Vice-president, 

 Dr. Edward H. Bradford, of Boston; Second 

 Vice-president, Dr. John McMuUin, U. S. Pub- 

 lic Health Service; Third Vice-president, Dr. 

 Lawrence Litchfield, of Pittsburgh; Secretary, 

 Dr. Alexander C. Craig, of Chicago; Treas- 

 urer, Dr. William Allen Pusey, of Chicago; 

 Chairman of the House of Delegates, Dr. Hu- 

 bert Work, of Pueblo, Colo.; Vice-chairman, 

 Dr. Dwight H. Murray, of Syracuse, N. Y. ; 

 Trustees, Dr. Philip Marvel, of Atlantic City; 

 Dr. W. T. Sarles,"of Sparta, Wis.; Dr. Bert 

 Ellis, of California, and Dr. Wendell C. Phil- 

 lips, of New York City. Chicago has been 

 chosen as the place of meeting for 1918. 



The faculty of the Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College of Texas recently appointed 

 a committee on National Defense to cooperate 

 with the Council of National Defense and the 

 State Coimcil on National Defense, consisting 

 of the following members: Dr. W. B. Bizzell, 

 chairman; Colonel Clarence Ousley, Mr. H. M. 

 Eliot, Dr. Charles Puryear, Dr. O. M. Ball, Mr. 

 B. Youngblood, Dr. E. P. Humbert. 



J. E. Todd, formerly professor of geology in 

 the University of South Dakota and for the 

 last ten years occupying a similar position in 

 Kansas University, has recently been retired 

 on half pay. He hopes to continue research 



