February 26, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



321 



business of the evening, I have a piece of news 

 to tell you whicli I am sure you will be glad 

 to bear. A very distinguished honor has been 

 bestowed on our old friend and secretary, Dr. 

 J. Scott Keltie. The American Geographical 

 Society has conferred on him the Cullum 

 gold medal, a medal which is given not an- 

 nually but only on special occasions. I be- 

 lieve it has been given to only seven or eight 

 people since it was founded, and amongst the 

 holders have been Captain Scott, Dr. Nansen, 

 Adtoiiral Peary, and others of equal eminence. 

 You will also be glad to hear that the council 

 has made an arrangement by which, when Mr. 

 Arthur Robert Hinks succeeds in March next 

 to the posts of secretary and editor. Dr. Keltie 

 will remain with us for another two years as 

 joint editor of the Journal, and will thus be 

 able to give his successor the help of his long 

 experience when taking over these offices." 



The Spingam medal of the National Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Colored Peo- 

 ple, which is to be awarded annually to the 

 man or woman of African descent and Ameri- 

 can citizenship who shall have made the high- 

 est achievement during the preceding year in 

 any field of elevated or honorable human en- 

 deavor, was given to Dr. E. E. Just, of the 

 Harvard University Medical School, for his 

 work in physiology and in improving the 

 standard of negro medical schools. The medal 

 was presented by Governor Whitman at a 

 meeting held in New York City on Feb- 

 ruary 12. 



M. Egbert Jonckheere, of the University 

 of Lille, is now at the Eoyal Observatory, 

 Greenwich. 



P. S. Barnhart, late assistant professor of 

 zoology at the University of Southern Cali- 

 fornia, and a member of the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission forces at Venice, California, has re- 

 cently joined the staff of the Scripps Institu- 

 tion for Biological Eesearch of the University 

 of California, where he will arrange an 

 aquarium- for the exhibition of live animals 

 and continue the development of the institu- 

 tion's museum of Pacific Ocean animals. 



Mr. B. F. Grout, consulting engineer of 

 Pittsburgh, who at one time was a professor 

 in the school of mines of the University of 

 Minnesota, has recently been engaged by the 

 Minneapolis General Electric Company, in 

 connection with the tests of the efficiencies of 

 its turbines in the Coon Eapids Plant. 



Mr. Arthur G. Weigel, a graduate assistant 

 in chemistry at the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, has accepted a position as chem- 

 ist in the Experiment Station at Stillwater, 

 Oklahoma. 



Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the 

 Carnegie Foundation, delivered the dedicatory 

 address at the dedication on February 20 of 

 the new Municipal Hospital of the city of Cin- 

 cinnati. 



Before the Geographic Society of Chicago 

 on February 28, a lecture will be given by Dr. 

 Homer L. Shantz, plant physiologist, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, on " The Natural 

 Vegetation and Agriculture of the Great 

 Plains and the Great Basin." 



Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, delivered the principal address at 

 the Tenth Annual Banquet of the Tompkins 

 County Medical Society, held at Ithaca, N. 

 Y., on February 16, his subject being " Ver- 

 ruga 'and its Transmission." 



Sir W. Watson Cheyne delivered the Hun- 

 terian oration at the Eoyal College of Sur- 

 geons on February 15, his subject being " The 

 Treatment of Wounds in War." 



In an address before the Surgical Society 

 of Paris on February 6, Dr. Truffier is re- 

 ported by the Medical cmd Surgical Journal 

 to have said that of the 14,000 surgeons in the 

 French army, 6,500 are now at the front. Up 

 to the close of December 93 surgeons had been 

 killed, 260 wounded, 440 were missing. 



We learn from Nature that the monument 

 on the grave of the late Dr. Alfred Russel 

 Wallace in the cemetery at Broadstone, Dor- 

 set, is a fine specimen of fossil tree from Port- 

 land!, seven feet in height and weighing some 

 two tons. The specimen stands on a founda- 

 tion of Purbeck stone, and an inscription on 



