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SCIENCE. 



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sionally be seen with unmistakable deiinite- 

 ness. In fact, tliere can be hardly a doubt 

 that the canalieuli constitute a series of fine 

 twigs of the vascular system ramifying into 

 the cytoplasm of the liver cells. 



With such a direct relationship traceable 

 between the interior of the cell and the stream 

 of blood passing through the liver, it appears 

 evident that the intracellular canalieuli noted 

 must come to occupy a not unimportant place 

 in our conceptions of hepatic functions. My 

 only explanation as to why these structures 

 have not been recorded before lies in the fact 

 that injected material is usually examined 

 only with low powers of the microscope. 



Gilbert L. Hodser. 



Laeoeatoky of Animal Moephology, 

 University of Iowa. 



THE NICHOLS RESEARCH MEDAL OF THE 

 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 

 At the first meeting of the New York Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society during 

 the present session, the Secretary, Dr. J. A. 

 Mathews, announced upon behalf of the execu- 

 tive committee that it was its intention to 

 award a medal for chemical research, and to 

 secure the necessary funds for the endowment 

 of that medal in perpetuity and to raise a re- 

 search fund from which grants might be made 

 for the encouragement of scientific work. The 

 executive committee became personally respon- 

 sible for the award of the medal for the pres- 

 ent year, and a committee on research fund 

 and medal, with Dr. Maximilian Toch, chair- 

 man, was appointed. As the result of this 

 movement. Professor Marston T. Bogert an- 

 nounced to the jSTew York Section at its May 

 meeting that Mr. William H. Nichols had con- 

 veyed to the American Chemical Society in 

 trust for the New York Section, securities to 

 the value of over $1,000 for the endowment of 

 a medal to be given annually to the author of 

 the best paper embodying original chemical 

 research presented before the Section and 

 subsequently published in the Journal of the 

 American Chemical Society. It is not in- 

 tended to limit this award to members either 

 of the Section or of the Society at large, but 

 to open the competition to all scientists. 



Mr. William H. Nichols is a charter mem- 

 ber of the American Chemical Society and is 

 president of the General Cheinical Company. 

 In expressing its gratitude to Mr. Nichols 

 the Section asked of him the honor of naming 

 the medal 'The Nichols Medal of the New 

 York Section.' Mr. Nichols, in acceding to 

 this request, said that he did so in the hope 

 that others would be induced to do likewise. 

 Dr. Toch stated that other members and 

 friends of the Section had contributed nearly 

 enough to provide for the securing of an artis- 

 tic design and die for this medal, for the 

 annual presentation of which Mr. Nichols' 

 generosity has provided. 



METEOROLOGY IN ARGENTINA* 

 It is well known that our countryman. Dr. 

 B. A. Gould, of Cambridge, Mass., after hav- 

 ing established an astronomical observatory in 

 Argentina, turned his attention to climatology 

 and inaugurated a meteorological office under 

 the general directorship of Mr. Walter G. 

 Davis, who had accompanied him from this 

 country. After publishing about twenty an- 

 nual volumes of meteorological observations 

 and climatological investigations, Mr. Davis 

 has now succeeded in realizing the great step 

 in meteorology that has been taken by nearly 

 every other climatological bureau. He has 

 namely organized in Buenos Ayres, under the 

 Argentine Department of Agriculture, a 

 branch office that publishes a daily weather 

 map based on telegrams from all available 

 points. A recent letter from Mr. Davis states 

 that "since the beginning of this year, I have 

 had my time fully occupied in getting the 

 daily weather may service organized ; it is now 

 fairly started, but far from being complete. 

 We have free use of the national telegraph 

 lines — as well as of nearly all the private rail- 

 way wires — for the transmission of the 2 p.m. 

 observations. At present there are nearly 70 

 stations sending in complete observations, and 

 350 pluviometric stations. Within the next 

 few months I hope to have about 130 second 

 class stations and a large increase in the rain- 



* Prepared for the June number of the Monthly 

 Weather Review. 



