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A COMPLIMENTARY banquet to Professor H. 

 E. Armstrong, F.E.S., took place at the Hotel 

 Cecil on May 13, attended by a number of dis- 

 tinguished chemists and over two hundred of 

 his former students. 



At the annual meeting of the British Iron 

 and Steel Institute the Bessemer gold medal 

 for 1911 was presented to Professor Henri Le 

 Chatelier, of Paris. The Carnegie gold medal 

 was awarded to Mr. Pelis Robin, who has 

 conducted researches on the wear of steels and 

 their resistance to crushing. Carnegie re- 

 search scholarships have been awarded to 

 Messrs. W. M. Guertler, of Berlin; G. Hail- 

 stone, of Birmingham; R. M. Keeney, of 

 Colorado, and G. Dietrich Rohl, of Freiberg. 

 Messrs. J. Newton Friend, of Darlington, and 

 T. Swindon, of Sheffield, have had additional 

 grants made to them to enable their researches 

 to be extended and completed. 



The Association of American Physicians, 

 at its meeting in Atlantic City, elected Dr. J. 

 George Adami, Montreal, president and Dr. 

 Lewellys F. Barker, Baltimore, vice-president. 



The annual general meeting of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry is to be held in Sheffield 

 on July 12. Dr. E. Messel has been nomi- 

 nated as president, and Sir William Crookes, 

 F.E.S., Dr. G. G. Henderson and Messrs. H. 

 Hemingway and W. F. Reid have been nomi- 

 nated as vice-presidents. 



Professor Charles Derleth, dean of the 

 College of Civil Engineering of the Univer- 

 sity of California, has been elected president 

 of the San Francisco Association of the 

 American Society of Civil Engineers. 



Dr. Francis H. Slack, of the University of 

 Kansas, Lawrence, formerly director of the 

 Boston Bacteriologic Laboratory, has been 

 offered the secretaryship of the Boston Board 

 of Health. 



Dr. L. D. Swingle, of Nebraska Wesleyan 

 University, has been appointed research para- 

 sitologist in the Wyoming Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Dr. Burt G. Wilder, who last year became 

 emeritus professor of neurology and verte- 

 brate zoology at Cornell University, will here- 



after live in Brookline, Mass., where he was 

 born in 1841. 



Dr. F. p. Gulliver, of the Geological and 

 Natural History Survey of Connecticut and 

 secretary of the section of geology and geog- 

 raphy of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, is recovering from a 

 somewhat severe operation that he underwent 

 on May 17. 



Professot Ernst Haeckel, of Jena, now in 

 his seventy-seventh year, broke his hip bone 

 recently, while standing on a stool to obtain 

 a book from a library shelf. 



Dean H. C. Price and Professor W. E. 

 Lazenby, of the Ohio State University and 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, have been 

 granted leave of absence for next year, the 

 former for study in one of the German uni- 

 versities and the latter for travel and the 

 study of forestry in Europe and South Amer- 

 ica. 



For the year 1911-12 the following will be 

 absent on leave from the University of Cali- 

 fornia: E. T. Crawford, associate professor of 

 practical astronomy, and G. P. Adams, assist- 

 ant professor of philosophy. Leave of absence 

 for the first half-year has been given to A. C. 

 Lawson, professor of geology; E. O. Moody, 

 assistant professor of anatomy; C. A. Noble, 

 associate professor of mathematics, and E. E. 

 Hall, associate professor of physics; for the 

 second half-year, to D. N. Lehmer, associate 

 professor of mathematics. 



Professor J. W. Beede, of the LTniversity 

 of Indiana, will continue his studies of the 

 Permian problem in Oklahoma the coming 

 summer. The work, which will be under the 

 direction of the Oklahoma Geological Sur- 

 vey, will consist in the endeavor to trace the 

 Pennsylvanian-Permian contact from southern 

 Kansas across Oklahoma as far as the Ar- 

 buckle Mountains. 



Dr. Henry Head, F.E.S., will deliver the 

 Croonian lectures on " Sensory Changes from 

 Lesions of the Brain " before the Eoyal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of London on June 13, 15, 



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