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solved only by sustained attention to all its 

 many aspects. 



This larger vision, the ability to set tbe pace 

 on a liigh plane, the capacity for work, the 

 power of constructive leadership — these are 

 the qualities which lead those who know Pro- 

 fessor Smith and his achievements to rejoice 

 that he is now to center his activities in a 

 field so full of promise as is animal pathology 

 to-day; and this with the opportunities which 

 the Rockefeller Institute affords those who 

 share its aims, to carry forward their chosen 

 work unhurried and unhindered. 



T. M. P. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. S. J. Metzer, head of the department of 

 physiology and pharmacology of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, has been 

 elected president of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Physicians in succession to Dr. Simon 

 Plexner. 



At its annual meeting, held on May 13, the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences voted 

 to award the Rumford Premium to William 

 David Coolidge for his invention of ductile 

 tungsten and its application in the production 

 of radiation. 



The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, on 

 May 20, presented its Elliott Cresson medals to 

 Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith and Dr. Orville Wright. 

 Addresses were made on " Scientists from 

 the Keystone State," by Dr. Edgar Pahs 

 Smith and on " Stability of Aeroplanes," by 

 Dr. Orville Wright. 



Honorary degrees are to he conferred by the 

 University of Glasgow on Dr. Archibald Barr, 

 late regius professor of civil engineering and 

 mechanics in the university; Colonel Sir 

 William' B. Leishman, F.R.S., professor of 

 pathology in the Royal Army Medical College, 

 and Sir Ernest H. Shackleton. 



On May 4, a company of men and women, 

 forest lovers, gathered in Harrisburg, at an 

 informal limcheon, to present a testimonial to 

 Dr. J. T. Rothrock on his retirement from the 

 Pennsylvania Forestry Commission. There 

 were sixty-five present, among whom were 



Governor J. K. Tener; Mr. John Birkinbine, 

 president of the Pennsylvania Forestry Asso- 

 ciation; Mr. A. B. Farquhar, president of the 

 Pennsylvania Conservation Association; Mr. 

 J. Horace McFarland, president of the Ameri- 

 can Civic Association; President H. S. 

 Drinker, of Lehigh University, president of 

 the American Forestry Association; Mr. C. F. 

 Quincy, chairman of the executive committee 

 of the American Forestry Association; Pro- 

 fessor J. A. Ferguson, director of the forestry 

 department, Pennsylvania State College ; Hon. 

 R. S. Conklin, commissioner of forestry, Penn- 

 sylvania, and Dr. S. R. Dixon, state health 

 commissioner of Pennsylvania. The governor 

 presented in behalf of two hundred and fifty 

 donors, a beautiful loving cup, and Mr. Far- 

 quhar, Dr. Drinker and Mr. Conklin spoke of 

 Dr. Rothrock's work and personality. Dr. 

 Rothrock spoke feelingly in reply. 



At the annual meeting of the Boston Soci- 

 ety of Natural History the following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: President, 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot; Vice-Presidents, 

 Robert T. Jackson, Nathaniel T. Kidder, 

 William A. Jeffries; Secretary, Glover M. 

 Allen; Treasurer, Edward T. Bouve; Coun- 

 cillor for two years, Alfred C. Lane; Coun- 

 cillor for three years, Thomas Barbour, Henry 

 B. Bigelow, Miss Cora H. Clarke, William G. 

 Farlow, George H. Parker, John E. Thayer, 

 Charles W. Townsend, William F. Whitney. 

 Reports were made on the work and progress 

 of the year and an illustrated paper was pre- 

 sented by Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark on his 

 experiences as a member of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution's expedition to Torres Strait and the 

 Great Barrier Reef of Australia. The two 

 annual Walker Prizes, awarded for the best 

 memoirs submitted on subjects in natural his- 

 tory, were voted as follows : a first prize of $60 

 to Miss Marjorie O'ConneU, A.M., of the de- 

 partment of geology, Columbia University, for 

 her essay on " The Habitat of the Eurypter- 

 ida " ; and a second prize of $50 to William J. 

 Crozier, of Cambridge, for his essay on " The 

 sensory reactions of Holothuria surinamensis." 



