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3. To other societies and to individuals. 

 The Societe de documentation bibliographique, 

 2,000 francs; 2,000 francs to Henri Pieron, for 

 the equipment of his laboratory at the Sor- 

 bonne for physiological psychology; 2,400 

 francs to Louis Mengaud, professor at the 

 Lycee of Toulouse, for exploratory work in the 

 province of Santander; 10,000 francs to 

 Charles Marie, for assistance in the publica- 

 tion of tables of physical constants; 3,000 

 francs to Camilla Mammarion, for his private 

 observatory at Juvisy; 4,000 francs to Emile 

 Miege, for experiments at Eennes ; 1,000 francs 

 for the preparation of plates illustrating fossils 

 collected by J. Couyat-Barthoux. 



The total grants reconunended amount to 

 82,300 francs, and this does not exhaust the 

 sum available. Diu:ing the war it has been 

 impossible for all the investigators to carry 

 on work already commenced or to undertake 

 new researches, and other expenditure consid- 

 ered desirable by the council has been ex- 

 cluded by the terms of the legacy. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Ivan Pavlov, the eminent Russian physiol- 

 ogist, died at Petrograd at the age of sixty- 

 seven years. In 1904 he was awarded the 

 Nobel prize for medicine. 



SiK WiLLUM Turner, principal of Edin- 

 burgh University, distinguished as an anatom.- 

 ist, has died at the age of eighty-three years. 



Dr. Elmer L. Corthell, of ISTew York City, 

 who has had charge of important work in 

 bridge, railway, canal and harbor construction, 

 has been elected president of the American 

 Society of Civil Engineers. 



Dr. L. D. Eicketts, president and general 

 manager of the Canadian Consolidated Copper 

 Company, has been elected president of the 

 American Institute of Mining Engineers. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has elected as correspondents the fol- 

 lowing named: William Bateson, Charles E. 

 Barrois, Thomas C. Chamberlin, Carl Diener, 

 Alfred C. Haddon, Wilhelm Ludwig Johann- 

 sen, Stanislas Meunier, Albreeht Penck, 

 William Trelease and Samuel W. Williston. 



Dr. Edward Bagnall Poulton, Hope pro- 

 fessor of zoology at Oxford University, has 

 been elected a foreign member of the Swedish 

 Royal Academy of Science. 



Dr. Albert Einstein, of Berlin, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Got- 

 tingen Academy of Sciences in the section of 

 mathematics and physics. 



The gold medal of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society has been presented to Dr. J. L. E. 

 Dreyer, for his contributions to astronomical 

 history and his catalogues of nebulae. 



A GRANT of $500 from the C. M. Warren 

 Fund of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences has been made to Professor James F. 

 Norris, of Vanderbilt University, for the study 

 of factors which influence the valency of 

 carbon. 



C. A. McLendon, field pathologist of the 

 South Carolina Experiment Station, has ac- 

 cepted a position as expert in cotton breeding 

 with the Georgia State Board of Entomology, 

 Atlanta, Ga. 



Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks, professor of 

 anthropology in the University of Minnesota, 

 has returned after a leave of absence to study 

 the question of mixed-blood Indians. Congress 

 passed an act in 1907 allowing "mixed-blood 

 Indians " on White Earth Reservation, Minne- 

 sota, to sell their lands. In time the govern- 

 ment brought suit against citizens of Minne- 

 sota to set aside titles to certain lands, under 

 the claim that the Indians who sold such lands 

 were pure-blood Indians, instead of mixed- 

 blood Indians. Dr. Jenks was called to at- 

 tempt to settle the question of blood status by 

 anthropometric methods. Of the nine court 

 cases tried so far with anthropological evi- 

 dence the court has held that the sellers in 

 eight cases were mixed-blood Indians. 



Dr. H. L. Shantz, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, delivered the annual address before 

 the local chapters of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta 

 Kappa at the University of Nebraska on the 

 evening of February 12, 1916. The subject of 

 the illustrated lecture was : " Water as a Factor 

 in Plant Growth." 



