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ing he makes researches in archeology. He is now 

 conducting some most important work in the study 

 of the remains of the ancient peoples of the north. 



APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY AT THE CARNEGIE 

 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



Professor G. M. Whipple has leave of ab- 

 sence from the University of Illinois for the 

 first semester of the coming year to serve as 

 professor of applied psychology at the Car- 

 negie Institute of Technology and acting 

 director of the Bureau of Salesmanship Re- 

 search. 



Professor Walter Dill Scott, who had orig- 

 inally planned to return to Northwestern 

 University for the next semester, has been 

 given further leave of absence and will remain 

 at Carnegie throughout the year. 



A. J. Beatty, Ph.D., Illinois, has been ap- 

 pointed research assistant in the Bureau of 

 Salesmanship Research, and is already en- 

 gaged in a study of methods used in corpora- 

 tion schools for developing salesmen. 



Fellowship appointments include the fol- 

 lowing: N. L. Hoopingarner, University of 

 Texas; Pranklyn Meine, University of Chi- 

 cago; H. G. Kenagy, University of Minne- 

 sota; and C. E. Brundage, Tuck School, 

 Dartmouth. 



Beardsley Ruml, Ph.D. Chicago, has been 

 appointed instructor in psychology. L. L. 

 Thurstone has been advanced from assistant 

 to instructor. These, together with Professor 

 J. B. Miner, Professor Kate Gordon and Pro- 

 fessor W. V. Bingham, head of the depart- 

 ment, will be primarily concerned with mental 

 measurements of students and with research 

 and instruction in vocational psychology. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The late Mr. W. Hudson Stephens, of Low- 

 ville, N. Y., a life member of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 since its eighteenth meeting held in Salem in 

 1869, by the terms of his will has bequeathed 

 the sum of $5,000 to the association. 



Dr. James Mason Crafts, distinguished for 

 his chemical researches and for a time presi- 



dent of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, has died in his sixty-ninth year. 



Tale University has conferred the doctorate 

 of science on Dr. Theobald Smith, director of 

 the department of animal pathology of the 

 Rockefeller Institute, and Sir Ernest Ruther- 

 ford, director of the physics laboratories of the 

 University of Manchester, former Silliman 

 lecturer at Tale. William T. Hornaday, di- 

 rector of the New Tork Zoological Park, re- 

 ceived the degree of master of arts. 



Professor Robert A. Millikan, professor of 

 physics at the University of Chicago, has been 

 made doctor of science by Amherst College. 

 The doctorate of laws was conferred on Na- 

 thaniel M. Terry, of the class of 1867, professor 

 of physics and chemistry in the U. S. Naval 

 Academy. 



The degree of doctor of science has been 

 conferred by Dartmouth College on Allen 

 Hazen, the civil engineer of New Tork City. 



BowDOiN College has conferred the doctor- 

 ate of science on A. H. Sabin (class of '76), 

 consulting chemist of the National Lead Com- 

 pany and lecturer in New Tork University, 

 and on Dr. F. H. Albee, of the class of '99, the 

 New Tork surgeon. 



Professor John E. Bucher, who holds the 

 chair of chemistry at Brown University, has 

 been given the doctorate of science by that in- 

 stitution. 



Dr. Chas. H. Herty, editor of the Journal 

 of Industrial Chemistry, has been given the de- 

 gree of doctor of chemistry at the University 

 of Pittsburgh. 



The Societe Russe de Mineralogie de Petro- 

 grad, which before the revolution carried the 

 title Societe Imperiale de Mineralogie de St. 

 Petersbourg, held its centenary jubilee in Jan- 

 uary, 1917, on which occasion John M. Clarke, 

 of Albany, was elected to honorary member- 

 ship. 



The forty-six knighthoods conferred on the 

 occasion of King George's fifty-second birth- 

 day include Dr. H. P. Waterhouse and Mr. 

 R. Jones, surgeons, and Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, 

 director of the National Physical Laboratory. 



