December 4, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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tions between crystalline form and chemical 

 constitution; the Darwin medal to Professor 

 E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., for his researches in 

 heredity ; the Hughes medal to Professor J. S. 

 Townsend, P.E.S., for his researches on elec- 

 tric behavior of gases. 



Dr. F. Schlesinger, director of the Allegheny 

 Observatory, and professor of astronomy, Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh; Mr. W. S. Adams, of 

 Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, and Pro- 

 fessor H. Andoyer, professor of physical astron- 

 omy in the Sorbonne, Paris, have been elected 

 associates of the Eoyal Astronomical Society. 



Professoe W. H. Bragg, of the department 

 of physics of the University of Leeds, has been 

 appointed Woodward lecturer at Tale Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. O.-E. a. Wktslow has resigned from the 

 College of the City of New York to become 

 director of education in the reorganized State 

 Department of Health. His work at the 

 American Museum of Natural History will 

 continue as heretofore. 



Dr. George R. Lyman, professor of botany 

 in Dartmouth College, has been appointed 

 pathologist with the Federal Horticultural 

 Board. Professor Lyman will not remove to 

 Washington until January 1, 1915. 



Professor P. T. Trouton, D.Sc, F.E.S., has 

 resigned the Quain chair of physics at Uni- 

 versity College, London, to which he was ap- 

 pointed in 1902. 



Professors Waldeyer, Orth and others have 

 added their protests to that of Professors 

 Eoerster and Verwom against the action of 

 Professors von Behring, Roentgen and others 

 in melting down the medals and renouncing 

 the honors conferred upon them by various 

 scientific bodies in Great Britain. 



The Iron Cross has been awarded to Dr. 

 Walther Nernst, professor of physics in the 

 University of Berlin, who since the death of 

 his son at the front, has joined the automobile 

 corps. 



Dr. a. Westermarck, of Helsingfors, Fin- 

 land, and professor of sociology at the Uni- 

 versity of London, who was to have delivered 



a series of anniversary lectures at Brown Uni- 

 versity this winter, wiU be prevented by the 

 European war from coming to this country. 



Professor L. H. Harris, formerly associate 

 professor of the University of Pittsburgh, has 

 been appointed consulting engineer to the 

 Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania. 



Associate Professor Charles J. Chamber- 

 lain, of the department of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has recently returned from 

 a botanical trip through Florida and Cuba, 

 continuing the investigations which have 

 already taken him to Mexico, the Hawaiian 

 Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Africa. 

 The recent collecting was done in northern and 

 southern Florida, but chiefly in the westerm 

 part of Cuba, in the mountains about Her- 

 radura, Consolacion del Sur and Pinar del Rio. 



Professor H. C. Adams, of the University 

 of Michigan, has returned from China. He 

 was called there one year ago to devise an ac- 

 counting system for the railroads which the 

 government had taken over. He will resume 

 his work in the department of political econ- 

 omy next semester. 



Me. a. Fleck, demonstrator at the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow, has been appointed physical 

 chemist to the Glasgow Radium Committee, 

 established to administer a large fund collected 

 in the city for the purpose of acquiring and 

 distributing radium for therapeutic purposes. 

 A radiometric laboratory, under the auspices 

 of the committee, has been fitted up at the 

 university. 



Dr. Frederick G. Novy, professor of bac- 

 teriology in the University of Michigan, lec- 

 tured before the Science Club of the State 

 Normal College at Tpsilanti, on November 23, 

 on the foot and mouth disease which is now 

 prevalent in Michigan. 



Dr. Johanna Westerdijk has given five lec- 

 tures before the students of plant pathology in 

 the University of Illinois. The subjects of her 

 lectures were as follows : Tropical Plant Dis- 

 eases; Potato Vine Diseases; Potato Tuber 

 Diseases ; Fruit Diseases in Europe and Amer- 

 ica; Some Problems in Plant Pathology and 

 Methods of Meeting Them. 



