JANUASY 7, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. John M. Clarke, New York state geol- 

 ogist and director of the State Museum, was 

 elected president of the Geological Society of 

 Ajneriea at the recent Washington meeting. 



Dr. Eaymond Dodge, professor of psychology 

 at Wesleyan University, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the American Psychological Associa- 

 tion. 



Officers were elected at the New Haven 

 meeting of the American Association of Anat- 

 omists as follows : President, Dr. Henry H. 

 Donaldson, Wistar Institute; Vice-president, 

 Professor Clarence M. Jackson, University of 

 Minnesota; Members of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, Professor Eliot E. Clark, University of 

 Missouri, and Professor Eeuben M. Strong, 

 University of Mississippi. Professor C. E. 

 Stockard, Cornell Medical School, New York 

 City, remains secretary of the Association. 



Officers of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific 

 Society, Chapel Hill, N. C, for the year 1916 

 are as follows: President, Dr. J. B. Bullitt; 

 Vice-president, Professor T. F. Hickerson; 

 Permanent Secretary, Dr. F. P. Venable; 

 Recording Secretary and Treasurer, John E. 

 Smith; Editorial Board of the Journal: Dr. 

 W. C. Coker, Professor Collier Cobb and Dean 

 M. H. Stacy. 



At the annual dinner of the Geographic 

 Society of Chicago, the gold medal of the 

 society was presented to Major-General 

 William C. Gorgas. The presentation address 

 was made by Dr. Frank Billings. General 

 Gorgas gave an address, entitled " Sanitation 

 in Its Eelation to Geography." 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the Eoyal College of 

 Physicians of London has awarded the Moxon 

 gold medal to Dr. Dejerine, professor of dis- 

 eases of the nervous system at the Faculte de 

 medecine de Paris. This medal is awarded 

 every three years to the scientist whose ob- 

 servations and researches in clinical medicine 

 are deemed to render him most worthy of this 

 distinction. The award of the medal is not 

 reserved for scientists of British nationality, 

 but up to the present it has been given only to 

 English clinicians; Sir Alfred Garrod (1891), 



Sir William Jenner (1894), Sir Samuel Wilkes 

 (1897), William Tennant Gairdner (1900), 

 John Hughlings Jackson (1903), Jonathan 

 Hutchinson (1906), Sir William Eichard 

 Garvers (1909), Sir William David Ferrier 

 (1912). 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 Leeuwenlioek gold medal of the Eoyal Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Amsterdam, has been awarded 

 to Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce. It is 

 awarded every ten years in recognition of the 

 most important work done during the decade 

 on the microscopical organisms first discovered 

 by Leeuwenhoek in 1675. The award sets out 

 that it was the discovery of the Micrococcus 

 melitensis, the cause of Malta or Mediter- 

 ranean fever, which first made Bruce's name 

 generally known. This was followed by the 

 discovery of the cause of African cattle, or 

 tsetse fly disease, known as Nagana. After- 

 wards he made extensive researches, with the 

 help of a staff of assistants, into other tropical 

 African diseases caused by trypanosomes, espe- 

 cially into sleeping or Congo sickness caused 

 by the Trypanosoma gamhiense and trans- 

 ported chiefly by the fly Glossina palpalis. 

 The medal was presented at the meeting of the 

 Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam on De- 

 cember 18. 



Sm W. H. Solomon and Professor G. H. 

 Bryan have been elected to honorary fellow- 

 ships at Peterhouse, Cambridge. 



Mr. George L. Fawcett, from 1908 until 

 last February the plant pathologist at the 

 Porto Eico Experiment Station at Mayaguez, 

 and since that time occupying a similar posi- 

 tion at the Experiment Station in Tucuman, 

 Argentina, has been appointed professor of 

 mycology and bacteriology at the University of 

 Tucuman. 



Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathol- 

 ogy in the Johns Hopkins Medical School, who 

 has been in China devising plans to introduce 

 modern medical methods in the empire, and 

 Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the labora- 

 tories of the Eockefeller Institute, reached 

 San Francisco on December 27. 



