April 16, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



573 



Sir Eonald Ross, in recognition of the services 

 rendered by him to medical science, especially 

 in the prevention of tropical disease. 



The M. Salomonsen prize of about $200, 

 awarded every fifth year at Copenhagen for ■ 

 some notable progress in the medical sciences, 

 has this year been awarded to J. Fibiger for 

 his work, " Animal-parasite Cancer in Eat 

 Stomach." 



At the annual meeting of the Chemical So- 

 ciety, held on March 25, in London, the new 

 officers elected were: President, Dr. Alexander 

 Scott; Vice-Presidents, Professor F. E. Japp 

 and Professor E. Threlfall; Treasurer, Dr. 

 M. O. Forster; Ordinary Mernbers of Council, 

 Mr. D. L. Chapman, Professor F. G. Donnan, 

 Mr. W. Macnab and Dr. J. F. Thorpe. 



Dr. Eilhaed Sohultze, professor of zoology 

 at Berlin, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday 

 on March 22. 



Peofessor Hirschwald, head of the depart- 

 ment of geology and mineralogy in the Berlin 

 Technical School, has been given the degree of 

 doctor of engineering by the Technical School 

 at Dantzig, on the occasion of his seventieth 

 birthday. 



Eeinhard a. Wetzel, of the College of the 

 City of New York, has been elected a member 

 of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 

 Berlin. 



Dr. Cornelius Willums, of St. Paul, has 

 been appointed president of the newly estab- 

 lished Minnesota State Health Bureau, and 

 Dr. H. W. HiU, of Minneapolis, secretary. 



The Japanese government has applied to 

 the Wistar Institute for the privilege of send- 

 ing one of its medical officers to the institute 

 to study neurology under Professor Donald- 

 son. 



Dr. F. K0LPIN Eavn, professor of plant pa- 

 thology at the Eoyal Landboh^jskolens, Copen- 

 hagen, Denmark, will come to this country 

 during the first week in May and engage in a 

 series of conferences with officials of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture and 

 of state experiment stations in the various 

 states on problems concerned with cereal culti- 

 vation, particularly cereal diseases. He will 



be accompanied during his entire itinerary by 

 one or more of the following men of the Office 

 of Cereal Investigation : M. A. Carleton, C. E. 

 Leighty, H. V. Harlan and H. B. Humphrey. 



The Eoyal Geographical Society's awards 

 for 1915 have been made by the council and 

 will be presented at the anniversary meeting 

 on May 17. The Founder's Medal has been 

 awarded to Sir Douglas Mawson for his con- 

 duct of the Australian Antarctic Expedition 

 of 1911—14, which has achieved highly im- 

 portant results in several departments of sci- 

 ence. The Patron's Medal has been awarded 

 to Dr. Filippo de Filippi for his great expe- 

 dition to the Karakoram and Eastern Turke- 

 stan in 1913-14. The Victoria Eesearch 

 Medal has been conferred upon Dr. Hugh 

 Eobert Mill, who for many years has done a 

 great deal on behalf of geographical research. 

 Other awards have been decided as follows: 

 Murchison Award to Captain J. K. Davis, 

 who commanded the S.T. Aurora during the 

 time of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 

 when he proved to be a seaman and commander 

 of exceptional merit. Back Grant to Mr. C. 

 W. Hobley, C.M.G., for his valuable contribu- 

 tions to the geology and ethnology of British 

 East Africa. Cuthbert Peek Grant to Mr. A. 

 Grant Ogilvie for the good work he has al- 

 ready done in geographical investigation and 

 research. GiU Memorial to Colonel Hon. C. 

 G. Bruce, M.V.O., who for 20 years has been 

 exploring the Himalayas. The following reso- 

 lution of the council has been accepted by the 

 fellows of the society : " The council, having 

 become aware that Sir Sven Hedin, a subject 

 of a neutral state, has identified himself with 

 the king's enemies by his actions and pub- 

 lished statements, orders that his name be 

 removed from the list of honorary correspond- 

 ing members of the society." 



Dr. H. D. Curtis, of the Lick Observatory, 

 lectured before the faculty Science Associa- 

 tion of Stanford University, on March 24, on 

 " Some Eecent Theories and Developments in 

 Cosmogony." 



Professor E. G. Aitken, of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory, lectured before the Astronomical 



