December 18, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



887 



At his elbow on tlie table are bulky volumes 

 typifying his contributions to the literature 

 of mining, while the upper right-hand field 

 of the background shows a blackboard covered 

 with figures and diagrams bearing on ore- 

 dressing. 



At the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, November 

 24, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn was pre- 

 sented with a Hayden medal. In presenting 

 the medal Dr. Samuel G. Dixon called atten- 

 tion to the fact that Mrs. Emma W. Hayden, 

 widow of the well-known scientific man, 

 Ferdinand Venderveer Hayden, had estab- 

 lished a deed of trust arranging for a sum 

 of money and a bronze medal to be given 

 annually to the author of the best publication, 

 exploration, discovery or research in geology 

 or paleontology, or a similar subject. Pro- 

 fessor James Hall, of Albany, received the 

 award in the first instance and the other nine 

 succeeding him were Edward D. Cope, 1891; 

 Edward Suess, 1892; Thomas H. Huxley, 

 1893; Gabriel August Daubree, 1894; Carl 

 H. Von Littel, 1895; Giovanni Capellini, 

 1896; Alexander Petrovitz Karpinski, 1897; 

 Otto Torell, 1898; Giles Joseph Gustav De- 

 walzue, 1899. In 1900 the deed of trust was 

 modified so as to award a gold medal every 

 three years. The first to receive the new 

 medal was Sir Archibald Geikie; the second 

 was Dr. Charles D. Waleott in 1908 and the 

 third John Casper Branner in 1911. 



Professor William T. Sedgwick, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was 

 elected president of the Massachusetts Public 

 Health Association at its recent meeting at 

 Jacksonville, Florida. 



Professor George Chandler Whipple, 

 Professor W. T. Sedgwick, Dr. Milton J. 

 Eosenau, Dr. William J. Gallivan, Dr. David 

 L. Edsall and Dr. Joseph E. Lamoreaux, have 

 been appointed the six members of the ad- 

 visory council to Massachusetts' state com- 

 missioner of health, Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin. 



Dr. Richard P. Strong, of the department 

 of tropical medicine in the Harvard Medical 

 School, has been appointed director of the 



laboratories of the hospitals and of research 

 work of the United Fruit Co. The signifi- 

 cance of the appointment is suggested in a 

 letter from the Fruit Company to the Univer- 

 sity: 



Through a desire to cooperate with Harvard 

 University in its investigation of tropical diseases 

 we have properly equipped our hospitals with lab- 

 oratories and have ample material constantly 

 available in our wards, which we desire to place at 

 your disposal for research in connection with the 

 prescribed study of tropical diseases embodied in 

 your tropical school. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine elected, 

 on November 10, as national associate, Dr. 

 Langlet, professor and director of the Ecole 

 de medecine de Eeims and mayor of that city. 



The grand cross of the Order of Alfonso 

 XII. has been presented to the professor of 

 pharmacy at the University of Madrid, Dr. J. 

 E. Carraeido, who is also a senator, and the 

 Isabella cross to Dr. S. Eecasens, professor of 

 gynecology at the same institution. 



A PRESS cablegram from Berne states that 

 M. Hugo Claparede, professor of psychology 

 in the University of Geneva, son of the Swiss 

 minister to Berlin, has been dismissed from 

 the university by the Swiss federal council on 

 the ground that his expressed views concern- 

 ing the violation of Belgian neutrality are in- 

 consistent with the observance of neutrality 

 of Switzerland. Professor Claparede had 

 offered his resignation, following a demon- 

 stration against him by the students, but the 

 federal council declined to accept it and in- 

 stead dismissed him. The students' demon- 

 stration occurred on November 24 as Pro- 

 fessor Claparede entered his classroom and 

 read an address in which they asked him to 

 resign, because "your attitude prohibits you 

 to continue to occupy a public post remuner- 

 ated by the state." Later the matter was 

 brought up in the federal council through an 

 interpellation by Deputy de Eabours. 



Mr. David T. Day has resigned from the 

 United States Geological Survey to enter pri- 

 vate practise. He has served the federal bu- 

 reau since 1886, having been chief of the 



