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dition, for his long-continued services in the 

 exploration of Australia; the Cuthbert Peek 

 award to Mr. F. Kingdon Ward for his jour- 

 neys in the frontier regions between China 

 and Burma, and to assist him in the further 

 exploration of those regions; the Gill Memo- 

 rial to Lieutenant-Colonel E. M. Jack, E.E., 

 for his service in the delimitation and demar- 

 cation of the Uganda-Congo boundary. 



As has been noted here the iN'ichols medal, 

 awarded by the 'Sew York Section of the 

 American Chemical Society for the best orig- 

 inal contribution to the publication of the 

 society during the year 1915, was conferred 

 upon Dr. Claude Silbert Hiidson, of the Bu- 

 reau of Chemistry, in recognition of his re- 

 search in the field of organic chemistry, at the 

 regular meeting of the section, in Rumford 

 Hall, Chemists' Club, March 10, 1916. In 

 presenting the medal Dr. T. B. Watson, chair- 

 man of the !N"ew York Section of the society, 

 quoted the specific character of chemical re- 

 search represented by the different awards of 

 the William H. ISTichols medal in past years: 



1903 — ^Agricultural chemistry, E. B. Voorhees. 



1905 — Eare earths, C. L. Parsons. 



1906 — ^Organic chemistry, M. T. Bogert. 



1907 — Analytical chemistry, H. B. Bishop. 



1908 — ^Chemical engineering, W. H. Walker. 



1908 — Physical chemistry, "W. A. Noyes and H. C. 



P. Weter. 

 1909 — ^Organic chemistry, L. H. Baekeland. 

 1911 — ^Physical chemistry, M. A. Eosanoff and C. 



W. Easley. 

 1912 — ^Organic chemistry, C. James. 

 1914 — ^Organic chemistry, M. Gromberg. 

 1915 — Physical chemistry, I. Langmuir. 



The ISTew York Medical Record states that 

 the trustees of the New York Medical College 

 and Hospital for Women gave a luncheon at 

 Delmonico's on April 8 in honor of the fiftieth 

 anniversary of the graduation of Dr. Anna 

 Manning Comfort, the only surviving member 

 of the first class graduated from the college. 

 Dr. Comfort and Mr. Jefferson Levy, one of 

 the incorporators of the institution, were the 

 guests of honor. At the commencement exer- 

 cises of this first class addresses were made by 

 Henry Ward Beecher, Peter Cooper, Horace 



Greeley, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stan- 

 ton and Dr. Lozier, dean of the college. The 

 endovtrment of a scholarship at the college, to 

 be known as the Anna Manning Comfort 

 scholarship, was annoimced at the luncheon. 



Dr. Carlotta J. Maury will make a paleon- 

 tological expedition to the Island of Santo 

 Domingo to study the Tertiary paleontology 

 and stratigraphy, making collections and sec- 

 tions. This work will be carried on by the 

 Sarah Berliner endowment. Dr. Maury has 

 also been appointed special lecturer in paleon- 

 tologic research at Cornell University for 

 1916-1917 on the Sarah Berliner Foundation. 



The University of Notre Dame has con- 

 ferred the Lsetare medal this year on Dr. 

 James J. Walsh, author of publications on the 

 history of science. 



We learn from Nature that at the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge the Smith's prizes are 

 awarded to H. M. Garner, St. John's College, 

 for two papers on orbital oscillations about the 

 equilateral triangular configuration in the 

 problem of three bodies, and to G. P. Thom- 

 son, Corpus Christi College, for four papers 

 on aeroplane problems. A Eayleigh prize is 

 awarded to W. M. Smart, Trinity College, for 

 an essay on the libration of the Trojan planets. 



Dr. L. Jost, professor of botany, has been 

 elected rector of the university at Strassburg. 



At its meeting held on April 12, the Rum- 

 ford Committee of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences voted a grant of $100 in 

 addition to a former appropriation to Pro- 

 fessor Frederick Palmer, Jr., of Haverford 

 CoUege, in aid of his research on the proper- 

 ties of light of extremely short wave-length. 



Dr. Charles Weisman, of the United States 

 Public Health Service, has been transferred to 

 Pittsburgh, which is the new headquarters of 

 the service for work on industrial hygiene. 



W. F. HoETON, mining technologist of the 

 Bureau of Mines, has resigned to accept serv- 

 ices with a steel company. 



Dr. H. H. Mitchell has been appointed 

 epidemiologist to the Indiana State Board of 

 Health. 



