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Chicago has this year been awarded to Miss 

 Maud Slye for her work on " The Influence of 

 Inheritance on Spontaneous Cancer Forma- 

 tion in Mice." This prize is awarded annually 

 on May 3, the anniversary of Dr. Eickett's 

 death from typhus fever acquired while in- 

 vestigating that disease in Mexico City. 



Mr. C. E. Lesher, associate geologist of the 

 land-classification board of the United States 

 Geological Survey, has been assigned by the 

 director of the survey to take charge of the 

 work of compiling the statistics of coal pro- 

 duction published in the annual volume " Min- 

 eral Eesources." This work has heretofore been 

 directly under Edward W. Parker, whose resig- 

 nation from the Geological Survey is effective 

 July 1. 



Dr. Edward C. Eosenow, of the Memorial 

 Institute of Infectious Diseases, Chicago, has 

 been appointed chief of bacteriologic research, 

 Mayo Foundation, Eochester, Minn. Dr. Eose- 

 now will begin his new work on July 1. 



The following have been appointed by the 

 trustees of Columbia University as the board 

 of managers of the George Crocker Special 

 Fund for Cancer Eesearch for three years 

 from July 1 next: Dr. T. Matlack Cheesman, 

 Dr. "Walter Mendelson, President N. M. But- 

 ler, Dean Samuel W. Lambert, Professor War- 

 field T. Longcope, Professor William G. Mac- 

 Callum and Professor Francis Carter Wood. 



Dr. J. Alexander Murray has been ap- 

 pointed general superintendent of the Imper- 

 ial Cancer Eesearch Fund and director of the 

 laboratories, in succession to Dr. E. F. Bash- 

 ford. 



Dr. Lentz, director of the Prussian imper- 

 ial health office, has been appointed the re- 

 porting councilor in the medical department 

 of the ministry of the interior, as successor of 

 Dr. Abel, who has been transferred to the In- 

 stitute of Hygiene at Jena. 



Mr. Leo E. Miller writes to the American 

 MuseuiQ of Natural History from South 

 America that he has completed his work in 

 Antioquia and on March 30 sailed from Bar- 

 ranquiUa to Colon en route to Bolivia, where 

 it is proposed to inaugurate a zoological sur- 



vey similar to that which the museum has con- 

 ducted in Colombia for the past five years. 

 Mr. Miller's collections, amounting to two 

 thousand birds and mammals, has been re- 

 ceived by the museum. 



Dr. Egbert F. Griggs, of the department of 

 botany at the Ohio State University, has been 

 selected by the National Geographic Society 

 to lead an expedition to study the vegetation 

 of the Katmai district in Alaska. The pur- 

 pose of the expedition is to study the means by 

 which vegetation gains a foothold on the vol- 

 canic ash with which the country was covered 

 by the eruption of Katmai in 1912. This ash- 

 covered region is many hundreds of miles in 

 extent, covering a portion of the Alaska Pen- 

 insula and the gTeater part of Kadiak Island. 



An excursion to the Hawaiian Islands, under 

 the charge of Professor George H. Barton, di- 

 rector of the Teachers' School of Science, wiU 

 leave Boston on July 4. 



Mr. Lloyd B. Smith, of the Associated Geo- 

 logical Engineers, has returned to Pittsburgh, 

 after spending three months in the oil fields 

 of Mexico and Central America. 



Alvin J. Cox, Ph.D. (Breslau), instructor 

 in chemistry at Stanford University from 1904 

 to 1906, has returned to San Francisco on a 

 leave of absence to take charge of certain fea- 

 tures of the Philippine exhibits at the exposi- 

 tion. He has held the position of director of 

 the United States bureau of science in the 

 Philippine Islands. 



Professor W. H. Kavanaugh, head of the 

 experimental engineering department. Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, has been appointed a mem- 

 ber of the international jury of award, depart- 

 ment of machinery, at the Panama Exposi- 

 tion, San Francisco. Professor Kavanaugh is 

 spending the month of May at the exposition 

 judging- exhibits. 



Professor H. H. Stoek, head of the depart- 

 ment of mining engineering of the University 

 of Illinois, has been granted a leave of ab- 

 sence to act as a member of the Committee on 

 Awards for Mining Exhibits at the San Fran- 

 cisco Exhibition. Professor Stoek is now in 

 California. 



