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Edward C. Pickering have also been reelected. 



Professor E. A. Millikan, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, was elected president of the 

 American Physical Association at the recent 

 Columbus meeting. 



The officers of the American Society of 

 N'aturalists for 1916 are: President, Eajonond 

 Pearl; vice-president, Albert F. Blakeslee; 

 secretary, Bradley M. Davis; treasurer, J. 

 Arthur Harris; additional members of the 

 executive committee, Edward M. East, Henry 

 V. Wilson, Frank R. Lillie. The society has 

 ordered an appropriation of $200 for the Con- 

 cilium Bibliographicum, Zurich. 



News has been received from Sweden that 

 the actual delivery of the Nobel prize in 

 chemistry for 1914, awarded to Professor 

 Theodore W. Eichards, of Harvard University, 

 together with the other Nobel prizes for 1914 

 and 1915, will be postponed until June 1 of 

 this year. The prize-winners are invited to 

 go then to Sweden in person to receive their 

 prizes, and to give their Nobel lectures. 



The Leeuwenhoek medal of the Netherlands 

 Academy of Sciences, awarded to Surgeon- 

 General Sir David Bruce, F.E.S., A.M.S., was 

 presented to him on December 24 by the 

 Netherlands Minister to Great Britain. The 

 medal was founded in 1875, on the occasion 

 of the Leeuwenhoek celebration in Delft, and 

 is presented every ten years. It was awarded 

 to Ehrenberg in 1875, to Ferdinand Cohn in 

 1885, to Louis Pasteur in 1895, and to Beye- 

 rinck in 1905. 



Dr. Lazarus Fletcher, F.E.S., director of 

 the Natural History Departments of the Brit- 

 ish Museum, has been knighted. 



Professor Irving Porter Church will re- 

 tire from the faculty of the college of civil 

 engineering of Cornell University at the close 

 of the current academic year, when he will be 

 sixty-five years old. The board of trustees 

 has adopted a resolution expressing its sense 

 of the university's debt to Professor Church. 



Professor 0. Frank Allen, who has held 

 the chair of railroad engineering in the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology since 1887, 

 will retire under the benefits of the Carnegie 



Foundation at the close of the present aca- 

 demic year. 



Professor E. B. Clinton, who lately re- 

 tired from the professorship of experimental 

 philosophy at Oxford at the end of his fiftieth 

 year of service, has been elected to an honor- 

 ary fellowship at Wadham College. 



The Draper Committee of the National 

 Academy of Sciences has granted $300 to Pro- 

 fessor Joel Stebbins, head of the department 

 of astronomy of the University of Illinois, in 

 support of his researches at the observatory. 

 The special work which is now being carried 

 on at the observatory is the improvement of 

 his method of measuring the light of stars, 

 which is being developed in collaboration with 

 Professor Jacob Kunz of the department of 

 physics. 



At its meeting of January 12, the Eumford 

 Committee of the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences appropriated the sum of $200 

 to Professor H. M. Eandall, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, in aid of his researches on 

 the infra-red spectrum, the grant to be used 

 to defray the salary of an assistant. 



Dr. William DeB. MacNider, professor of 

 pharmacology at the University of North Car- 

 olina, has been notified of an award of $250 

 by the trustees of the Eockefeller Institute to 

 enable him to continue his research work in 

 pharmacology. 



Dr. Frederick E. Dillet ('03, Western Ee- 

 serve), instructor in surgery. Union Medical 

 College, Peking, China, has arrived for post- 

 graduate work in Cleveland until next Au- 

 gust. 



Dr. Karl H. Van Norman, formerly of the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital and now a captain 

 in the Eoyal Canadian Army Medical Corps, 

 is in charge of a British hospital division at 

 Eamsgate, England. 



Dr. Hugh M. Smith, commissioner of fish- 

 eries, was elected honorary president of the 

 Washington Aquarium Society at an organi- 

 zation meeting held on January 21. Other 

 officers elected were: President, Dr. E. W. 

 Shufeldt; First Vice-president, L. W. Bauer; 

 Second Vice-president, Mrs. L. Helen Fowler; 



