December 9, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



833 



I — Social and Economic Science — Fred. C. Crox- 

 ton, 1229 Girard Street, Washington, D. C. 



K — Physiology and Experimental Medicine — 

 George T. Kemp, Hotel Beardsley, Champaign, 

 111. 



L — Education — Charles Riborg Mann, Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, Chicago, III. 

 Treasurer — R. S. Woodward, Carnegie Institution, 



Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Nichols gold medal of the American 

 Chemical Society for the year 1909-10 has 

 been awarded to Professor M. A. Eosanoff, of 

 Clark University, and his pupil, Mr. C. W. 

 Easley, for their joint study of the partial 

 vapor pressures of binary mixtures. The 

 formal award will take place at the meeting 

 of the New York Section on January 6, 1911. 



Dr. Adolf von Baeyeb, of Munich, has cele- 

 brated his seventy-fifth birthday. 



The Bolyai prize of 10,000 Kronen of the 

 Hungarian Academy of Sciences has been 

 awarded to Dr. David Hilbert, of the Univer- 

 sity of Gottingen. 



Professor F. W. Woll, chemist of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture of the University of Wis- 

 consin, was elected president of the Associa- 

 tion of Official Agricultural Chemists of 

 America at the recent annual meeting in 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Earl of Stair has been elected president 

 of the Eoyal Scottish Geographical Society in 

 succession to Professor James Geikie, F.R.S., 

 who has held the ofiice of president for the last 

 six years. The anniversary meeting of the 

 society was held on November 11, and was 

 addressed by Sir John Murray on " The Deep 

 Sea." 



Dr. Otto Hokigschmid, of Prague, who last 

 winter carried out at Harvard University an 

 exact revision of the atomic weight of calcium 

 under the direction of Professor T. W. Rich- 

 ards, has now begun a study of the atomic 

 weight of radium at the new Radium Institute 

 in Vienna. 



The council and fellows of the Chemical 

 Society, London, honored five of their past- 

 presidents who had completed their jubilee as 



fellows by entertaining them at a banquet at 

 the Savoy Hotel on Friday, November 11. 

 We learn from Nature that a large gathering, 

 numbering 250, including the presidents of 

 the French and German Chemical Societies 

 and eleven past-presidents, was presided over 

 by Professor Harold B. Dixon, F.E.S., the 

 president. The names of the past-presidents 

 who were being honored were: 



Elected President 



Professor William Odling, F.R.S. . 1848 1873-5 

 The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 



F.R.S 1855 1880-2 



Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S. 1837 1887-9 



Dr. Hugo Miiller, F.R.S 1859 1885-7 



Dr. A. G. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. 1859 1895-7 



The president referred to the personalities of 

 the jubilee past-presidents, and to the particu- 

 lar work in which each was more especially 

 distinguished: Sir Henry Roscoe, for his re- 

 search on vanadium and as a pioneer educa- 

 tionist ; Sir William Crookes, for his discovery 

 of thallium, his researches on the rare earths, 

 the genesis of matter and diamonds, and his 

 brilliant discoveries in physics; Dr. Hugo 

 Miiller, for his researches on cellulose and dis- 

 coveries in connection with printing; Dr. Ver- 

 non Harcourt, for his researches on the rate 

 of chemical change and his work as an enthu- 

 siastic teacher; and Professor William Odling, 

 the doyen of chemistry, to whom all chemists 

 will find it difficult to fathom their debt of 

 gratitude. Unfortunately, Sir Henry Roscoe 

 was absent through illness, and his address 

 was read by the president. Addresses were 

 made by the other past-presidents. 



Mme. Curie is a candidate for the fauteuil 

 at the Academy of Sciences, rendered vacant 

 by the death of M. Grcrnez. 



At the quarterly meeting of the board of 

 trustees of the American Museum of Natural 

 History held on November 14 the following 

 changes were made in the scientific staff : Dr. 

 Louis Hussakof was appointed associate 

 curator of fossil fishes; Mr. John T. Nichols, 

 assistant curator of recent fishes, and Dr. Wil- 

 liam K. Gregory, assistant in the department 

 of vertebrate paleontology. 



