May 30, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



877 



Dr. Herm. Jordan, formerly assistant in 

 the Zoological Station, Naples, has gone to 

 Zurich as assistant in the Concilium Biblio- 

 graphicum. 



Professor John H. Kinealy, head of the 

 department of mechanical engineering at 

 Washington University, in St. Louis, has re- 

 signed to engage in private practice. 



Dr. S. W. Williston, whose call to the chair 

 of paleontology in the University of Chicago 

 we announced last week, will also have charge 

 of the paleontological collections in the Field 

 Columbian Museum. 



The Council of the Geological Society of 

 America has recommended candidates for elec- 

 tion as fellows: Frank M. Anderson, B.A 

 (Stanford, '95), M.S. (Univ. of Cal., '97) 

 Berkeley, Cal.; Ernest Robertson Buckley. 

 B.S., Ph.D. (Univ. of Wis., '98), Eolla, Ma 

 state geologist and director of Bureau of Geol- 

 ogy and Mines ; Arthur J. Collier, A.B., A.M. 

 (Univ. of Oregon), S.B. (Harvard), Washin 

 ton, D. C, assistant geologist U. S. Geological 

 Survey; John Burchmore Harrison, M.A. 

 (Cambridge, England), E.I.C., E.G.S., George- 

 tovm, Demerara, Brit. Guiana, government 

 geologist; Edward Henry Kraus, B.S., M.S. 

 (Syracuse, '97), Ph.D. (Munich, '01), Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y., associate professor of mineralogy, 

 Syracuse University; George Davis Louder- 

 back, A.B., Ph.D. (Univ. of Calif., '96 and 

 '99), Reno, Nev., professor of geology. Univer- 

 sity of Nevada; George Curtis Martin, B.S. 

 (Cornell), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Baltimore, 

 Md., assistant in paleontology, Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been assistant geologist on the 

 Maryland Geological Survey; Walter Curran 

 Mendenhall, B.S. (Ohio Normal Univ.), 

 Washington, D. C, geologist, U. S. Geological 

 Survey; George Henry Perkins, A.B., Ph.D. 

 (Yale, '67-'69), Burlington, Vt., professor of 

 geology, University of Vermont, state geologist; 

 William Sidney Tangier Smith, B.L., Ph.D. 

 (Univ. of Calif., '90-'96), Washington, D. C, 

 assistant geologist, U. S. Geological Survey; 

 Alfred William Gunning Wilson, A.B. (To- 

 ronto), A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard, '01), Cobourg, 

 Ontario, Can., geologist, temporary stafF, Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada. 



Dr. John Alexander Mathews, of Colum- 

 bia University, has been informed by the 

 secretary of the Iron and Steel Institute of 

 Great Britain that 'by the unanimous vote 

 of the president and council the first Andrew 

 Carnegie Gold Medal for research' had been 

 awarded to him on May 8. Dr. Mathews has 

 held the university fellowship in chemistry 

 and has three times been awarded the Barnard 

 fellowship for the encouragement of scientific 

 research, both by Columbia University A 

 year ago the Carnegie research scholarships 

 of the Iron and Steel Institute were 

 awarded to Dr. A. Stansfield, of London; Mr. 

 Julius Goldberg, an Austrian; and to Dr. 

 Mathews. At the meeting of the Institute 

 held in London, May 7 and 8, his paper en- 

 titled, 'A Comparative Study of Some Low 

 Carbon Steel Alloys,' was presented and for 

 it the medal was awarded. Mr. Carnegie was 

 so well pleased with the result of his original 

 endowment that he has doubled his gift for 

 next year with the result that six research 

 scholarships have been awarded for the com- 

 ing year. Three of these were awarded to Eng- 

 lish metallurgists, one to a Parisian, one to a 

 resident of Berlin and the sixth to Mr. Wil- 

 liam Campbell, an Englishman, who is at 

 present studying with Professor H. M. Howe. 

 Mr. Campbell is an 1851 exhibition scholar 

 and fellow-elect in metallurgy at Columbia 

 University. Mr. Campbell and Dr. Mathews 

 worked together with Professor Sir William 

 Roberts- Austen and later with Professor Howe, 

 and Mr. Campbell's appointment to the Car- 

 negie scholarship is made with the under- 

 standing that he continue researches upon low 

 carbon steel alloys. 



The centenary of the birth of the Norwegian 

 mathematician, Niels Henrik Abel, will be 

 celebrated at Christiania in September. Abel 

 was born in 1802 and died at the early age of 

 twenty-seven years, but in this short period 

 attained rank among the foremost mathemati- 

 cians of the century. 



Mr. Jefferson Chase, the well-known in- 

 ventor, died in Portland, Me., on May 20. Mr. 

 Chase, his father, brother and son, made many 

 inventions, including a circular saw, a water 

 wheel, wood pulp pails, etc. 



