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Washington Mall known as Armory Square. 

 All the drawings entered in the competition 

 are now on exhibition in the National Mu- 

 seum. 



This building, to be known as the George 

 Washington Memorial, and to be administered 

 by the regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, was authorized by an Act of Congress 

 passed March 4, 1913. The work of construc- 

 tion must be begun before the fourth of 

 March, 1915, or the authorization by congress 

 for the use of the above site will lapse. It is 

 further provided that the work of construc- 

 tion can not be commenced until the sum of 

 $1,000,000 is raised by the association, and al- 

 though Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, president of 

 the association, and chairman of the building 

 committee, has secured a good part of this 

 sum, much still remains to be raised. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Willard Gibbs medal will be presented 

 by the Chicago section of the American 

 Chemical Society to Dr. Ira Remsen on the 

 evening of May 15. 



Former students of Professor John Henry 

 Comstock have raised a fund, to be known as 

 the Comstock Memorial Library Fund, which 

 is to be presented to Cornell University for 

 a permanent memorial of Professor Com- 

 stock's forty years of distinguished service as 

 instructor and professor of entomology. He 

 is to retire from active teaching as a member 

 of the faculty next June, at the age of sixty- 

 five. The ceremony of presentation will take 

 place on June 13. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has elected as correspondents the fol- 

 lowing: Frank M. Chapman, Edmund Heller, 

 Edgar A; Mearns, Gerrit S. MiUer, Charles 

 W. Richmond, Marie Curie, Shibusaburo 

 Kitasato, Charles T. Eamsden and N. Charles 

 Eothschild. The same institution has ap- 

 pointed as delegates to the Nineteenth Inter- 

 national Congress of Americanists, Charles 

 D. Walcott and H. Newell Wardle. 



At the annual meeting of the New Orleans 

 Academy of Sciences, held at Tulane Univer- 



sity on March 17, William. Benjamin Gregory, 

 professor of experimental engineering in 

 Tulane University, was elected president of 

 the academy for the ensuing year. 



Mr. James A. Bare has been appointed 

 director of congresses for the Panama Pacific 

 Exposition. 



Professor Elwood Mead has reconsidered 

 the acceptance of a professorship of rural in- 

 stutions in the University of California, and 

 will remain chief engineer of the commission 

 of rivers and water supply of the state of 

 Victoria. 



The United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture has established an office in the bureau of 

 chemistry for the purpose of promoting a 

 closer and more cordial cooperation among the 

 city, state and federal food and drug officials 

 of the country in the enforcement of the food 

 and drug laws. Mr. J. S. Abbott, for nearly 

 seven years dairy and food commissioner of 

 Texas, was appointed to this office and began 

 active service on April 3, 1914. 



The Howard Taylor Eicketts prize for 

 undergraduate research work, awarded on 

 May 3, each year, as a memorial of the death 

 of Howard Taylor Ricketts while engaged in 

 the investigation of typhus fever in Mexico 

 City, is this year awarded to Julian Herman 

 Lewis. 



The Hunterian Society's Medal, offered an- 

 nually for the best essay by a general practi- 

 tioner, has been awarded to Dr. Basil T. 

 Parsons-Smith, who took for his subject, 

 " The Intermittent Pulse." 



The Helen Schaeffer Huff memorial re- 

 search fellowship at Bryn Mawr College has 

 been awarded to Miss Vernette Lois Gibbons, 

 who will continue her investigation of the 

 potentials of the metals in non-aqueous solu- 

 tions. 



The trustees of Clemson CoUege have ap- 

 propriated $300 for an investigation of the 

 limestone and marl deposits of South Caro- 

 lina and their value for agricultural pur- 

 poses. The work will be in charge of Dr. 



