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at a salary of $2,000 per year for candidates 

 with the doctor's degree, the other at $1,600 

 a year open to those with a bachelor's degree. 

 The bureau desires candidates from the lead- 

 ing American universities where chemistry is 

 well taught. The training should be the usual 

 thorough one in the preparatory studies such 

 as physics and mathematics, and in general 

 inorganic, analytical and organic chemistry, 

 together with a course in organic preparations. 

 The research work for the doctor's degree may 

 be either in inorganic or organic chemistry. 



Candidates who are thoroughly equipped, 

 who are accurate and painstaking in their 

 work, who have the proper technique and ca- 

 pability for individual investigation, will have 

 opportunities for promotion to vacancies oc- 

 curring in positions above them. The salaries 

 in the division of chemistry range from $1,600 

 United States currency per year, through 

 intervals of $200 and $250, to $3,000 per year. 



The laboratory is fully equipped with all 

 modern apparatus and with a complete scien- 

 tific library. 



All information in regard to these positions 

 can be obtained from the Bureau of Insular 

 Affairs, Washington, D. C. 



Two positions in the biological laboratory 

 for men thoroughly trained in bacteriology 

 and pathology are vacant in the Bureau of 

 Science, Manila. One of these is at a salary 

 of $2,500 United States currency per year, 

 and it is desired if possible that the candi- 

 dates should have had training in the prin- 

 ciples and technique of seriun preparation and 

 therapy, and it is hoped that the successful 

 one shall acquaint himself with the serum 

 work carried on in the Bureau of Science and 

 become capable of operating the serum section 

 of the biological laboratory. The other posi- 

 tion is for an assistant in bacteriology and 

 pathology, and candidates must be capable of 

 doing original work and must have the degree 

 of doctor of medicine. 



The opportunity for the study of tropical 

 diseases is unsurpassed, and the candidates, 

 through the diagnostic work in the hospital 

 and in the government prison, will have every 

 opportimity to study a great variety of trop- 

 ical infections and parasites. 



The outlook for promotion is good, as va- 

 cancies occur in upper positions in the labora- 

 tory. The salaries range from $1,600 to $5,000 

 United States currency. The bureau pub- 

 lishes the medical section of the Philippine 

 Journal of Science, so that all research work 

 can be promptly edited. 



All information in regard to the positions 

 can be furnished from the Bureau of Insular 

 AfEairs, Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the meeting of the National Academy 

 of Science held in Washington on April 23, 

 members were elected as follows : Edwin 

 Brant Frost, director of the Terkes Observa- 

 tory, University of Chicago ; William E. 

 Storey, professor of mathematics, Clark Uni- 

 versity; Edward F. Nichols, professor of 

 physics, Columbia University; W. E. Hille- 

 brand, chemist in the U. S. Geological Survey ; 

 Wm. B. Clark, professor of geology, the Johns 

 Hopkins University; Whitman Cross, geolo- 

 gist, U. S. Geological Siirvey; E. G. Conklin, 

 professor of zoology. University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, professor-elect of biology, Princeton 

 University ; Theobald Smith, professor of com- 

 parative pathology. Harvard Medical School; 

 Simon Flexner, director of the Laboratories of 

 the Eockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search. Foreign associates were elected as 

 follows: Svante A. Arrhenius, director of the 

 Division of Physical Chemistry of the Nobel 

 Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Stock- 

 holm; Joseph Larmor, Lucasian Professor of 

 Mathematics at Cambridge University; Ivan 

 Petrovic Pavlov, Imperial Institute for Ex- 

 perimental Medicine, St. Petersburg; Hugo 

 Ritter van Seeliger, professor of astronomy in 

 the University of Munich, and Th. Barrels, 

 professor of parasitology in the University of 

 Lille. 



At a meeting of the council of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, held on April 15, 

 it was unanimously voted that the Walker 

 grand honorary prize of one thousand dollars 

 be awarded to Dr. Grove Karl Gilbert, of the 

 United States Geological Survey. This 



