June 19, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. Lusk reported for Dr. Du Bois that 142 

 observations had been made upon patients and 

 on some normal controls during the past year 

 and a half, using the respiration calorimeter 

 established in the second medical division of 

 Bellevue Hospital. In certain individuals an 

 exact agreement between the actual heat pro- 

 duction and the heat calculated from the 

 gaseous exchange during hourly periods, was 

 obtained for the first time in man. In the 

 total of all experiments involving the measure- 

 ment of 23,000 calories, these two methods of 

 direct and indirect ealorimetry agree both in 

 health and disease within IJ per cent. The 

 investigated cases included nine cases of ty- 

 phoid during both fever and convalescence, 

 one cretin, seven cases of exophthalmic goiter, 

 one of splenic anemia, another with pernicious 

 anemia, one man with acromegaly, one with 

 hypopituitarism, one with malaria, and one 

 with auricular fibrillation, mitral stenosis and 

 greatly enlarged heart. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Eobeet S. Woodward, president of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, will give 

 the address on the occasion of the dedication 

 on July 10 of the new laboratory building of 

 the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods 

 Hole. 



The Croonian lecture of the Royal Society 

 was delivered on June 11, by Professor E. B. 

 Wilson, of Columbia University, on the bear- 

 ing of cytological research on heredity. 



The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia has 

 awarded its Edward Longstreet medal of merit 

 to Dr. W. J. Humphreys for his paper on 

 " Volcanic Dust and Other Eactors in the Pro- 

 duction of Climatic Changes and their Pos- 

 sible Eelation to Ice Ages," which appeared in 

 the August, 1913, issue of its journal. 



The triennial Parkin prize of $500 of the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, has 

 been awarded to Dr. Johnson-Lavis for his 

 work on the effects of volcanic action in the 

 production of epidemic diseases in the animal 

 and in vegetable creation, and in the produc- 



tion of hurricanes and abnormal atmospherical 

 vicissitudes. 



The University of Manchester proposes to 

 confer the following honorary doctorates of sci- 

 ence : Professor W. H. Bragg, University of 

 Leeds; Professor W. J. Pope, University of 

 Cambridge, and Dr. J. E. Stead, Middles- 

 bro'. 



Professor E. G. D. Eichardson, of the de- 

 partment of mathematics at Brown University, 

 has been elected to membership in the Amer- 

 ican Society of Arts and Sciences. 



Professor E. C. Archibald, of Brown Uni- 

 versity, has been made a member of the edi- 

 torial board of the Bulletin of the American 

 Mathematical Society. Professor Archibald 

 has also had a book by him on " The Lost Book 

 of Euclid " accepted for publication by the 

 Cambridge University Press. 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh has 

 awarded the Neill prize to Dr. W. S. Bruce, in 

 recognition of the scientific results of his 

 Arctic and Antarctic explorations, and the 

 Keith prize to Mr. J. Eussell, for his investi- 

 gations relating to magnetic phenomena in 

 metals and the molecular theory of magnet- 

 ism. 



PRorESSOR A. W. Goodspeed, director of the 

 Eandal Morgan Laboratory of Physics, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, has been granted 

 leave of absence for the session of 1914^15. 

 He leaves with his family for Germany on 

 June 25. 



Professor Metchnikoff, of the Pasteur In- 

 stitute, is to be presented with a memorial vol- 

 ume to celebrate his scientific jubilee and his 

 seventieth birthday. 



Dr. J. J. Stevenson, emeritus professor of 

 New York University, was entertained on May 

 28 at a dinner at Pottsville, Pa., by Mr. Baird 

 Halberstadt. There were present a large num- 

 ber of those engaged in the mining industry, 

 to which Professor Stevenson's researches have 

 so greatly contributed. Among those who 

 spoke were Dr. I. C. White, of the University 

 of West Virginia, and representatives of the 



