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[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1108 



Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler 

 Alexander Dallas Bache . . 

 Benjamin Osgood Peirce . . 

 Carlile Pollock Patterson . . 

 Julius Erasmus Hilgard . . 



Frank Manly Thorne 



Thomas Corwin Mendenhall 

 William Ward Duffield . . . 

 Henry Smith Pritehett . . . . 

 Otto Hilgard Tittmann . . . 

 Ernest Lester Jones 



1816-1843 

 1843-1867 

 1867-1874 

 1874-1881 

 1881-1885 

 1885-1889 

 1889-1894 

 1894-1897 

 1897-1900 

 1900-1915 

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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of 

 the American Museum of ISTatural History, 

 will give the William EUery Hale Lectures at 

 the approaching meeting of the National 

 Academy of Sciences. The subject is " The 

 Origin and Evolution of Life on the Earth." 



The following fifteen candidates have been 

 selected by the council of the Eoyal Society 

 to be recommended for election into the so- 

 ciety: Professor E. H. Barton, Mr. W. E. 

 Bousfield, Mr. S. G. Brown, Professor E. G. 

 Coker, Professor G. G. Henderson, Mr. J. E. 

 Littlewood, Professor A. McKenzie, Professor 

 J. A. MacWilliam, Mr. J. H. Maiden, Pro- 

 fessor H. H. "W. Pearson, Professor J. A. Pol- 

 lock, Sir L. Sogers, Dr. C. Shearer, Professor 

 D'Arcy W. Thompson, Mr. H. Woods. 



It is stated in Nature that Mr. Douglas W. 

 Ereshfield, president of the Eoyal Geographical 

 Society, M. Henri Curdier, the French Orien- 

 talist, and General Schokalski, the Eussian 

 oceanographer, have been elected honorary 

 members of the Italian Eoyal Geographical 

 Society. 



The Accademia dei Lincei of Eome has 

 awarded the King's prize of £400 for human 

 physiology to Dr. Filippo Bottazzi, professor 

 of physiology in the University of N'aples. 



Dr. George Sarton, who is now lecturing 

 in the United States on the history of sci- 

 ence, the former editor of Isis, an interna- 

 tional review devoted to the philosophy and 

 history of science, published in Belgium, but 

 discontinued during the war, has been awarded 

 the Prix Binoux by the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Professor Metchnikoff has been seriously 

 iU at the Institut Pasteur. Sir Eay Lankester 

 writes to Nature under date of February 26 

 that his medical attendants believe that the 

 pleurisy will now soon disappear and that the 

 pulmonary congestion has already disappeared. 



The city of Philadelphia, acting on the 

 recommendation of the Franklin Institute, 

 has awarded the John Scott Legacy medal and 

 premium to Hans Hanson, of Hartford, Conn., 

 for his inventions embodied in John Under- 

 wood and Company's combined typewriting and 

 calculating machine, and has also awarded 

 the John Scott Legacy medal and premium 

 to Frederick A. Hart, of New York, N. T., 

 for his inventions embodied in the same ma- 

 chine. In consideration of the part performed 

 by the staff of John Underwood and Company 

 in the development of this machine. The 

 Franklin Institute has awarded its Edward 

 Longstreth medal of merit to John Under- 

 wood and Company, of New York, N. Y. 



The prize of $1,000 offered through the 

 American Social Hygiene Association by the 

 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for the 

 best pamphlet on social hygiene for girls and 

 boys has been awarded to Dr. and Mrs. Donald 

 B. Armstrong, of Stapleton, N. Y. The paper 

 will soon be issued by the company as one of 

 the health and welfare series published for the 

 benefit of its policyholders. 



J. Warren Smith, head of the Columbus 

 weather bureau for eighteen years and pro- 

 fessor of meteorology at the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, has been promoted to be chief of the 

 division of agricultural meteorology with 

 headquarters in Washington. 



George W. Simons, Jr., assistant to the 

 head of the Sanitary Engineering Department 

 of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, has been appointed 

 chief sanitary engineer to the State Board of 

 Health of Florida, and will take up his new 

 work on July 1. 



"Lassen Peak, our Most Active Volcano," 

 is the title of a lecture recently given by J. S. 

 Diller, of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, at Hunter College and before the Physi- 



